• Ace! _SL/S@ani.social
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      5 months ago

      They would get time spent on their usage analytics to show off to their investors to draw in more idiot advertisers

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    5 months ago

    The real joke is the fact that Big G isn’t also offering you lots of ads, maybe even some LLM-generated gobbledygook for flavour.

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    Yes, he did ask you to leave the site.

    You can just leave, or make a fuss, or try to punch your way with the dev-tools. I honestly don’t care. But what he said does mean exactly “I don’t want you here, leave”.

  • Million@lemmy.zip
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    It’s fynny when there is a full screen banner that tells you to pay to read the article and then you just use the uBlock origin zapper to delete that and read through the article.

    -This message is brought to you by the uBlock origin gang

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      They got smarter than that. They show a page that looks like the one you want, but isn’t. It just serves as a vessel to show you that you need to pay. If you zap the modal, it reveals there’s nothing behind it.

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        Yeah I would say on most pages it doesn’t work.

        But just today I read some F1 news and the page asked me to pay and it just zapped away.

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    It is this and then in the cookie banner they write “we and our 800 partners care about your privacy” , I am like no, 800 is no longer private, but an orgy.

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      800 is a fucking crusade. 800 bastards pretending to be on the side of good and pillaging and raping your ass instead.