How to use a website:

[john_loader@ohai.social]

@maxleibman On FB you often get posts with a link to local newspaper but virtually all are behind a paywall or you have to accept infection of cookies. To read them all would require many subscription. I suggested to trinity Mirror they could at least offer bundle where you pay one subscription and have so many views on any of their publications in a month.

[drjay@mastodon.energy]

@maxleibman My wife would like to propose a step 12a: Delete all pop up ads and videos and still cannot find the content you were looking for.

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman
You can leave when prompted with the first request.

[the1goit@fedia.social]

@maxleibman
13. Uninstall app,

14. Unsubscribe from newsletter,

15. Cancel subscription and request refund if possible,

16. Disable notifications,

17. Clear site data,

18. Re-enable adblocker

19. Request all data about you to be deleted (if possible/within EU),

20. Data breach time!

[mr_creosote@dosgame.club]

@maxleibman And yet, everybody insists that those websites which do that are "essential" and nobody visits those that don't.

[einfachnurroland@nrw.social]

@maxleibman The reason why we only find such useless websites is the same reason why #AI is helpful: technical marketing like #SEO generates more dangerous #slop then AI.

#Capitalism eats it's own childs.

[pws@social.coop]

@maxleibman My first step is to use NoScript to disable the site's javascript and see if they give everything away for free. Many do.

[gregoa@welt.all.de]

@maxleibman
Where can I place personal data directly?
And help those dudes to collect from first hand.

[bedifferent@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman This may be similar. I'm older and to calm down a bit, I'm watching Hallmark. $80/yr for HM is too much. An ad ran on at least two of HM websites for $39/yr. Tried finding rules; bupkis or I needed stronger glasses. Emailed them about offer (signed in but no option). Rep said it's a 3rd party ad and Hallmark doesn't accept them. I said it's on their websites. Tech - HM allows that. My response: HM is scamming people for a click.

I want to go to bed for 100 yrs.

[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.