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I just got a new laptop and hadn't got around to installing uBlock yet. I'm comfortable saying the mainstream web is literally unusable without ad blocking. I w
by psyc 9y ago
I just got a new laptop and hadn't got around to installing uBlock yet. I'm comfortable saying the mainstream web is literally unusable without ad blocking. I watched the download notifications in the status bar iterate through dozens of ad servers, for 1-2 minutes, per page. I could barely scroll at all. I couldn't tell where the actual content was. All 3 columns full of ads. You have to hunt for isolated paragraphs of content.
The other glaring thing I noticed is the browser becomes a festering petri dish of promiscuous cookie-sharing. Every site obviously knows everything I'm doing on every other site.
- aeorgnoieang 9y ago> a festering petri dish of promiscuous cookie-sharing Shouldn't that be impossible? What browser lets one site access another's cookies?
- b5ec5a483dfd14 9y agohttps://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/ https://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/
- psyc 9y agoI mean tracking in general. I feel violated every time FB or Google reveal they clearly know where I've been recently. Afaik, there may not be sharing across domains, but there surely is across pages.
- nkkollaw 9y agoPixel tracking is trivial to implement.