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What is the largest amount of partners you saw in a cookies consent question ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure I've seen four digits. That was a "lol no".

And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

Websites have to pay their bills. Ads, subscriptions or microtransactions; take your pick.

The one way I can think of that would retain the anonymous character of the internet would be HTTP microtransactions by some kind of crypto. Hopefully one of the non-wasteful ones, so not Bitcoin.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think what you're describing at the end there is basically what Brave (browser) tried to do.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Huh, I missed that. Yep, they were using Bitcoin back before it was fully a circlejerk, looks like, which is reasonable. Now I just know it as a Chrome spinoff that pretends to be private, haha.

It looks like Chrome's trying to do something similar, although there's a high chance Google will attempt a walled garden version.

"Web Monetization" is the keyword. It could be great for things like Lemmy, too, where hosting costs might eventually become a major obstacle.