thunderbird, (edited ) to random
@thunderbird@mastodon.online avatar

By default, automatically blocks images in your emails from being displayed -- because many of those images may contain tracking code.

(Sometimes these images are tiny "tracking pixels" you may not even see).

Take your protection one step further by installing Origin to block all kinds of unwanted content in your RSS feeds -- it's now an official Thunderbird Add-on: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/ublock-origin/

(EDITED FOR CLARITY)

KathyReid, to random
@KathyReid@aus.social avatar

Welcome to the future where I have to disable my adblocker infrastructure like and to place a Coles online shopping order.

Because my user is more profitable than the goods I purchase.

video/mp4

LukaszHorodecki, to Youtube Polish
@LukaszHorodecki@pol.social avatar

Historii z blokiem od YouTube ciąg dalszy. Okazało się, że uBlock jest niewykrywany przez YT i mogę normalnie oglądać filmy, gdy tylko wyłączę dodatek do uBlocka.

Żeby było zabawniej, to dodatek dzięki któremu dodawałem kanały ulubionych twórców do whitelisty pozwalającej na wyświetlanie na nich reklam xD

Linux_Is_Best, to firefox
@Linux_Is_Best@mstdn.social avatar

Repeat after me...

"There are NO ads on the Internet."

That's true if you're using Mozilla Firefox along with uBlock Origin with all sources enabled, alongside with Privacy Badger.

I have not seen a single ad, anywhere, for well over a year! -- I'm not joking.

sesivanyblog, to baking Czech
@sesivanyblog@blog.eischmann.cz avatar

Na obranu blokování reklamy

Poté, co se Youtube pustil do ostrého boje s blokátory reklamy, rozhořela se opět diskuse o tom, zda je v pořádku reklamy blokovat. Dlouho jsem byl na straně odmítačů blokování reklamy. Během svého života jsem napsal řadu článků pro různé časopisy a servery a vím, že obsah se zadarmo neudělá. Nicméně odvětví internetové reklamy zmorfovalo […]

https://blog.eischmann.cz/2024/01/01/na-obranu-blokovani-reklamy/

dada, to Youtube French
@dada@diaspodon.fr avatar

Bon, avec Firefox, uBlock Origin et un DNS qui filtre, je me prends maintenant des pubs dans Youtube.

Je n'ai que le son, pas la vidéo, mais c'est infernal.

Bordel que c'est infernal.

epixoip, to random

Happy !

I've cracked billions of from tens of thousands of in the past 12+ years, and because of this, I likely know at least one for 90% of people on the Internet. And I'm not alone! While I primarily crack breached passwords for research purposes and the thrill of the sport, others are selling your breached passwords to criminals who leverage them in and attacks.

How can you keep your accounts safe?

  • Use a ! I recommend @bitwarden and @1password

  • Use a style - four or more words selected at random - for passwords you have to commit to memory, like your master password!

  • Enable MFA for important online accounts, including cloud-based password managers!

  • Harden your master password by tweaking your password manager's KDF settings! For , use Argon2id with 64MB memory, 3 iterations, 4 parallelism. For and other PBKDF2 based password managers, set the iteration count to at least 600,000.

  • Use unique, randomly generated passwords for all your accounts! Use your password manager to generate random 14-16 character passwords for everything. Modern password cracking is heavily optimized for human-generated passwords, because humans are highly predictable. Randomness defeats this and forces attackers to resort to incremental brute force! There's no trick you can do to make a secure, uncrackable password on your own - your meat glob will only betray you.

  • Use an ad blocker like Origin to keep you safe from password-stealing and other browser based threats!

  • Don't fall for attacks and other social engineering attacks! Browser-based password managers help defend against phishing attacks because they'll never autofill your passwords on fake login pages. Think before you click, and never give your passwords to anyone, not even if they offer you chocolate or weed.

  • : require ad blockers, invest in an enterprise password management solution, audit password manager logs to ensure employes aren't sharing passwords outside the org, implement a Fine Grained Password Policy that requires a minimum of 20 characters to encourage the use of long passphrases, implement a password filter to block commonly used password patterns and compromised passwords, disable authentication and disable RC4 for , disable legacy broadcast protocols like LLMNR and NBT-NS, require mandatory signing, use Group Managed Service Accounts instead of shared passwords, monitor public data breaches for employee credentials, and crack your own passwords to audit the effectiveness of your password policy and user training!

mstankiewicz, (edited ) to macos Polish
@mstankiewicz@pol.social avatar

Poleci ktoś jakiś dobry do w stylu ()? Koniecznie na , ale dobrze by było i na .

Edit: dziękuję wszystkim za odpowiedzi! Na razie chyba pozostanę przy , a przynajmniej do póki ktoś nie stworzy czegoś otwartoźródłowego ☺️

stefan, to ads
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

I'm trying to update the ad-detection methods in my WordPress plugin that shows a note when a site's visitor doesn't have an ad-blocker installed.

It looks like there's a few false positives.

https://github.com/stefanbohacek/detect-missing-adblocker/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc

My approach is to style the note to be perceived as an ad, rather than actually detect particular ad-blockers.

I'd really appreciate some help, see how this can be improved.

Linux_Is_Best, to linux
@Linux_Is_Best@mstdn.social avatar

"But... but... Our website works if you let us track you and disable your ad blocker"

No, thank you.

  • Fedora
  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • Arch Linux
  • NixOS
  • Alpine Linux
  • Slackware
  • Mx Linux
  • Linux Mint
  • Manjaro
  • EndeavourOS
  • openSUSE

Not one Linux distro requires you to disable an ad-blocker to download their ISO. -- Just Vanilla OS.

They all respect people's privacy. Why is that such a hard concept for you to grasp?

gnulinux, to test German
@gnulinux@social.anoxinon.de avatar

Stärke deine Abwehrkräfte

Eine Webseite hilft euch beim Test, wie gut euer Webbrowser gegen Unliebsames gewappnet ist.

https://gnulinux.ch/staerke-deine-abwehrkraefte

JesusDQ, to firefox Spanish
@JesusDQ@mastodon.social avatar

Recordatorio periódico por si aún no has conseguido desengancharte totalmente de las redes sociales que trafican con tus datos privados: desinstala la app móvil y recurre a su versión web con un navegador que respete a sus usuarios y admita extensiones para bloquear publicidad.

Twitter e Instagram desde con son mucho más llevaderas. Eso sí, no hay truco para eliminar su toxicidad o desfase con los bots.

btaroli, to threads
@btaroli@federate.social avatar

I love how the introduction of app says it’s standalone. It’s . But I was just trying to peek at https://threads.net and imagine my surprise when and lit up with and crap. The page won’t even display.

Yeah. No. Never. Blocking ASAP.

editora, to firefox Spanish
@editora@mastodon.social avatar

Duda: ¿Qué bloqueador de es mejor para ? ¿ Ultimate o Origin? ¿Cuál usáis? ¿Alguna otra sugerencia?

runarcn, to Youtube

Is anyone else unable to load in with enabled?

qaqelol, to web
@qaqelol@toots.niark.nexus avatar

My compulsive need to customize websites in action; StackOverflow edition ✨

(I use uBlock Origin and "User Javascript and Css" extensions)

Original version of stackoverflow for the same page. Busy layout with ads

cjerrington, to librewolf
@cjerrington@mstdn.social avatar

Looking into @librewolf and using the portable version on Windows but noticed it does not have plugin like the full installer does.

I also cant reach the addons website for to install it either.

Is this intentional for the portable version?

Aznorth, to random French
@Aznorth@framapiaf.org avatar

Passion retirer plus de la moitié de la page avec la pipette de sur le site du , pour avoir une UI potable avec juste le contenu utile. 😐

derPUPE, to random German
@derPUPE@chaos.social avatar

„Was machst Du eigendlich bei der , Pupe?“

Häufig antworte ich aus spass mit
„Special Operations Officer“

Heute paßt‘s wie Faust auf Auge:

Habe für das Ausrollen von Origin auf allen DB Client Systemen gesorgt.

Incl. der beseitigung aller Abteilungs-Wiederstände & Gremienbeteiligung

ein bischen stolz bin ich schon 😊

alfredbaudisch, to twitter
@alfredbaudisch@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

Clean way to open / #X to cross post links, without having to stumble upon any Tweet or without seeing the timeline:

  • Origin
  • Element Picker: highlight and click the border between side menu and timeline
  • Click Create
  • Now when you open Twitter it will always be plain white
  • You can open the Compose URL (/compose/post), cross post and begone.

Empty, no timeline in sight.

If the Timeline appears again someday, just repeat the process to pick up the new CSS classes.

A screenshot of Twitter / X showing the timeline highlighted in red and a green circle in the border between the side menus and the timeline.
A screenshot of uBlock Origin dialog showing some cryptic CSS class names and a green arrow pointing to a "Create" blue button
A screenshot of Twitter / X showing the compose Tweet window and in the background it's just white, no Twitter timeline content.

Jason844, to Youtube

Have been extremely annoyed with #YouTube and their anti-ad block efforts. 🤬 I really hate getting ads shoved down my throat.

Replaced existing ad blockers with uBlock Origin. They can by-pass the anti-ad block until YouTube makes a change. uBlock counters. I manual update. YouTube makes a change. Repeat...

So it's been a game of whack-a-mole against YouTube. Kudos to #uBlock volunteers for doing the good fight. 👍

Been trying out #FreeTube, an ad free private (anti-data mining) YouTube client. So far OK. No ads, of course. You can't comment or participate in the chat. That's OK. Have set up multiple profiles to organize the channel I watch. Like a #Geology profile, a general profile, a #Railfan profile, etc.

My only real negative on FreeTube is that you can't scroll backward on live streams, like the ones from TinyKittens HQ. 🙁 But no ads, so it's OK.

freakazoid, to random
@freakazoid@retro.social avatar

Hmm. Do I need Origin, , and in ? I'm guessing I can probably dump Privacy Badger? EFF says it's still useful even with FF's tracking protection set to "strict", but what value is it actually adding?

finn, to foss
@finn@toot.fan avatar

serves me really great for blocking DNS queries related to advertisement, tracking and unwanted or malicious hosts.

If I use the internet alone the block rate is about 0,1% because I only use software, and .

But if someone else with a "normal" phone is using the internet, too, PiHole has to block 8,1% of all queries!

I am still responsible for most of the traffic so just image the percentage if all clients were normal non-FOSS tracking devices!

dazfuller, to github
@dazfuller@mstdn.social avatar

In case anyone else is fed up of seeing the "Code 55% faster with Github Copilot" message on Github, the following filter works a treat with uBlock Origin

github.com#[data-testid="copilot-popover-button"]

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