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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's no ads when you use uBlock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

No tracking cookies, either lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This pop-up finally caused me to learn how the element zapper feature works

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a filter list for cookie popups.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This finally made me learn about optional filter lists

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Its a big moment for most people.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure this is illegal but I guess whatever fine they get is just the cost of business

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i get they need to make money but i don't think threatening to sell people's data is going to foster goodwill

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Get someone in CA or CO to sue. Laws are very straight forward there

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

This is Guardian UK I don't know if Guardian US is doing this or not

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, the UK has just had a report commissioned about it (and I'm focussing on the UK here since the Guardian is based there and OP alson said they were accessing the UK site). It notes that "In principle, data protection law does not prohibit business models that involve consent or pay." Direct pdf link: https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/impact-assessments/4032418/consent-or-pay-impact-assessment.pdf

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gotta love how the legal system here outright ignores the laws that they're ruling on, GDPR states that the accept and reject buttons need to be equally accessable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of the 2 million most used sites in the EU not even 10% pass the lowest bar of the GDPR. Thing is, that when the problem is this wide spread, the courts don't want to open the floodgates when they start to percecute all those websites.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Persecute? They're ignoring privacy laws.

Have a staff member verify a complaint is accurate. Send cease and desist to the domain admin, advising which law they're breaking and remediations necessary. Wait 4 weeks. Send auto-fine to domain admin. Wait 4 weeks. Open formal audit of the companies GDPR compliance.

This won't happen because we live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as democracy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I choose option 3, violence. PopUpOFF, AdNauseam, CanvasBlocker, and Bypass Paywalls Clean. Fuck you, fuck your ads, and fuck your tracking. Please eat shit and die. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Exactly what I did. I'm more petty than interested in the Spanish neanderthal bones

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

tangential but I've given up on managing cookie preferences on most sites

I installed cookie autodelete and allow sites I care about, then let the rest get purged when I close their tab

it's probably not perfect -- they could still build a profile based on IP address, browser fingerprint, etc. -- but I figure it at least makes it harder for a lot of em

plus I'm not on Facebook or Google or the other big advertising platforms so that helps

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Probably the most reasonable strategy tbh. And fencing. And using multiple browsers for different purposes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Only the rich can afford privacy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How did it come to be expected that information should be free?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Had a long day and I don't understand how that applies to my comment. Please elaborate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not worth reading anyway