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And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 105 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We care about your privacy which is why we are sharing your date with almost 1000 services 998 of which are fully redundant and only 1 is actually needed for the service we provide

[–] strawberry@kbin.run 52 points 10 months ago (4 children)

lmao I love when they say "we care about your privacy" then they go on to say exactly how much data they're gonna collect and process

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago

Well, technically they do care about your privacy if your privacy is annoying to them and they wish it was gone.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

We care about your privacy! We can get a buck or two for it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

I would actually respect it if they were honest in one of these.

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[–] Lemmy_2019@lemmy.one 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago

Legitimate interests don't require a banner. The simple fact you see a banner means their lawyers know they couldn't convince the dumbest judge that they actually need that stuff.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 75 points 10 months ago

I think this bullshit is my personal record:

[–] tkc@feddit.uk 73 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 43 points 10 months ago

1200ish is my personal best can't remember what site it was on.

As to what we can do not really a clue on a grand scale,i just block ads and cookies fanatically.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I had high 700s, where even 1 is more than I can stomach. Thank devs for uBlock Origin.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Hey dude, we were going to hang out on Sunday. We were planning just us, but can I bring 651 friends along?"

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

This is more like “Can my 651 friends snoop on our party?”

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

Based gorhill

To Raymond Hill, we owe SO MUCH.

And the list maintainers of course! (Who often accept donations whereas gorhill has always refused even a penny!)

[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago

we cure about your privacy, It's very valuable for us, so please, all your data are belong to us

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 30 points 10 months ago

I think I saw 1500 this week somewhere....

All I want to know is, how can it be profitable to be an ad broker at that point?

[–] macgyver@federation.red 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The F1 site was at 1200 last time I checked

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

458 from California just now

In “Manage”, shows 437 “User Consent” Site Vendors and 71 “Legitimate Interest” Site Vendors.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

It doesn't even say they care about your privacy, they aren't even trying to hide it.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

First thing I thought of when I saw this post.

[–] IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It’s the worst site. Every time I need to scroll all the way to the bottom to click Accept. It’s like they made it that way on purpose.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think i would legitimately just leave the site and block it at my pihole if i saw that

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Sure. I'm a fanatical ad-blocker myself, but sometimes using Tor browser with the defaults.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

I ususally have them blocked, but on some news site I remember seeing 750+ and off it wanted you to manually unchecked all of them one by one.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 16 points 10 months ago

I’ve seen 1600+ myself.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How I feel looking at the number of "partners."

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Free buffet?

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Silver lining: there would be no need to get STD tested because you will for sure know that you have all of them lol.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago

I think I recently saw ~840 somewhere.

To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:

  1. Use FOSS (Free and open source software)
  2. If this is not possible, try to find software that does not invade your privacy and made by a smaller company
  3. Try to avoid paying privacy invading companies. I'm not saying never pay for proprietary software, but try to only spend the money on ones that respect you.
  4. Spread the word about good FOSS apps
  5. Donate to FOSS
  6. Vote for politicians who are serious about antitrust
  7. If you have the skills, contribute to FOSS or make your own software!
  8. Use adblockers on websites that don't respect you and/or your privacy
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago

Whenever I see a cookie banner say something like "We respect your privacy" I chuckle.

Because if they would actually respect my privacy, they wouldn't have had a banner in the first place.

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

Around 2.000 no kidding

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure I've seen four digits. That was a "lol no".

And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

Websites have to pay their bills. Ads, subscriptions or microtransactions; take your pick.

The one way I can think of that would retain the anonymous character of the internet would be HTTP microtransactions by some kind of crypto. Hopefully one of the non-wasteful ones, so not Bitcoin.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think what you're describing at the end there is basically what Brave (browser) tried to do.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Huh, I missed that. Yep, they were using Bitcoin back before it was fully a circlejerk, looks like, which is reasonable. Now I just know it as a Chrome spinoff that pretends to be private, haha.

It looks like Chrome's trying to do something similar, although there's a high chance Google will attempt a walled garden version.

"Web Monetization" is the keyword. It could be great for things like Lemmy, too, where hosting costs might eventually become a major obstacle.

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I can relate to the guy that had to put that number in. Prolly went along the lines of « can we get some budget to identify our various processing activities and what processors are involved ? »… to what management said « lol no just put the overall numbers in ». And the guy included the kitchen company in there because fuck it.

[–] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

9gag, they also have 816. Is this where the screenshot is from?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, we've moved on from Reddit. Do we still make fun of 9gag now?

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't we? Still a shithole over there.

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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

I think it was some site I found via some Linux news page, but not 9gag. A few months ago I saw another site with 800 something as well. Odd.

[–] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

ITT I wish those that can recall would name and shame.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Found an article on the uk guardian page that wanted me to accept cookies from 76 partners. Noped out