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[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

(I have the feeling that this comes from the same shithead who pushed to include spicy autocomplete in Firefox.)

it definitely reads like the same shithead, but I’ve had them blocked on mastodon for some time so I can’t say for sure if it was for rampant LLMery or for doing the “without advertising the modern web would die and you don’t want that do you” thing advertisers do constantly

[–] mii@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Lol what an absolute tool. That’s the same shit the marketing bozos at my job say when I inform them that, no, I can’t auto opt-in our customers into whatever stupid Facebook ad campaign they’re pushing this week because it’s literally against the GDPR and our privacy laws.

But I guess that’s the logical next step if your whole business model depends on ~~lazy~~ deceiving people into clicking the button with the flashiest color in the cookie popup without reading the label.

P.S. the modern web can die in a fucking fire.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

this is not people's laziness; it's that the practice is deceptive. don't reinforce the business narrative.

[–] mii@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Fair point, you’re right.

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

and because it feels like it’s worth screaming this into the void in case there’s any marketing assholes reading: fuck yes I’m here to kill the modern web