@phil This is why I use DNS filtering for ads/tracking. The blocking will continue until tracking improves, if ever.

@heatsink
There's different forms of tracking. A Mastodon follow is a form of tracking, that is even voluntary. A login is a tracking where you even put effort into saying "hey, this is me!"

@phil

@heatsink
And some of these are pretty good, even in the form of interactions they create between you and the tracker.
@phil

@fallbackerik @heatsink @phil I’m not quite certain how listing unrelated and far fetched interpretations of the word ā€œtrackingā€ is relevant here. Clearly here the discussion is about non-consensual user tracking.

Shall we mayhaps correct GP to tell them that DNS filtering won’t improve the tracking of his vinyl player needle?

DNS-level filtering is an entirely valid way to improve one’s experience of the modern web—even if with DoH it is increasingly becoming a (losing) game of whack-a-mole.

@teotwaki
Maybe you're right and I don't have a clue what I'm talking about. Maybe I studied this as a major and then spent weeks getting an up to date understanding of the current status quo, and this is my result? Who knows? How about allowing the possibility of learning something new?
@heatsink @phil
@phil sounds like a perfect opportunity to use the Blacklight tool
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
Blacklight – The Markup

A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

@phil
And yet they couldn't spare the two bytes to put an "a " before "Post-Credits"..
@phil military industrial javascript complex :-)
@phil
Yikes, uBlock Origin indeed working hard
@phil
Might as well post the big reveal:
@phil
In all the Mission Impossible movies, has the mission ever been Impossible?
No.
Worst movie titles ever.
@phil maybe the real post-credits scene was the advertising conglomerate we informed along the way

@phil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

Betteridge's law of headlines says:

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia

@phil Fix: Use PrivacyBadger by @eff :)
@phil @ianb could tell you with two bytes :)

@bobthomson70 @phil

Three. @ianb uses full stops.

I don't know about Forbes, but question head answers to the New Statesman have of late been prefixed by a "Ha ha ", as well, so there are 200% extra bytes there too. (-:

#QuestionHeadlines #Forbes #MissionImpossible

@phil #AltText4You

Main post from forbes.com showing title of an article in Business/HollyWood & Entertainment section: Does ā€˜Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ Have Post-Credits Scene?

Response from Chris Plummer: If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you ā€œnoā€

@phil I see this pattern on so many websites and I hate it.

Often I look if there was a new season of some TV show or anime and I always get shit article like this. Who on earth even reads these? There is never anything interesting there. One would hope for director's journal about battle with upper management, but it is always some lorem ipsum rubbish.

These days I always rather go straight to wikipedia a check there. They always have a neat table showing seasons with their release dates.

@atomicfs Articles like this only exist so people who aren’t yet aware of them click on them and the publisher can get a few more cents from the ad companies. They have no journalistic value, they are an advertisement vehicle.

@salocin Yeah, sounds about right. It is exactly the same like shovelware (low-quality software produced and distributed in large quantities and sold to unsuspecting victims).

And AI does make generating such slop even easier. So much garbage everywhere. Makes me sad :(

@phil AKA what Forbes is in business to do.
@phil Pi hole, ublock origin, privacy badger, are all required for just basic web browsing these days.
@phil Looks like the european version downloads much less. what a dipshit journal.
@phil "What is wrong with the Internet?" by example 😐
@phil
All the while taking everything there is to measure about you, your first born and a third of your future.
@phil alt text: a screenshot of a social media post. The post itself has a screenshot of a Forbes headline saying "Does 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning' Have Post-Credits Scene?" The poster in the screenshot comments: "If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you "no""
@phil Forbes.com (and LinkedIn.com) have become cesspools of AI-generated garbage designed for SEO and useless scammy clicks. They are both blocked in my hosts file so I don’t inadvertently fall into their filth. (Also all META and Alphabet properties)