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 ?
1609 baby!
And we have a winner woohoo !
I think this bullshit is my personal record:
We care about your privacy which is why we are sharing your date with almost 1000 services 998 of which are fully redundant and only 1 is actually needed for the service we provide
lmao I love when they say “we care about your privacy” then they go on to say exactly how much data they’re gonna collect and process
Well, technically they do care about your privacy if your privacy is annoying to them and they wish it was gone.
We care about your privacy! We can get a buck or two for it.
wE CaRE aBouT YoUR PrIVaCy
I would actually respect it if they were honest in one of these.
LEGITIMATE INTEREST!!
Legitimate interests don’t require a banner. The simple fact you see a banner means their lawyers know they couldn’t convince the dumbest judge that they actually need that stuff.
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.
Site: https://consentomatic.au.dk/
Firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
Chrome Plugin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/consent-o-matic/mdjildafknihdffpkfmmpnpoiajfjnjd
Brilliant, thank you.
Link?
Good point. I updated my comment with the FF and chrome plugin links.
Thank you
I had high 700s, where even 1 is more than I can stomach. Thank devs for uBlock Origin.
“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?”
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!)
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?
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.
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
Great bait mate, 8/8
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.
Two 8s? Extremely sus
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.
Whenever I see a cookie banner say something like “We respect your privacy” I chuckle.
Because if they would actually respect my privacy, they wouldn’t have had a banner in the first place.
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
1200ish is my personal best can’t remember what site it was on.
As to what we can do not really a clue on a grand scale,i just block ads and cookies fanatically.
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 ?
Start paying for stuff. Subscriptions, etc.
Great, so now we get to pay for the privilege of having our data harvested by 814 “partners”
Remember: “if you aren’t paying for the product then you are the product” is no longer accurate, you’re the product regardless of paying or not now.
Why just make money from subscription fees when you can make EVEN MORE money by serving adds as well?
I’m just happy that I got to see the glory days of the digital world before advertising moved in.
Yup. Just how cable TV started as “you pay extra for it, but you don’t get any ads!” and then when they realized they had everybody hooked, they started showing ads.
Same thing with streaming services. Pay money for a service with no Ads. Oh what’s that? Now that they realize they are your primary source of content, they are going to turn ads on unless you pay extra? Boom, gottem.
Paying for a service is generally going to result in less of a push to monetize the data though, especially if it’s a smaller provider or a private company.
We can’t just give up and stick with ad supported services, but then not want to see ads… Ad-supported services are always going to have to try monetize you somehow, whereas paid services don’t always need to.
But most will anyway. Why leave extra money sitting on the table?
I’ve seen 1600+ myself.
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’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.
