• Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    3 months ago

    okay i agree.

    “you have to disable adblock to read the article”

    Sure, turned it off.

    “you also need to sign in to read it”

    Okay, here’s my email.

    “seems like this article isn’t available for free, would you want to subscribe?”

  • pewpew@feddit.it
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    3 months ago

    One time a game asked me to allow cookies, instead of a “deny all” button I had to deny each partner individually. I was standing there disabling every toggle for about 15 minutes because there were 500+ of them.

  • Classy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Some partners do not ask for your consent to process your data and rely on their legitimate business interest.

    Sounds a whole hell of a lot like rape language to me

  • kindenough@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    Same thing when a website wants me to disable my adblocker to read further…toodeloo, my attention span don’t reach that far.

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    3 months ago

    Is there a way to spoof this personal information randomly?

    I mean, denying them my cookies and browsing history and shit defends me from that one site, but salting the earth and poisoning the well with weaponized false data must surely weaken the data miners, and help protect others if done on a broad scale.

    I’m no longer content with defending fortress Firefox, I want to go on the offensive, get my boots muddy, and put some safety pins up under some fingernails

  • kronisk @lemmy.world
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    We need to stop calling these sites and services “free”. Anything that’s financed by ads, spying and profiling is not free, the user is paying with their attention, integrity and right to privacy. This is not nothing.

    Presently, it’s a shady and dishonest practice since the terms of the transaction are rarely transparent to the consumer; in other words, it’s a scam.

  • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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    3 months ago

    It loads fine for me without CSS or javascript.

    Why would you ever want to allow the execution of
    adobeDatalayer_bridge.js
    adobe_analytics_bridge.js
    globalstore_bridge.js
    ?
    Good example of third party trash hiding behind first party domain.