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I tried to read this article on digital privacy but after five minutes spent unticking boxes allowing my usage data to be sent to an augean list of data collect
by Twey 1y ago
I tried to read this article on digital privacy but after five minutes spent unticking boxes allowing my usage data to be sent to an augean list of data collectors I gave up and left.
- fmsf 1y agoWhen this happens I disable JS for the website permanently and reload, sometimes it is not live loaded and the article is readable.
- kstrauser 1y agoBless the hearts of webmasters who allow reader mode to function normally.
- dotancohen 1y agoNo webmaster allows reader mode to function normally. There are, however, webmasters who don't try to prevent reader mode from functioning normally.
- kstrauser 1y agoPotato, potato. Here, "allow" means "doesn't actively work to counter".
- gruez 1y ago> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nilamo 1y agoAn article being inaccessible or illegible counts as tangential?
- wat10000 1y agoNot to mention it's directly related to the subject of the article.
- gruez 1y agoThat might be true but it's been done to death because it's applicable basically every time commercial coverage of a privacy-related topic. It has the vibe of "we should improve society somewhat. yet you participate in it. curious!". Not to mention in publications with proper editorial independence, the "business side" (ie. the side that's responsible for adding the ads/trackers) is firewalled from the side writing the articles, so there isn't even really a contradiction.
- wat10000 1y agoIt's more like, "you complain that people throw sand in your eyes, yet you also throw sand in people's eyes, curious." This is not "yet you participate in society." Unlike participating in society, these behaviors are entirely optional and they can stop any time they want, they just prefer not to. Editorial independency doesn't absolve them. It just means that they're doing the right thing in one area but not another.
- gruez 1y ago[flagged]
- soulofmischief 1y agoOP shouldn't have to use private browsing, that's the entire point of the regulation, and that does not prevent cookies from being used during a session anyway.
- viridian 1y agoThe hypocrisy in the context of the content of the article is, in its self, interesting. It's not tangential by any means.
- dmix 1y agoThose are just placebo buttons.