• @[email protected]
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    642 months ago

    one must appreciate the vision and legislation that’s enforced that particular phrasing. it becomes so much more starker – how cavalierly your data is treated.

  • masterofn001
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    602 months ago

    That many partners is guaranteed to produce some sort of infection.

    • @[email protected]
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      362 months ago

      Is it okay for a salesman to jump into your bed along with their 874 partners in exchange for selling you a newspaper?
      (NOTE: Ads DON’T HAVE TO be targeted. You can show ads and not track the user.)

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months ago

        Or (being devil’s advocate here): just don’t be a fucking slut. Have like 3 partners and have ypur website pick the best offer dynamically, it’s not that hard. In the end they all use AdSense, so they don’t even need to give data to the other 873 or even Google itself - as you said ads don’t have to be targeted. Although it’s not as if it won’t get there anyway.

  • @[email protected]
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    462 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        302 months ago

        I don’t even need to worry about the tracking at fandom because they do that stupid “auto play an unrelated video at the top of the screen and once you scroll past it it moves down and perpetually stays on the screen, taking up 30-50% of your mobile screen” so I will always immediately close the page once I see that fucking bullshit

        Truly hostile ui design. Just open disdain for their users. At least it’s muted by default

        • Badabinski
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          If you replace fandom.com with breezewiki.com in the URL, you’ll either get an unfucked version of the page, or you’ll get a redirect to a new wiki site that the fandom actually updates. It’s crazy how fandom doesn’t let communities remove a fandom site, so there are all of these unmaintained and out of date fandom wikis out there.

        • Badabinski
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          If you replace fandom.com with breezewiki.com in the URL, you’ll either get an unfucked version of the page, or you’ll get a redirect to a new wiki site that the community actually updates. It’s crazy how fandom doesn’t let communities remove a fandom site, so there are all of these unmaintained and out of date fandom wikis out there.

          EDIT: as a demonstration, here’s what happens when you use breezewiki with the Noita fandom page: https://noita.breezewiki.com/wiki/Noita_Wiki

              • @[email protected]
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                Thanks, used this on my laptop.

                On further investigation you can also make this work on iphones with the following app:

                https://apps.apple.com/us/app/redirect-web-for-safari/id1571283503

                it has a subscription but the free version works for this.

                the rules need to be set as:

                DNR type

                Redirect from https://*.fandom.com/wiki/*

                URL pattern wildcard Resource types main_frame

                Redirect to https://breezewiki.com/$1/wiki/$2

                Name it whatever and post a fandom wiki link in the examples section to make sure it works. There are instructions that link to a json file that should open in the app, but it doesn’t. Maybe that worked in 2022 but it doesn’t anymore. Easy enough to input manually at least. Can also use the app to force reddit to redirect to old.reddit by default but multiple rules requires a subscription, I think

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          Incredibly hostile design. I generally avoid, but like Reddit they have hostage to some info I desire sometime so wipe my way through it… Close the browser, rm -rf /, and wash my hands.

    • dinckel
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      42 months ago

      That’s the situation where i close the page, and add it to my blocklist permanently

    • @[email protected]
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      that happened to me once, when i got to the bottom of the list there was a Reject All button. i was pissed lol

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      I would have written a user-script to find all check boxes and check them automatically.

      Oh, wait, a game? So not a web browser?

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        And after I made an AHK script to check all those boxes, I’d make another AHK script to beat the shit out of that game in 10 minutes. If it’s multi-player I’m specifically ruining the fun for others with my cheating. Fuck games like that, fuck companies like that.

        They unknowingly provided me with a completely different game to play.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      22 months ago

      Hill Climb Racing did that for me. I tried doing what you did the first time, then it kept sending me that every two days, so I just used Rethink DNS with the block trackers and ads blocklist.

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    412 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?”

  • @[email protected]
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    262 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

  • kronisk
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    182 months ago

    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.

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

  • @[email protected]
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    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

    • @[email protected]
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      Ususally just turning off javascript using ublock makes these notices go away. And if turning off javascript breaks the website… well then I guess whatever I was trying to read wasn’t really worth my time anyway.

  • @[email protected]
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    92 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      Sorry to bother you, but how do you check/block scripts? Personally I use Firefox with uBO and Noscript, but noscript seems pretty rudimentary since it only lets you block domains. Me not knowing what the various per-domain toggles mean doesn’t help either.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Not a bother at all! I have used uMatrix for several years now. It is no longer actively maintained, but has an absolutely unrivaled grid interface (hence Matrix) that comprehensively lays everything out into columns and rows.

        Rows represent the different domains and subdomains that a webpage loads assets from.

        Columns represent the different types of assets individually.

        Sane, strict rules that can be set within the My rules page:

        https-strict: * true
        https-strict: behind-the-scene false
        noscript-spoof: * true
        referrer-spoof: * true
        referrer-spoof: behind-the-scene false
        no-workers: * true
        * * * block
        * 1st-party image allow
        

        Or these can be set with the graphical matrix grid with global scope selected, then click on the lock icon to make it persistent.

        What uMatrix does that uBlock Origin does not (or the authors refuse to integrate into uBlock Origin):

        • Cookie handling. uMatrix is particularly intelligent about cookies in that it will still accept cookies from sites, but never release those cookies back out to web servers (when cookies are blocked).
        • CSS handling. IIRC uBlock does have some rudimentary all-or-nothing css blocking but cannot do so granularly.
        • An awesome, fast, easy to check at a quick glance visual interface.

        Unfortunately, uMatrix has been left to bitrot, so I’ve been closely watching the development of xiMatrix which replicates the idea and extends it to also handle remote fonts and inline scripts. (But still needs further development before I can consider it a drop-in replacement IMO).

  • FiveMacs
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    82 months ago

    What happens when you click the 1st sentence - continue without agreeing