dis, to grafana

Today's adventure in comes from . (Not a surprise, but this is why I run egress filters and dns in my clusters.)

I know not everyone agrees that is a dark pattern, but you might agree with me about this one after you see it documented:

> # -- Optional analytics configuration
> analytics: {}

Enlightening, isn't it? There are other empty blocks, but they are either fairly standard or are described elsewhere in the document.

If you are familiar with , you won't despair because you have the power of analytics.enabled: false. That works on the rest of this chart and is the standard way to en/disable things.

It doesn't work that way.

Let me save you some time with the terrible new code search. Here is the actual syntax:
"analytics.reporting_enabled: false"

This was caught by and enforced by an egress

avoidthehack, to privacy

Avoidthehack updates "Blocking Ads, Trackers, and in , Devices, and Networks"

Updated this guide with lots of changes. Including removing mentions of Vivaldi, adding more sections/headers for readability, added references where appropriate.

So, what's your method of blocking ads?

https://avoidthehack.com/how-to-block-ads

simplenomad, to internet
@simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org avatar

I find it interesting people posting a screenshot of Threads’ access to your data and talk about how awful it is, but then these same people have Instagram and Facebook accounts, which is ever-so-slightly worse.

david1,
@david1@mastodon.world avatar

@simplenomad That's why you use and containers!

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.

Alkaris, to Youtube
@Alkaris@meow.social avatar

Here's why you shouldn't fight the Internet against using Ad Blockers on YouTube, or for any site for that matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALvky_4mJpM

Ryoma123, to Youtube Italian
@Ryoma123@livellosegreto.it avatar

Chiedo a tutti gli utenti di Mastodon un favore: dovete divulgare l'esistenza di PeerTube, in modo che i content creator decidano di abbandonare una volta per tutte YouTube. Fatelo per la libertà di parola, per il rispetto della privacy e per l'open source.

JordiGH, to aitools
@JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz avatar

I don't usually agree this hard with anything on the orange website, but damn.


I block ads because they're psychological warfare that corporations wage against me. I don't care how unobtrusive the ads are. I don't care if the ads don't track me. I grew up changing the channel on TV when ads came on, and ripping adverts out of magazines before sitting down to read them. I vote for billboard bans whenever I can. I have zero tolerance for ads of any sort.

Advertisers have no morals, they're completely depraved. They'll eagerly exploit a teenager's self-conscious body issues to sell useless beauty products. They sell sugar water to fat people and at every turn promote the rampant consumerist culture that is destroying our planet. They're lower than pond scum and I never want to see a single ad from them ever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36536895

publicvoit, to Youtube German
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

schmeißt -Nutzer raus
https://www.heise.de/news/Youtube-schmeisst-Adblock-Nutzer-raus-9203445.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag

Eine Warnung an alle -Owner: jedes , das nur bei YouTube vorgehalten wird, ist langfristig verloren. Das hier ist nur ein kleiner Schritt von vielen, sie YT zu einem umwandeln werden.

Bitte spätestens ab sofort Alternativen wie beispielsweise zumindest parallel nutzen!

Und bitte auch weiterhin zu deiner eigenen IT-Sicherheit weiternutzen!

hacks4pancakes, to random

Ad blockers are also cybersecurity. Say it with me.

They reduce malvertising, watering hole attacks, and general malicious script execution. It’s not all about you, ad firms.

Linux_Is_Best,
@Linux_Is_Best@mastodon.social avatar

@hacks4pancakes Mozilla Firefox is essential.

Both Google and Microsoft today are contributing code to Chromium (along with the Blink engine), the building blocks of both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

You have not one, but two multi-billion dollar corporations who make serious capital in tracking and advertisement. They both would like to see ad-blockers go the way of the dinosaurs (extinct).

You're playing whack-a-mole on borrowed time if you're not using Firefox.

fla, to iOS
@fla@mastodon.social avatar

Any adblocker you would recommend on iOS?

gianmarcogg03, to piracy
@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno avatar
michael, to random
@michael@thms.uk avatar

“YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.”

Guess no more YouTube for me. No way I'm disabling my ad blocker!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/youtube-tests-blocking-videos-unless-you-disable-ad-blockers/

afterdawn, to random Finnish

Nyt se alkoi. YouTube estää osan käyttäjistä, jotka estävät mainosten näkymisen YouTubessa.

Yhtiön mukaan kyseessä on rajattu kokeilu, mutta on helppo päätellä että kokeilu laajenee, jos se toimii. Mainoksia estäville käyttäjille annetaan kaksi vaihtoehtoa: poista mainosestot tai maksa kuukausimaksua YouTube Premiumista.

https://fin.afterdawn.com/uutiset/2023/05/10/youtube-mainosten-esto-kokeilu

cjerrington, (edited ) to random
@cjerrington@mstdn.social avatar

What DNS and Ad-Block should I run?

to3k, to php
@to3k@tomaszdunia.pl avatar

🇬🇧 I started an experiment with a plugin for called and after just one day I can say that not only is it better for readers' privacy it is not as blocked by as (shows higher numbers).

🇵🇱 Zacząłem eksperyment z wtyczką dla o nazwie i już po jednym dniu mogę powiedzieć, że nie dość, że jest lepsza dla prywatności czytelników to nie jest tak wycinana przez jak (pokazuje wyższe liczby).

unattributed, to random

For Your Own Safety, Says The Man | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/28/block-ads-for-your-own-safety-says-the-man/

Better title from the article: "Put the condom on your download wang, says The (federal) Man..."

Better thing is to use something other than . Duck Duck Go is a pretty good search engine. Another option is to use a search proxy. I'm partial to (https://searx.info/) - I have it set as my default search engine.

kubikpixel, to ublockorigin
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

The FBI advises AdBlocker because of attack vector from cybercriminals and that will mean quite a bit. I advise you to be careful which one you use, because some are also malware and I recommend @ublockorigin.

🛡️ https://ublockorigin.com
👮 https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221

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#adblock #adblocker #ublockorigin #ublock #fbi #cyber #criminals #cybercrimonals #maleware

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