All I see is a cross in the upper right corner.
How do I make Lemmy not show me animated thumbnails?
I don’t need my home page to be a GeoCities-esque pile of flashing puke.
Yeah probably not great for photosensitive viewers
In europe we have a “reject all” button for cookies and it’s fantastic
For big websites for sure, but I still need consent-o-matic way too often for smaller sites and news sites. German news sites are particularly terrible.
Yep, you can “reject all” if you’re lucky. Then you just have to go through the list anyway and untick all “legitimate interest” to spy on you.
See I want to be able to set that once, in my browser, and then have all of these things fuck off.
No, we don’t. I had to do this manually, more than once.
We also have this glorious extension which just fucks them all off:
Or you can enable “Annoyances” filters in uBlock Origin for the same effect
I used to use Ghostery but removed it and now just use these two filters in uBlock. They’re not perfect but certainly better than not using them at all.
Also interesting; I didn’t realise I hadn’t turned those on. thanks!
There seems to be a lot of options. Which ones do I pick? :/
Just turn it all on until something breaks!
I can’t tell: are you joking or serious?
Serious ;)
To my understanding, by using this you accept (all) the cookies… I would like a extension that tries to minimize cookie exposure!
Thanks!! Going to try it!
Ghostery will automatically decline all tracking pop ups, block cookies, website trackers, etc.
I’ve been using it for a while and love it.
Thanks!! Going to try it!
In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it’s needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what’s easier to do). It doesn’t delete cookies.
You’re sort of right. Cookie deletion should be available in browser settings right?
In some browsers, such as duck duck go, that’s indeed available and customizable per site. There is also Auto Cookie Delete extension on Firefox and Chrome that you can use.
Use I STILL don’t care about cookies. That one is owned by Avast nowadays and accepts all cookies which is clearly not what people want.
thanks, changed it.
IIRC that add-on was bought by Avast and the new add-on is ‘I still don’t care about cookies’
Holy fuck, that is so disgusting. I was gonna ask why that’s even legal but I’ve learned not to ask such stupid, logical questions. Thanks for the tip!
thanks, changed it.
We do? Since when? I see that on maybe 1 out of 10 pages.
Be fair, it’s not always working but more often then not IMO.
I’d love somewhere to reporh those assholish designed (so illegal in the EU) ones, like the French CNIL or something?
The consent-o-matic add on allows you to autofil the cookie response and when it doesn’t work you can report it. The ad on is also funded by the EU somehow, can’t remember exactly how. If the add on doesn’t work it means their site is not asking the question correctly.
Except on news websites that only give you the choice between “subscribe for X€” and “read for free (accept all)”. So annoying. Still no idea why that’s legal.
Still no idea why that’s legal.
It is not
That’s not at all legal under GDPR. Nor is having deny all be harder than accept. As is tradition however companies don’t give half a shit until fines start happening.
Because newspapers are not forced to give out their news for free. But they have to give you an alternative to selling your data; taking money from you in this case.
Which is illegal under GDPR btw. See instagram being sued for „pay or get tracked“ on their app.
Since I started using a VPN, I’ve started seeing that option more. Even still, lots of sites aren’t compliant.
We need to develop more alternatives like federated social media or even completely make web services p2p. And then have them somewhat democratically controlled, or easily able to migrate to alternatives without cost of loosing network effects.
Especially something like amazon / ebay / paypal / ali would be awesome to replace with a “public utility” federated version. They tax so much of the sales and it all goes to psycho billionaires.
I2P is a “peer-to-peer” internet, so to speak. Not much going on there, but it exists. If you’re old enough, think of it as a separate internet that exists in a Kazaa/eMule-esque network.
Oh I still mourn eMule haha. I always thought it was better than torrent, but torrent won for some reason - presumably because it needed more websites and servers to function and that created a market and a marketing gain. I guess I should check out I2P.
Old web revival. Personal sites. Protocol based chat.
Web services are already peer to peer, you mean “decentralized”.
Oh thank god this is gaining traction because I’ve been having these issues for the last years more and more.
you guys can actually solve the captchas?
Actually i never help google to work for free. Answer X-1 fields correctly and one totally not. Gotta do it twice at least, but be consistent. For one captcha they know the answer, for one they don’t. You’re working by helping them identifying objects in that one. Don’t 😈
Damn. Do they state this in their TOS? That you’re contributing to their training?
Dunno. But why else should they offer such thing “for free”? What else gainful there is in millions of people identifying millions of images? If it’s not for training AIs, i would have no better idea :)
They’re getting harder, no doubt about that
I give up! I’m a fucking robot. I had to break the news to my mom yesterday 😭.
I had one ask me why I wasn’t helping the tortoise. Definitely some advanced detection going on.
Real reason why people just stay on the same four big-data-harvesting sites now.
The cookies being pre selected is illegal in the EU. Although I’ve seen sites that don’t care and still enable them by default
The ones I’ve seen disable the ‘consent’ bits by default, but then there’s ‘vendor preferences’ where ‘legitimate interest’ is automatically ON in 58 places (I’m not exaggerating; I have counted it) and you have to manually off all of them.
When you click the question mark at ‘legitimate interest’, all it says is some vendors are not asking for your consent to use your data but collect it based on their legitimate interest.
It’s infinitely vague and it has the vibe of ‘I’m not going to ask for it, I will just take it and I will use it for whatever I want anyway’.
Legitimate interest was a concept invented by Facebook which basic is idea is to say “I’ve got my reasons, so it fine for me not to follow the law”.
Here in Spain they started making the option to either subscribe… Or accept the ads/tracking…
Same with a lot of news outlets in Germany. Although it’s not that difficult for me to use only sites that allow disallowing every cookie or just bypass the cookie popup
Italy too.
Just use reader mode, it bypasses all that shit.
Oh I am sure there are ways to bypass it. Just saying what they do.
Same in germany. That makes the whole thing even more useless, as everyone just is a subscription-based shit now…
Yeah I see it seems it applies other places.
I would be ok with it honestly if they like allowed to select sites but they did this “content pass”, https://www.contentpass.net/en , which englobe a lot of sites and lot of them I don’t want them to see a single penny from me because they are shit. If they fix that and I can pick and change it along the way am all in on it.
For the motorcycles and bikes… Are we supposed to add the squares with the humans riding it? Are they part of the system?
Which gives me the fewest goddamn captchas?
Pretty sure the minimum number of captchas is at least somewhat random
It feels like I have to get 5 in a row and one mistake resets the counter. I’ve been stuck for minutes on end trying to get into a damn website I had to log on to. Whatever happened to that Cloudflare alternative that wouldn’t bug the user?
Right. And then I’m like … Okay but I didn’t select a person’s head. There is no motorcycle in this square.
Then the system tells me I’m wrong, and I get all “I’m the fucking human, asshole”
For ads problem ublock origins / Adguard / Blokada / PiHole does job done especially if you add HAGEZI Ultimate filters on it if you want clean webpage
For captcha problem i think theres script that can you inject to bypass it (i forgot the name of that script)Website any% speedrun (no glitch)
Every big web site in 2024 looks like the sites people warned you not to visit in the 90s
Don’t invent the torment nexus.
Good news! We’ve invented the torment nexus
just get some anti-adblock killing scripts into your adblocker dude.
They just need the anti ad blocker anti air-to-ground guided anti ground ad scripts, welcome to the future.
a lot of good adblockers, like what’s built into brave as well as ublock origin and adguard for browsers and desktop have stuff in them to prevent detection by anti-adblock bullshit.
You need to have more than one of those three to successfully block all ads.
Captcha buster is taking care of the captchas now at least. A robot that proves I’m not a robot. Is this the singularity yet?
Singularity was more than 70 years ago.
Go on.
No, but it’s definitely a boring dystopia.
Is there such a thing as an ad sequesterer? Not necessarily blocking it, but just shoving it in some other window I can’t see, and then letting it play through. Then YouTube gets its ad played, and I don’t have to see it—win/win.
You’re looking for something like this. It still blocks the ad from your view but in the background it still loads/plays the ad, and sometimes even clicks it to spend their precious ad budget.
I hope it doesn’t click it on my computer. I wouldn’t trust an ad not to try to download a virus even on a legitimate site like YouTube.
