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When your website is dependent on all of this you know there is a problem. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] madame_gaymes 33 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] madame_gaymes 4 points 1 month 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.