Good news! We've invented the torment nexus

Go on.

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?

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.

Still no idea why that's legal.

It is not

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.

To my understanding, by using this you accept (all) the cookies... I would like a extension that tries to minimize cookie exposure!

IIRC that add-on was bought by Avast and the new add-on is 'I still don't care about cookies'

Or you can enable "Annoyances" filters in uBlock Origin for the same effect

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

(recommend not actually clicking any links)

Even emails have tracking pixels at this point. Like, I route all of my email through a client that blocks all outside media without asking lol

I hate when I look up som simple info for a game and you get to a page that just has all this generated text telling you how you want to know that simple info and how they are going to tell you that simple info on that site and how this game makes you do that simple thing and some background about what that game is

That's something I would disagree with though. "Sticking with plain HTML and CSS" is way more work, and often has significantly less functionality, than building a website with a framework.

I don't mind frameworks, but some features that seem super useful to devs, like google analytics, and various diagnostic/logging tools, social media integrations, I would prefer to "opt in" when I decide they are necessary.

Not the person you're asking and I'm running uMatrix instead of noscript to block scripts. But I do it to get more granular control over what my browser loads and runs. Why run scripts if a website works perfectly fine without them? These days I ain't trusting shit out there on the web.

Tldr: I prefer to opt-in.

Technically it's uBO, but I use the extreme setting that blocks all scripts by default. Truthfully I wasn't aware just how many scripts get loaded especially on ecommerce and social media sites, there are too many heavy frameworks being used. Much of it is unnecessary bloat, slowing down my browser, and no small amount of it is devoted to tracking and data collection.

In general, I find less than half of loaded scripts are required to make a page functional. It's a process requiring trial-and-error, but I have a good set of base rules in place for trusted sites and scripts.

For me, it's about not giving websites free reign over my browser and by extension my computer and personal data, but having some measure of control over them.

And occasionally there are suspicious sites where I truly don't want any scripts to run. I don't even have to worry about them.

I require https, but not every website is secure, and sometimes the certificate has a problem or is expired.

The thing your missing is, when you click only allow non essential, that means it's still 700 companies tracking you because of the great term "legitimate interest". That's the one you need to deactivate and this usually one by one as shown in this post.

So yeah, you're essentially allowing all the stuff the way you're doing it

You will often get these captchas if you use a popular VPN.

Might be because you trained yourself to avoid those sites that need them. I stopped using some SaaS because logging in was just too hard.

It's VPN's that'll trigger the captchas. I never get them unless I forget to turn my VPN off after "hanging out with my peers", and then a BUNCH of sites will captcha me

It's a mock search engine results page.

Click on the link with the text "then it shows me something" to continue.

Just use reader mode, it bypasses all that shit.

Italy too.

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

It definitely doesn't take care of everything, but there are apps that run all the internet traffic on your phone through an adblocker. Most of the ones on Android setup a local VPN (a VPN running on the same device that's connecting to it) and run their adblocker through that.

I'm with you. I've started using firefox with no extensions, not even ad-blocker. Whenever I am annoyed by a website autoplaying sound in a popup or asking me to sign up for their newsletter or whatever, I look at the URL and think: this website is dead to me now.

I tried to read comments on a TwiXXer link the other day and was unsuccessful. I thought I was just misclicking or something. You're telling me it's on purpose?

That's stupid as fuck.

The more I have to deal with ads, cookies, ads, authentication, ads, data harvesting, ads, password hell, ads, free news article limits, and let's not forget ads, the more I want to go live in a cabin in the woods.

Of course, those are hardly affordable anymore.

I use "I don't care about cookies" but it's detected and blocked by cnn. Does ghostery work?

Basically we are going to need more and more addon's and functionality to mitigate this shit. Ignore all cookies, delete all cookies. Basically code for many specific websites to make them usable again.

Not sure I understand, peer to peer is always decentralized, i.e. no central server. But the main feature would have to be that you can switch or fork a web application / service - but take your networks with you like a federated service. Not sure how that can work tbh.

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.

I am allergic to most flowers, and I don't want to clean up after a puppy. Give me cats or the large properly-formatted data file.

I have an extension called "ffck overlays" for situations like that. It can be hit-or-miss, but it works a decent amount of the time.

Firefox: https://github.com/mashedkeyboard/ffckoverlays

It was inspired by a similar extension made for Chrome called "F*ck Overlays".

Chromium browsers (for those who haven't left Chromium behind yet): https://chrome.google.com/...

Leave site and never return.

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?

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.

what AI outputs is what I think a majority of the people want anyways. They want an answer to something in most cases.

When I ask a question I want a correct answer, not one that is merely statistically likely. Using an AI and not fact checking it means you will never know if the answer given to your question is true. The AI tells you what it thinks you want to hear, not what it knows is true, because it doesn't know anything, it's a pattern matcher.

But it's like asking your very smart child to find the information for you.

The child is still learning so it only takes information that it was exposed to and has access to and it never questions or critically analyses the data.

So all the information, disinformation, misinformation and non information that the childlike AI collects is fed back to you as a giant word salad and presented as actual information without any critical thought.

Thank fucking God. I hate YouTube tutorials

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.

Damn. Do they state this in their TOS? That you're contributing to their training?

They most certainly do unfortunately, I speak from experience. Haven't delved into the specifics, but I suspect some websites check if a piece of JavaScript or other resource was loaded, if not a 'you are using an adblocker' message is shown. It is annoying, but as I can live without these websites they go onto my personal blacklist and I move on with my life. They need us harder than we do them.

This is the right answer. Most webpage servers, if they're set up to detect adblock, only detect at the client level on the browser. They don't check to see if their traffic is being routed through a pihole.