My wife: why do we need a whole home VPN? What are you hiding?
Me: Baby, I work in Infosec. I'm hiding everything. But I'm mostly doing it to make it harder for our ISP to harvest and sell the data I'm paying for them to transmit.
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Thanks chicken man. Let's all block cookies and ads to spite ad companies.
If you want to spite the ad companies use this instead
Instead of blocking the ads, it always clicks all of them so ad companies spend money on junk clicks and the profile it builds on you is meaningless.
It also won’t show you any ads.
got anything that just surfs and clicks on its own?
I can setup docker containers with desktops too if that makes it easier.
Just want to flood the network with bullshit.
You know normal people don't know what this crap is right?
It's hardly a different thing, all the data saucers & brokers are fueled by ad monies, other things don't pay as much (but are still disastrous due to the scales).
You block cookies for either the reason above.
I eat those cookies.
We are not the same.
Friend - you need to use 4 different privacy-respecting browsers and a VPN to spite ad companies. Browser Fingerprinting is the name of the game now.
Cookies are so 2009. Google transcended caring about cookies and ad blockers more than a year ago.
Yeah I was gonna say. No one cares about cookies. Even vanilla Firefox has containers tabs by default.
Those are the same
I can see that, but I think I’d be cool with them knowing everything about me as long as it wasted a bunch of their money.
If that's the case, I don't know what the current landscape is like with them, but I remember reading ages ago about extensions that would click all ads (in the background) for you so that you cost the advertisers money and muddy up their profile on you.
No idea if those still exist or are any good
ad nauseum is the extension I think. never used it but it's still around
"porque no los dos?"
I block cookies to lose weight
I run consent-o-matic and Adnausem so I reject cookies and still click on all ads to fuck with my advertising profiles.
I was about to say the same. Fuck them and their ad IDs.