gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agocurrent status of the webhow-i-experience-web-today.comexternal-linkmessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.worldinternetisbeautiful@piefed.sociallinux@lemmy.mlprogramming@programming.dev
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i think the article does a wonderful job at illustrating the point without even uttering a single word
minus-squaregandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month ago download our app (on mobile) asks you to make an account every time you scroll down a little further (like instagram actually does in my browser) article is 3 paragraphs long, afterwards 15 paragraphs of unrelated “recommended content” videos start autoplaying there’s an annoying source of sound that you can’t seem to track down
minus-squaregandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agooh btw: about that sound: Alibaba already does it (and uses it as a way to track you, as all browser audio APIs have slightly different measurable variables)
oh btw: about that sound: Alibaba already does it (and uses it as a way to track you, as all browser audio APIs have slightly different measurable variables)