Post #1818593
2024-06-18 15:29 UTC
Replies (30)
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@sol_hsa@peoplemaking.games 2024-10-20 10:42
@paddyduke@mastodon.social man, dr seuss has changed.
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@LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie 2024-10-20 11:07
@paddyduke@mastodon.social It's so bad that I've turned off javascript for all sites by default (using ublock origin) and only selectively turn it on where it's necessary.
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2024-10-20 11:57
@paddyduke@mastodon.social Thing is, *you* might want to read the article, but *they* don't give a shit whether you read it or not, that's not what they're doing it for.
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@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org 2024-10-20 12:01
@paddyduke@mastodon.social This is so exhausting. One of the reasons I just use a terminal browser (w3m) a lot of the time.
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@Bluedepth@mastodon.social 2024-10-20 14:23
@paddyduke@mastodon.social My energy capacity for most sites is zero. The moment I encounter anything that isn’t what I expected, I bail. It’s just not worth it.
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@whoosh@social.sdf.org 2024-10-20 14:36
@paddyduke@mastodon.social and I don't want to identify all your bicycles, hydrants, busses, traffic signals, and crosswalks.
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@SenseException@phpc.social 2024-10-20 17:52
@paddyduke@mastodon.social Sing this to the tunes of No Scrubs by TLC and we have a new #HitsOfTheITs.
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@rozeboosje@masto.ai 2024-10-20 18:30
@paddyduke@mastodon.social and if they really "valued my privacy" they would assume those would be people's preferences unless they explicitly and unprompted decided to opt in.
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@robelix@chaos.social 2024-10-20 20:06
@paddyduke@mastodon.social ... Why did I open this page? Don't remember. Tab closed.
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@MichaelPorter@ottawa.place 2024-10-20 20:25
@paddyduke@mastodon.social @CStamp@mastodon.social Won’t someone think of the unharvested profit??!
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@Cadbury_Moose@wandering.shop 2024-10-20 21:20
@paddyduke@mastodon.social They're all like "the company" in the Murderbot Diaries - collecting all your data so they can sell it at a profit. 3:O(>
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@davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social 2024-10-20 22:01
@paddyduke@mastodon.social I don't want your cookies options to be: Accept all Refuse all Look at cookies and decide which ones I want And then have those options scroll up the screen faster than I can move the cursor to my selected answer. So unless I'm really fast or lucky, I either end up hitting the wrong answer, or the options evaporate before I can answer (and presumably that opts me in). Yes, Games Workshop. I'm looking at you. But I'm not looking at your website. #Enshittification
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@MsMerope@sfba.social 2024-10-21 00:37
@paddyduke@mastodon.social autoplay 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2024-10-21 00:43
This video sums up your frustration quite nicely @paddyduke@mastodon.social; https://peertube.nz/w/ocxpCzSfdLTVDZ2aVdo47v I highly recommend the #NoScript add-on. Not only does it filter out a lot of this garbage, which depends on running JavaScript from third-party domains, it allows stops a lot of tracking that goes on in the background. Before I discovered NS, my laptops used to routinely crash. Brought down by the ludicrous amount of memory used, by all the JS running in the browser tabs I had open. #MakeJavaScriptOptional!
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@moz@fosstodon.org 2024-10-21 00:53
@paddyduke@mastodon.social I just bought a new phone now that 3G is really definitely being turned off. So I've had the "new android phone experience" and I am still grumpy. The quantity of pre-installed crapware is astonishing. From google, from "sponsored content" and from the phone excretor Emails telling me I've subscribed to shit I never wanted in the first place. Google Wallet. Google TV. Google Auto. None of those. But they can't be removed or disabled Will buy another Fairphone just because of this.
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@DevraWiz@mstdn.social 2024-10-21 00:59
@paddyduke@mastodon.social Absolutely spot on. The only thing I would add is (once you purchase) immediate review. Once before thing had been delivered. Most recently delivery/installation delivered but wouldn't install since delivery co. admin hadn't passed our information to deliverer/installers. I wrote immediately to manufacturer to tell the, Total silence from them, other than an immediate request for a review saying how happy we were...
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@DelilahTech@tech.lgbt 2024-10-21 02:47
@paddyduke@mastodon.social Just a song before I go To whom it may concern Clicking on a related link It's easy to get burned When the articles are over I tried to get back home And when I hit the back link button I had to be alone They helped me with the related link The ads just hurt my eyes Driving me to delete it all And turn off the wi-fi My computers own security Can only protect me for so long They finally got a hook inside And my data was gone Just a song before I go A lesson to be learned Clicking on a web link It's easy to get burned
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@RobertJackson58585858@masto.ai 2024-10-21 06:00
@paddyduke@mastodon.social Just noticed that singing this list to Edward Elgar's tune to "Land of Hope and Glory" sort of works. (Have to gabble the last few words in each sentence ... but that's OK)
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@martinhowitt@urbanists.social 2024-10-21 07:24
@paddyduke@mastodon.social or share location either. Or allow notifications.
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@UmWerker@todon.nl 2024-10-21 08:07
@paddyduke@mastodon.social But this is all for your own good.
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@itscool900@kolektiva.social 2024-10-21 08:48
@paddyduke@mastodon.social and _no, i don't want to rate your app._
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@tofu@is-a.cat 2024-10-21 09:07
@paddyduke@mastodon.social I still remember the pandemic worries about bandwidth, and people trying to attack gamers while using extremely bloated news websites with 40 ads and an autoplay video that would eat up more bandwidth than playing an online game for hours on end.
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@mrc@mastodon.berlin 2024-10-21 09:19
@paddyduke@mastodon.social No, I don’t want to rate my experience after a successful transaction.
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@cholling@bytes.programming.dev 2024-10-21 09:29
@paddyduke@mastodon.social Ah, so you must want to subscribe to notifications?
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@tdp_org@mastodon.social 2024-10-21 09:33
@paddyduke@mastodon.social But surely you *do* want to allow them access to your location? 😆
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@GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange 2024-10-21 09:47
@paddyduke@mastodon.social the other day I helped my mom set up her new computer and it was pretty much the same sequence of questions, but from the OS I wasn’t sure even I could tell the difference between some of the questions
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@mcourcel@mstdn.ca 2024-10-21 10:23
@paddyduke@mastodon.social Yeah, that's about right.
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@InsertUser@en.osm.town 2024-10-21 10:59
@paddyduke@mastodon.social No I don't want to pay for a while month's worth of papers just to read something that would cost $3 at my local newsstand.
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@JohannaMakesGames@mastodon.gamedev.place 2024-10-21 12:20
@paddyduke@mastodon.social ok I'll remind you later 😜
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@xorbit@noc.social 2024-10-21 12:22
@paddyduke@mastodon.social Welcome to the predatory Internet