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- Comment on Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity 3 days ago:
I use noscript en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript
It starts with a default position of blocking everything (which breaks a lot of sites) but as you use the internet you just tell it to trust the domains that you need and permablock those you don’t. After a few weeks, you find your regular sites are taken care of.
googletagmanager and fascistbook are obvious blocks on most sites. Same for trust pilot and the like.
It can get more complicated when you try to buy something as that does legitimately require scripts from other services like stripe, worldpay etc. Or from shopify and the like.
You always have the option of temporarily allowing the page to do what it wants if you just find the pagelist too overwhelming but it is worth just experimenting and reloading the page till you figure out what is necessary and what is not. Set once, and it’s done.
Another option is to have a second browser not running noscript, that deletes all data on exit, and use that for purchasing.
Bonus fact, most news sites with paywalls, run those paywalls with JavaScript. No script, no paywall. 😂
- Comment on Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity 3 days ago:
Another reason to be aggressively blocking attempts to run JavaScript from marketing domains.
- Comment on Downing Street rally asks ‘silent majority’ to fight antisemitism 3 weeks ago:
And they will always be monstrously wrong when they say it.
- Comment on Downing Street rally asks ‘silent majority’ to fight antisemitism 3 weeks ago:
If these people really want to stop anti-semitism, they need to separate semitism from zionism, and accept that a human being can be appropriately appalled by genocide, have a corresponding anti-zionist opinion in reaction to that, and still not have any issue with the Jewish faith or the broader population. Personally I feel sorry for non-zionist jews who are consistently being misused as shields for a bloodthirsty, elitist, genocidal zionist agenda, pursued by people too cowardly to accept direct accountability and appropriate public condemnation for their actions.
Inviting Nigel Farage and snubbing Zack Polanski makes a mockery of the whole thing and undermines the stated intent.
- Comment on UK Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry 2 months ago:
Copyright law needs to change with things becoming public domain much sooner than the currently do, but… If a bunch of billionaires want to profit off someone elses work by using material to train AI, they can bloody well pay fairly for that use, or accept if the owner of that material refuses to permit/license them.
The basic premise that there is some universally accepted ‘need’ to train ai models is just not one i can see as valid.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 3 months ago:
Wish I could upvote your comment more than once. Thank you for the injection of clarity.