Wondering how much of the Lemmy user base wouldn’t use an adblocker. If you do use one what other blocking do you use to circumvent data collection, YouTube and reddit front ends and things alike?

  • Samuel Proulx@rblind.comEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I don’t block anything. I work in accessibility, so it’s important to me to know what the experiences are like for my fellow users with disabilities. I also don’t want to recommend sites or apps that are riddled with inaccessible ads. I’d rather not give them traffic at all. Though even though I let them track me, I still get ads in a language I don’t speak for cars I can’t drive. What’re they doing with all that data?

    • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.onlineEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      So me seeing ads in random languages is not me being clever with identity obfuscation, but big data being big stupid?

      And thank you for your work in accessibility 🫡

  • Maddox@feddit.ch
    11·
    9 months ago

    Because I am not sure if I want a 3rd party “controlling” my trafic. It sucks that my behavior is shared around in ad networks but I am not sure if the ad blocking components are more trustworthy. There are certainly good solutions out there but I am sceptic of the explosion of new ad blocking tools. Having said that, I never did a deep research to check if my scepticism is justified…

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    01·
    9 months ago

    My mom uses Edge, told me not to block Facebook ads and clicks on most of the clickbait articles on her MSN home page. It’s like she WANTS them to collect as much data to sell and spy on her as much as possible 🤦

    • TheMurphy@lemmy.world
      0·
      9 months ago

      One question though.

      Can’t you enable a filter list on uBlock Origin that removes all cookie consents?

      I think I have it on. It’s under “Annoyances”. Maybe it’s not as good since you have them both?

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        01·
        9 months ago

        I’m sure there is, but tbh I don’t know how, since I don’t need it.

        The way Consent-o-Matic works is that it accepts all, securely deletes all of it immediately before it can do anything. That way the site thinks you have all of it so it won’t ask again, but you actually get none of it.

        All this plus removing the consent- and other pop-ups for you. A few of the nastier pop-ups might be on your screen for a tenth of a second or less as Consent-o-Matic gets rid of it for you, but otherwise it’s like they were never there to begin with!