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 ?

  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    I think I recently saw ~840 somewhere.

    To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:

    1. Use FOSS (Free and open source software)
    2. If this is not possible, try to find software that does not invade your privacy and made by a smaller company
    3. Try to avoid paying privacy invading companies. I’m not saying never pay for proprietary software, but try to only spend the money on ones that respect you.
    4. Spread the word about good FOSS apps
    5. Donate to FOSS
    6. Vote for politicians who are serious about antitrust
    7. If you have the skills, contribute to FOSS or make your own software!
    8. Use adblockers on websites that don’t respect you and/or your privacy
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    5 months ago

    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?

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    5 months ago

    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.

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    5 months ago

    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.

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    5 months ago

    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

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        5 months ago

        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.

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      5 months ago

      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

  • egonallanon@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    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.