Not going to link to the post, but it's about how a news site is letting you pay to not be flooded with cookies for ad purposes.
God, does nobody use an ad blocker?
Do yourself a favor:
- Download Firefox
- Install AdBlock Plus or Ublock Origin, doesn't matter which
- Supplement it with NoScript
- Enjoy the entire Internet being usable into the thousands of windows and tabs
Firefox has Enhanced Tracking Protection on by default. This means it essentially doesn't matter if anything serves you cookies; they're blocked cross-domain, so whenever a site requests them, Firefox serves it its own cookies right back. There's even a check mark to tell sites automatically not to sell your data.
All of these are solved problems.
@bluestarultor Sounds pretty neat. But sites do still make a big theatre about cookies and tracking. That might get people confused.
@hackillu Not with NoScript, they don't. ;)
@bluestarultor I recall news sites not working when I used NoScript, honestly.
@hackillu NoScript lets you selectively enable scripts if you have to. If a news site packs it under its own domain, then yes, you'll see it, but if they outsource it, you won't. But even so, you don't have to enable all the various third party tracking.