• 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

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  • This website needs JavaScript to display the most basic content, have fun with a blank page otherwise
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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.

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That last one fucking kills me

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You can try Decentraleyes.

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10 points

out dated and abandoned. use LocalCDN instead (although it’s kinda useless as well from a tracking perspective)

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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.

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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.

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The worst is when they redirect you to some /nojs page or similar that doesn’t even have scripts from whatever source was required for it to run so I can’t just tell noscript to allow whatever seems relevant, I have to blanket allow scripts temporarily.

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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

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RIP Unofficial NYTimes paywall bypass by disabling JavaScript :(

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The price of a cup of coffee yeah maybe, but with how many paid online services there are, how many cups of coffee a day y’all think I’m having?

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What? Can’t you afford to drink a Fruitty Pumpkin Spice Kombucha Latte Macchiato Frapuccino with Extra Cream and Sprinkled Caramelized Candybites™ at your local $overpricedHipsterFranchise everyday?

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*every five minutes.

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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

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Kinda like being an iPhone user

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24 points

Those both look like a living hell to my rural ass

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I get the context, but in case of neighborhoods (and internet communities) the quality of people residing is also important. I’d rather have quiet neighbors saying hello instead of some drug peddlers blasting loud music every night.

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8 points

both look like a dystopian open air prison

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48 points

The cookie wizard is the most annoying thing that I’ll continue to do on principle.

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23 points

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

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Don’t they already have what they need once you accept even if you delete them after?

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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)

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The cookie autodelete extension can do that too, but also adds delete when you close the tab/leave the site.

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Block all cookies by default and use Easylist Fanboy Cookielist in ubo to hide the accept cookies popup on a majority of pages.

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You frogot “Sign up for spam to continue”

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You joke, but I’ve been so desensitised by what feels like every website doing this shit, I really did forget how fucked up it actually is.

Also, the subscribe to our newsletter checkbox ticked by default. I swear on my life, I ALWAYS make sure to untick it, but sure enough, my inbox still somehow looks like I engraved my email address on the front door of every marketing department.

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There are even services that send you newsletter shit although you made sure you’re opted out.
Also there’s newsletter with a link to opt out but the link is just fake. I hate it so much.

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Bandsintown did this to me, and when I unsubscribed it said it would take 48 hours, and in that time I think they sent 15 emails.

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I just put them straight on my blocked list, why risk clicking a random link in an email

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