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Re:Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent b... by ApolloFortyNine on Sunday October 09, 2022 @06:31PM (#33145949)
>The banners are there because the process is so abusive they need your consent to make 90% more.

The banners are there because if you take away 90% of their revenue, they cease to exist. Imagine your salary reduced by 90% tomorrow unless you beg your boss daily for your full pay.

>If you think a human never sees your information, you're sadly ill informed

Are you under the impression ads are manually targeted? The only time someone at Google has ever laid eyes on your profile would be if somehow your profile bugged out and caused something to crash. And even if they did look at a single user's data, it would be meaningless without having the name attached. And even if the name was attached, it'd still be meaningless, because there's 300 million people in the US alone.

You have to strawman the absolutely perfect situation for it to even remotely matter.

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Re:Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent b... by vinyl7 on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:33PM (#33146948)
> The banners are there because if you take away 90% of their revenue, they cease to exist.

I accept these conditions

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Re:Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent b... by ApolloFortyNine on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:55PM (#33147063)
You went to the website for some purpose no? So you'd rather not have gone to the website at all? So why did you attempt to visit the website in the first place?

It's just so irresponsible to take extremes like this, ignoring the amount of information and entertainment available on the internet.

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Re:Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent b... by qu4z-2 on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:14PM (#33147137)
In my experience, the number of ads, cookie banner shenanigans, and embedded Twitch streams is inversely correlated with the usefulness and quality of the website. Maybe if all of these websites went away, I could actually find useful information or entertainment on Google.
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Re:Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent b... by aksss on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:14PM (#33147395)
An internet maturing over twenty years full of hobbyist bloggers and forums rather than megacorp media and affiliate review sites is a world I’d be curious to experience.
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Re:Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent b... by account42 on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:09AM (#33151621)
Yes, I'd rather go to the ad-free website that they displaced (or at least out-SEO'd).
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Re:Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent b... by abofh on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:42AM (#33163927)
Look at the cookie consent page of any news article you read - your article is worth often 100+ people sharing my data. It's not, it's just not.

Do you know how many people get access to my search data? One. But your news article is worth 100x. How many get access to my streaming preferences? One. But your news article needs to violate my privacy 100x more.

Your arguments are sound in an imaginary world where six seconds of attention is worth being followed around for years. No.

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