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And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?
We care about your privacy which is why we are sharing your date with almost 1000 services 998 of which are fully redundant and only 1 is actually needed for the service we provide
lmao I love when they say "we care about your privacy" then they go on to say exactly how much data they're gonna collect and process
Well, technically they do care about your privacy if your privacy is annoying to them and they wish it was gone.
We care about your privacy! We can get a buck or two for it.
I would actually respect it if they were honest in one of these.
LEGITIMATE INTEREST!!
Legitimate interests don't require a banner. The simple fact you see a banner means their lawyers know they couldn't convince the dumbest judge that they actually need that stuff.
I think this bullshit is my personal record:
1609 baby!
1200ish is my personal best can't remember what site it was on.
As to what we can do not really a clue on a grand scale,i just block ads and cookies fanatically.
I had high 700s, where even 1 is more than I can stomach. Thank devs for uBlock Origin.
"Hey dude, we were going to hang out on Sunday. We were planning just us, but can I bring 651 friends along?"
This is more like “Can my 651 friends snoop on our party?”
Based gorhill
To Raymond Hill, we owe SO MUCH.
And the list maintainers of course! (Who often accept donations whereas gorhill has always refused even a penny!)
we cure about your privacy, It's very valuable for us, so please, all your data are belong to us
I think I saw 1500 this week somewhere....
All I want to know is, how can it be profitable to be an ad broker at that point?
The F1 site was at 1200 last time I checked
458 from California just now
In “Manage”, shows 437 “User Consent” Site Vendors and 71 “Legitimate Interest” Site Vendors.
First thing I thought of when I saw this post.
I think i would legitimately just leave the site and block it at my pihole if i saw that
Sure. I'm a fanatical ad-blocker myself, but sometimes using Tor browser with the defaults.
I ususally have them blocked, but on some news site I remember seeing 750+ and off it wanted you to manually unchecked all of them one by one.
I’ve seen 1600+ myself.
How I feel looking at the number of "partners."
Free buffet?
Silver lining: there would be no need to get STD tested because you will for sure know that you have all of them lol.
Whenever I see a cookie banner say something like "We respect your privacy" I chuckle.
Because if they would actually respect my privacy, they wouldn't have had a banner in the first place.
I think I recently saw ~840 somewhere.
To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:
Around 2.000 no kidding
And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?
Start paying for stuff. Subscriptions, etc.
Great, so now we get to pay for the privilege of having our data harvested by 814 "partners"
Remember: "if you aren't paying for the product then you are the product" is no longer accurate, you're the product regardless of paying or not now.
Why just make money from subscription fees when you can make EVEN MORE money by serving adds as well?
I'm just happy that I got to see the glory days of the digital world before advertising moved in.
Yup. Just how cable TV started as "you pay extra for it, but you don't get any ads!" and then when they realized they had everybody hooked, they started showing ads.
Same thing with streaming services. Pay money for a service with no Ads. Oh what's that? Now that they realize they are your primary source of content, they are going to turn ads on unless you pay extra? Boom, gottem.
I'm pretty sure I've seen four digits. That was a "lol no".
And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?
Websites have to pay their bills. Ads, subscriptions or microtransactions; take your pick.
The one way I can think of that would retain the anonymous character of the internet would be HTTP microtransactions by some kind of crypto. Hopefully one of the non-wasteful ones, so not Bitcoin.
I think what you're describing at the end there is basically what Brave (browser) tried to do.
Huh, I missed that. Yep, they were using Bitcoin back before it was fully a circlejerk, looks like, which is reasonable. Now I just know it as a Chrome spinoff that pretends to be private, haha.
It looks like Chrome's trying to do something similar, although there's a high chance Google will attempt a walled garden version.
"Web Monetization" is the keyword. It could be great for things like Lemmy, too, where hosting costs might eventually become a major obstacle.
I can relate to the guy that had to put that number in. Prolly went along the lines of « can we get some budget to identify our various processing activities and what processors are involved ? »… to what management said « lol no just put the overall numbers in ». And the guy included the kitchen company in there because fuck it.
Read something about 1’809 in an article lately:
https://readwrite.com/your-data-is-likely-getting-shared-a-lot-further-than-you-might-think/
9gag, they also have 816. Is this where the screenshot is from?
So, we've moved on from Reddit. Do we still make fun of 9gag now?
I think it was some site I found via some Linux news page, but not 9gag. A few months ago I saw another site with 800 something as well. Odd.
ITT I wish those that can recall would name and shame.