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.

  • 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/