• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Hence why the EU is now forcing an “easy way to decline”. All compliant websites have a “reject all cookies” button now.

    Which I learned on accident, because normally I have Ghostery installed, which just rejects all cookies automatically.

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      4 days ago

      I’m pretty sure that was the law from day 1 and the only difference is they’re starting to crack down on it now

    • That Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      There was some controversy around Ghostery. A number of years ago, I believe they were allowing anyone who paid them money to not be blocked. They have since reversed track, but I won’t ever use their plugin again.

      I was wrong. It was Adblock plus

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        I believe they were allowing anyone who paid them money to not be blocked.

        Hmmm… Must’ve been a long while ago. I’ve been using them for… 3? 4? years and never had any ads getting through.

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            3 days ago

            Yeah? Still not seeing a reason not to use it today. Do you have any specific criticisms?

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                3 days ago

                Breach of trust

                By a different company. Owners changed in 2017.

                owned by a for profit company

                Which makes a privacy-oriented search engine. Seems like they have a pretty good track record.

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                  And they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018.

                  Their search engine was discontinued in 2020.

                  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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                    3 days ago

                    And they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018.

                    And they stopped after it was criticised. Do you just not use any product that has ever been bad for any amount of time?