There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

MonkderZweite ,

They didn’t understand what an adblocker is for? Their privacy vs. your privacy.

possiblylinux127 ,

What? Why is this this a think.

Anyway use ublock origin with updated block lists and this likely won’t happen.

leaky_shower_thought ,

the secret sauce is in the double dip.

superfes ,

I love how you could literally be trying to give a company money and they still want more…

Maeve ,

And act like they’re doing youthe favor, to allow you to politely hand them your hard-earned peasant pennies.

frezik ,

They don’t want some of the money. They want all of the money.

meliodas_100 ,

Why are you using edge bro use firefox or librefox.

dangblingus ,

They’re using firefox…

Blisterexe ,

What? They’re using firefox

yokonzo ,

If there’s no secrets then there shouldn’t be any problem with ad blocking

Cethin ,

I interpret this as a pretty clear “you aren’t allowed to have secrets” message. The only secrets allowed are theirs, not yours. They’re going to track everything you do.

dangblingus ,

What ads are even on a Pepsico website? Why would Pepsi need 3rd party advertising on their own website?

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Probably telemetry, which most ad blockers also block. I think you meant kfc instead of pepsi

Captainvaqina ,

KFC is under the PepsiCo monopoly

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

TIL. Damn it

Sendbeer ,

Not anymore though. They spun kfc, taco bell, and pizza hut years ago and they are under the yum brand now. They still have exclusive contracts regarding fountain. Not sure what other connections are left.

CosmicTurtle ,

Yeah…

Hate to break it to you but our world is owned by like 11 companies

thedirtyknapkin ,

no it isn’t, it’s owned by yum brands, a Chinese restaurant conglomerate. not better, but not pepsico either.

droans ,

A Chinese conglomerate publicly traded on the NYSE who reports in USD and files with the SEC? A Chinese conglomerate with their headquarters in Kentucky whose majority investors are institutional? A Chinese conglomerate with most shares owned by people or companies in America and whose executives are all American?

slurpeesoforion ,

They could be owned by sewer rats. But that wouldn’t matter 'cause I don’t eat the mother fucker anyway.

Cris_Color ,
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world avatar

Yum! Brands, Inc. (sometimes called simply Yum!), formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is an American multinational fast food corporation listed on the Fortune 1000. Yum! operates the brands KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, except in China, where the brands are operated by a separate company, Yum China. Yum! previously also owned Long John Silver’s and A&W Restaurants. The company was created as a spin-off of PepsiCo in 1997.

I went and looked up the Wikipedia page out of curiosity when someone disagreed that they’re a Chinese conglomerate and thought I’d share for anyone else reading the thread.

Short answer: not a Chinese conglomerate.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum!_Brands?wprov=sfla1

thedirtyknapkin ,

well shit, i didn’t look that close. i just knew it wasn’t PepsiCo.

Cris_Color ,
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world avatar

Glad I could provide additional context :)

Hope you have a good one!

droans ,

Yum (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut) split from Pepsi a couple decades ago back in 1997.

GhostFence ,

You order online for delivery to avoid COVID only to catch a computer virus from an ad. I used to watch my relatives browse to a news page and IMMEDIATELY get hit with a “MICROSOFT ERROR CALL xxx-xxx-xxxx TO FIX IT”. Then I put ublock origin on their PC aaaaaaand good game ads!

bartolomeo ,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Secret? My god, the sense of entitlement of capital.

Just to be clear, is the implication here that people should use ad blockers in secret and that the “right” thing to do is to consume whatever media (and expose open tabs, history, etc) corporate wants you to see?

LavaPlanet ,

They’re kinda telling on themselves, ‘no secrets’ what does watching an add have to do with secrets, unless they want you to have no secrets from them, and give you all a your data. Then that sentence makes sense. That sentence has some real twist / projection / gaslighty vibes. Why do corporations feel like my abusive ex.

ExfilBravo ,

Because they are. They need you financially but they hate your guts too.

bartolomeo ,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Exactly!

xantoxis ,

why the fuck they need to show you an ad. you’re already there buying chicken

UFO64 ,

Why make money if you can make MORE money?

hitmyspot ,

They probably aren’t showing you ads. They are probably inserting trackers to tag you as a person, a purchaser, who likes chicken and is willing to pay for food, for delivery etc. the size of your order may hint at demographics, like family, kids. The address.gives useful data, the type of credit card. What kind of software and hardware loaded the site? Etc etc.

fne8w2ah ,

Even more enshittification of the Internet ffs!?

Klear ,

Your adblock sucks. There are ads everywhere on the picture.

AnActOfCreation OP ,
@AnActOfCreation@programming.dev avatar

If you mean the chicken, it’s hardly an ad since I navigated to their site. 😆

kratoz29 ,

Man, what is it with KFC and their “security” staff, I think I’ve read it even has issues when it detects root or something, no one wants to steal your chicken bruh!

werefreeatlast ,

What you really want is an air fryer! Dude it’s actually such a good kitchen tool for cooking. It’s slower than microwaving but you get more crisp fries or other food and less burnt fries or other food than with any other method.

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

You heard KFC no secrets allowed from them and from you. Open the cookie wall you must be tracked.

MystikIncarnate ,

Remember kids, adblock stops more than just the ads you see.

Also, fuck yeah I’d download a chicken tender.

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

ublock origin, adguard and brave’s adblocking are way better than the “adblock” extension.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Brave? Please educate yourself and stop using that piece of garbage.

qwerty ,

What’s wrong with brave?

voodooattack ,

www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

Edit: If you can’t switch to Firefox and you’re looking for a good alternative that’s privacy-focused and functionally similar, take a look at Vivaldi. Solid chrome-based browser.

lemmesay ,
@lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I wouldn’t call Vivaldi ‘a good alternative’.
brave at least has cared about maintaining their source code on github. Vivaldi, on the other hand, just [vomits tar.xz on their website]vivaldi.com/source/) and that’s it. they also have made ui closed source.
they don’t have an opt-out for their data collection.

I personally use nothing expect librewolf(hardened Firefox fork). but brave is a sane choice for those who are spoiled by chrome.
the only praise I hear about Vivaldi is their tabs(?).

qwerty ,

Most of the article talks about the CEO and the company, the only criticisms of the actual product (the browser) is that it’s bloated, which is very subjective because one mans bloat is another mans feature and the affiliate link injection scandal from 4 years ago, which definitely shouldn’t have been done but at least it wasn’t malicious and now is gone.

To be honest I think people on here dislike brave primarily due to ideological reasons, completely ignoring the fact that 99.9% of people aren’t hackermans™ and don’t want to install gnu icecat or librewolf with 7 different extensions. For those people it’s either chrome/edge or brave, the latter, even if not perfect is a way better option both for them and the internet.

MystikIncarnate ,

Ahem. I was referring to “Adblock” as a class of software, not referring to one specific program (the same way that websites refer to blocking ads as “Adblock”).

You have made an incorrect assumption.

tordenflesk ,

It’s unfortunate that Adblock has become the Zerox/Google/Velcro of un-shittyfying software.

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