It's so bonkers when you go to a website and they BEG you to let them fucking turn on tracking cookies and you open the dropdown and they have multiple toggles
And literally label some of the cookies Legitimate Interest
And it's like cool so even YOU admit that hundreds of these aren't legit
Like sorry but there is 0 chance your 578 "legitimate" partners need to track my online behaviour, but it's honestly amazing for you to be like. We also have 1200 illegitimate partners that we would love to sell your data too also
Also turn your adblocker off đđđ
It's amazing to me that in 2026 i will see people thoughtlessly repeating, oh, but you should allow ads if you want to support x business, it's not fair to them otherwise
Bc it's like. Well. No. The only people paying for that adspace are scammers and professional malware operators
Who pays for adspace in 2026? Gambling websites. Temu. Fake app games. TikTok. Amazon. Energy supplement freaks. Weight loss poison peddlers.
Like sorry, but no. If the way you make money would be to provide my eyeballs to these fucking companies, then you don't deserve that money
What annoys me the most about the "oh but you're stealing by turning ads off!" is that like. It's the same argument that massive corporations make about people just not buying their shit. They call it "lost income" and make it sound like theft, but it was always theoretical or projected income
It was never real money. It was a projection based on manufactured data and/or manufactured consent
And it's like. No actually i do not owe any fucking massive corporate company anything, least of all my web browsing data, even if that corporation offered you a few cents per accidental click
Make a Patreon, sell merch, make better media, do conventions. Literally just get good.
It's a horrible capitalist dystopia and we should all get a UBI and live in more safety and security, but we don't. The solution is not to beg me to fuckin give myself over to YOUR corporate overlords