[Openurmind]

Couple months old, but found a lot of current reality in this article.

[RBStealth]

I am negan

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yet “Ploum” hasn’t discovered the minimalist FR?

“...spams every second of our life with ads, beep, notifications, vibrations, blinking LEDs, background music and fluorescent titles.” — No kidding. Sites now have three or four popups you have to dismiss, endless embedded videos, and tons of crap I don’t want to see. I use the “Reader” view in Safari to block most of that crap. When it rarely doesn’t work, I switch to Brave which has an even higher success record at blocking crap.

I use ExpressVPN, BitDefender TrafficLight, BitDefender TrafficLight, 1Blocker (lifetime 153,265 actions blocked as of just now) and Safari to block trackers. The number of trackers is astounding.

I like that sites are now adhering to the law that they have to ask your consent to put cookies on your computer. Lots of the cookie consent pages are awful, but I’m finding that my preferences are carrying over.

The web is a colossal mess.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Have to try some of that stuff out.

[JesusIsLord]

If you're serious about not being tracked and made merchandise of, you have some options /s:

[ansel12]

“””When browsing on the “normal web”, it is increasingly required to disable at least part of your antifeatures-blockers to access content.
Most of the time, I don’t bother anymore. The link I clicked doesn’t open or is wrangled? Yep, I’m probably blocking some important third-party JavaScript. No, I don’t care. I’ve too much to read on a day anyway. More time for something else.”””

I do as well, even for something I want to buy, if I click on it to check the size or something and a pop-up hides the item, then I move on, they won’t even let us look at the display windows anymore.

[bigbob]

I don’t care what they track because there is a very low correlation between what I click on and my actual buying.behavior.

[sauropod]

bkmk