online

Thirded.

Speaking of this, what parts of the fediverse have added the option to block training generative AI to their respective robots.txt?

https://blog.google/technology/ai/an-update-on-web-publisher-controls/ https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/28/medium-hints-at-a-nascent-media-coalition-to-block-ai-crawlers/

It looks like there's a handful of these lines you'd have to add to robots.txt

Is there anywhere that keeps a comprehensive list of these?

Yes that's true too. It's still better than cable. I had access to even less content back then compared to now.

I use this to find what I want to watch when I have something specific that I'm looking for: https://www.justwatch.com/

I also think people should be pirates.

But streaming, at the same cost as cable, is much better than the decades of cable I remember before streaming actually became a real competitor.

That was ID.me https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/us/politics/irs-idme-facial-recognition.html

The cost of cable where I can choose what I want to watch when I want to watch it. Whereas before I had to hope that the programming directors for the different channels picked something somewhere worth watching when I turned on the tube.

even then it’s grim how many aren’t available to stream, or even buy legally.

At that point you should honestly just pirate it so that a copy continues to exist.

It's "consent" from the POV of the law and the corporation, but I say fuck 'em. Do you really consent to everything? Did you read their ToS and Privacy Policy every time it's amended? In the plain everyday use of the word "consent" I mean. Not in the legal constructions we've created.

Thus, since I do not consent to everything in any ToS or Privacy Policy, I use adversarial tech. My use of adversarial tech is how I enforce my lack of consent to everything these platforms expect from me.

If they don't want us to use adversarial tech anymore, they can change their platforms so it's no longer necessary.

And let's be honest about who this is paying: Alphabet's 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Adversarial tech, like adblockers, is good. We should use it. If people want users to not want to use it, they should change the product so that we don't want to use it.

It's not illegal for me to use an ad blocker and it should never become illegal.

I've blocked maybe eight people in thirty minutes who are implicitly demanding that corporations create the law.

For some reason your link doesn't load. Is it this? https://iabeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/20160516-IABEU_Guidance_AdBlockerDetection.pdf

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the typical terms of service or privacy policy even mention that you, as a user, have the power to reject tracking cookies, tracking pixels, etc. via your browser configuration and third party tools? As far as I know, the YouTube ToS and Privacy Policy also mention these things. I just tried to read it but they seem to have broken it up into a sprawling multi-site multi-page document where I can't find the legalese to ctrl+f and pore over.

Can anyone find these documents, so I can read through them please?

Edit:

I found it: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en#intro

There are other ways to control the information Google collects whether or not you’re signed in to a Google Account, including:

• Browser settings: For example, you can configure your browser to indicate when Google has set a cookie in your browser. You can also configure your browser to block all cookies from a specific domain or all domains. But remember that our services rely on cookies to function properly, for things like remembering your language preferences.
• Device-level settings: Your device may have controls that determine what information we collect. For example, you can modify location settings on your Android device.

I bet the list maintainers accept tips!

At the bottom of the uBlock Origin homepage there's links to the most popular list homepages which would be a good starting point.

The Peter Lowe’s ad tracking list links to its own Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/blocklist (Confirm by clicking on the link at the uBlock Origin homepage, then at the top click on patreon).

The other ones I couldn't find any obvious way to donate to the list maintainers.