You wouldn’t download a chicken tender.

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    It’s probably not advertising that they are afraid that you will block but the trackers. They want to know what user is clicking where, how long you are on each page and what you ordered / not ordered.

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          Probably like 70/30 KFC/user?

          Yes they want AS MUCH of your money as fast as possible… but we do want to give them money as fast as possible too.

          Disconnect obviously comes at the amount and the margin. They want you to max your credit card on their soda, we want the most satisfying assorted selection with an auto-applied 100% off coupon.

          There’s somewhere in the middle there. They can telemetrize their site into it taking just a few taps for you to buy their higher margin combo meals. Their deals, they can hide as best they can without them being impossible to find for those inclined (price-sensitive buyers who open the app with discounts on their mind).

          After add-to-cart, it’s in their interests to optimize checkout as best they can… well, with a side of last-minute upsells of course.

          Here’s a question: would opt-out first party telemetry be a decent status quo? If you’re not privacy conscious (certainly not enough to pay cash in person), you don’t go to settings to reject trackers… but you still get to benefit from the average user being spied on just a little by internal teams & consultants to improve site/app flows. Don’t think I’m 100% anti-tracker in any case. (I’m definitely medium privacy-conscious as well as price-conscious, so I look for those opt-outs and coupons :) )

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      Yeah, this warning is pretty clear about that ironically. You aren’t allowed to have secrets, only they are. It’s pretty on the nose, but I guess it could be misunderstood. That’s probably how it got there. The person told to create this wanted to give a warning, but they couldn’t straight up say it.

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    Are they making money selling food or selling ad spots? Stupid businesses don’t deserve to stay in business.

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    I love how you could literally be trying to give a company money and they still want more…

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      And act like they’re doing youthe favor, to allow you to politely hand them your hard-earned peasant pennies.

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    Remember kids, adblock stops more than just the ads you see.

    Also, fuck yeah I’d download a chicken tender.

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        Brave? Please educate yourself and stop using that piece of garbage.

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              I wouldn’t call Vivaldi ‘a good alternative’.
              brave at least has cared about maintaining their source code on github. Vivaldi, on the other hand, just [vomits tar.xz on their website]https://vivaldi.com/source/) and that’s it. they also have made ui closed source.
              they don’t have an opt-out for their data collection.

              I personally use nothing expect librewolf(hardened Firefox fork). but brave is a sane choice for those who are spoiled by chrome.
              the only praise I hear about Vivaldi is their tabs(?).

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              Most of the article talks about the CEO and the company, the only criticisms of the actual product (the browser) is that it’s bloated, which is very subjective because one mans bloat is another mans feature and the affiliate link injection scandal from 4 years ago, which definitely shouldn’t have been done but at least it wasn’t malicious and now is gone.

              To be honest I think people on here dislike brave primarily due to ideological reasons, completely ignoring the fact that 99.9% of people aren’t hackermans™ and don’t want to install gnu icecat or librewolf with 7 different extensions. For those people it’s either chrome/edge or brave, the latter, even if not perfect is a way better option both for them and the internet.

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        Ahem. I was referring to “Adblock” as a class of software, not referring to one specific program (the same way that websites refer to blocking ads as “Adblock”).

        You have made an incorrect assumption.

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      I interpret this as a pretty clear “you aren’t allowed to have secrets” message. The only secrets allowed are theirs, not yours. They’re going to track everything you do.

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    experience optimal performance

    Phone immediately bricks due to the sheer volume of malware and ads piling into the browser.

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    Honestly, does anyone ever read any pop up ad? I immediately have the emotion of hate that there is some annoying window blocking what I am trying to to read. They are lucky I just tune out what the hated window is telling me.

    We should elect government people who would regulate the ads on everything. Ads can’t pop up. Ads can’t auto play. Ad can’t be bigger than this.

    We are getting to the sucky part of capitalism. Ads on everything.

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      I always said if I was ever given supreme executive authority, I would outlaw ads and then immediately step down. It would be my one move, and the world would be better for it.

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        I like how you didn’t limit it to online ads, so you’re talking about outlawing billboards etc. as well.

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          You are allowed to put a sign on the business’ actual physical location - and that’s it.

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            But, then, how will I know about that product that I don’t need and will never buy, that is literally on every shelf in every store? (/s, in case that wasn’t obvious)

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      Do you really want a bunch of people who don’t know how the internet and general tech works, along with massive corporate interest, regulating ads?

      Edit: I’m from the US where our law markers are generally old and/or incompetent.

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        Vote in younger people and vote in educated people. And yes government CAN work for us and do good things. You have to vote for people who would do that.

        Did anyone see that Biden’s bill gave more funds to the IRS. They hired more people to help us, and go after the rich tax cheats, and are making a free government online filing system. Also the TurboTax company are complaining about it…and the rich, and Republicans.

        I also would like government healthcare.

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          That doesn’t work in the US, we’ve tried. I work in IT and the amount of people that have zero clue about tech amazes me. It’s like 75-80% of the population has zero fucking clue about anything behind how the Internet works. For example, when Montana lawmakers said “We’re passing a law to ban TikTok.” but didn’t expand beyond that.

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    Ah, achieving optimal performance by letting them run more scripts and displaying more stuff.

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    Sorry, best I can do is never visit your shitty website again. Guess I’ll order fried chicken from somewhere else, or, better yet, make a superior version at home!

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      Yeah they put ads on that little screen you use to pay. Also it never has any receipt paper loaded.