Some more insights on the extent of the companies snitching to Facebook.
Very welcome complaont, Meta is trying to workaround the GDPR to increase paid accounts. Can only hope they get fined and that this shady practice disappear (they're not the only ones doing this).
Definitely true... never had use for more than the server logs for understanding the traffic on my blog. No need to invade the privacy of people through their browser.
Still using Chrome? What are you waiting for to change for another browser which doesn't play against your interests.
I guess it's a strategy to move more people over to Chrome. Shameful.
Good news if this really gets enforced.
Some people lash out at the wrong group... they should be angry at YouTube not at the tiny team making the extension trying to help block the ads.
This is a bad case of content moderation if it gets presented to users like this... but Google is not going to leave advertisement money on the table. The way browsers changed in recent years also make this kind of deceptions easier (harder to check certificates, hard to spot punycoding).
This is a good way to manage your website. I do the same regarding my blog, I don't do any analytics etc.
OK, this is a very bleak view... maybe a bit over the top I'm unsure. There seems to be some truth to it though.
If you're still using Chrome, maybe you shouldn't... They're clearly making it easier to overcome ad blocker and the tracking won't be a third party thing anymore, this browser will directly report on your behavior.
This is based on fingerprinting and sometimes fail. If Web Environment Integrity gets through it'll be just worse.
Excellent piece against the Web Environment Integrity proposal from Google.
Good explanations, the parallel and history perspective on Palladium is right. It's the same fight than 20 years ago, it shows up its ugly head regularly. Time to collectively say no once more.
Interesting point of view. We have two worlds now coexisting on the Web and they tend to ignore each other more and more.
Welcome to the Fediverse! It's just an experiment for now, let's hope they stay longer.
This is a good point, this is a quality before quantity type of problem.
This is an excellent and needed work of contextualization. Ten years after, looking back at how the Snowden Revelations impacted the internet and the work done by the IETF. It also shows there is plenty more to do...
If you didn't have an adblocker yet (who doesn't really?) it's time to really think about it. When even the FBI starts to advocate for ad blockers it's a sign of how bad the online ad market has become.
The most addictive and also tracking you everywhere it can (unsurprisingly). Toxicity at its highest.