Say No to “Smart”, “App”, “Cookies”, and “Touchscreens”

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[–]ID10T 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yes to all of that. Touchscreens on phones and tablets? Awesome! In cars when they replace physical controls? Horrendous

[–]Alienhunter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah all this shit can be good but it depends on how it is used. You don't need to have your toaster connected to the internet.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

To;dr

No Physical Buttons? Not interested

It works in phones. Not on fridges, not on cars. Say no to touch screens.

Works only with your App? No, thank you.

Say no to tv and lights, and anything that connects to your phone.

Cookie Banners on websites? I just close the tab.

Do you have to say yes to privacy intrusion in order to read something? Do you want to waste your time clicking through settings to use a website? Say no to this. Click out and don’t use the website.

It’s “smart”? Thanks, but no thanks.

It’s spying on you. You don’t have something to hide, you don’t trust big cooperations. Be thankful for your rights and protect them.

[–]usehername 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No one is going to stop using stack overflow, server fault, and their massive family of sites.

[–]package 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The only reason the those cookie popups exist is because EU legislators, as well as a good number of boomer "privacy" advocates, are complete fucking tech illiterate retards that don't understand what a cookie actually is or what data it has the ability to store and share. Protip most browsers by default block the type of data these popups are talking about, regardless of you telling the site that you consent or not.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No cookies at all (1st party cookies rather than third) would make it impossible to have session based authentication, which would rule out the user disabling javascript in browser (as youd be left with storing JWT in the browser) unless you want to pass credentials in plainttext in the URL (the least secure way). Its the 3rd party cookies that are more of an issue.

Session cookies allow you to authorize with no javascript (an xss risk). You can choose javascript or cookies, but you need one or the other to have any kind of authorization, so there isnt any free lunch here in terms of avoiding opening yourself up to security risks

I'll grant that so few sites go the no JS route that this may be a moot point as JS is likely to be used all over the front end, not just for JWT, but in terms of a security, javascript is a bigger risk than 1st party cookies

[–]Bonn1770 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

One thing I dislike about streaming music (I use Amazon) is that it tracks my tastes and plays back what the AI thinks I like when I play a randomized playlist. First of all, I don't like being used for data collection like that. Second, I listen to almost all genres, rock, classical, country, jazz, etc. So when I use the "My Music" playlist the suggested songs can flip from Metallica to Purcell, no option to stay in one genre. If I decide to play something out of curiosity like an old Bee Gees song suddenly every other song on the playlist is Bee Gees, and I have to delete the cache to reset recommendations. Also I listen to complete albums (remember them?) and the Amazon AI doesn't seen to know what an album is. I'll click on an "album" and there will be one song. It's convenient when I'm in the office but at home I'll usually throw on an actual album (remember those big vinyl discs that sounded like Rice Crispies in milk if they were dusty?) or a CD. Al least nobody is stealing my data when I spin records (or maybe they are? adjusts tin foil hat).

[–]ID10T 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Pandora is really good at transitioning gracefully from one type of music to another. I'm similar in that I have many varied tastes in music. I have a station seeded with all different kinds of music. It does a good job of not transitioning from one genre to another in a jarring way. I've experimented with Spotify and Tidal, and Pandora has the best recommendation algorithm IMHO.

[–]Bonn1770 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip!

[–]Drewski 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Agree with most of these except cookies, the 'Easylist Cookie' filter list under 'Annoyances' in ublock origin gets rid of the cookie banners.

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the info. I never noticed that option.