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minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoHence 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.
minus-squarematti@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days agoI’m pretty sure that was the law from day 1 and the only difference is they’re starting to crack down on it now
minus-squareThat Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 days agoThere 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
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days ago 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.
minus-squareThat Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 days agoyeah, it would have to have been at least 7 years, probs more i would think. But they burnt that bridge for me.
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoWell, I firmly believe in redemption arcs. Also, the product is just really good right now.
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoYeah? Still not seeing a reason not to use it today. Do you have any specific criticisms?
minus-squareivn@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoBreach of trust and owned by a for profit company.
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 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.
minus-squareivn@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoAnd they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018. Their search engine was discontinued in 2020.
minus-squareAlaknár@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 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?
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.
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
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
That was Adblock Plus.
Hmmm… Must’ve been a long while ago. I’ve been using them for… 3? 4? years and never had any ads getting through.
yeah, it would have to have been at least 7 years, probs more i would think. But they burnt that bridge for me.
Well, I firmly believe in redemption arcs. Also, the product is just really good right now.
Don’t use Ghostery anymore
Why?
Check the Wikipedia page on it.
Yeah? Still not seeing a reason not to use it today. Do you have any specific criticisms?
Breach of trust and owned by a for profit company.
By a different company. Owners changed in 2017.
Which makes a privacy-oriented search engine. Seems like they have a pretty good track record.
And they started using ghostery to show their own ads in 2018.
Their search engine was discontinued in 2020.
And they stopped after it was criticised. Do you just not use any product that has ever been bad for any amount of time?