Random advice: Internet advertisers have added a new thing to try and collect your data. If you ever see the LEGITIMATE INTEREST link on one these "we value your privacy" popups, click it and click the OBJECT ALL button.
"We value your privacy"
I think we both know that's not true.
I don't know who came up with this "legitimate interests" garbage but I'm sure they were very pleased with themselves. Honestly, this just sounds like the exact same stuff I've already said no to, changed very slightly so I need to say no to it again.
They think that making me individually object to like, a couple of hundred of these things is going to make me get bored and just click the accept button. They're clearly underestimating just how much of a petty bitch I am!
Seriously, I did this once already when tumblr gave us a list of advertising partners. I'll do it to anyone else who tries.
@InvaderXan Gods, I want someone to set Quantcast's offices on fire.
@Jo on a TOTALLY UNRELATED note, would you like to go out for cocktails sometime? I know this nice little bar downtown called Molotov's...
@InvaderXan The reason why adtech needs to die and most of the world needs stronger privacy laws.
@joeo10 Totally. The internet was better before everyone decided to Monetise™ it
@InvaderXan I still feel to this day that the internet was more free in the 1990s until 2001. That September was where most of our global civil liberties went away.
@InvaderXan Oh, they do! But, in the sense of an auction appraiser.
@porsupah Ah. Telling the truth, but that truth is not the truth you believe it to be!
@InvaderXan Can't they shove their ads where the sun doesn't shine already? In addition to adblockers and scripts I had to switch to Adguard DNS to stop seeing this shit all over internet.
@SeventhMagpie Yeah, it’s so tiresome
@InvaderXan The cherry on top is the (all caps) "We Value Your Privacy" in large type in the header of such dialog boxes.
(Such wording always needs to be read with an invisible footnote "by the megabyte")
@porsupah @InvaderXan "We Value Your Privacy" - in fact, we think it's too valuable for you to keep all to yourself, so we're just going to help ourselves. Oh, and you're out of milk.