• Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    This site is better in The App! Download now?

    The App:

    A Chrome component, coupled to a straw to slurp all your data a browser cannot reach, and notifications coming out of your arse at 2am because they cannot fathom the idea of other countries existing.

  • gearheart@lemm.ee
    6·
    1 year ago

    Was raised in an age where where you needed firewalls, antiviruses, spam blocks and ad blocks, Ect to surf the web safety.

    Now companies are doing everything they can to make sure you disable all it to have the privilege of using their website.

  • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    1 year ago

    Anytime a website forces me to turn off my adblock, I leave it and block it so it doesn’t show up again. If you force such predatory tactics, I am not interested in your website, and I’d rather look for another one.

  • alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    People living in EU. You guys are lucky. These cookie banners and stuff behave differently there because EU forces the reject all button

    • CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      Every other website i visit has a different tactic of hiding their reject button.

      They will even give a second pop up leaving you unable to use the website in hopes of you clicking accept anyway.

      • JoJo@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Consent-o-matic

        Install once, go to a website, wait a few seconds, ans it rejects all those 1273 “partners” for you, together with clicking every hidden “reject” button, so you don’t have to

    • heftig@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      That doesn’t seem to be true. A lot of German publishers do not allow you to proceed without giving consent to cookies and profiling for targeted advertising. They consider this legal because they offer you the alternative of “opting out” by signing up for a paid subscription.

    • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      The EU does definitely not have an easy reject all button…it’s always a minefield to work out how to disable them. Most take over 30-60 seconds to find out how to disable everything

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      Not in my experience. The reject all button is usually hidden behind the review your choices button. It’s fucking bullshit. Accept all is always visible tho.

      If I block cookie banners, does that mean I reject cookies because I didn’t consent? Because if that’s the case, I’m gonna just start blocking them.

    • frippa@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      The EU does force the reject all button, however companies and websites often don’t care about the law; some newspaper in my country straight up ask for a subscription to let you have the privilege of disabling cookies on their ad-ridden dying websites, and many more don’t have a “reject all” button.

      I try to report some of them but who knows if it does something.

      Plus from personal experience; when you setup a GDPR button through Google, by default there is no “reject all” button. Or the equally mandatory “x” to close the popup, thus rejecting cookies. You need to tick a box to enable them.

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I get why soulless corporations do this, but why do regular folks choose to publish their content on Medium, Substack, Devto, etc. when this is the shitty UX they’ll be forcing on their readers.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      0·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s the same reason YouTube can keep shooting itself in the foot and still thrive: it’s where all the eyeballs are concentrated now.

      I agree, I’m a “Have your own blog / homepage” proponent myself…

      …but I got as far as a domain and have paid (cheap) hosting for a few years…then installing Wordpress and dang is it way clunkier to set up than I ever imagined. 🙃

      • toastal@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think YouTube is an interesting & dare-I-say necessary evil at this point tho. Hosting video is prohibitively expensive with all the codecs & bitrates + global distribution. Folks watch YouTube when bored or lonely & scaling that from a home network would put most creators out of business … especially if trying to compete.

        …But plaintext? Even with images (reencoded with a few improved codecs like JPEG XL in a ``) is cheap. Especially if you have access to the router & a static IP or dynamic DNS, it can be hosted at home & unless you are insanely popular won’t even put a noticeable dent in one’s bandwidth.