The internet is getting irritating

Malevolence said:
How often do people on here wipe their cookies?
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Never, because I'm not really paranoid :p

I never see ads anyway unless I have whitelisted a site that I do actually support.

I just don't like my viewing space being cluttered by eyesore adverts.
 
My personal peeve at present is that it’s become very difficult to quickly identify, via review sites, the ‘best product’ (if you are not familiar with the sorts of items you’re purchasing). ‘Genuine’ review websites are drowned out by cheap websites that exist purely to get referral fees.
 
Nitefly said:
My personal peeve at present is that it’s become very difficult to quickly identify, via review sites, the ‘best product’ (if you are not familiar with the sorts of items you’re purchasing). ‘Genuine’ review websites are drowned out by cheap websites that exist purely to get referral fees.
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Most reviews are crap anyway, even the "impartial" sites like Trustpilot. Millions of fake reviews on there, it's often difficult to find actual reviews.
 
Malevolence said:
How often do people on here wipe their cookies?
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When they haven't been used for 1 minute (or maybe 30s, I'm not sure what I set it to) and all of them whenever I close the browser. Which is quite often, specifically for that purpose.

I get far fewer cookies than normal anyway because I don't allow cross-site scripting and I block all websites from running scripts by default apart from a very small whitelist I created. It's common for a single page to be running scripts from >20 different sources.

Pale Moon browser with Self-Destructing Cookies and NoScript plugins. That's enough for what I would consider minimal privacy and security and convenience. My geolocation data is fake too, courtesy of my VPN. Every now and then, the antivirus software I use pops up an ad for the security products sold by the same company, showing a map of my location as part of advertising a security product. It's always the wrong location.

I'm sure I'm still being tracked and farmed for data anyway, but I see no point in making the internet far worse for me just to make it easier for businesses to track and farm me.

The only significant drawback to my approach is that I have to do captchas quite a lot more frequently. But I think it's a good trade-off.
 
Quelle surprise, the BBC are shady as ****. They have a pop-up bar at the top asking if you agree to their cookies policy. There are two options, "Yes I agree" and "No, take me to the options page". The catch is, you can't actually click on the second option, only the first allows you to click on it.
 
Malevolence said:
Quelle surprise, the BBC are shady as ****. They have a pop-up bar at the top asking if you agree to their cookies policy. There are two options, "Yes I agree" and "No, take me to the options page". The catch is, you can't actually click on the second option, only the first allows you to click on it.
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*wipes brow*

Internets, sad face.
 
Malevolence said:
Quelle surprise, the BBC are shady as ****. They have a pop-up bar at the top asking if you agree to their cookies policy. There are two options, "Yes I agree" and "No, take me to the options page". The catch is, you can't actually click on the second option, only the first allows you to click on it.
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Works fine for me. The link takes you here.
 
Malevolence said:
Well that page opens, but again the buttons to turn off any of the cookies aren't clickable. They show up as being clickable (the little pointing finger cursor on mouse over), but clicking them does nothing.
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Again, works for me. Sounds like your browser is the issue. Is javascript off? Running an overzealous adblocker filter?
 
Diddums said:
Most reviews are crap anyway, even the "impartial" sites like Trustpilot. Millions of fake reviews on there, it's often difficult to find actual reviews.
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I finally gave in and subscribed to Which?. I'd read an article about how they stopped reviewing a particular type of items because it didn't make sense for them to keep paying for all the units to test when no one really uses them, and I realised they didn't just get given free stuff to review creating biased results.

It is expensive, but I'm renovating the house ATM so making lots of long term purchases.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Is there an adblock that can beat the “we see you are using an Adblock, disable it or leave the page” pop ups?
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Try Adguard. I haven't seen one since, and it's about as light as uBlock Origin.

Malevolence said:
JS is allowed and it's same with uBlock Origin on or off. It's the same in a completely stock Firefox install too.
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*shrug* Are you signed into your BBC account? Maybe that's it. Other than that I dunno as I literally tested it again before replying and it works fine for me.
 
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