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minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoHence why the EU is now forcing an “easy way to decline”. All compliant websites have a “reject all cookies” button now. Which I learned on accident, because normally I have Ghostery installed, which just rejects all cookies automatically.
minus-squarematti@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoI’m pretty sure that was the law from day 1 and the only difference is they’re starting to crack down on it now
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minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago I believe they were allowing anyone who paid them money to not be blocked. Hmmm… Must’ve been a long while ago. I’ve been using them for… 3? 4? years and never had any ads getting through.
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minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWell, I firmly believe in redemption arcs. Also, the product is just really good right now.
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYeah? Still not seeing a reason not to use it today. Do you have any specific criticisms?
minus-squareivn@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoBreach of trust and owned by a for profit company.
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago Breach of trust By a different company. Owners changed in 2017. owned by a for profit company Which makes a privacy-oriented search engine. Seems like they have a pretty good track record.
minus-squareivn@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoAnd they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018. Their search engine was discontinued in 2020.
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago And they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018. And they stopped after it was criticised. Do you just not use any product that has ever been bad for any amount of time?
Hence why the EU is now forcing an “easy way to decline”. All compliant websites have a “reject all cookies” button now.
Which I learned on accident, because normally I have Ghostery installed, which just rejects all cookies automatically.
I’m pretty sure that was the law from day 1 and the only difference is they’re starting to crack down on it now
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That was Adblock Plus.
Hmmm… Must’ve been a long while ago. I’ve been using them for… 3? 4? years and never had any ads getting through.
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Well, I firmly believe in redemption arcs. Also, the product is just really good right now.
Don’t use Ghostery anymore
Why?
Check the Wikipedia page on it.
Yeah? Still not seeing a reason not to use it today. Do you have any specific criticisms?
Breach of trust and owned by a for profit company.
By a different company. Owners changed in 2017.
Which makes a privacy-oriented search engine. Seems like they have a pretty good track record.
And they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018.
Their search engine was discontinued in 2020.
And they stopped after it was criticised. Do you just not use any product that has ever been bad for any amount of time?