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For me (EU) the consent popup has "reject all" at the very bottom (though I only see it with blocking disabled). Pretty lame, but still better than most.
"For me (EU) [..]" You are probably not the right person to ask then, but I always wondered: How prevalent are these consent popups outside of the EU?
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How about they find alternate revenue channels? Like every other business in the world?
Sounds like a great opportunity for you to enter the market and capture one of these alternative revenue channels with your ad-free search engine.
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Disqus loads a million external resources That’s so stupid, why not just take your OWN cookie and use it in the backend to send to all these resources, proxying through your own server or having a CNAME for theirs under your domain?
I guess it's often much simpler and cheaper to not try to hide it. The CNAME practice is becoming more and more common. See https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/04/characterizing-cname-cloak... or https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-the-dangerous-disg... or https://www.laquadrature.net/2020/10/05/le-deguisement-des-t... I think proxying or doing it server side only will be implemented later when these people will be…
It is similar to a CNAME record but instead of storing the domain name you want to map to it pulls the A record and puts that IP as your A record.
What the EU should really do is fine / tax monopolists like Google and Facebook into submission then invest that money into the EU-based startup ecosystem.
Right now, everything is going through Luxembourg and Ireland... perfectly legally!
> then invest that money into the EU-based startup ecosystem.
So bureaucrats deciding where money is going... How did that work out for the EU again?
At this point honestly I just wish for a general ban on tracking ads of any kind. Just give me good old contextual ads and remove some MBs of js, with the only purpose of tracking me, from most websites of the internet.
How would the EU enforce such a ban? They actually need to prove company X was tracking its users if it goes to court.
At this point honestly I just wish for a general ban on tracking ads of any kind. Just give me good old contextual ads and remove some MBs of js, with the only purpose of tracking me, from most websites of the internet.
The thing is these ads are not exactly effective either. I mean you'll read about the guru's with 90% conversion rate at 0.50c per click or some garbage like that but when you run them yourself, with what is considered a normal company (not a unicorn) you somehow find yourself with a They are crazy cheap though and essentially act like a TV/Radio ad. It's about getting repeated exposure, even if it's not a direct con…