Sam_Bass ,

Found an article on the uk guardian page that wanted me to accept cookies from 76 partners. Noped out

BruceLee ,
@BruceLee@lemmy.ml avatar

I believe it was a bit under 900 vendors. I'm gonna take a capture next time I break your record and posted it back here. It would be fun competiting.

laurelraven ,

I think i would legitimately just leave the site and block it at my pihole if i saw that

lemmyreader OP ,

Sure. I'm a fanatical ad-blocker myself, but sometimes using Tor browser with the defaults.

Teapot ,

These e-polycules are getting out of hand 😳

SuperSpruce ,

I think I recently saw ~840 somewhere.

To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:

  1. Use FOSS (Free and open source software)
  2. If this is not possible, try to find software that does not invade your privacy and made by a smaller company
  3. 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.
  4. Spread the word about good FOSS apps
  5. Donate to FOSS
  6. Vote for politicians who are serious about antitrust
  7. If you have the skills, contribute to FOSS or make your own software!
  8. Use adblockers on websites that don't respect you and/or your privacy
wahming ,

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.

laurelraven ,

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.

frostwhitewolf ,

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.

MIDItheKID ,

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.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

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.

laurelraven ,

But most will anyway. Why leave extra money sitting on the table?

Honytawk ,

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.

tkc ,
@tkc@feddit.uk avatar

1609 baby!

1000004158

BruceLee ,
@BruceLee@lemmy.ml avatar

And we have a winner woohoo !

_dev_null ,
@_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz avatar

ITT I wish those that can recall would name and shame.

Nakoichi ,
@Nakoichi@hexbear.net avatar

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 ?

back-to-me-shining JB-shining-aggro stalin-shining mao-aggro-shining

PatMustard ,

We said less unpleasant, comrade!

Nakoichi ,
@Nakoichi@hexbear.net avatar

Each one of those people were instrumental in improving the lives of millions, even billions, of people.

Shut the fuck up lib.

PatMustard ,

Great bait mate, 8/8

Nakoichi ,
@Nakoichi@hexbear.net avatar

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.

oscardejarjayes ,
@oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net avatar

Two 8s? Extremely sus

photonic_sorcerer ,
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Imma just point out that at least two of those dudes were some of the worst mass murderers in recent human history.

PatMustard ,

I don't think they are taking this information very well

ianovic69 ,
@ianovic69@feddit.uk avatar

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.

slazer2au , (edited )

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

eatham ,
@eatham@aussie.zone avatar

Link?

slazer2au ,

Good point. I updated my comment with the FF and chrome plugin links.

eatham ,
@eatham@aussie.zone avatar

Thank you

ianovic69 ,
@ianovic69@feddit.uk avatar

Brilliant, thank you.

Viking_Hippie ,

I think this bullshit is my personal record:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/63940b70-f675-4a92-9fad-ef7717645734.jpeg

stoy ,

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?

BorgDrone ,

I’ve seen 1600+ myself.

berkeleyblue ,
@berkeleyblue@lemmy.world avatar

Read something about 1’809 in an article lately:

https://readwrite.com/your-data-is-likely-getting-shared-a-lot-further-than-you-might-think/

lemmyreader OP ,

Thanks for sharing this.

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