noellemitchell, (edited ) to meta
@noellemitchell@mstdn.social avatar

"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."

What the hell?? This is so creepy.

https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018

sabret00the,
@sabret00the@mas.to avatar

@noellemitchell @mxtthxw for anyone who is reading this, please make sure you're using with Origin and also if you're up for the learning curve, , though that's not really helpful if you have to log in.

I would also like to suggest trying to migrate over to as an replacement and as a replacement. It took me years to start using my account, the first step is creating it.

If you build it, they will come!

Zergy, to firefox French
@Zergy@mastodon.zergy.net avatar
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)

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!

skarfester, to firefox
@skarfester@framapiaf.org avatar
qaqelol, to web
@qaqelol@toots.niark.nexus avatar

Did not know that uBlock has a "disable large media" option.

When enabled it tries to block any media larger than a specified size (until you click on said media)

Less data to load means a faster and cheaper internet 😄

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-large-media-elements

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

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.

kuketzblog, to random German
@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de avatar

Online-Tools zur Messung der Wirksamkeit von Ad-Blockern sind leider wenig praxistauglich und liefern in Kombination mit Browser-Add-ons oft irreführende Ergebnisse. Am besten verzichtet man auf sie und verlinkt sie auch nicht, da gerade Anfänger/Einsteiger davon irritiert werden könnten. Empfehlt stattdessen die Installation von uBlock Origin und anderen zuverlässigen Ad-Block-Lösungen. 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/irrefuehrende-ergebnisse-online-tools-zur-messung-der-wirksamkeit-von-ad-blockern/

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke/#adblocker

Julianoe, to mastodon French
@Julianoe@mastodon.xyz avatar

J'en avais marre de devoir passer la souris ou cliquer sur un article pour connaitre le titre entier.

Sur l'interface de par défaut, les titres des cartes de contenus sont limités à 2 lignes apparemment.
Du coup j'ai ajouté une règle dans pour augmenter à 4 lignes.

Simple, efficace, problème réglé. Merci le html qui n'est pas une soupe de div généré par un framework dégueu :

mastodon.xyz##.status-card.expanded .status-card__title:style(-webkit-line-clamp:4 !important)

La même chose, mais une fois le fix appliqué, cela permet de lire le titre en entier

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

YouTube accroît sa lutte contre les bloqueurs de pub - https://www.nextinpact.com/lebrief/72789/youtube-accroit-sa-lutte-contre-bloqueurs-pub

> La plateforme de vidéos de Google lance « un effort global » pour pousser ses utilisateurs à débloquer les publicités ou à passer à YouTube Premium, explique Christopher Lawton, responsable de la communication de YouTube à The Verge.

:drake_like: Les utilisateurs accroissent la lutte contre l'agression publicitaire.

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

Muszę Googlowi przyznać, że pomysł z blokowaniem odtwarzania filmów na YouTube przez osoby używające adblockerów okazał się bardzo skuteczny.

Przed chwilą, niecały dzień po tym, jak dostałem trzy ostrzeżenia, a potem całkowitego bloka, wykupiłem subskrypcję. Co prawda na nebula.tv, ale zawsze xD

Informacje o subskrypcji serwisu Nebula: „Nebula Yearly, $30 Yearly”

angedestenebres, to linux French
@angedestenebres@mastodon.tedomum.net avatar
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/

littlealex, to random

The unknown hero. Raymond Hill, creator of uBlock Origin.

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!

smitha, to firefox
@smitha@famichiki.jp avatar

Amazing. How to block the "sign in with Google" prompts on Firefox -

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1393427

johnefrancis, (edited ) to firefox
@johnefrancis@mastodon.social avatar

121 for went out yesterday.

This version enables a lot more extensions.

The first extension you probably want is the Origin . Yes, it blocks almost every ad, but it also blocks the data collection attempts realted to those ads, which is as important.

Adblocking is particularly important right now as the web undergoes an enshittification cycle driven by the exposure of Google and Meta. They've stopped pretending to be not evil, the squeeze is on.

bsm, to AdGuard German
@bsm@swiss.social avatar

Leute, die sich darüber beklagen, dass sie viel zu viel Werbung sehen, mit Cookie-Bannern belästigt werden, etc.

Werbebanner () wie z.B. Pro, Origin, oder was es noch alles gibt, installieren. Fertig!

deflockcom, to ads
@deflockcom@mastodon.social avatar
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

gianmarcogg03, to chrome
@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno avatar

The circlejerk is back! This time it's less annoying because I'm feeling generous today.

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"]

sicurezza, to chrome Italian
@sicurezza@mastodon.uno avatar
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