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View submission: Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
can you explain what you mean by 600 ad vendors? just by visiting the verge?
Comment by renome at 01/10/2024 at 05:22 UTC
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Probably the number of ad trackers on The Verge.
I don't understand why the OP didn't just link to the r/modnews source if they were so upset with that, though. Playing all high and mighty about tracking while stealing The Verge's content and posting it on Reddit, a site and app that tracks even more indiscriminately, is some weird mental gymnatics.
Comment by Expensive-Mention-90 at 01/10/2024 at 05:50 UTC
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When you load the page, the privacy notice pops up. If you click into it, the notice gives you the required choices over how your data is used - except that they’ve manipulated them beyond any semblance of legal compliance.
For example, in the “necessary cookies” category, which is supposed to be reserved for cookies literally required to make the site work, they jam 600 advertising vendors into that category. That means the Verge is literally selling your data to 600 companies to whom you have now given consent to track you; and you are unable to opt out. That’s not how it’s supposed to work.
That’s the tip of the iceberg on what’s wrong with their consent notice and options. I do work in this area.