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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Says the website that has a baljillion cookies

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You can obviously block cookies locally in the browser, but what you can also do for those "consent" popups that ask you to decide which of the 1300 data brokers you want your data to be sold to is to use https://consentomatic.au.dk/ which automatically declines all of them. It works on a lot of websites, and I don't see consent popups anymore. Of course there are also adblock lists for your adblocker of choice, but they never get rid of all of it sadly. If you have an android phone then a Firefox fork with unlocked extensions will be able to install it as well (for example Fennec). Presumably also a chromium based browser with unlocked extensions, but I can't verify that. On iOS there's the Orion browser by Kagi which allows you to install extensions for both Firefox and Chrome, but again I can't speak to the actual effectiveness there.

EDIT: forgot but obviously safari also. duh.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I simply do everything in private windows and accept whatever. Then flush the cookies down the toilet 5 minutes later.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cookie AutoDelete should do this automatically.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

I prefer the control of keeping the window alive until it's time to kill it, then keeping the regular browser window as what few things I allow to persist with login sessions.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I use Firefox with badger and ublock, and next dns which does a lot to make for a clean browsing experience, I didn't know about that extension. Installed. Thanks!

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Yep, that was my experience try are all ‘smart’ now, and o gate it. Let’s see, I got a tcl from Costco, and it let me skip anything that needed a connection

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I'm starting down this path. My current TV is beginning to fail and I'm getting frustrated trying to decide on a new one.

In terms of picture quality and such, I'm leaning towards an LG but their OS and such is a huge red flag.

I've got my router set to adguard for DNS and I'm learning how to set up a pihole.

Basically, all I really need is to be able to do is use my consoles and then SmartTube and Emby. That's it

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

Its OK. I hope they can read it while its unplugged gathering dust. And we don't plan on getting a new one anytime soon.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

is there a good open source thi9gor this?

need: YouTube with ad blocking, and stremio. that's like practically 100% of what I use

This is why the anprims don't seem stupid.

Because capitalism is even fucking dumber.