Zeppo

So… just subscribe to the ones you like and only browse Subscribed. Probably easier to do a whitelist than a blacklist since apparently you hate 80% of the content here.

12 years after we learned Flask. 19 years after Django, which also was apparently hot 2 years before it was released.

Yeah, I’ve never intentionally clicked on a Temu ad. Browsers do provide an additional layer of security as far as access permissions for mobile devices, though they can of course be exploited as well.

I never install an app if I can do something through a website. Twitbook, reddit, Instagram, whatever. If it really requires an app I generally choose to just not do it.

oh, i’ve noticed that streamable.com seems to be okay.

I don’t really use any myself, but I wish I had a good suggestion. Obviously Imgur, reddit and YouTube exist but have their own issues (but, not weird spam ad redirects, just persistent spying). Perhaps YouTube but link to one of the YouTube anonymizers?

“webmshare” seems pretty spammed out

This is nice because one of the most annoying things has been to randomly watch a video and then they start suggesting all of this content that is not relevant or is bothersome. Like, watch a video on certain topics one time and all of a sudden “check out Ben Shapiro!”

Surely Google is still tracking watch history for analysis for ads and profiling though, right?

It’s difficult to tell if it is an ad, or simply recommending popular relevant services. This would definitely be an insidious method given how much people trust the advice of ChatGPT.

I think that OpenAI would be required to disclose that some info is there due to paid advertising or sponsorship if that was the case, same as websites and videos disclose it.

Google has been filled with automatically generated SEO spam like that for at least 5 years, maybe much longer. ChatGPT generation is just the latest tech and is better at writing something that sounds legitimate. It still is fairly noticeable on many sites though.