Every site is trying to pull a Bonzai Buddy now.

"We need all your info for advertising, not you can't opt out unless you make an account and give us your email. Oops, looks like I hid the opt-out under a subheader. Amazon is now profiling you."

WE USED TO CALL THAT SHIT A VIRUS.

ITS EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. NOW

"Hi I'm going to block this entire site until you give me your info, this is very cool and normal."

Capitalism ruined the internet. The whole thing is malware now.

  • davel [he/him]
    ·
    11 months ago

    It’s not that bad for me, but then I’ve got eight finely tuned anti-bullshit browser extensions and a DNS sinkhole. No one should have to construct a whole elaborate tower defense like this just to get on the web.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      ·
      11 months ago

      eight finely tuned anti-bullshit browser extensions

      Drop your mixtape bro.

      • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
        ·
        11 months ago

        https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adnauseam/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ blocks ads

        https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind_the_overlay/ gives you a universal button that closes popups

        https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/ removes cookie banners/popups

        https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean removes paywalls on news sites

        https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/view-page-archive/ shows you webpage archives

      • davel [he/him]
        ·
        11 months ago
        • https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
        • https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
        • https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/
        • https://decentraleyes.org/
        • https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers
        • https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers
        • https://docs.clearurls.xyz/
        • https://noscript.net/
        • https://www.daniel.priv.no/web-extensions/amp2html.html
        • https://nextdns.io/
    • invo_rt [he/him]
      ·
      11 months ago

      DNS sinkhole

      Hell yeah, comrade. I'm running a IDS along with a sinkhole myself.

      programming-communism

      • davel [he/him]
        ·
        11 months ago

        These days I seldom enable NoScript. It’s useful on rare occasions. Once upon a time I tried working with it from a block-by-default starting position, but eventually the tediousness of managing the filters wore me down.