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Everything that you need now requires several corpo parasites to get a cut and then we wonder why we are oppressed
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.
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
Yep, I default block everything and only test around to see what I need to allow.
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.
YAS KING, DENY THE PARASITE ENGAGEMENT
Problem is now, I can’t login to see my phone bill. Horrid design.
banks telcos will give you hard time... just got to enable enough of that slop until they do or switch to a more friendly provider.
i got red of my legacy bank because they got cute about it. fuck them, they were not even a good financial product with clown ass interest rate.
another option is to have a browser that's used for these activities only. something like ungoogled chromium although that can get spotty or just old vanilla FF with ubloock of course apparently you will get flagged for not using mega corp approved internet infrastructure. YMMV
Thank you for your service!
another option is to have a browser that's used for these activities only.
Doesn’t help that my PiHole is also blocking these at a DNS level as well my network is all routed behind VPN tunnels.
Pretty much all telecom companies around me do this.
thank you for your service!
All about that FOSS!
Doesn’t help that my PiHole is also blocking these at a DNS level as well my network is all routed behind VPN tunnels.
haha... easy there chad
I have been thinking about going that route good to know it will cause friction ahead of time.
It is interesting that you can access government websites on these set ups but you can't access the telco
another option is to have a browser that's used for these activities only.
I've been thinking about setting up a VM for unavoidable things like this. Set up a browser with a password manager and whatever essentials it needs, and save the state, then after every session, reset it and wipe the new content.
My thinking is that it will stop any tracking of other accounts or software, as you just use whatever site you log into at the time, so even if you do have to enable trackers for a site, there's nothing for them to see.
I switched from a major nationwide bank to a local credit union. Why the F did I stay with that garbage so long?
When from paying hundreds a year to getting some tiny interest.
A webdev needed just one function from a framework so he included the whole thing. A guy I know rewrote the necessary code from the framework himself in less than a day and deleted the framework eventually. Saved 30 MB!
"guy I know" > webdev
desire to do the thing vs on-paper qualifications
The guy I know has Bachelor's degree in applied computer sciences. I trust him more than that unknown webdev with unknown qualification before him.
... vs desire to do the thing + on-paper qualifications.
I guess both is good
TIL someone still uses NoScript.
It actually pairs quite nicely with uBlock.
Remove the SEO-agency's access to the GTM-account. Stat!
At least they have Onetrust to enable cookie and privacy preferences. Done right it can be give a fair balance of privacy and site monitoring, when integrated with Adobe DTM and Quantum Metric.
Just trying to see my phone bill man, I know I trusted those for some good reason.
Yeah the rest is some bullshit