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Reminds me of the time I did roughly the same thing trying to get people to move away from internet explorer.
Reminds me of the time I did roughly the same thing trying to get people to move away from internet explorer.
Please tell me someone thought about a switch to take them offline.
Possibly, but as long as they are not completely server-side (which they can’t be, they want to target people) then they are fighting on hostile ground.
Of course there are attempts to lock down PCs so that ad companies can tell it what to do (probably with some DRM argument), but we’re not there yet.
Well the upside is that they’re not actually trying to get it to stop, they’re just making an effort to please their customers.
That doesn’t sound like much of a change from the situation right now.
Also a reminder that accepting an alternative tracking method is likely to just end up with 2 different ways to track you rather than one slightly less invasive one.
I am, no worries.
Using reverse proxies is common enough now that quite a few apps can deal with subpaths, and for the ones that can’t you can generally get nginx to rewrite the paths for you to make things work.
Not much you can do about institutions you have no control over, but surely you could go to a different bank?
Assuming there is a bank that doesn’t use this of course.
That same description applies to downloading a zipped file.