• Chozo@fedia.io
    34·
    2 months ago

    Privacy - it’s your choice

    You know, just choose to afford privacy.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    Let us track you to view this article.

    or…

    Pay us with a trackable payment method to view this article.

    Catch-22 Surveillance Economy

    I’d rather they put a webasm crypto miner on the page and say “mine for 10s to view this article” or something

    • rekorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      2 months ago

      Is it really so hard to buy a disposable visa or MasterCard? Can even pay bums to buy them for you.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        its friction, a really really high amount of friction…

        Not to mention many of the subscription sites (like newspapers) WILL NOT ACCEPT a prepaid card, or a virtual card - they flat refuse them. It has to be a card they can auto-bill forever. Not everyone does this, but enough do that its really rather bothersome friction.

        • rekorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Seems strange to refuse payments but Im sure there is some accounting person who’s figured it out.

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            The people they lose from not accepting pre-paid and virtual credit cards costs them less money then the people who forget they signed up for a auto-renewing subscription and pay for months/years without realizing it.

  • Adalast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    This is why I use a script blocker to block the scripts from marketing domains. From what I have been able to see the cookies aren’t written because the code that writes it is not allowed to execute. It also stops script injections and other malware payloads that require extra-domain linkages to scripts.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Firefox + uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger, and happily click on yes to cookies and shit

          • Adalast@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            I hace been using noscript for like 15 years now. In my experience, it comes down to recognizing what is a required and superfluous or privacy invading 3rd party. Some websites can take me a while to get working, but I have had very few which I cannot figure out.

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I used to love the print Indy. It was a fantastic paper, and the Sunday edition was genuinely a great read in itself with brilliant contributors.

    Ever since the print edition ceased (some may point to the launch of i as the turning point but I’m not entirely sure that’s fair) the entire operation has been turned into an ad farm masquerading as a news site.

    It’s a cross between a tabloid and the Million Dollar Homepage nowadays, and what a shame that is. At least it keeps browser “close tab” UI devs in business mind.

  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Ive seen so many sites that just straight up wont work if you dont accept all cookies. You get the “tracking free” version of the site which is literally nothing. Or they say ok, just make an account and you can reject cookies. Fuck that

  • jbk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    53·
    2 months ago

    What if there was a way to offer ads while not being extremely privacy invasive? Oh, good thing Mozilla’s been working on that! Oh wait, the same people here hate that as well…

    Shouldn’t news agencies be paid in some way?

    • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      News agencies have always been able to offer adverts. But with the option to deny optional tracking cookies. Now you have to accept tracking cookies or pay money.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    1115·
    2 months ago

    I don’t see what’s the issue.

    They want to get paid in some way and they offer the reader the option: pay with your privacy or pay with your money?

    Or feel free to close the tab if both options are unacceptable. There are a lot of spamblogs written by chatgpt that allow to read the regurgitated content without accepting cookies, for example.

    Maybe it’s infuriating because if you really want to read the content you’re forced to waste 1 second to right click => open in incognito window or waste 1 minute to sign up for a subscription, but I don’t think it’s asshole design, because they have to pay bills. You don’t want sponsored news pieces and fake reviews in that website either, no?

    Now if it was like Facebook where the option is “pay with your privacy or pay with your privacy AND with your money”, that would be asshole design