- Allow this website to send notifications?
- Privacy badger stopped 652 trackers on this page
- “Let us enable cookies? Yes or 19 step cookie configuration wizard?”
- “Ads are how we keep our service free. Please disable your adblocker”
- “you’ve reached your daily free limit. Please upgrade to a pro account for just 29.99 USD/month (the price of a cup of coffee)”
I fucking hate the modern web
The thing about walled gardens, is there terrible places to live. Inside the garden it’s okay, but walking around the society filled with wall gardens, so hostile, there’s no walking space, you feel like you’re in prison
And then there’s open communities, open lawns, open trees, a beautiful place to exist, a community you can interact with.
I know where I’d rather live day to day
- This website needs JavaScript to display the most basic content, have fun with a blank page otherwise
i run with scripts disabled unless explicitly whitelisted. this one is annoying af,. so many sites use client scripts to display static content and navigation elements that absolutely didn’t need to–at all. right underneath these idiots is the morons that load the entirety of jquery in a bazillion different external files… and for what? a fucking hover effect over their menus or links or something equally ridiculous.
Same. I use uBlock Origin and NoScript together.
It’s such a pain: go to uBlock Origin, unblock 3p scripts. Then, go to NoScript, unblock the scripts that need to run, then select specifically which elements of the script need to run (media, script, object etc).
I just give up sometimes and run it in a different browser temporarily, or just don’t visit the website. Maybe I’m a madman
Oh, but they don’t just load jquery themselves… for each site “feature” they pull dynamically from a different CDN, loading the same code over and over again to call different functions.
And all it takes is for ONE of their CDNs to get poisoned and suddenly they’re serving malware.
Also, we load the JavaScript from five different CDNs, some of which are horrifically slow today. We also make sure to only load some of the scripts after others have been successfully loaded so uMatrix users have to refresh the page a dozen times.
You can try Decentraleyes.
out dated and abandoned. use LocalCDN instead (although it’s kinda useless as well from a tracking perspective)
The cookie wizard is the most annoying thing that I’ll continue to do on principle.
Firefox has a setting to automatically delete all cookies on shutdown. You can keep a whitelist of sites that are excluded from this (the ones where you want to stay logged in). Works great, and no more worrying about cookies, as long as you shut down your browser now and then
Don’t they already have what they need once you accept even if you delete them after?
There’s not a lot to track in a single browser session. The privacy violation of tracking cookies is that they track what you’re doing. If you set the privacyguides.org recommended settings in Firefox, Mullvad or Brave, the cross-site tracking should be blocked, but deleting them completely means the site will even have to do some advanced fingerprinting to even know “it’s you” on the same site (if not using the same public IP, for example by using VPN, otherwise the IP will be recognised)
My kids beg me to disable our network ad blockers so they get perks of mobile app ads.
