Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless

Re:Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost wo... by danieldk on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:01AM (#18681727)

I literally go "Oh, OATH, never mind."

Same here. But then I also started skipping Medium links for their obnoxious 'let's make it official' sheets.

And as far as I understand, Oath is indeed not compliant with the GDPR, because the default action should be to not permit tracking (opt-in rather than opt-out). But IANAL.

It would be nice if link aggregation sites such as Hackernews or lobste.rs provided a flag to indicate whether a linked page can be read immediately or requires clicking through overlays of any kind, so that those of us who are not interested in that crap can just skip those links.

It would be nice if the web could just return to being hyperlinks between pages of text. Just don't track by default.

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Re:Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost wo... by llarsson on Friday December 14, 2018 @03:19PM (#18684311)

Medium is infinitely better without JavaScript enabled. Get an extension for your browser that lets you block per domain.

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Re:Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost wo... by u801e on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:35AM (#18682072)

> It would be nice if the web could just return to being hyperlinks between pages of text. Just don't track by default.

That might have been possible if we had continued using gopher :).

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Re:Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost wo... by jimktrains2 on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:33PM (#18683243)

If only gopher had forms :(

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