Gus Shepherd
Angie"Looks like you're using an ad-blocker"
Looks like you're trying to install 52 trackers on my computer.
Ken@angiebaby Preach it, Sister.
Julien
DigitalStefan@julien @angiebaby @Gyom Had first-hand experience with this. Implementing TCF (v2.2) is apparently difficult and causes this common pratfall.
It's unlikely 1383 partners are actually involved. Not impossible, but highly improbable.
@digitalstefan @angiebaby @Gyom they “might” share the data with 1383 partners so maybe, they actually share that data with a (random? targeted?) subset of the list 🙃. That said, I was indeed surprised by that number.
@julien @angiebaby @Gyom this is what happens when you implement TCF on your site and you forget to provide a list of the partners you do actually work with. The default is it will list every recognised partner.
Solving it is as easy as providing a JSON structure listing the IDs of the partners actually involved.
TJtreehugger2 for Harris@angiebaby Ha, I'm seeing this a lot lately.
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Darwin Woodka
masonjars@angiebaby I always wish Scroll/BetterWeb would have taken off. Trackers and ads would be blocked, but every participating site would get a cut of your monthly payment. It was bought by twitter and integrated into Blue, but after the Elon buyout largely forgotten.
AL@angiebaby I see that google will replace those 52 trackers with one tracker to track for everyone and then sell your data to all 52 plus anyone else that pays. The difference is that you won't know who or how many are tracking you.
That should make you rest better at night; big corp is here to protect you.
That should make you rest better at night; big corp is here to protect you.
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦@mral @angiebaby Hmmm, I'm still gonna run my ad blocker, thanks.
Sufficient Daisy@angiebaby I got a "something went wrong... Our site doesn't work because you're using an adblocker, please whitelist us and try again" type message so I just clicked on Reader Mode and read the article without unnecessary images.
Jonas@daisy @angiebaby you can use https://archive.ph to view the cached page or archive it without annoyances
virkon
Jason Bowen 🇺🇦@angiebaby That's what pisses me off. I'd be fine looking at an ad for some product or service, but I don't want all of the tracking and random Javascript execution
Stephen Collins@angiebaby I'm waiting for "you look like you're using ad-blocking local DNS, ad-blocking system software, and several layers of browser plugin."
At some point, they'll have to implement feedback on these messages and my answer will be, "you bet your sweet bippy I am, and it's not changing."
Alex Keane@angiebaby I loved getting "you're using an ad-blocker" when I wasn't, I was just using Privacy Badger to block trackers.
Like sell visual real estate on your site all you want, just don't try to run stuff on my computer.
Olivier MenguéOlivier Mengué (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Well, technically they don't need to *install* anything to track you. "install" meaning telling your browser to store something beyond the duration of the display of the web page.
@angiebaby "Looks like you're using an ad blocker."
"Yep."
l a t e | n a t eNeither @invidious nor @newpipe ever told me that
Matunos@angiebaby Incant help but think ad / tracker blockers could operate in a stealth mode, where they fool the pages into thinking their ad loaded / trackers are tracking but at best they get garbage from sandboxed API calls or something
@matunos @angiebaby They will still track your IP address.
@dolmen @angiebaby not if you're using a VPN
Mastodon Migration@angiebaby It is way past time for an Online Bill Of Rights.
@angiebaby Interesting. Just did some sleuthing on the subject and back in 2018 Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), campaigned on consumer data privacy regulations principles he titled an ‘Internet Bill of Rights.' Not sure how this would need to be updated for 2024, but it is a good list.
See below...
Apparently these principles derive from a 2012 Obama Administration "Internet Bill Of Rights" initiative >>> https://www.pcworld.com/article/468496/obama_offers_blueprint_for_privacy_rights_on_the_internet.html
What is fascinating is how completely, utterly and entirely these principles have failed and unfettered surveillance capitalism has become the norm.
It's time to try again.
Cyb3rrunn3r 
⭐️@angiebaby AdBlockers are self-defence. ☝️
Gauff 🇪🇺I'm so annoyed that I'm considering preparing a mail which to send to each website "inviting" me to disable my adblocker! We should all do it, we would reinvent the concept of #spam 😂
Or we create a hashtag for this and we blame them publicly every time we experience this 😎
🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣@gaufff I wouldn't send them a complain by email, and therefore reveal my email address.
Although it would be completely illegal under the GDPR, I'd except marketing assholes and their "just take all you want to be successful" bullshit mentality, to collect email addresses for received emails, to sell them and/or use them to send shitvertisment. 99% of people won't file any complaint to DPAs…
These crapware websites should be abandoned by as much people as possible, but they won't…
@devnull @angiebaby Ho yes, but I would of course use a trash mail address, I'd never reveal mine 🥳
I agree with you, people will continue visiting those crappy websites. And I'm wondering if it's worth annoying them with complaints...
@gaufff Even with a trash email box, I wouldn't bother.
They don't do it out of ignorance. They do it for profit, chances are they'll just ignore complains because profits they make are much higher than the "risk" they take.
If Im going to lose time over this shit, I ''d better lose that time by filing a complaint to the local DPA. But CNIL sucks because on its "Let's be too harsh toward for-profit companies. Our industry needs to be competitive with US/Chinese industry" bullshit…
"Normal" individuals, let alone poor people, get sued and charged for far less than what companies/rich people can do without consequences… Breaching laws is just normal part of how capitalism work…
Paul.@angiebaby And share the information with a mere 1752 partners...
@angiebaby you could use Microsoft. They respect your privacy
🥁🥁🥁😁
Steve F.@angiebaby 52 is only the "legitimate interest" "usage statistics" ones
Alex Wilson@angiebaby if this were less prevalent even in less visually disruptive advertising, I’d actually be comfortable allowing ads. but the deluge of platforms just creeps me out.
coldclimate@angiebaby only 52?
Bluevelvet
Canadian Curmudgeon@angiebaby
I run CCleaner and Glary Utilities on my PCs at least weekly to clean out the stuff the ad blockers don't stop.
I run CCleaner and Glary Utilities on my PCs at least weekly to clean out the stuff the ad blockers don't stop.
bituur esztreym
Asta McCarthy@angiebaby nope, Its a tracking-blocker
Lonnon Foster@angiebaby “Looks like you can’t build a website without several gigabytes of superfluous javascript libraries.”
The REAL fradie 💚☕💻🤎🏳️🌈
wlf_warren@angiebaby > 👍👍😒😒😒😒
Brodie Robertson@angiebaby If it's only 52 the rest of the trackers must be broken
Phil Landmeier@angiebaby Exactly.
Tomáš@angiebaby you agreed to it by visiting our site tho 
Jernej Simončič �@angiebaby You're an order of magnitude off with that number.
Violet@angiebaby
"Sorry, anonymous web bot, but I'm not using an ad blocker. I only block tracking cookies. If that effectively blocks every ad you serve, I'm not the one trying to take something I have no right to access."
"Sorry, anonymous web bot, but I'm not using an ad blocker. I only block tracking cookies. If that effectively blocks every ad you serve, I'm not the one trying to take something I have no right to access."
Decker harrison@angiebaby reddit is getting Really bad 4 this, especially when using VPN . You get the ""Whoa There"" screen which is cool as I always wanted to be Clint when I was a kid 😁🤣🤣
Be well
Much ❤️ 🙏
Be well
Much ❤️ 🙏
Iain Cheyne
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑@angiebaby Trackers is the thing, really. Like if a small site I like asks me to disable my adblocker to view their unintrusive ads? Cool. Problem of course is that despite me doing this their page still insists I have an ad blocker active because my browser's built in TRACKER protection is still on.
Because the tracker is the important part for the ad company, not their banner ad up in the corner.
Strypey@angiebaby
> "Looks like you're using an ad-blocker"
Not at all. If your ad was a simple combination of text, images, audio, or video, with suitable HTML markup, styled with CSS, it would display just fine. Unfortunately, your ad appears to be tangled up with a bunch of third-party malware delivered via JavaScript, which my privacy protection plugins are blocking.
So that's why it *looks like* I'm using an ad-blocker. Sorry for the confusion : P
David J. Atkinson@angiebaby If I could just figure out how they know I’m using an ad blocker then I could block that.
Jenn Dolari@angiebaby - "Looks like you're sending me targeted transphobic ads."
Kai Mast@angiebaby "You need to enable these 500 cookies, so the website works fine"
Me: *disables cookies*
Website: *still works fine*
Me: *disables cookies*
Website: *still works fine*
ikari@angiebaby I've worked in a company tracking the trackers (and then in an ad exchange, which was surprisingly less relevant). IT'S MAD!
one pageview invites scripts and cookies from ~20 companies on many sites, but as pageviews accumulate, it goes into thousands.
Even if the first ad tag never intended to, those down the stream can do bad things, like browser fingerprinting, blocking which also means breaking some awesome Web APIs created in good will.
I'd like a world with only good people.