Worth noting with Mastodon - one of the reasons for no cookie consent popup is.. there are no tracking cookies.
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Worth noting with Mastodon - one of the reasons for no cookie consent popup is.. there are no tracking cookies. At all.
Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking.
Why is this notable? Try doing the same check on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky or basically anywhere or anything else online. It's basically unheard of in 2025, as everybody else is selling you.
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Worth noting with Mastodon - one of the reasons for no cookie consent popup is.. there are no tracking cookies. At all.
Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking.
Why is this notable? Try doing the same check on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky or basically anywhere or anything else online. It's basically unheard of in 2025, as everybody else is selling you.
It's that old thing, the "if you're not paying for the product, it's because you ARE the product."
We pay for Mastodon. Maybe not you, individually, but someone does. Owners pay for hosting and bandwidth and storage and the domain and all that other fun stuff. And I've seen the numbers for some of these instances, they can be very... not cheap to run.
So, if you're on Mastodon and have a few bucks to chip in, see if your instance owner has a patreon or a kofi or something, maybe chip in and do your part.
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