This site is better in The App! Download now?
The App:
A Chrome component, coupled to a straw to slurp all your data a browser cannot reach, and notifications coming out of your arse at 2am because they cannot fathom the idea of other countries existing.
Timezones!? Preposterous!
Sounds like socialism to me.
“You can experience our content better in the app!”
My brother in Christ, you made the website…
People who use the app can get push notifications! And you can’t usually block ads in the app.
Did I stutter?
Of course they did. You can collect more data by forcing the user to create an account and circumvent most ad blocks in an app though! What incentive do they have to making a functioning site?!
Use a VPN like Mullvad that has an ad block built in. It doesn’t allow ads to load in any apps, it’s really nice. I’m sure they can still collect all kinds of data but at least the ads are taken care of.
Yea that’s what I do. Majority of people though are not doing that and they know it.
allow thisshittywebsite.com to see your location?
Nice try, Jareth
I still get some of them, even with multiple anti-annoyance lists.
Anyone has a 99% working setup for mixed german/english, IT-centric usage?
Throw one of those bottom-corner “How can I help?” pop ups that makes the tab flash and constantly change the text in there too.
Those make me irrationally angry.
I think it’s pretty rational; if it was a person being that obnoxious they would be missing teeth from the number of times they got punched in the face.
Netbrain has one that makes a sound. Annoying when you tuck their page in a tab. No site should throw sound out like that.
And “Install our app!”. And those glorious auto-play videos blocking your entire view.
Without the autoplaying and scrolling video that uses 1/2 of my screen, how will I ever focus on reading the page?
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Allow me to introduce you to Kill Sticky
Thank you.
And hitting the close button doesn’t stop the video, it just disconnects it from the window so it can return somewhere on the page.
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oh boy we’re getting so much engagement with our video player! People must love it to click it so much!
This is what happens when you base all your business decisions on algorithms, not human feedback
Even more points if, after closing the video, the video pops back up every time you scroll even a single millimeter back up the page.
With a fake notification dot
And a poorly-made chatbot answering (with slow loading times!) bonus points if you can’t even get to talk to a human after 20 messages of “that’s not what I wanted” and “let me talk with a bone-and-flesh humanoid”
People living in EU. You guys are lucky. These cookie banners and stuff behave differently there because EU forces the reject all button
That doesn’t seem to be true. A lot of German publishers do not allow you to proceed without giving consent to cookies and profiling for targeted advertising. They consider this legal because they offer you the alternative of “opting out” by signing up for a paid subscription.
Not in my experience. The reject all button is usually hidden behind the review your choices button. It’s fucking bullshit. Accept all is always visible tho.
If I block cookie banners, does that mean I reject cookies because I didn’t consent? Because if that’s the case, I’m gonna just start blocking them.
The EU does force the reject all button, however companies and websites often don’t care about the law; some newspaper in my country straight up ask for a subscription to let you have the privilege of disabling cookies on their ad-ridden dying websites, and many more don’t have a “reject all” button.
I try to report some of them but who knows if it does something.
Plus from personal experience; when you setup a GDPR button through Google, by default there is no “reject all” button. Or the equally mandatory “x” to close the popup, thus rejecting cookies. You need to tick a box to enable them.
How do you report them?
I report them locally to the Privacy Guarantor(Italy) but I believe this is the EU’s page on the topic: https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-role-supervisor/complaints_en
Every other website i visit has a different tactic of hiding their reject button.
They will even give a second pop up leaving you unable to use the website in hopes of you clicking accept anyway.
Yep, unfortunately if the reject all button is too annoying to find I just close the tab.
I tend to do the same, also for those websites that come with a secondary pop up.
Makes me feel like they really don’t give a fuck, so why should i then and it’s easy to click back and try the next website in the rows of results.
The weirdest one i found was a couple days ago and i kinda give them props for it, as it made me go: “woooow almost had me.”
They had this whole standard wall of text with reasons to get you to accept and i didn’t see thr reject all button. It was a fairly lenghty wall too so i started scanning it for recognizeable words until my eyes passed: “reject” in the text. It was regular looking text but clickable.
The EU does definitely not have an easy reject all button…it’s always a minefield to work out how to disable them. Most take over 30-60 seconds to find out how to disable everything
This can help on a lot of websites: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
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Consent-o-matic addon for browser helps a lot to auto-reject cookies. Do recommend!
Ah, I didn’t know this one. Will definitely check. Thanks a lot!
Newsletters and notifications – two things I have never, ever once allowed.
STOP ASKING
Anytime a website forces me to turn off my adblock, I leave it and block it so it doesn’t show up again. If you force such predatory tactics, I am not interested in your website, and I’d rather look for another one.
Block where?
Most browsers have a block functionality by default
More patience than me. I don’t make it past Frame 2 unless I can keep scrolling, or there’s a ‘Reject All’ button. If anything else pops up, too many ads in the scroll, or paragraph three still says fuck all, I’m out
I would make it till frame 3 then bail, I’m not about to turn the blocker off
I always just reject cookies but if they start whining about adblock I’m out (apparently even when it’s YouTube)
I was trying to read an article the other day and they had a reject all cookies button. When this is an option I always use it but this one redirected me to a page that told me they won’t let me view their articles if I don’t let them track me. It went on to talk about some bullshit sob story about how it’s the only way they can be profitable and that they pinky promise to be responsible with the data collected.
Healthline (or one of their sites with a different name)?
Haha, spot on. I guess you’ve encountered this too?
Yep. I don’t even think it’s legal. I’m an EU citizen and with the GDPR I should be able to browse the damn thing without cookies…
lmao it’s funny how pathetic they will get
Reminds me of https://youtu.be/n9bx5a3PMks
Was raised in an age where where you needed firewalls, antiviruses, spam blocks and ad blocks, Ect to surf the web safety.
Now companies are doing everything they can to make sure you disable all it to have the privilege of using their website.
Antiviruses were mostly for a false sense of security. They only stop the most basic attacks.
And they are bloatware if not malware
Also “don’t give personal information like your real name to strangers over the Internet.” Lol
Yeah, they don’t want all your information twice. That would be redundant.
Yes, but imagine what we had to deal with during the 90s dot-com boom before someone created a pop-up blocker. It was absolutely hellish.
Unironically the best thing about Hexbear is that it doesn’t blast you with pop-ups nagging you to make an account. Even Google on my phone will nag me to make an account when I pull up the webpage like I always have for almost two decades.
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Isn’t that kind of… the entire point?
That applies to much of the Fediverse. It’s great to see a growing chunk of the web that’s genuinely free.
Also, consider switching search engine, you don’t want to be fueling an evil megacorporation and letting it know all about you, plus DuckDuckGo is probably even better nowadays.
Duly noted, but I’ve also heard a bit about ecosia. Is that any good?
EDIT: Pulled up the wikipedia page and was delightfully treated to this " the ads served on DuckDuckGo are based on keywords and terms of the search query."
How ‘targeted ads’ should be. “Hey, I see you’re looking for an item, here are some companies to consider for said item.”
It’s cool and all because you can passively plant trees, but really it doesn’t make much of a difference for the environment and you pay for it with your privacy. There are many better ways to help the climate, so I say nah.
firefox version 🥺
I believe there is one. ;)
Edit: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/behind_the_overlay/
Also: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean/ (chrome and mobile linked)
