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[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 103 points 2 weeks ago

… we also need your cookie and tracking preferences. Do you want us to store all possible data about you and share it with everyone? “Yes” or “Yes, but we pretend not to”

[-] july@leminal.space 45 points 2 weeks ago

With a small list of only 700 data collectors!

[-] chtk@feddit.nl 24 points 2 weeks ago

That you have to individually confirm or deny, or you can't save!

(Fun!)

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

When there is a "legitimate interest" switch at each of the 262 partners which can only be toggled off manually, one by one, and it's all on by default.

So you click the question mark to see what exactly they mean by legitimate interest, and the info pop-up says "it's when our interest is legitimate".

This should be regulated more strictly.

[-] underline960@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

*sell it to everyone

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

pay pal's website asks if I want to verify through text, then freaks when it discovers that it is not a phone app, but instead a webpage on a browser with no SMS functionality to ask permissions for

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I always get an e-mail with the TOTP code when I want to log in.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 83 points 2 weeks ago

“We do not track you on our site.”

AdGuard: “Blocked 216 tracking requests.”

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 65 points 2 weeks ago

We and our 1842 partners value your privacy.

[-] frostphunk@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They’re not lying, they don’t track you. Those 216 other clankers tho 👀

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 60 points 2 weeks ago

this is a rant about microsoft

how on the fucking earth are you the biggest company and have hands down the worst login imaginable. you know for a fact people have multiple accounts for your platform, it's incredibly common to have a work specific micorosoft account after all. AND YET you lock in a specific email for login??? and you don't even put a bloody "i'd like to log in with a different email"???? oh there's a "use a different login method" button it's all okay right? wrong that button still doesn't let you change the login email! but now you can log in with a code sent to it :).

what if that """""convenience"""" you're trying to give people by checks notes, not including an incredibly common button that takes you to the default login page without a specific email baked into it, is actually an impossible pain in the ass? what if that email is someone else's and then just hit the "remember me" out of habit? go fuck yourself :). go into the browser setting and manually delete the cookies or if you can't or don't know how to do that then just fuck yourself :)

not to even fucking mention how if you try to log into teams desktop client app that info is going to get fucking applied to the entire windows account??? without asking about it clearly either it just fucking does that! it just fucking links to your local account instsntly

who asked for that microsoft? what deranged motherfucker in your board of directors came in high off his tits and uttered the cursed phrases needed for those feature to fucking exist?

and is that guy the only one allowed to speak? the only who's vocabulary extends past "great idea! let's do that"?

how is your user account management worse and more annoying than any virus i had?

i literally just needed to log in to someone's account once, for an hour, to substitute for them in one call. and that silly little action has taken fucking hours to undo, and all done with force "how to delete someone else's email from microsoft login"? delete your fucking cookies or team cache. "how to unlink a microsoft account from windows"? don't forget to input your pc password! dw about how we didn't ask for it when we just linked it to your local account, you need it now :) oh and unlinking isn't removing, you gotta do that one too!

there has been genuinely nothing else in the past decade that has made me more frustrated, more fucking seething with anger, than dealing with the fallout of needing to use someone else's microsoft account for an hour

[-] Gnugit@aussie.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This makes me really value the effort I put into learning Linux.

Lucky for me I don't need to use Windoze for work either.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

i literally just needed to log in to someone's account once, for an hour, to substitute for them in one call.

I get your frustration, but that's a fucking awful choice for a whole bunch of reasons, not only because of Microsoft's bullshit. You really buried the lede.

Don't share accounts people!

Have them forward you the meeting invite or reach out to the organizer to call you instead.

And if you fucking insist on logging into someone else's account again, use Private Browsing mode and the web client of Teams to keep it from touching the rest of the machine. It works fine for audio and video calls.

At any place with a half decent security policy you'd be looking at disciplinary action. At certain workplaces this would be an immediate firing.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

it was a work account used exclusively for teams for online lectures, there was nothing of interest on it, i checked lol, i'm nosy

it was during a time when i was just substituting so i didn't have my own work email, and i ain't joining with my personal one when i need to be professional. after the bullshit with that account getting linked to my local system account i indeed used teams in the browser, i just didn't anticipate microsoft bullshit vol. 2 to hit me months later when i tried to log into my minecraft account and couldn't because my coworkers email got baked into it! but now i know i guess

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is is why you should use incognito/InPrivate mode when using Microsoft sites. It will always give the full login prompt.

The real frustrating thing is when you have a personal account and a work account under the same email address... Separating those two is a massive pain.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

well yeah now i know that, the maddening part is that with any other platform what i tried doing at first wouldn't be an issue, log in, do the thing, log out, never think of it again. but nooooo, microsoft has to be special

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. One of the many reasons why this lifelong Windows user is not going to 11.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

I ended up using chrome and a bunch of profiles. My taskbar has now five different chrome icons, each with a different profile, all to keep the different systems and logins for the different clients separate.

[-] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Do you want to save this account for future login?

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

aAaAAAAAAAA

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is how I got used to using different browser profiles. I’ll even open up a guest profile on a browser rather than just swap MS login for a few hours.

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[-] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

started creating accounts with my previous landlord's name and addresses. I'm VERY forthcoming with his info. I'm not even pro-privacy anymore, I'm just Greg McKenna of Albuquerque NM. eat up, data collectors. enjoy, Church of Scientology. mmmmmmm that's right, yum yum 🥰

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah it's weird when websites show the sign up button, but hide the log in button inside some little shit of a menu.

Like... are people coming back to your website after signing up...? I would have thought that repeat log ins would be the more common use case by far.

[-] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 weeks ago

They're making their site inconvenient so you'll download their app. Every fucking website and product has an app now.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 17 points 2 weeks ago

Too bad I don't give a shit. I'm not downloading an app just so i can pay my water bill

[-] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

An app is the only formal written communication method I have with my apartment complex. And it's a shit app. I sent my 60 days move out notice to "management" on their app and the message went and sat in someone's inbox who no longer works there. Just give me a damn team email or something. Luckily that screw up was their fault and didn't impact my move out.

[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

This is it. I attempted to order some pizzas from Pizza Hut on their website because they had a deal going on. I remember their website being pretty good like 10 years ago, but now it was such a buggy mess it literally wouldn't let me order a pizza. I would go through the system up to the point where it says "add to order" and it would just glitch out and make me start over. I then switched to my PC because I figured it would be easier and the exact same thing happened. I ended up getting frustrated and ordering pizza somewhere else because their website was so shit. I am sure their app would have worked fine but I am not installing 500 apps for every shitty chain restaurant I go to.

[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago

I don't remember which website, but there is one where both sign-up and log-in pages look the same. If you fill your username and password in the sign-up page, but you already have that account they log you in instead. If you put the details in the log-in page but that account doesn't exist they send you to the full sign-up page.

I thought that's pretty neat.

[-] python@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

That is pretty neat, stealing that idea for the login page of my hobby project

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 12 points 2 weeks ago

At this point giving them some bones might be preferable. I'm sure there have to be SOME extra bones in here somewhere.

[-] 5too@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

This puts the tooth fairy in a bit of a new light...

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  • Change your profile picture to a clippy
  • Check out the small web
  • Check out geminispace and gopherspace
[-] wabasso@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Can you link to these? Always looking for alternatives.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Back in my day, the BBS forum would send you an email with your username and a password they chose, and you could change it later if you wanted to, but nobody ever did.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

It was a delightfully innocent time. I liked the ones that got creative with their passwords, like AOL.

ArchdukeDoberman115

FastidiousGrapefruit47

PineappleWallaby202

[-] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

lol one of my main trackers still does that if you reset your password

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

some of the more obnoxious sites never actually removed the old www.tumblr.com/login. Poke around with your site of choice, there's probably a legacy login that would have been more work than it was worth to remove.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe boring manager Rob should have written god damn login page himself after all.

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

I write my email in the login field but my password manager doesn't show me a password. I click "i forgor" button. Now I must type my email again. No one knows why.

I wish more people would use Gopher.

Create a cool alternative web that isn't filled with harmful degeneracy (looking at you, Tor. I2P ur cool though). I don't think JavaScript in its essence was toxic to the web, like how one snort of heroine isn't technically a killing thing. But it got addicted and all and dragged is down with its demise.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I will look up Gopher because I'm curious, but for less curious people and for other users to see, what is Gopher?

Sorry to not give a personal answer as I am struggling to write something right now, but the following source is well known within the community of those who like these kind of things.

Gopher, The Competing Standard To WWW In The ’90s Is Still Worth Checking Out

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is what I found too after specifying gopher protocol and not gopher the animal. It's a pretty good write-up.

I am definitely going to check out some gopher sites to see what this is all about.

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[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

DrivebyRPG... Looking at you.

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