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[?]Windy city » 🌐
@pheonix@hachyderm.io

The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.

When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.

I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏

thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

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    [?]Jonas Edelbims » 🌐
    @edelbims@neander.social

    Online Shop Warenkorb. „Ich möchte keine Newsletter per E-Mail erhalten“ muss extra angeklickt werden.

    Alt...Online Shop Warenkorb. „Ich möchte keine Newsletter per E-Mail erhalten“ muss extra angeklickt werden.

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      [?]Anthony » 🌐
      @abucci@buc.ci

      If Cloudflare really is "verifying" that I'm human with its obnoxious widget, why does it do this for multiple web sites and over and over again for a given web site? Shouldn't it be able to verify I'm human once and for all? What exactly are they doing with their sprawling control of all these web sites if not adding value through economy of scale?


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        [?]Anthony » 🌐
        @abucci@buc.ci

        Regarding the last boost: Google has been found to be an illegal monopoly multiple times, and so far no judge has had the courage to impose a significant enough penalty that Google actually changes its ways. Its monopoly behavior is frequent, obvious, and damaging.

        Anyway, check your Google Drive, if you use that: go to drive, then click the gear. Choose Settings -> Manage Apps, and make sure "Use by default" is checked OFF for everything you don't like, especially Gemini (Google's AI that they're pushing on everyone). This was added and turned on by default for most people, it seems. It also looks like Google is training their AI on every document you open; people report very slow load times when this setting is on, remedied by turning it off.


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          [?]Anthony » 🌐
          @abucci@buc.ci

          Once again blocked from using a website I've used regularly for years because of "unusual activity" from "your IP". After passing a captcha, no less.

          Somehow bot-detecting algorithms have been degrading over time.

          This is a troubling trend because people who aren't using the anointed access points of the internet struggle more and more to connect and interact. Large entities like CloudFlare choke off more and more avenues of access in the name of "security", enforcing digital checkpoints without any accountability to anyone.


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            [?]Anthony » 🌐
            @abucci@buc.ci

            New uBlock Origin rule to clobber the intrusive "Copilot" button that recently appeared in Outlook web mail:

            ! Jul 25, 2025 https://outlook.office.com
            outlook.office.com##

            Note: there should be three (3) pound signs between ".com" and "CopilotCommandCenterButton". For some reason my fediverse server does not display all three.

            This post is not an invitation to criticize me for using a Microsoft product or to suggest an alternative.

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              [?]Anthony » 🌐
              @abucci@buc.ci

              I don't read BoingBoing very often so perhaps I missed this when it happened. Anyway, is it just me or is BoingBoing now paywalling all their articles? For instance, I only see part of this one. At the cutoff point I'm encouraged to go read the whole article on "BoingBoing Premium". I seem to recall one of their cofounders saying they were not going to paywall articles, but would have a paid tier where you wouldn't see ads.


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