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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But most will anyway. Why leave extra money sitting on the table?
1609 baby!
And we have a winner woohoo !
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.
1200ish is my personal best can’t remember what site it was on.
As to what we can do not really a clue on a grand scale,i just block ads and cookies fanatically.
we cure about your privacy, It’s very valuable for us, so please, all your data are belong to us
These e-polycules are getting out of hand 😳
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?
I think this bullshit is my personal record:
I think I recently saw ~840 somewhere.
To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:
- Use FOSS (Free and open source software)
- If this is not possible, try to find software that does not invade your privacy and made by a smaller company
- 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.
- Spread the word about good FOSS apps
- Donate to FOSS
- Vote for politicians who are serious about antitrust
- If you have the skills, contribute to FOSS or make your own software!
- Use adblockers on websites that don’t respect you and/or your privacy
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 ?
We said less unpleasant, comrade!
Each one of those people were instrumental in improving the lives of millions, even billions, of people.
Shut the fuck up lib.
Great bait mate, 8/8
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.
Two 8s? Extremely sus
Imma just point out that at least two of those dudes were some of the worst mass murderers in recent human history.
I don’t think they are taking this information very well
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.
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
Brilliant, thank you.
Link?
Good point. I updated my comment with the FF and chrome plugin links.
Thank you
ITT I wish those that can recall would name and shame.
How I feel looking at the number of “partners.”
Free buffet?
Silver lining: there would be no need to get STD tested because you will for sure know that you have all of them lol.
I can relate to the guy that had to put that number in. Prolly went along the lines of « can we get some budget to identify our various processing activities and what processors are involved ? »… to what management said « lol no just put the overall numbers in ». And the guy included the kitchen company in there because fuck it.
We care about your privacy which is why we are sharing your date with almost 1000 services 998 of which are fully redundant and only 1 is actually needed for the service we provide
lmao I love when they say “we care about your privacy” then they go on to say exactly how much data they’re gonna collect and process
wE CaRE aBouT YoUR PrIVaCy
We care about your privacy! We can get a buck or two for it.
Well, technically they do care about your privacy if your privacy is annoying to them and they wish it was gone.
I would actually respect it if they were honest in one of these.
LEGITIMATE INTEREST!!
Legitimate interests don’t require a banner. The simple fact you see a banner means their lawyers know they couldn’t convince the dumbest judge that they actually need that stuff.
