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[โ€“] RushingSquirrel 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Taking the time to refuse all the cookies, every time I visit a website.

Going through all of Google, Facebook and other services settings to disable every tracking possible, especially towards ads.

I can tell that ads are less and less relevant.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Taking the time to refuse all the cookies, every time I visit a website.

Might I suggest this then?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's actually a big one for me too. I have an extension running called "minimal consent" but it's deprecated and never managed the more complicated dialogues. I also disable personalised ads on every platform (often defaults to enabled)
It's sometimes annoying but all in all, I get the most random ads and i'm happy about it. As a rule of thumb, if the cookie dialogue does that spinny "saving prefernces" loading screen for more than 10 seconds, the page probably wasn't worth my click anyway and I close it.