@alisynthesis @neverbeaten It's gotten to the point where I even showed my mom how to do it, because it's become borderline necessary for existing on the internet.

@alisynthesis @neverbeaten I've also gotten a lot of mileage out of just using uBlock to turn off all javascript except sites I've explicitly allowed it for. That takes care of a huge swath of these kinds of annoyances.

@neverbeaten Yeah. Granted I'm a weird nerd, but I actually do have every single login I use behind unique email addresses. I bought a lifetime subscription to Proton Pass a long time ago, and it integrates an email alias feature from SimpleLogin. So when I'm making a new account it just pops up a little alias generator right there. Very convenient.

SimpleLogin even lets you use your own domain name, so I'm not completely hosed if they go under or enshittify someday.

@neverbeaten @dplattsf Right? I'd accept three options, as long as one of them is "leave me alone forever"

@bolderbekah You're not wrong, but it ultimately takes two to tango. I feel like a lot of programmers just utterly divorce themselves from the consequences of their work. Honestly a lot of people in general do that, because unethical jobs often pay well.

Like I could probably double or triple my salary by getting a job at our local national labs or some defense contractor, but ... I like how working on my silly little university websites means the code I write will never kill anybody. That's like one of my number one job perks.

@oskard Or option Use a browser plugin that hides the prompt, but now a bunch of stuff doesn't work because we all hold the functionally-necessary cookies hostage behind that stupid prompt.

@dplattsf oh yeah. I almost forgot. I also do not want to tell you what I think, or rate you on the app store.

@EndlessMason omg I somehow forgot about newsletters

Dear every programmer working on websites and browsers:

I DO NOT WANT TO TRY CHROME.

I DO NOT WANT TO LOG IN WITH MY GOOGLE ACCOUNT.

I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE MY SEARCH ENGINE BACK TO THE DEFAULT.

I DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE MY SEARCH ENGINE TO YOURS.

I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE MY LOCATION.

I DO NOT WANT TO SUBSCRIBE TO ONE SINGLE NEWSLETTER EVER.

I DO NOT WANT NOTIFICATIONS.

LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE.