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They made computers behave like annoying salesmen | exotext (rakhim.exotext.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The population (especially the younger generation, who never seen a different kind of technology at all) is being conditioned by the tech industry to accept that software should behave like an unreliable, manipulative human rather than a precise, predictable machine. They're learning that you can't simply tell a computer "I'm not interested" and expect it to respect that choice. Instead, you must engage in a perpetual dance of "not now, please" - only to face the same prompts again and again.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fine, but don’t log in. Stop allowing full unfettered access to every bit of data that comprises your daily existence. That’s obviously my point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Stop allowing full unfettered access

There's a decline button. At least privacy settings don't repeatedly come up again (what this post is about).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So long as you’re not using an app or a standard browser, sure. Everyone’s running Tails?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

What? The decline button adds a cookie that tells a given website that you've declined any given popup, so that the website knows not go give you this popup again. This means that if you are using a standard web browser (defined as generic firefox/chromium without adblock) said cookie remains for some time until it expires; because yes, keeping any cookie for undetermined amount of time is bad. So if anything your tails gets more popups if they dont store said cookies and use no external tools to block those popups like adblockers. Also yes I know tails is an OS, but I dont get why using it matters in the discussion about cookie popups not storing their declination state for rolls dice 4 years.