Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
spiderplant@lemm.ee 11 months agoBut they are useful and completely valid ways of dealing with the problem.
It is not the end of the world if I have to click am extra once or twice to change the language. Hell most websites have much harder processes just to reject cookies.
Personally I would rather err on the side of slightly extra work the odd time I’m not on a website not in my native language than have an extra bit of information that can be used to track me.
Again take a look at the Gemini protocol, its a perfectly fine browsing experience without all the cruft.
xcjs@programming.dev 11 months ago
Valid, but not standard and more inconvenient.
Additionally, you act like query strings can’t be used to track you when they certainly can.