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buildwrangleron Kill The Cookie Banner

Yeah, the "do not track" setting I think was the browser based solution that sadly never took off. Better government policy should have required respecting that setting instead of the cookie banners.

buildwrangleron Kill The Cookie Banner

This should just be a browser setting with a per site opt-in when more data collection is needed. Just like you can enable notifications, webcam etc... or set it to always deny.

Why the fuck do people have to keep stating the same preference over and over again. This is a hellscape of bad government AND corporate policy colliding.

buildwrangleron Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

I do appreciate that cloudflare is one of the few platforms offering options to web sites on how they want to engage with AI and even monetize traffic coming from it.

buildwrangleron Calling all open source maintainers working with Ruby

I share the concerns of too much OSS project discussions being centralized in a single place could end up with a single point of failure.

buildwrangleron Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

I made the switch to HTMX recently After 12+ years of building web apps with Javascript and its been nice. I always hated the build complexity of modern Javascript, so much tooling, dependencies and packages to get basic functionality.