If that's the case, I don't know what the current landscape is like with them, but I remember reading ages ago about extensions that would click all ads (in the background) for you so that you cost the advertisers money and muddy up their profile on you.
My wife: why do we need a whole home VPN? What are you hiding?
Me: Baby, I work in Infosec. I'm hiding everything. But I'm mostly doing it to make it harder for our ISP to harvest and sell the data I'm paying for them to transmit.
It's hardly a different thing, all the data saucers & brokers are fueled by ad monies, other things don't pay as much (but are still disastrous due to the scales).
Cookies? Ad companies? Privacy? I think those are pretty mainstream things to know about (at least if you live in a country with regulations on cookies, you get a banner on every website)
True. I know of them and what they are somewhat about. However, I would wager most of my employees have no interaction with them other than approving it. They may know it's a computer term, but what it is, I have doubts.
23 Comments
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml · 60 pts · 105d
Those are the same
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 105d
I can see that, but I think I’d be cool with them knowing everything about me as long as it wasted a bunch of their money.
9point6@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 105d
If that's the case, I don't know what the current landscape is like with them, but I remember reading ages ago about extensions that would click all ads (in the background) for you so that you cost the advertisers money and muddy up their profile on you.
No idea if those still exist or are any good
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 105d
ad nauseum is the extension I think. never used it but it's still around
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 105d
I run consent-o-matic and Adnausem so I reject cookies and still click on all ads to fuck with my advertising profiles.
Captain_Baka@feddit.org · 9 pts · 105d
I was about to say the same. Fuck them and their ad IDs.
poinck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d
p4rzivalrp2@piefed.social · 7 pts · 105d
Yes, it uses uBO in the bg for the ad hiding iirc
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
yes it will.
CameronDev@programming.dev · 20 pts · 105d
I block cookies to lose weight
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 105d
Friend - you need to use 4 different privacy-respecting browsers and a VPN to spite ad companies. Browser Fingerprinting is the name of the game now.
Cookies are so 2009. Google transcended caring about cookies and ad blockers more than a year ago.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 18 pts · 105d
Cookies? Yes I block those. But I also neutralize entire ad domains thank you pi-hole !
fizzle@quokk.au · 8 pts · 105d
Yeah I was gonna say. No one cares about cookies. Even vanilla Firefox has containers tabs by default.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 105d
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d
got anything that just surfs and clicks on its own?
I can setup docker containers with desktops too if that makes it easier.
Just want to flood the network with bullshit.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 105d
"porque no los dos?"
village604@adultswim.fan · 12 pts · 105d
My wife: why do we need a whole home VPN? What are you hiding?
Me: Baby, I work in Infosec. I'm hiding everything. But I'm mostly doing it to make it harder for our ISP to harvest and sell the data I'm paying for them to transmit.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 105d
She doesnt know how well you protect her.
Keep the fucking' man outta your girl's DMs.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 105d
You block cookies for either the reason above.
I eat those cookies.
We are not the same.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 104d
Both is good
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 105d
It's hardly a different thing, all the data saucers & brokers are fueled by ad monies, other things don't pay as much (but are still disastrous due to the scales).
NaoPb@eviltoast.org · 2 pts · 105d
Thanks chicken man. Let's all block cookies and ads to spite ad companies.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
You know normal people don't know what this crap is right?
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 105d
Cookies? Ad companies? Privacy? I think those are pretty mainstream things to know about (at least if you live in a country with regulations on cookies, you get a banner on every website)
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
True. I know of them and what they are somewhat about. However, I would wager most of my employees have no interaction with them other than approving it. They may know it's a computer term, but what it is, I have doubts.
MysticMushroom1776@fedinsfw.app · 0 pts · 105d