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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 ?
Found an article on the uk guardian page that wanted me to accept cookies from 76 partners. Noped out
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.
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.
These e-polycules are getting out of hand ๐ณ
I think I recently saw ~840 somewhere.
To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:
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?
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.
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.
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.
1609 baby!
And we have a winner woohoo !
ITT I wish those that can recall would name and shame.
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 said less unpleasant, comrade!
Each one of those people were instrumental in improving the lives of millions, even billions, of people.
Shut the fuck up lib.
Imma just point out that at least two of those dudes were some of the worst mass murderers in recent human history.
I don't think they are taking this information very well
Great bait mate, 8/8
Two 8s? Extremely sus
Go back to reddit you sound like a reddit bot lmao.
Like you have just responded twice in a row with what look like canned responses from a chatGPT bot trained on the most insufferable redditors.
Also go fuck yourself you are not my comrade.
I think this bullshit is my personal record:
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?
Iโve seen 1600+ myself.