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@paddyduke It's so bad that I've turned off javascript for all sites by default (using ublock origin) and only selectively turn it on where it's necessary.  This is so exhausting. One of the reasons I just use a terminal browser (w3m) a lot of the time.   @edgeofeurope @paddyduke Firefox mobile (or Mull Browser) with uBlock Origin is a must at this point. @chiraag @edgeofeurope @paddyduke and NoScript to keep the pile of third party JavaScript at bay  @paddyduke My energy capacity for most sites is zero. The moment I encounter anything that isn’t what I expected, I bail. It’s just not worth it.   @Bluedepth That's what I do too. I so often follow a link, and just immediately close the tab and try another one. I just can't with this shit any more. @paddyduke This, a million times over. If it’s something I feel I MUST read I’ll turn them off and back on when the article is done. That probably does nothing but make me feel better but that works too!  @paddyduke Sing this to the tunes of No Scrubs by TLC and we have a new #HitsOfTheITs. @paddyduke and if they really "valued my privacy" they would assume those would be people's preferences unless they explicitly and unprompted decided to opt in.   I don't want your cookies options to be: Accept all Refuse all Look at cookies and decide which ones I want And then have those options scroll up the screen faster than I can move the cursor to my selected answer. So unless I'm really fast or lucky, I either end up hitting the wrong answer, or the options evaporate before I can answer (and presumably that opts me in). Yes, Games Workshop. I'm looking at you. But I'm not looking at your website. @davidtheeviloverlord @paddyduke And then some sites which *do* have a refuse all button don't highlight it and some do, leading to click-through obfuscation. Capitalism can kiss my agendered bawls. @book @davidtheeviloverlord @paddyduke I work for a tech company that is moving our user-agreement to a click-wrap that way we could change terms on our partners whenever we want and I hate everything about it. corporate america is bullshit, tech industry especially @paddyduke I just bought a new phone now that 3G is really definitely being turned off. So I've had the "new android phone experience" and I am still grumpy. The quantity of pre-installed crapware is astonishing. From google, from "sponsored content" and from the phone excretor Emails telling me I've subscribed to shit I never wanted in the first place. Google Wallet. Google TV. Google Auto. None of those. But they can't be removed or disabled Will buy another Fairphone just because of this.  @econads @paddyduke Sadly I need an android phone for work but now that I have a cheap generic one I'm starting to think that as a second phone and have a proper one to use for everything else. Annoyingly I could have grabbed something from the pile at work if I'd thought of it. Current phone won't run lineage, but many compatible phones are cheaper than a FP4 (which will also run lineage...). I'm going to stew for a bit longer but I'm leaning towards not-Android right now @econads @paddyduke I think they still do, I recall reading about it on the FP forums. Thinking, the real hassle is the NSW driver license app, the my.gov.au authentication app etc that all require recent iOS or Android. I bought the FP3 to run the covid apps because my then 7-ish year old phone wouldn't. Not having those was very painful. Shit, need to unregister the auth app before I factory reset my FP3 and sell it. @moz @paddyduke Do they not have hardcopy licences any more? @econads @paddyduke there's hardcopy licenses, and web banking, but the my.gov stuff *really* want an auth app (and the covid tracing app was a dumpster fire). I'm kinda thinking I'll keep the new moto phone, possibly as a backup and if it still annoys me in a couple of months buy a fairphone 4 or 5. I'm now thinking I'll wait a month before selling the FP3 just in case there's another app on it that turns out to be crucial and needs to be unregistered. @econads @paddyduke the current FP will stop working really soon when they turn 3G off here. Without the telco's choosing to support FP it can't make calls on 4G. Otherwise I'd keep the FP3 until it died. So it's looking keep the moto and buy a new FP if the moto keep annoying me. @moz @paddyduke @econads @paddyduke only to EU customers :) The cost of posting it back from outside EU is more than they offer... But as a working phone still supported in EU it's worth more second hand. @econads @paddyduke NSW definitely has hardcopy licenses and I prefer it, not least because it removes the temptation to hand an unlocked phone to a police officer. (your implied right not to give NSW Police full access is very vague at the best of times, but why make it easy) @moz   @moz @paddyduke @paddyduke Absolutely spot on. The only thing I would add is (once you purchase) immediate review. Once before thing had been delivered. Most recently delivery/installation delivered but wouldn't install since delivery co. admin hadn't passed our information to deliverer/installers. I wrote immediately to manufacturer to tell the, Total silence from them, other than an immediate request for a review saying how happy we were...   Just noticed that singing this list to Edward Elgar's tune to "Land of Hope and Glory" sort of works. (Have to gabble the last few words in each sentence ... but that's OK)  @paddyduke I still remember the pandemic worries about bandwidth, and people trying to attack gamers while using extremely bloated news websites with 40 ads and an autoplay video that would eat up more bandwidth than playing an online game for hours on end. @paddyduke would be nice, if browsers would have something similar like the "no advertising" stickers you can put on your mailbox... @tdp_org @paddyduke what about push notifications? Surely you want your day to be interrupted every time this site you’re visiting for a single purpose posts a new article.  @paddyduke the other day I helped my mom set up her new computer and it was pretty much the same sequence of questions, but from the OS I wasn’t sure even I could tell the difference between some of the questions  @paddyduke No I don't want to pay for a while month's worth of papers just to read something that would cost $3 at my local newsstand. @paddyduke No, I don't want to switch of my VPN  @paddyduke Did you mean you want all those things later? I'm a silicon valley UI designer, and I'm not quite sure what "no" means.   No, you can't send me notifications: you're a web page, not an app. No, it's none of your business what my geographical location is (and you'll just get it wrong anyway).  @paddyduke On Firefox, it's https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1393427 I believe there's a similar mechanism in Chrome, though I've not tested it since Manifest v3 released.  @paddyduke  @paddyduke @MadMike77 I, I don’t want your „notifications“ is missing ;) @paddyduke No, I don't want to share my location for "more relevant content."      This is why uBlock Origin is so useful: it's a page element/content blocker, not just an ad blocker. @paddyduke No, I don't want Push notifications No, I don't want to change to another language or country @paddyduke I hear Lina Kahn is just as out-of-control in our defense. She can keep at it if we all do a bit of paperwork. All this browser hacking dance-stepping is more than just tedious. We need bigger solutions. @paddyduke That is, vote. Here's the latest ruling. The Trump campaign plans to continue down the road the SCOTUS Chevron ruling started and effectively gut executive agencies, like the FTC.  Like you have a choice. They'll keep asking, relentlessly, and there's nothing you can do about it. You'll give up eventually.
@paddyduke Use uBlock Origin on Firefox to block most of that. Or use Brave if you don’t mind having to turn off a bunch of cryptocurrency nonsense cluttering up the window. In either case, add a few extra filter lists to block more. If you don’t know how, find a techie to help. The web is far more tolerable once all the garbage that’s only there for website operators’ sakes, not viewers’, is blocked.  @paddyduke And no, I don't want to give your web site access to canvas so you can fingerprint my browser.  @paddyduke For all the controversy about Brave, I'm getting totally spoiled by it with how much of 'Tha Web' I just don't have to put up with.  No, I don't want to download your app. No, I don't want to watch a 15 minute video instead of reading a 3-sentence explanation.  @paddyduke Stop making it all about you. Corporations have needs too. What do you want, FFS, a world where the individual's needs are raised above those of your corporate overlords?  @paddyduke  @paddyduke I have pi-hole installed and uBlock origin in firefox, it is great. @paddyduke and this demonstrates that the moment that the economy touches something, we've already lost all it's actual value.  @paddyduke@mastodon.social  |
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