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[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

lmao, seriously it is getting ridiculous out there. There are days where I spend an hour or two looking up some of the domains on a site I try to visit to see if they are ad platforms, trackers, etc. My untrusted list is fat, and gets fatter every day it seems.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I just block everything out of the gate. The harder a site is to use, the less likely I'll use it.

Helps keep me from useless browsing too

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

Yep, I default block everything and only test around to see what I need to allow.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

I'm almost at that point. As it is now (depending on the importance of needing to access the site), I'll spend 2-5 minutes attempting to get the site to operate without allowing obviously shitty scripts. If that fails, then I'm moving on.