I was actually mainly thinking about TV ads, billboards, analog newspaper ads, mailbox leaflets or whole papers that pretend to be a newspaper but are in reality a big ad, 😅
since thanks to AdBlockers, WebAds have seized to be a problem for me.
But you are right, the WWW without AdBlockers is a dangerous and unusable mess. At least here on the Web we have a technical solution against ads.
I remember when Stuff (the NZ news site) used to serve content as HTML. Those were good days. Since Stuff's latest "upgrade" I haven't been able to load it on any of my devices.
No, I don't fancy turning off my security settings or ad-blockers. If the price of that is not reading Stuff any more, I'll pay that. I wonder how many others are in the same situation?
@zeborah
> It's getting worse all the time too. A few days ago it started loading a Google login option
One of the fascinating things about running #NoScript in all my browsers is that I can see at a glance which third-party domains a website is loading scripts from, to run in my browser. I've been doing this for at least 7 years now, and what I see when browsing NZ news sites is often horrifying.
I suspect web workers cut corners with copypasta scripts they don't read.
Dear @mozilla
Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.
People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.
Update: As many have pointed out, you can use @thunderbird as an RSS feed reader, and there are many #firefox add-ons to restore the RSS indicator (one of which I'm already using). But my point is that Firefox needs to lean into RSS as an answer to all the crap that is the modern web, and help educate users about it
Does anyone know of a tool webmasters can use to check scripts they intend to deploy on their website, to see if they load scripts from any third-party domains?
I know they can use #NoScript to retrospectively check once the site is on a test server. But it would be even better if they could check scripts while they're deciding whether or not to spend time incorporating them into their site design.
We prefer Safest Mode because it blocks #JavaScript. If we need to allow JS for a specific site we simply use the #NoScript add-on (added to the top toolbar).
Does anyone know precisely the reason why SVG are blocked in Safest Mode? If we know the threats we can open a path toward finally enabling #SVGs!
Boosts appreciated to solve this long--standing problem.
Dank der laschesten Datenschutzbehörde Europas (Rundfunkdatenschutzbehörde) kennt das ZDF kein Halten mehr. Bei der ZDF-Mediathek-App ist eine Erfolgsmessung nun »erforderlich« und kann nicht mehr abgewählt werden. Leseempfehlung dazu von @rufposten. 👇
Trying out #NoScript to block the loading of #Javascript on websites. I honestly don't know why I should use it, but it is fun to play with. Really speeds up loading times at least.
WTF does CF has so much issues with me disabling JS? Just let me visit the site, you are already going to cache the most of it. It is very unlikely that I am going to enable JS!
I just had an ad on youtube manage to sneak past both noscript AND ublock origin, looks like they're testing out some new methods to bypass ad-blockers....thankfully about half the channels I follow now also post on other sites but I really wish others would follow, if made to pick between watching ads and not watching any of the content I'll choose to just not watch anything any time.
I would like a way to have predefined filters for #NoScript that would allow sites to work while still blocking unnecessary JS, without me having to try and enable them one by one.
I just read this op-ed about the intelligence of #LLM#AI (its 6 months old). It is the best piece I've read so far that demonstrates how things like #ChatGPT can bring in "banality of evil" amoral decision making where humans would be troubled by the moral issues in the situation. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html
@f00fc7c8
> uBlock Origin on Firefox blocks all YouTube ads for me
I use this as a backup. My primary digital prophylactic is NoScript, which gives me full control over which domain names websites can pull JavaScript from to run in my browser:
I use #NoScript to block all scripts on unknown pages. This gets really frustrating when I follow links to new #Mastodon or #Lemmy instances, which wont render even a single post without JS. I cant be the only one with this problem?
Wouldn't it be great to have something along #Decentraleyes extension to locally provide all the standard Fedi software scripts? Faster load times, less unnecessary transfer, more security for the paranoid part of #Fediverse would make everyone happy...