Well as they say, you can put lipstick on a pig…

Why do I need to sell my data? Cant I just have ads?

If you watch the whole video he does it more “for real” later on, plugging the casing into a power source to simulate a battery discharging… Plus I’ve had some of these PowerCheck batteries, and they were not old, it was like… 2017? So maybe they rebooted it for a short time at some point?? Anywho, if you pressed really hard it did work I think, but also I think I was doing it wrong for a long time as well lol

Oh ok my bad

It did, see Technology Connections’ latest video on it, he explains fully how it worked. Quite clever tbh.

I’d be surprised if it was just the business department…

Yeah it would. But as I said elsewhere, this is probably enough to be ‘too much effort’ for the majority of users, and definitely a lot more effort than it should be. I already know several people who habitually click accept all on cookie banners, and I know I have caught myself doing that a couple times too…

Hm… Was gonna try Arkenfox one of these days tbh.

There’s gotta be a company address somewhere haha

Hey, my phone has 12Gb of RAM for a reason, and bookmarks are scawy…

Hm yeah perhaps. I clicked away too fast to try it 😅

Well, the fact that when there are ads, there’s always like 20 of them is another issue… But yeah, I don’t even care about ads but as I see it I should have a right to privacy without having to pay for it.

True, but shouldn’t I be able to use it if I want to without having to choose between paying money or being spied on?

Yeah exactly!

Oh haha, didn’t realise that pun was intended… But yeah thats right :)

Ooh you can share settings like this? Whoa…

Yeah… That’s what I fear is that once one has started doing it, others will follow.

I mean, I’m not opposed to all cookies. Ones that I actually need like that one are fine. Just dont track me kthxbye…

I’m on Sync. I might have a look later.

I thought Cinnamon and Mate were different things… /s