And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?
Found an article on the uk guardian page that wanted me to accept cookies from 76 partners. Noped out
What really gets me is when there’s no REJECT button.
Aside from uBlock on Firefox, I’ve been using Privacy Badger and also Super-Agent.
Consent-o-matic is also an option it will specifically opt out of those data vacuum popups. It is run by a Danish Uni so if it doesn’t work with a site you can submit the site and they will patch it in.
Link?
Good point. I updated my comment with the FF and chrome plugin links.
Thank you
Brilliant, thank you.
ITT I wish those that can recall would name and shame.
I’ve seen 1600+ myself.
And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?
We said less unpleasant, comrade!
Each one of those people were instrumental in improving the lives of millions, even billions, of people.
Shut the fuck up lib.
Great bait mate, 8/8
Two 8s? Extremely sus
Go back to reddit you sound like a reddit bot lmao.
Like you have just responded twice in a row with what look like canned responses from a chatGPT bot trained on the most insufferable redditors.
Also go fuck yourself you are not my comrade.
Imma just point out that at least two of those dudes were some of the worst mass murderers in recent human history.
I don’t think they are taking this information very well
Read something about 1’809 in an article lately:
https://readwrite.com/your-data-is-likely-getting-shared-a-lot-further-than-you-might-think/
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen four digits. That was a “lol no”.
And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?
Websites have to pay their bills. Ads, subscriptions or microtransactions; take your pick.
The one way I can think of that would retain the anonymous character of the internet would be HTTP microtransactions by some kind of crypto. Hopefully one of the non-wasteful ones, so not Bitcoin.
I think what you’re describing at the end there is basically what Brave (browser) tried to do.
Huh, I missed that. Yep, they were using Bitcoin back before it was fully a circlejerk, looks like, which is reasonable. Now I just know it as a Chrome spinoff that pretends to be private, haha.
It looks like Chrome’s trying to do something similar, although there’s a high chance Google will attempt a walled garden version.
“Web Monetization” is the keyword. It could be great for things like Lemmy, too, where hosting costs might eventually become a major obstacle.
1609 baby!
And we have a winner woohoo !
I think I recently saw ~840 somewhere.
To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:
- Use FOSS (Free and open source software)
- If this is not possible, try to find software that does not invade your privacy and made by a smaller company
- Try to avoid paying privacy invading companies. I’m not saying never pay for proprietary software, but try to only spend the money on ones that respect you.
- Spread the word about good FOSS apps
- Donate to FOSS
- Vote for politicians who are serious about antitrust
- If you have the skills, contribute to FOSS or make your own software!
- Use adblockers on websites that don’t respect you and/or your privacy
I think this bullshit is my personal record:
I ususally have them blocked, but on some news site I remember seeing 750+ and off it wanted you to manually unchecked all of them one by one.
I think I saw 1500 this week somewhere…
All I want to know is, how can it be profitable to be an ad broker at that point?
Around 2.000 no kidding
I had high 700s, where even 1 is more than I can stomach. Thank devs for uBlock Origin.
Based gorhill
To Raymond Hill, we owe SO MUCH.
And the list maintainers of course! (Who often accept donations whereas gorhill has always refused even a penny!)
“Hey dude, we were going to hang out on Sunday. We were planning just us, but can I bring 651 friends along?”
This is more like “Can my 651 friends snoop on our party?”
I think i would legitimately just leave the site and block it at my pihole if i saw that
Sure. I’m a fanatical ad-blocker myself, but sometimes using Tor browser with the defaults.
