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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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

You thought you were visiting 1 website? Ha! Here's 24 websites! All at Once!

nightmare website design

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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!

[–] ulterno -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"guy I know" > webdev

desire to do the thing vs on-paper qualifications

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ulterno 0 points 1 month ago

... vs desire to do the thing + on-paper qualifications.

I guess both is good

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TIL someone still uses NoScript.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

It actually pairs quite nicely with uBlock.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Remove the SEO-agency's access to the GTM-account. Stat!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just trying to see my phone bill man, I know I trusted those for some good reason.

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

Yeah the rest is some bullshit