@gamingonlinux As dumb as it sounds, some parts of the web are way more enjoyable with text-only browsers.

Of course there are also plenty of websites that don't work in text-only browsers - or, in other words, that give the middle finger to visually impaired users.

@gamingonlinux And then you click on reject, but if you expand those sections, you see that "Legitimate use" is still enabled, and you have to go through a list of 50 or so, disabling them one by one.

Reject all means reject all...

AdBlock home + tailscale is a life saver.

@gamingonlinux Not only is it a long list of companies, often when you say "no", you're not actually saying "no" to everything, since there are many sites that will still leave the "legitimate interest" options turned on.

And on top of that, there are even more where the "necessary" cookies include "innocuous" things like cross-identifying the device you're on...

@gamingonlinux i swear that specific popup is like a pre-made thing, because i've seen it so many times across multiple sites.

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social the web has always been terrible without ad block. Only now instead of having pop up ads that blares music at you, you're being silently tracked across the web and information about your activity is being sold to giant data brokers and used to serve you ads in an absolutely desperate attempt to get you to consume more shit that you don't need and aren't looking for.

@gamingonlinux I totally agree:
https://mamot.fr/@dolmen/111534089046485916

@gamingonlinux Also: your "legitimate purposes" are not legitimate at all. You don't need to track me "for fraud detection purpose" just to let me read an article.

@gamingonlinux It's funnier on sites that say "We and our 834 partners value your privacy!"

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The latest version of this privacy stuff actually requires them to show the number of vendors on the first page. So "We and our 1332 partners" instead of "we and our partners". Makes this funnier

@gamingonlinux I've switched to clearing cookies/history/cache on exit and whitelisting trusted domains because I don't think uBlock + pihole is sufficient.

@gamingonlinux but they DO value it! Wagons of dollars of value!

@gamingonlinux One popped up for me last night that enumerated their "partners".

All 157 of them.

@gamingonlinux "Look, we value your privacy enough to tell you which companies will get your data. We even give you the option to manually opt out of LeGItIMaTE inTErREst 57 times. Aren't you grateful?"

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Most annoying is FB, with all the ads. Only on there because of friends travel pics.

@gamingonlinux The do value our privacy. At about $50 a year in revenue.

@gamingonlinux And so many don't have the "Reject All" button, and have that horseshit "Legitimate Interest" thing that means "We have a legitimate interest in spying on you, please don't stop us"

@gamingonlinux I always find it interesting that there was a race to get these cookie banners up on websites to comply. But by having an agreement button a different colour to the disagree, they are breaking the law.

@gamingonlinux they do value privacy… coz they’re selling it.

@gamingonlinux Double down harder. I use uBlock Origin, LocalCDN, ClearURLS, Bypass Paywalls (Firefox/Chrome) Clean, Web Archives, Image Search, Sponsorblock and for specific sites an enhancer extensions like Enhancer for Youtube, Old Reddit Redirect, Reddit Enhancement Suite, and auto clicker. IF that is what it takes to get a good experience online, then so be it. Haven't seen an adblock blocker message in a long time since bypass paywalls clean blocks annoying malicious JavaScripts.

@gamingonlinux oh, you got it wrong... It's "we value your privacy, and that's why we are selling it off" 😸

@gamingonlinux This reminds me of how a lot of sites block you if you're using a VPN now; especially predatory sites like Facebook, Reddit & LinkedIn.

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Meanwhile the site has adverts that overload your screen.

@gamingonlinux Yes those popups are ironic.

If they really did value your privacy they wouldn´t need to show this stupid popup.

I block these stupid cookie-walls with the "I don´t care about cookies" extension.