Someone should create a leaderboard of websites sharing data with the most “partners”, this week I saw someone on Mastodon posting a screenshot of a website sharing to 1700+ third-parties.
My faulty memory tells me 9gag has somewhere around 3000 or so. But I worked with a lot of numbers recently so I have no idea how accurate that is.
The most shocking thing about that is that 9gag still exists. How far has it degraded?
You say that like 9gag had a quality site at one point
It had some funny meme and your browser didn’t freeze after scrolling for 5 minutes. That’s already 1 point for 9gag
Edit: this was around 2015. No idea how 9gag looks like now
Incel paradise since all the decent people left
I remember when it didn’t have infinite scroll, and only nine posts per page - that’s where the name came from.
There’s a lot of anti-stuff going around there. Let’s just say that even if it were possible, federation with 9gag is definitely a hard pass from both sides.
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That sounds like they’re using Admiral’s sh!tty brokerage and anti-adblock thing, saw one site with over 1500 partners. Most difficult one to block because of how frequently they buy domains for adblock evasion…
One of these days I’m going to just blacklist the IP ranges of their google cloud fleet
Is kinda funny having pihole and seeing “0 partners” in my Samsung TV
Like the actual string?
Yeah, i think their terms of services are scripted so if they get more or less advertisers based on your country between other things, that way they can redirect the same page to everybody
Oh so that’s how they do it, has to go to the list of things that give you feelings of power
The data broker deletion services all advertise deleting your info from 2-300 agents. Who the fuck are the other several thousand, what are they doing with the data, and how the fuck is any of this legal.
how the fuck is any of this legal.
It’s not!
It is
Why would you even put the number at that point
Laws
Ooooooooohhhh
Makes sense
We should have a challenge of finding the site with most “friends”.
Screenrant offered me 1516 exclusive partners yesterday.
Out of curiosity, what service was this?
Name & shame
I’ll never get why, in a privacy community that doesn’t come up without asking.
The “Blocked since install” stat on uBlockOrigin is always an eye-opener.
Fuck me, 6 million across both browsers and my work PC.
Visit our site as you normally would with the advertising and tracking.
No, i wouldn’t normally visit any site with the advertising and tracking.
At least they mention that they track you. Most talk only about ads.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
Use Chrome enhanced privacy protection now.
That way it’ll just be one of their closest friends, who might coincidentally sell it to the other 755.
Do never use Chrome. Use Firefox based Browsers (Librewolf, Mull)
some websites require Chrome and don’t work with anything else.
and then these college classes I’m taking, my laptop broke so they’re loaning me a campus Chromebook. I’m like okay whatever. Of course just use it for school nothing else.
You could try changing the user agent string in Firefox to make the site think you’re using chrome
There’s Ungoogled-Chromium?
You could just have two browsers installed, basically a necessity for anyone using Firefox on Android.
They don’t include a print dialogue in the Android version of Firefox.
If you even remotely care about your privacy, get off of an ad-company’s monopolistic browser. Firefox + uBlock Origin is the essentials for at least baseline privacy, then go up from there if you so choose.
Is the web site sharing with them or does it make you share with them so that your CPU does most of the processing and uploading to each advertising lead leech?
This would explain why we need more and more powerful/expensive phones just to keep browsing.
It’s also gobs of telemtey and AB testing constantly watching how you’re interacting with what’s on the page and changing what you see to figure out what makes you engage more & longer. All that processing requires a lot of resources compared to sites that respect your privacy.
How much of that do script blockers protect you from?
100% if you block all JavaScript. But then those worst-of-the-worst sites dont load at all
Every geek I knew in the early 90’s was naively evangelizing about the internet ushering in a new age of enlightenment.
I was too, I admit. Am now optimistic about the benefits of a UBI but, with the above humbling experience, guardedly so — the unintended consequences might be impossible to predict.
It is the human condition.
For a while we believed that automation and robots would lead to people not having to work and furthering culture and arts for all of humanity.
People always ignore jealousy and greed, the two most prolific attributes of most worker-ant humans.
A study has undermined the greed angle.
Turns out that (amongst OECD countries) GDP per capita is not correlated with indicators of happiness at all. What is correlated is the degree of income equality…
and here is the great part…
Even for rich people. They too have better lives where there is more equitable income distribution. One day they will hopefully realise.
https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_inequality_harms_societies
That study is reinforcing the greed angle, isn’t it? If those poor and unhappy people wouldn’t all be trying to become rich, but would say “fuck it”, let’s just live and be happy, it would all be fine.
Nobody could force a few billion people to do slave work for questionable amenities. They just need to stop wanting to be part of the so-called rich and their vision of what progress is. They do it out of greed and wanting to have it all. Technology for everyone. A basic human right, internet and shoes with a name on them.
Nothing speaks against a collective endeavor for progress and science to better the whole. But making it a competition:
The OECD is part of the problem.
Economic Co-operation and Development. Developments for enabling rich people and them competing against each other for resources. Not for creating equal footing. But for creating a controlled slave-market disguised as a developed country.
“Worst of the worst” means that nothing of value was lost.
Agreed. I block all JavaScript. Unfortunately it means I can’t read some links that people post to Lemmy >:O
I can’t paywall break them, either. Oh, well.
I’ve seen that on a couple video game news sites and am just fuck it, I won’t read the article then.
- So, it’s maximum security, is that clear?
- Quite clear, sir. Only myself and the rest of the English-speaking world is to know.
Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=blackadder&episode=s04e01
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