Me and my 756 closest friends...

Someone should create a leaderboard of websites sharing data with the most "partners", this week I saw someone on Mastodon posting a screenshot of a website sharing to 1700+ third-parties.

My faulty memory tells me 9gag has somewhere around 3000 or so. But I worked with a lot of numbers recently so I have no idea how accurate that is.
- The most shocking thing about that is that 9gag still exists. How far has it degraded?
That sounds like they're using Admiral's sh!tty brokerage and anti-adblock thing, saw one site with over 1500 partners. Most difficult one to block because of how frequently they buy domains for adblock evasion...
One of these days I'm going to just blacklist the IP ranges of their google cloud fleet

I know we shouldn't abuse the word, but I feel like "slut" is appropriate here.

To continue that analogy, they're the pimp and you're the slut. You're the one getting shared around.

Is kinda funny having pihole and seeing "0 partners" in my Samsung TV

Like the actual string?
- Yeah, i think their terms of services are scripted so if they get more or less advertisers based on your country between other things, that way they can redirect the same page to everybody

The data broker deletion services all advertise deleting your info from 2-300 agents. Who the fuck are the other several thousand, what are they doing with the data, and how the fuck is any of this legal.

how the fuck is any of this legal.
It's not!
- It is

Why would you even put the number at that point

Laws
- Ooooooooohhhh
  Makes sense

We should have a challenge of finding the site with most "friends".

Screenrant offered me 1516 exclusive partners yesterday.

Out of curiosity, what service was this?

Name & shame
- I'll never get why, in a privacy community that doesn't come up without asking.
Ok... This was the article: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/new-palworld-patch-stops-other-players-stealing-your-best-pals-and-makes-pal-breeding-easier?

The "Blocked since install" stat on uBlockOrigin is always an eye-opener.

Fuck me, 6 million across both browsers and my work PC.

Visit our site as you normally would with the advertising and tracking.

No, i wouldn't normally visit any site with the advertising and tracking.

At least they mention that they track you. Most talk only about ads.

I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.

Use Chrome enhanced privacy protection now.

That way it'll just be one of their closest friends, who might coincidentally sell it to the other 755.

Do never use Chrome. Use Firefox based Browsers (Librewolf, Mull)
- some websites require Chrome and don't work with anything else.
  and then these college classes I'm taking, my laptop broke so they're loaning me a campus Chromebook. I'm like okay whatever. Of course just use it for school nothing else.
If you even remotely care about your privacy, get off of an ad-company's monopolistic browser. Firefox + uBlock Origin is the essentials for at least baseline privacy, then go up from there if you so choose.

High-level polyamory.

Cookie bukkake.

Is the web site sharing with them or does it make you share with them so that your CPU does most of the processing and uploading to each advertising lead leech?

This would explain why we need more and more powerful/expensive phones just to keep browsing.

It's also gobs of telemtey and AB testing constantly watching how you're interacting with what's on the page and changing what you see to figure out what makes you engage more & longer. All that processing requires a lot of resources compared to sites that respect your privacy.
- How much of that do script blockers protect you from?