• @Classy@sh.itjust.works
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    123 hours 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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    146 hours 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.

    • @fnrir@lemmy.world
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      289 hours 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.)

      • @Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
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        48 hours 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.

  • masterofn001
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    5214 hours ago

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

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    3515 hours 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?”

  • @ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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    5716 hours 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.

  • @LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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    812 hours 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.

    • @Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
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      18 hours 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.

  • @pewpew@feddit.it
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    4117 hours 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.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      25 hours 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.

    • @ironsoap
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      1616 hours ago

      Sounds like fandom.com

      Even when disabled at a high level, their sub checks are still there and there are hundred of them. Deceptive BS.

      • @quixotic120@lemmy.world
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        2416 hours 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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          2215 hours ago

          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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          1015 hours ago

          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

        • @ironsoap
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          116 hours 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.

    • @CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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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?

    • dinckel
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      416 hours ago

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

  • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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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

  • kindenough
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    1616 hours ago

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

    • @renzev@lemmy.world
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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.