• pirat@lemmy.ml
      2·
      25 days ago

      And if you really want to grind the gears of advertisers, consider Ad Nauseam. It is built atop ublock origin but silently clicks all adds which will send an “omnivorous click-stream” which in turn ensures that “user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.”

      More detailed read for the curious

  • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
    29·
    27 days ago

    Sorry but it’s old, dude… now you have to update it adding the steps for ID check, facial recognition and government approval.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    27 days ago

    You get hit with the Google/Cloudflare captcha because your VPN, privacy extensions, and the fact that you’re using Firefox in general make them think you’re a bot. But actually they’ve already decided you’re definitely a bot and refuse to let you in no matter how many image captchas you solve.

  • testman@lemmy.ml
    15·
    27 days ago

    there was this satirical “web browsing simulator 2025” or something like that where you had to do all those things.
    but I don’t remember the exact name and can’t find it with a search engine. Maybe someone else knows what I am talking about.

  • sirdorius@programming.dev
    11·
    26 days ago
    1. You close the video that started autoplaying
    2. You try to read the content of the site on 20% of your screen because the rest is padding and headers and useless shit
    3. You try to understand why your laptop fan has started and your battery is draining at 100% cpu on a text and image on website
    4. You manage to read something on the website before your battery drops by 30%. You try to figure out if it’s AI generated or not
    5. You’re hit by a paywall
  • potoo22@programming.dev
    7·
    27 days ago

    There are a lot of community-driven websites, but they’re all out SEOed by profit-driven garbage sites.

  • phantomwise@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    27 days ago
    • You also have to wait 30 seconds to a minute for all the useless javascript to load and get in the way of you trying to find what you are looking for.
    • Then you’ll have to dodge an AI chatbot and various buttons for AI features trying to trick you into clicking them.
  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
    2·
    17 days ago

    I am so glad that I’m using an adblocker that filters out 90% of the crap. The other 10% of the crap are killed by cookie whitelist and Javascript whitelist.