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1) Thirteen banner ads, most of them animated 2) Tracking from Google and Facebook 3) Cookie warning with no way to opt out 4) You can only opt out if you li
by cousin_it 7y ago
1) Thirteen banner ads, most of them animated
2) Tracking from Google and Facebook
3) Cookie warning with no way to opt out
4) You can only opt out if you live in California:
> Opting out of the sharing of your personal information by Protocol with marketers: Please send an email to privacy@protocol.com with the following information: -Name -Email -Confirmation of California residency
- tclover 7y agoI often forget how does the internet look like without the adblocker
- nunodonato 7y agosame. I only see a very clean article :)
- hobofan 7y agoNot using a dedicated ad blocker (just Firefox) and the article looks very clean to me.
- NeutronStar 7y agoOP is using Chrome and complaining about tracking.
- metastart 7y agoNo ads coming up in my Epic Privacy Browser with adblock & encrypted proxy on :-). Firefox has been copying a lot of Epic's features, but still is far behind their privacy defaults.
- waitwhatwhoa 7y agoThere are a few news organizations somehow battling it out to survive without advertising and I applaud them, but most comments like these simply remind me of this sentiment: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
- giancarlostoro 7y agoThe issue is that this is a continuing issue that will possibly only get worse until websites find a better means of funding themselves and their staff. I suspect we'll only see these sort of comments increase over time.
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