Poopy ruse? Sounds about right…

I’d be surprised if it was just the business department…

There’s gotta be a company address somewhere haha

Hey, my phone has 12Gb of RAM for a reason, and bookmarks are scawy…

The content of a website isn’t an extension of your property.

No, but it is my property which is to be used to store files that this company has put there, just so they can track me across the web to sell me more crappy shit I do not need.

So exactly how should content (regardless of how trashy it is) be funded?

With ads, but either be good and use ads that arent spyware, or let me choose to opt out of the tracky ones and use general ads instead.

Meanwhile, not visiting websites that don’t meet your vision for how funding content should be done seems like a perfectly simple and reasonable approach to have for this problem.

Yup, hence why I noped outta there as soon as I saw that popup cause fuuuck that…

Yeah exactly!

Yeah… That’s what I fear is that once one has started doing it, others will follow.

Oh, thats neat. Didn’t know about that feature. Thanks :)

Oh I know, I clicked a link here on lemmy and was taken to that site. I never read it otherwise, but now Im definitely not reading it…

Okay, but that’s still a lot of effort, and loads more effort than 90% of users would be willing to go through. All so these fucks can (try to) sell my data to 19000 different ‘vendors’ and their ‘legitimate interests’. I swear this needs to be legally regulated somehow before we end up having to pay these people to not monitor our webcams while we read their shitty tabloids.

BTW I do use searXNG and Startpage

Why does it now have two play/pause buttons? Also - yay, more swipey navigation gestures so you can doomscroll 40% easier…

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