What is the largest amount of partners you saw in a cookies consent question ?

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 469 points – 3 months ago

And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

We care about your privacy which is why we are sharing your date with almost 1000 services 998 of which are fully redundant and only 1 is actually needed for the service we provide

lmao I love when they say "we care about your privacy" then they go on to say exactly how much data they're gonna collect and process

Well, technically they do care about your privacy if your privacy is annoying to them and they wish it was gone.

We care about your privacy! We can get a buck or two for it.

I would actually respect it if they were honest in one of these.

wE CaRE aBouT YoUR PrIVaCy

LEGITIMATE INTEREST!!

Legitimate interests don't require a banner. The simple fact you see a banner means their lawyers know they couldn't convince the dumbest judge that they actually need that stuff.

I think this bullshit is my personal record:

1609 baby!

1000004158

And we have a winner woohoo !

1200ish is my personal best can't remember what site it was on.

As to what we can do not really a clue on a grand scale,i just block ads and cookies fanatically.

I had high 700s, where even 1 is more than I can stomach. Thank devs for uBlock Origin.

"Hey dude, we were going to hang out on Sunday. We were planning just us, but can I bring 651 friends along?"

This is more like “Can my 651 friends snoop on our party?”

Based gorhill

To Raymond Hill, we owe SO MUCH.

And the list maintainers of course! (Who often accept donations whereas gorhill has always refused even a penny!)

I think I saw 1500 this week somewhere....

All I want to know is, how can it be profitable to be an ad broker at that point?

we cure about your privacy, It's very valuable for us, so please, all your data are belong to us

The F1 site was at 1200 last time I checked

458 from California just now

In “Manage”, shows 437 “User Consent” Site Vendors and 71 “Legitimate Interest” Site Vendors.

It doesn't even say they care about your privacy, they aren't even trying to hide it.

First thing I thought of when I saw this post.

It’s the worst site. Every time I need to scroll all the way to the bottom to click Accept. It’s like they made it that way on purpose.

What really gets me is when there's no REJECT button.

Aside from uBlock on Firefox, I've been using Privacy Badger and also Super-Agent.

Consent-o-matic is also an option it will specifically opt out of those data vacuum popups. It is run by a Danish Uni so if it doesn't work with a site you can submit the site and they will patch it in.

Site: https://consentomatic.au.dk/

Firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

Chrome Plugin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/consent-o-matic/mdjildafknihdffpkfmmpnpoiajfjnjd

Brilliant, thank you.

Link?

Good point. I updated my comment with the FF and chrome plugin links.

Thank you

I ususally have them blocked, but on some news site I remember seeing 750+ and off it wanted you to manually unchecked all of them one by one.

I think i would legitimately just leave the site and block it at my pihole if i saw that

Sure. I'm a fanatical ad-blocker myself, but sometimes using Tor browser with the defaults.

I think I recently saw ~840 somewhere.

To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:

Use FOSS (Free and open source software)
If this is not possible, try to find software that does not invade your privacy and made by a smaller company
Try to avoid paying privacy invading companies. I'm not saying never pay for proprietary software, but try to only spend the money on ones that respect you.
Spread the word about good FOSS apps
Donate to FOSS
Vote for politicians who are serious about antitrust
If you have the skills, contribute to FOSS or make your own software!
Use adblockers on websites that don't respect you and/or your privacy

I’ve seen 1600+ myself.

How I feel looking at the number of "partners."

Free buffet?

Silver lining: there would be no need to get STD tested because you will for sure know that you have all of them lol.

Whenever I see a cookie banner say something like "We respect your privacy" I chuckle.

Because if they would actually respect my privacy, they wouldn't have had a banner in the first place.

And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

back-to-me-shining JB-shining-aggro stalin-shining mao-aggro-shining

We said less unpleasant, comrade!

Each one of those people were instrumental in improving the lives of millions, even billions, of people.

Shut the fuck up lib.

Imma just point out that at least two of those dudes were some of the worst mass murderers in recent human history.

I don't think they are taking this information very well

Great bait mate, 8/8

Go back to reddit you sound like a reddit bot lmao.

Like you have just responded twice in a row with what look like canned responses from a chatGPT bot trained on the most insufferable redditors.

Also go fuck yourself you are not my comrade.

Two 8s? Extremely sus

Around 2.000 no kidding

And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

Start paying for stuff. Subscriptions, etc.

Great, so now we get to pay for the privilege of having our data harvested by 814 "partners"

Remember: "if you aren't paying for the product then you are the product" is no longer accurate, you're the product regardless of paying or not now.

Why just make money from subscription fees when you can make EVEN MORE money by serving adds as well?

I'm just happy that I got to see the glory days of the digital world before advertising moved in.

Yup. Just how cable TV started as "you pay extra for it, but you don't get any ads!" and then when they realized they had everybody hooked, they started showing ads.

Same thing with streaming services. Pay money for a service with no Ads. Oh what's that? Now that they realize they are your primary source of content, they are going to turn ads on unless you pay extra? Boom, gottem.

Paying for a service is generally going to result in less of a push to monetize the data though, especially if it's a smaller provider or a private company.

We can't just give up and stick with ad supported services, but then not want to see ads... Ad-supported services are always going to have to try monetize you somehow, whereas paid services don't always need to.

But most will anyway. Why leave extra money sitting on the table?

I'm pretty sure I've seen four digits. That was a "lol no".

And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

Websites have to pay their bills. Ads, subscriptions or microtransactions; take your pick.

The one way I can think of that would retain the anonymous character of the internet would be HTTP microtransactions by some kind of crypto. Hopefully one of the non-wasteful ones, so not Bitcoin.

I think what you're describing at the end there is basically what Brave (browser) tried to do.

Huh, I missed that. Yep, they were using Bitcoin back before it was fully a circlejerk, looks like, which is reasonable. Now I just know it as a Chrome spinoff that pretends to be private, haha.

It looks like Chrome's trying to do something similar, although there's a high chance Google will attempt a walled garden version.

"Web Monetization" is the keyword. It could be great for things like Lemmy, too, where hosting costs might eventually become a major obstacle.

I believe it was a bit under 900 vendors. I'm gonna take a capture next time I break your record and posted it back here. It would be fun competiting.

I can relate to the guy that had to put that number in. Prolly went along the lines of « can we get some budget to identify our various processing activities and what processors are involved ? »… to what management said « lol no just put the overall numbers in ». And the guy included the kitchen company in there because fuck it.