Joby (chaotic good)Feb 3

Dear every programmer working on websites and browsers:

I DO NOT WANT TO TRY CHROME.

I DO NOT WANT TO LOG IN WITH MY GOOGLE ACCOUNT.

I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE MY SEARCH ENGINE BACK TO THE DEFAULT.

I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE MY SEARCH ENGINE TO YOURS.

I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE MY LOCATION.

I DO NOT WANT TO SUBSCRIBE TO ONE SINGLE NEWSLETTER EVER.

I DO NOT WANT NOTIFICATIONS.

LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE.

Show threadJim Patterson 🇨🇦
@joby Don't blame the programmers. I'm sure it's the sales team / executive suite / etc. who insist they do these things.
My own pet peave when I need to use Windows (which I avoid when possible) is that any time Windows brings up something in the browser, it will be in Edge ignoring my stated preference to use Firefox.
There are extensions (for #Firefox at least) that can block those annoying "Log in with Google" popups eg Block Origin.
Feb 4 at 4:05pmWeb
Show threadThales_CuriositiesFeb 13
@SheamusPatt @joby I can't do it with BlockOrigin. I can with AdGuard Adblocker, but individually for each site. Only #Vivaldi browser does not display them after trying several brwosers.