• madame_gaymes@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    lmao, seriously it is getting ridiculous out there. There are days where I spend an hour or two looking up some of the domains on a site I try to visit to see if they are ad platforms, trackers, etc. My untrusted list is fat, and gets fatter every day it seems.

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      I just block everything out of the gate. The harder a site is to use, the less likely I’ll use it.

      Helps keep me from useless browsing too

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        11 months ago

        I’m almost at that point. As it is now (depending on the importance of needing to access the site), I’ll spend 2-5 minutes attempting to get the site to operate without allowing obviously shitty scripts. If that fails, then I’m moving on.

  • rem26_art@fedia.io
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    You thought you were visiting 1 website? Ha! Here’s 24 websites! All at Once!

    nightmare website design

        • GuardYaGrill@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          11 months ago

          another option is to have a browser that’s used for these activities only.

          Doesn’t help that my PiHole is also blocking these at a DNS level as well my network is all routed behind VPN tunnels.

          Pretty much all telecom companies around me do this.

          thank you for your service!

          All about that FOSS!

        • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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          11 months ago

          I switched from a major nationwide bank to a local credit union. Why the F did I stay with that garbage so long?

          When from paying hundreds a year to getting some tiny interest.

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          another option is to have a browser that’s used for these activities only.

          I’ve been thinking about setting up a VM for unavoidable things like this. Set up a browser with a password manager and whatever essentials it needs, and save the state, then after every session, reset it and wipe the new content.

          My thinking is that it will stop any tracking of other accounts or software, as you just use whatever site you log into at the time, so even if you do have to enable trackers for a site, there’s nothing for them to see.

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    A webdev needed just one function from a framework so he included the whole thing. A guy I know rewrote the necessary code from the framework himself in less than a day and deleted the framework eventually. Saved 30 MB!

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        The guy I know has Bachelor’s degree in applied computer sciences. I trust him more than that unknown webdev with unknown qualification before him.

  • Bigfish@lemmynsfw.com
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    11 months ago

    At least they have Onetrust to enable cookie and privacy preferences. Done right it can be give a fair balance of privacy and site monitoring, when integrated with Adobe DTM and Quantum Metric.