Is it ok to slut shame a website for having too many partners?
Is it okay for a salesman to jump into your bed along with their 874 partners in exchange for selling you a newspaper?
(NOTE: Ads DON’T HAVE TO be targeted. You can show ads and not track the user.)Or (being devil’s advocate here): just don’t be a fucking slut. Have like 3 partners and have ypur website pick the best offer dynamically, it’s not that hard. In the end they all use AdSense, so they don’t even need to give data to the other 873 or even Google itself - as you said ads don’t have to be targeted. Although it’s not as if it won’t get there anyway.
That many partners is guaranteed to produce some sort of infection.
A GDPR infection on the wallet, I’d hope.
Some partners do not ask for your consent to process your data and rely on their legitimate business interest.
Sounds a whole hell of a lot like rape language to me
okay i agree.
“you have to disable adblock to read the article”
Sure, turned it off.
“you also need to sign in to read it”
Okay, here’s my email.
“seems like this article isn’t available for free, would you want to subscribe?”
874 partners
Man these polycules are getting crazy
We need to stop calling these sites and services “free”. Anything that’s financed by ads, spying and profiling is not free, the user is paying with their attention, integrity and right to privacy. This is not nothing.
Presently, it’s a shady and dishonest practice since the terms of the transaction are rarely transparent to the consumer; in other words, it’s a scam.
Happy cake day
Is there a way to spoof this personal information randomly?
I mean, denying them my cookies and browsing history and shit defends me from that one site, but salting the earth and poisoning the well with weaponized false data must surely weaken the data miners, and help protect others if done on a broad scale.
I’m no longer content with defending fortress Firefox, I want to go on the offensive, get my boots muddy, and put some safety pins up under some fingernails
This isn’t random but does poison the well by clicking on every link the ad blocker sees.
I don’t use it myself but I’ve heard great things.
No I do not want to join your high three digit polycule.
one must appreciate the vision and legislation that’s enforced that particular phrasing. it becomes so much more starker – how cavalierly your data is treated.
Same thing when a website wants me to disable my adblocker to read further…toodeloo, my attention span don’t reach that far.
What happens when you click the 1st sentence - continue without agreeing
They will make it even less visible in the next update.
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