Spyke
lemmy.world

I can see that, but I think I’d be cool with them knowing everything about me as long as it wasted a bunch of their money.

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9point6reply
lemmy.world

If that's the case, I don't know what the current landscape is like with them, but I remember reading ages ago about extensions that would click all ads (in the background) for you so that you cost the advertisers money and muddy up their profile on you.

No idea if those still exist or are any good

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lemmy.world

I run consent-o-matic and Adnausem so I reject cookies and still click on all ads to fuck with my advertising profiles.

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poinckreply
lemmy.world

will Adnausem still hide the ads and not render any response?

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Yeah I was gonna say. No one cares about cookies. Even vanilla Firefox has containers tabs by default.

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got anything that just surfs and clicks on its own?

I can setup docker containers with desktops too if that makes it easier.

Just want to flood the network with bullshit.

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adultswim.fan

My wife: why do we need a whole home VPN? What are you hiding?

Me: Baby, I work in Infosec. I'm hiding everything. But I'm mostly doing it to make it harder for our ISP to harvest and sell the data I'm paying for them to transmit.

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She doesnt know how well you protect her.

Keep the fucking' man outta your girl's DMs.

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You block cookies for either the reason above.

I eat those cookies.

We are not the same.

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It's hardly a different thing, all the data saucers & brokers are fueled by ad monies, other things don't pay as much (but are still disastrous due to the scales).

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lemmy.world

You know normal people don't know what this crap is right?

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lemmy.world

Cookies? Ad companies? Privacy? I think those are pretty mainstream things to know about (at least if you live in a country with regulations on cookies, you get a banner on every website)

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True. I know of them and what they are somewhat about. However, I would wager most of my employees have no interaction with them other than approving it. They may know it's a computer term, but what it is, I have doubts.

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Thanks chicken man. Let's all block cookies and ads to spite ad companies.

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