homesweethomeMrL comments on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So basically you need to spam me. Because a donation plea every so often . . .doesn't get enough addresses to sell?

I'm saying it's a flawed implementation is all.

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[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 26 points 1 year ago

Purely anecdotal but they're the only news site that I've ever given my email to and I actually enjoy seeing their emails. They send entire (interesting) articles that can be read with no CSS/tracking images enabled and their monetisation is a small text ad that breaks a single couple of paragraphs.

I've never gotten an email from them that was begging for money or anything like that, just basically an RSS feed of interesting articles

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[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The idea that forcing a signup (building a web of information about a user through the use of cookies and other browser metadata) to protect against AI (that is gonna use tooling, mirrors, proxies and any number of fully working methodologies) is ludicrous.

They just want to track who you are, what you do, and then sell that data which should never have been gathered in the first place as part of their advertising revenue.

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[–] DesertCreosote@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Normally I would agree with you, but given how much they care about privacy (as indicated by what they write about and talk about on their podcast), I don’t think tracking is what they’re after in this specific case.