I’ve noticed that more and more images of art and photography are now on Pinterest, hidden behind a login/register prompt
Our commons that is the web is getting locked away behind corporate silos
@cypnk I've found some pinterest content to originally be taken from Flickr and you can still get to it if you go to the bother of unpicking the URLs sources and using custom filters on ublock to hide some of the nag screens, tjhe same can be done with facebook (but its not trivial effort!),i was doing it to inspect cat pictures from animal rescues in Malaysia to see how many half wildcats were ending up as house pets there (quite a few, and it is the "Asian Tiger Mom" types who rehome them)
@cypnk I can usually convince the site backend I am using some obscure Chrome device such as the tablets sold at supermarkets to middle aged Germans (Google already think I am one of them anyway) and get half the pictures.
It does worry me to see charities (e.g animal shelters) become dependent on commercial silos; whether they are in Kuala Lumpur or Kesgrave; as I could easily miss a lot of their content and it "cuts off" older people too who would often support them!
@vfrmedia At this point, one may need different browsers, since fingerprinting still happens in less obvious ways. Also, some sites don’t work at all without some kind of JavaScript