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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ever notice how there are no cookie popup on sites like Wikipedia? Funny how you don't need it unless you're being a total dick with the users data.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wikipedia is a not for profit with 250 million in the bank, so its got other fund raising going than ads. I would say it giant donation prompt that covers the top 1/3rd of a page is its own dark pattern, they just do it internally.

For a contrasting for profit wiki, go check out Fandom, which is owned by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales. It's full of cookies, enshittification and dark patterns.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly!!

On my laptop I have the auto cookie denial extension on Firefox. Also use PiHole for network wide blocking

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

As a Swede this is so funny. It's just normal candy to me

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those pink flowery shaped ones, with liquorice in the center? At least that is Finnish, not Swedish.

It was originally made by a company that opened in 1899 as Hellas, and then from 1989 to 2012 was called Leaf, until it was bought by Cloetta.

The reason I remember this so vividly is because the fuckers changed the recipe after the merger, and the new one just isn't close to being as good.

Fucking Swedes always hogging Finnish things. Like "Swedish torches"? Finnish.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Top tier Finn response

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How good are they compared to Haribo? The candy in the picture looks pretty normal to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't come in a premade bag like Haribo. You buy it by weight at the grocery store and mix yourself.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So comparable to a jarred candy store

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess? I don't know what that is. Every grocery store has it here. More like shelves with buckets than jars.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We have grocery stores with those buckets for like trail mix and nuts and some candy, but only the fancy stores.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haribo is great for people who love chewing rubber tires.

Black Forest Bear Bros rise up.