Every site is trying to pull a Bonzai Buddy now.

“We need all your info for advertising, not you can’t opt out unless you make an account and give us your email. Oops, looks like I hid the opt-out under a subheader. Amazon is now profiling you.”

WE USED TO CALL THAT SHIT A VIRUS.

ITS EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. NOW

“Hi I’m going to block this entire site until you give me your info, this is very cool and normal.”

Capitalism ruined the internet. The whole thing is malware now.

  • invo_rt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    What percentage of processing power is used just to run tracking cookies, ads, and other pop-up bullshit. God help you if you’re on limited mobile data when every website wants to auto-load video ads.

    Definitely ThE mOsT rAtIoNaL sYsTeM

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      10 months ago

      what about when the advert will load but the content will not

      whoever made that possible should be placed in the advertisement torture nexus

      microchip on brain loaded with petabytes of adverts