startpage's anonymous view sometimes works

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12 Comments

fckreddit@lemmy.ml · 45 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It is this and then in the cookie banner they write “we and our 800 partners care about your privacy” , I am like no, 800 is no longer private, but an orgy.

brsrklf@jlai.lu · 25 pts · 2y

800 is a fucking crusade. 800 bastards pretending to be on the side of good and pillaging and raping your ass instead.

marcos@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 2y

Yes, he did ask you to leave the site.

You can just leave, or make a fuss, or try to punch your way with the dev-tools. I honestly don't care. But what he said does mean exactly "I don't want you here, leave".

Million@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It's fynny when there is a full screen banner that tells you to pay to read the article and then you just use the uBlock origin zapper to delete that and read through the article.

-This message is brought to you by the uBlock origin gang

InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They got smarter than that. They show a page that looks like the one you want, but isn't. It just serves as a vessel to show you that you need to pay. If you zap the modal, it reveals there's nothing behind it.

Million@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 2y

Yeah I would say on most pages it doesn't work.

But just today I read some F1 news and the page asked me to pay and it just zapped away.

Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Why would the website sweat, if you have an ad blocked they ain’t earning money from you anyway, right?

AceSLS@ani.social · 12 pts · 2y

They would get time spent on their usage analytics to show off to their investors to draw in more idiot advertisers

smeg@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 2y

The real joke is the fact that Big G isn't also offering you lots of ads, maybe even some LLM-generated gobbledygook for flavour.

UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Ya, that's what i heard him say.... Get out!

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

This must have been created 8 years ago, since Google offered him what he looked for instead of an AI summary telling him to saute food with gasoline, 3 ads, a banner list of ads, unrelated YouTube results, and a prompt to install an app.

Appleseuss@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Behind the overlay add in