• BlackEco
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    15310 months ago

    Someone should create a leaderboard of websites sharing data with the most “partners”, this week I saw someone on Mastodon posting a screenshot of a website sharing to 1700+ third-parties.

    • Lath
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      5710 months ago

      My faulty memory tells me 9gag has somewhere around 3000 or so. But I worked with a lot of numbers recently so I have no idea how accurate that is.

      • @rtxn
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        3110 months ago

        The most shocking thing about that is that 9gag still exists. How far has it degraded?

          • @[email protected]
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            It had some funny meme and your browser didn’t freeze after scrolling for 5 minutes. That’s already 1 point for 9gag

            Edit: this was around 2015. No idea how 9gag looks like now

            • @rtxn
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              110 months ago

              I remember when it didn’t have infinite scroll, and only nine posts per page - that’s where the name came from.

        • Lath
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          910 months ago

          There’s a lot of anti-stuff going around there. Let’s just say that even if it were possible, federation with 9gag is definitely a hard pass from both sides.

        • @[email protected]
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          710 months ago

          If it’s anything like iFunny, the comment section is likely horrific enough to contest 8chan

          • @[email protected]
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            610 months ago

            EW.

            Just clicked it and opened their USA page. Racist drivel.

            And disabled protections but couldn’t get it to pop up a tracker notice.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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      610 months ago

      That sounds like they’re using Admiral’s sh!tty brokerage and anti-adblock thing, saw one site with over 1500 partners. Most difficult one to block because of how frequently they buy domains for adblock evasion…

      One of these days I’m going to just blacklist the IP ranges of their google cloud fleet

    • @[email protected]
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      3710 months ago

      To continue that analogy, they’re the pimp and you’re the slut. You’re the one getting shared around.

  • @Trincapinones
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    6310 months ago

    Is kinda funny having pihole and seeing “0 partners” in my Samsung TV

      • @Trincapinones
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        3910 months ago

        Yeah, i think their terms of services are scripted so if they get more or less advertisers based on your country between other things, that way they can redirect the same page to everybody

        • @[email protected]
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          810 months ago

          Oh so that’s how they do it, has to go to the list of things that give you feelings of power

  • @[email protected]
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    4310 months ago

    The data broker deletion services all advertise deleting your info from 2-300 agents. Who the fuck are the other several thousand, what are they doing with the data, and how the fuck is any of this legal.

  • mozz
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    4010 months ago

    Why would you even put the number at that point

  • @cosmicrookie
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    3710 months ago

    We should have a challenge of finding the site with most “friends”.

  • Lunch
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    3410 months ago

    Out of curiosity, what service was this?

  • @DirkMcCallahan
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    2710 months ago

    The “Blocked since install” stat on uBlockOrigin is always an eye-opener.

  • @[email protected]
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    Visit our site as you normally would with the advertising and tracking.

    No, i wouldn’t normally visit any site with the advertising and tracking.

    At least they mention that they track you. Most talk only about ads.

  • @[email protected]
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    1710 months ago

    Use Chrome enhanced privacy protection now.

    That way it’ll just be one of their closest friends, who might coincidentally sell it to the other 755.

      • @LemmyKnowsBest
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        some websites require Chrome and don’t work with anything else.

        and then these college classes I’m taking, my laptop broke so they’re loaning me a campus Chromebook. I’m like okay whatever. Of course just use it for school nothing else.

    • cum
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      710 months ago

      If you even remotely care about your privacy, get off of an ad-company’s monopolistic browser. Firefox + uBlock Origin is the essentials for at least baseline privacy, then go up from there if you so choose.

  • @zeppo
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    1110 months ago

    I’ve seen that on a couple video game news sites and am just fuck it, I won’t read the article then.

  • Night Monkey
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    People forget the ad zap tool exists in ublock origin… Zap that dialogue box away.