• rem26_art@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    You thought you were visiting 1 website? Ha! Here’s 24 websites! All at Once!

    nightmare website design

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    lmao, seriously it is getting ridiculous out there. There are days where I spend an hour or two looking up some of the domains on a site I try to visit to see if they are ad platforms, trackers, etc. My untrusted list is fat, and gets fatter every day it seems.

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      I just block everything out of the gate. The harder a site is to use, the less likely I’ll use it.

      Helps keep me from useless browsing too

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        banks telcos will give you hard time… just got to enable enough of that slop until they do or switch to a more friendly provider.

        i got red of my legacy bank because they got cute about it. fuck them, they were not even a good financial product with clown ass interest rate.

        another option is to have a browser that’s used for these activities only. something like ungoogled chromium although that can get spotty or just old vanilla FF with ubloock of course apparently you will get flagged for not using mega corp approved internet infrastructure. YMMV

        Thank you for your service!

        • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          another option is to have a browser that’s used for these activities only.

          I’ve been thinking about setting up a VM for unavoidable things like this. Set up a browser with a password manager and whatever essentials it needs, and save the state, then after every session, reset it and wipe the new content.

          My thinking is that it will stop any tracking of other accounts or software, as you just use whatever site you log into at the time, so even if you do have to enable trackers for a site, there’s nothing for them to see.