Discussion
bakugo: The irony of using AI to generate an article on this topic...
pineaux: I agree. Was annoyed by it.
nickandbro: Whenever I read your articles, I get distracted by the space invaders and just play that instead. Maybe this is a problem with me being a bit ADHD, but I feel like I am not the only one
pineaux: Play and read simultaneously. Its nice.
anticorporate: > me being a bit ADHDWait, what article?
rapnie: Blog got the hug of death, I think. Archive link: https://archive.is/bpNAw
morphle: Page does not load in Safari and Chrome for various reasons
_doctor_love: This is all well and good but as long as advertising is how folks make money on the web, the surveillance state will persist.
taurath: We did not - going to a website nowadays is akin to booting your grandma’s windows 95 PC - popups everywhere, banzai buddy, 20 toolbars, just utterly virus laden filth. The web is a place that used to have amazing views but it’s now only filled with billboards. Someday a new set of internets will come up and they’ll be good - it’s not expensive to make things good, it just needs to not be borne of utter libertarian zero-social-contract profit seeking.Hell, I was shopping for furniture yesterday, and I swear all the popups even with ad blockers were there to prevent me from buying things. It doesn’t seem to be helpful for the stated goal.
inventor7777: When Apple first released App Tracking Transparency, I immediately used it to block the trackers and I have not even thought about it since because it is so simple and useful.What a contrast to modern websites which require all sorts of weird clicking gymnastics to disable similar tracking.
alt227: Its amusing that Apple itself is one of the biggest ad companies that exists, fed entirely from their own users private data. Yet by simply pointing the finger away from themselves and helping their customers block other ad companies efforts, they seem to have gained complete trust of all their users and most dont even know how much Apple are making in ad revenue from their own data.https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/11/14/apples-4b-ad-busi...
incomingpain: The government is going to surveil. That's not going to change.It's whether or not warrantless searches are admissible; and they generally arent.
calmbonsai: There's also the issues of geo-fenced warrants and the FISA courts in the U.S.Warrant processes and issuance should not be secret nor generic enough to allow for "blanket" hoovering of Personally Identifiable Information.
StilesCrisis: Ironically Google couldn't disable third-party cookies even if they wanted to; it's seen as anti-competitive to other tracking networks and was blocked by the courts.
inventor7777: Really? Do you have a link? That sounds very interesting and very frustrating.Regardless, because of such things I'm guessing the only ways to disable such tracking in the foreseeable future will still be 3rd party non-affiliated DNS/extensions or browsers such as Brave and Safari (to some extent).
asdfman123: Are you guys 12
GolfPopper: "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis
ASalazarMX: Mass surveillance has been the only thing where capitalists and communists wholeheartedly agreed to go all in. It has been pushed into law at every opportunity, done in grey areas when possible, and secretly when illegal.It's evident proof that information is power.
