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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Then these sites start playing Bill Wurtz’s “How about I do it anyway?”.

    I mean, apart from simply getting your digital fingerprint via other means, quite a lot of them hide the options so that you would have to painstakingly click/tap through a mountain of toggles.

    I have had to do this with several Android games: You can kind of disable most cookie types with one toggle, EXCEPT the one that says “legitimate interest”. Since I wanted to know what exactly they might mean by that, I tapped the tiny question mark circle thing. Guess what: the tooltip just simply said something like ‘data that falls under our partner’s legitimate interest’. And then, if you want to disable it, the only way to do it is tap something like ‘Vendor options’, and then see about 117 vendors, and ~85 of those have a toggle next to their name. You have to click each and every one of those.

    …until the next update, when this window comes up again, waiting for you to give up.






  • In the time and country I grew up, almost everyone had the same Converse style trainers at school for gym class. I thought I would mark mine to prevent mixing them with the rest, so I put my initials on the front: first initial on the left, second on the right. When I was done, I looked down at my feet and realised I had just written (the equivalent of) L and R on the according sides. Not smort.