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   Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 22:26:08 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

   Dear #NYTimes, how many times do I have to click "reject all" until your app understands that I reject all trackers? Currently the pop-up shows up on every article I open. You say you "respect my privacy" and I am a paying subscriber, so I think you owe me a bit of that respect for my decision. #kthxbai

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 22:47:44 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     • samir, a very hard worker

     @samir That notion was always wrong, IMHO. It simplifies to a level that makes it factually wrong. Am I the product because I use a lot of Open Source software? ;)

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     samir, a very hard worker (samir@mastodon.functional.computer)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 22:47:46 JST samir, a very hard worker

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     @jwildeboer “If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product” is very last decade, isn’t it? Now you’re the product regardless. You don’t even have to visit the site; they’ll find a way to make you the product regardless.

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 22:55:51 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     • samir, a very hard worker

     @samir Funny thing: I am also a paying subscriber to the Washington Post and they offer this "Review your year" feature that in my case doesn't work as they have not enough data on my reading habits (because I block all trackers), so it does seem to work ;)

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     samir, a very hard worker (samir@mastodon.functional.computer)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 22:55:52 JST samir, a very hard worker

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     @jwildeboer Of course it was, it just seems to be about 10x more wrong recently. 😛

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     Stewart X Addison (sxa@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 23:16:43 JST Stewart X Addison

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     @jwildeboer My generous interpretation of tings like this is that they've decided that "reject all" means they won't save the one that told them you rejected it. Which is somewhat broken.
     I'd probably cancel my subscription if this happened to me, but you're right about the "respecting your privacy" line being lip service instead of being meaningful ... Really annoys me too.

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 23:16:43 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     • Stewart X Addison

     @sxa This started a few days ago. I guess it's a bug in the app and I hope they will fix it soon enough. I am patient. I give them a chance and won't immediately cancel my subscription over this. The "Reject all" works fine when I visit the NYT from my browser, so I can still read my articles just fine that way.