raptor85, to Youtube
@raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

Uh oh....

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.

Linux_Is_Best, to DuckDuckGo
@Linux_Is_Best@mastodon.social avatar

DuckDuckGo and Firefox have encountered an issue.

Clearing the cookies, cache, along with the full history from all time does not seem to resolve this.

Linux_Is_Best,
@Linux_Is_Best@mastodon.social avatar

... final thought....

I presume, something has changed with uBlock Origin, since DuckDuckGo's browser extension has not been updated since September 10, 2023.

I am uncertain what source list is causing issues with DuckDuckGo's extension within uBlock Origin.

ADHDefy, to random
@ADHDefy@easymode.im avatar

Is there a uBlock Origin list for blocking stupid AI-generated blogs?

If anyone knows of a good one, I'll trade you a solid blocklist for Medical Pseudoscience sites : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/infinitytec/blocklists/master/medicalpseudoscience.txt

toad, to random Italian
@toad@mastodon.uno avatar

A grandissima richiesta (si fa per dire) ho replicato il test del conteggio di sui motori di ricerca. Stavolta dal mio PC con Linux anzichè da uno con Windows. La differenza è netta e sinceramente non me la spiego:

  • Bing: 44
  • Google: 22
  • Qwant: 19
  • Ecosia: 16
  • Brave Search: 3
  • StartPage: 3
  • Yahoo: 3
  • PreSearch: 2
  • Librex: 0
  • MoJeek: 0

Forse dipende dal fatto che nel test precedente usavo il computer per fare altro, mentre qui le ho lasciate ferme di notte senza toccare nulla

runarcn, to Youtube

Is anyone else unable to load in with enabled?

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.

pallenberg, (edited ) to ads
@pallenberg@mastodon.social avatar

Jede verdammte Website die du heute aufmachst.... Und dann wundern sich Medien, dass User:innen so Wegelagerer wie Adblock Plus installieren.

Und dabei ist das ja noch harmlos:

  • Keine Popups
  • Keine Autostart Videos

Ich nutze fast nur noch Reader oder den Android Reading Mode!

P.S. Das ist die mobile Ansicht auf dem Fold!

OhWeh,

@pallenberg Was ich mit und alles verpasse 😅

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

Also entweder halte ich mich nur auf "guten" Seiten auf, oder und blocken schon vorher das meiste weg.

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

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

davidrevoy, to firefox
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org avatar
rapta,

@davidrevoy I love the detail of the uBO shield held by little Firefox

cazabon, to internet

Google's "Web Environment " is one of the things I have ever seen proposed for the , possibly only behind being required for any access.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

Let's get this out of the way: they give a number of why "might wish" to establish that a web is running on a "" software stack, including things like "make sure other game players aren't cheating" and "ensure I'm talking to another human".

1/x

cazabon,

Using as an example, Google will probably only the attestation of ... Google Web Environment Integrity Attestation! Well, plus Microsoft's and Apple's, so it isn't too obviously an anti-competitive . Which it would be, of course.

Do you think those attestation are going to give a "" to any that wants one? Do you think they'll give it to any browser with an ad-blocker?

Of course not.

8/x

dangillmor, to random
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

Google keeps raising prices for YouTube. Not remotely worth it at this point.

nurkiewicz,
@nurkiewicz@fosstodon.org avatar

@NIH_LLAMAS @jaythurbershow @dangillmor Yup, I turned off viewing history on , origin blocks ads and using custom filters (https://github.com/nurkiewicz/adblock-filters/blob/master/remove-comment-sections.txt#L10-L11) I also hide comments and recommended videos. The experience is... bearable

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.

jerry, to random

Threads is making my calckey server look like a race car

cazabon,

@jerry

And the site just renders a blank page for me - at least with Firefox & uBlock Origin.

And holy cow, what a bunch of junk in the source for that "blank" page.

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

nogetdigitalt, to reddit

For anyone else quitting completely, here's a guide to blocking the site completely using custom filters:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Strict-blocking

||reddit.com^

Edit: Added the string needed.

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?

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?

hywan, to random
@hywan@fosstodon.org avatar

Time to show off and to share your best Firefox extensions! 🦊

• What are your favorite and most useful Firefox extensions? Why?
• What are your funniest and probably most useless extensions?
• What are your most weird extensions?

seth73,
@seth73@berlin.social avatar

@hywan Favourite and most used are the plugin and , most useless is probably the addon, but i love it everytime i see it in action

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!

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