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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
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.
1609 baby!
And we have a winner woohoo !
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 βCan my 651 friends snoop on our party?β
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?
I think I recently saw ~840 somewhere.
To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:
The F1 site was at 1200 last time I checked
Iβve seen 1600+ myself.
How I feel looking at the number of "partners."
Free buffet?
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.
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 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.
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.
Paying for a service is generally going to result in less of a push to monetize the data though, especially if it's a smaller provider or a private company.
We can't just give up and stick with ad supported services, but then not want to see ads... Ad-supported services are always going to have to try monetize you somehow, whereas paid services don't always need to.
But most will anyway. Why leave extra money sitting on the table?
Around 2.000 no kidding
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 believe it was a bit under 900 vendors. I'm gonna take a capture next time I break your record and posted it back here. It would be fun competiting.
Aliens gang probing you to find out the effects of gang probing on humans
ITT I wish those that can recall would name and shame.