How to use a website:

[aburtch@shakedown.social]

@maxleibman @tayfonay I wish this were an exaggeration or a joke, but it really isn't.

[j5y7@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman I like all of those things because they remind me I'm wasting my time.

[photo55@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman
A site that wants to tell us something will.
Often it'll be something we want to know.
Sites that don't do that will usually not be doing that.

[lin11c@toad.social]

@maxleibman
If a site doesn't have one of those cookie choice windows I just leave. Unless it's some legal thing I have to do.

[shaedrich@mastodon.online]

@rothschopf @maxleibman They gonnal get ads, too

[shaedrich@mastodon.online]

@maxleibman
13. Allow to use location
14. Switch to supported browser (Google Chrome)
15. Start over with steps 1 – 13

[hagentietze@social.tchncs.de]

@maxleibman Der Standort wird auch gern abgefragt

[wanwizard@mastodon.scot]

@maxleibman I often already stop at point 1. My company uses pihole in the LAN to block ads and other junk like phone-home callbacks, so for users there is no option to disable it and move on to step 2.

[manchuck@phpc.social]

@maxleibman Open the console and delete elements that are getting in the way.

[gergovie@piaille.fr]

@maxleibman

[solblack@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman that's because you didn't share your location.

[deuchnord@social.deuchnord.fr]

@maxleibman
2a. Allow this site to access your location.

[kc@social.coop]

@Vonskinnback @kDelta @nicolaottomano @maxleibman « it’s the EU’s fault that we made a cookie banner that you have to individually switch off our 4500 advertiser partner’s trackers in two screens that we made »

[zsoltsb@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman they can take adguard from my cold, dead, human hands. it even works with quasi-pwas, with basically framed webview.

[crazy2bike@fediworld.de]

@maxleibman@beige.party

This.

[vonxylofon@witter.cz]

@maxleibman This why I use AI to search the web. I know how it works (or rather doesn't), I know the principles, I know the ramifications. I know all of that.

Having said that, my brain just can't deal with this level of bullshittery, and I'd rather verify a source than have to deal with multitudes of this every single search.

[hanan1991@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman I'm Hanan from Gaza, a mother of four. We lost our home, our livelihood, and have been displaced more than 15 times. Now we live in a tent with no safety or basic necessities.
My husband lost his job, and we are struggling to provide food and medicine for our four children. Every donation or share gives my family hope. 🤍
https://chuffed.org/project/189777-help-hanans-four-children-survive⁠�
#FreePalestine #Palestine #Gaza #HelpGaza #Donate

[syntaxseed@phpc.social]

@maxleibman Uuuuugggh hurts because it's true!

[restless@social.tchncs.de]

@maxleibman Now is this well or badly executed SEO?

[elbeetoots@mastodon.nl]

@maxleibman That's how many companies would want you to use their websites. I don't. The only thing I do is accept essential cookies. Ads and tracking are blocked, I use a VPN and if I really need to, i.e. with a web shop, I use an e-mail alias created for said web shop.

I try to keep control over my persona data as much as possible.