kimschulz, to privacy Danish
@kimschulz@social.data.coop avatar

The curious case of Ad-blockers

Advertisements, pervasive across the internet, not only disrupt user privacy and experience but also slow down browsing. Ad-blockers offer significant benefits such as enhanced privacy, reduced distractions, faster loading times, and bandwidth conservation. A new site feature now prompts visitors without ad-blockers to consider using them, enhancin

https://schulz.dk/2024/05/02/the-curious-case-of-ad-blockers/

#Misc #Privacy #adblocker #web #wordpress

Vivaldi, to Vivaldi
@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar

🎉 Exciting news for our Android folks!

On the latest update on Vivaldi 6.7, we've amped up Translate, improved the Tracker and Ad blocker functionality, tweaked the Bookmarks manager, and many other features based on YOUR feedback.

🔖 We understand that Bookmarks are one of the most important aspects of your browsing. Now, Vivaldi remembers the last folder you opened in the Bookmarks Panel. We've also tidied up your bookmarks by sorting folders first, making navigation a breeze.

⚙️ We work with Lingvanex continuously to make the built-in Vivaldi Translate more efficient. With an improved performance and the quality of translations, we hope you'll find speedy results.

In addition to the above, we’ve polished the user interface and made improvements to features across the board.

Find out what they are and enjoy browsing with more of these powerful browser features👇🏻

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-android-6-7/

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

Nö.

Deswegen schon nö, weil bei den meisten Seiten dann ebenfalls nur ein Teil des Artikels zu sehen ist und ich dann wieder genötigt werde, ein Abo abzuschließen. Aber dann wurde ich schon getrackt.

Also werde ich das nicht abschalten und grundsätzlich solche Seiten meiden und mein Geld bekommen die auch nicht. 🤷

iode, to privacy
@iode@mastodon.online avatar
mipstian, to iOS
@mipstian@mas.to avatar

🚨Wipr 1.55 is rolling out now! 🚨

With a bunch more routine Wipr Extra updates.

As for me I'm kind of ok, just need frequent breaks 🥲

schizanon, to Youtube
@schizanon@mastodon.social avatar

Stube isn't blocking ads today. What happened? Did Google get wise?

ValerieSonh, to ads
@ValerieSonh@masto.ai avatar

Study: Most Americans now use ad blockers https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/america_ad_blocker/ Notably, 66% of advertising professionals use ad blockers vs. 52% of the general public. #AdBlocker #ads #privacy

TentinQuarantino, to alternative
@TentinQuarantino@metalhead.club avatar

Is #BandsInTown #privacyfriendly? I can’t see the privacy policy if my #AdBlocker is on 🙃

Any valuable #alternative ?

sesivany, to security
@sesivany@floss.social avatar

My mother-in-law just called me and asked if she should invest in the "new Bitcoin". She saw a video on FB where a famous Czech actor praised it on a talk show. Clearly a deepfake scam.

And she would definitely do it if she didn't have me. Some time ago I defended ad blockers as tools of online security and this is a real-life example that it's really the case.

Until Google, Meta and others get their act together, their ads should be blocked.

#adblocker #deepFakes #security

elb, to baking
@elb@social.sdf.org avatar

I don't use an #AdBlocker. I haven't used an ad blocker in a decade or more. I see plenty of ads on the web. What I do is block third-party #cookies and known cross-site #trackers. The number of sites (even apparently legitimate sites) that implore me to disable my ad blocker is disappointing.

BruceMirken, to random
@BruceMirken@mas.to avatar

If your site requires me to disable my to view it, I will simply leave.

xro, to ads
@xro@chaos.social avatar

What's the problem with and ?

  • ads are information
  • ads are intentionally incorrect and misleading
  • ads are ubiquitous available information, to the point of being actively PUSHED onto every human reachable.
  • for many people who don't actively seek other sources, it is the main source of information.

That"s not a good basis for a where informed citizens are supposed to make good decisions.

publicvoit,
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

@xro At least on the web, gets distributed via the propagation channels.

Therefore, an + add-on are mostly not for personal convenience but rather an important security feature.

As a side-effect, the web is faster and easier to consume without ads.

xro,
@xro@chaos.social avatar

@publicvoit

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.

smallcircles, to web
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

The new general #enshittification trend on the #Web:

> Please verify you are a human without any Ad Blockers turned on.

#Captcha dialogs that don't work unless you turn off your #adblocker .. of course you might allow the specific #tracker that makes the captcha functional, but not always clear which one to pick.

newdefined, to Youtube German
@newdefined@troet.cafe avatar

Wie ist denn der aktuelle Stand vs
Geht das immer noch hin und her?

Ein Bekannter meinte, sein YouTube Abo liefe jetzt über Südamerika dann sei das bezahlbar… damit könnte ich mich auch mal beschäftigen… Lohnt sich vielleicht über die Zeit

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

Meine Lieblings Firefox AddOns

Der Webbrowser Firefox lässt sich durch AddOns erweitern und verbessern. In diesem Video stelle ich Dir meine persönlichen Lieblings Firefox AddOns vor und erkläre Dir, wie Du sie installieren kannst.

https://gnulinux.ch/meine-lieblings-firefox-addons

dminca, to ads
@dminca@mastodontech.de avatar
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

#werbung #tracking #ublock #ublockorigin

cybrkyd, to firefox

https://infosec.town/@shabbirShabbir Ahmmed wrote the following post Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:33:27 +0000

As ad blocker won’t be available for chrome and all chrome based from next update, I hope people will start to understand the importance of Firefox.

And will move to it

www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964509/google-manifest-v3-rollout-ad-blockers

maexchen1, to twitter German
@maexchen1@nrw.social avatar

Irgendwie bin ich froh das gerade nicht funktioniert.

Denn das hält bzw #x am leben.

Ebenso für und co.

Es wird soo viel Zeit und Energie verschwendet um solche Seiten zu überlisten.

Mit dieser Energie hätte man die Alternativen fördern können.

ScottStarkey, to firefox
@ScottStarkey@hoosier.social avatar

I still have an account on F***book as I still have many friends there who have not taken my strong hints to come here.

I've been using an #adblocker lately with #Firefox to view most things. After I get a few pages down the page freaks-the-F out. It tries to deliver ads - the adblocker removes them - then the page tries to load ads, and the blocker removes them. Ping-pong.

This causes the page to jump-jump-jump making it impossible to read. That's my clue to shut down #Facebook for the day.

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

»Die umfassende Überwachungsmaschinerie, die für digitale Werbung entwickelt wurde, ermöglicht nun direkt die Massenüberwachung durch den Staat« [1] Zitat von @wchr.

Daher: Ein Tracking- und Werbeblocker gehört auf jedem Smartphone/PC/Netzwerk zur Grundausstattung! [2] 👇

[1] https://www.heise.de/news/Gezielte-Werbung-Israelischer-Verein-wirbt-mit-5-Milliarden-ueberwachten-Geraeten-9609259.html
[2] https://www.kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke/#adblocker

#tracking #datenschutz #surveillance #staat #werbung #ads #adaway #adguard #netguard #rethinkdns #pihole #ublockorigin

Vivaldi, to privacy
@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar

Our first recommendation for someone who wants to be better protected online is easy: switch to a #privacy-friendly #browser!

Using Vivaldi? We take your privacy seriously:

  1. Our built-in Tracker and #AdBlocker lets you block invasive trackers, the biggest sources of #surveillance out there. You can set different blocking levels for different websites.

  2. Cookie dialogs can be confusing. Enable the option ‘Remove cookie warnings’, to avoid the risk of unwillingly giving sites permission to create behavioral profiles about you.

  3. Search Suggestions are disabled by default, so that your search engine doesn’t see what you type on your address and search field.

Go to Settings > Privacy and Security to check all the privacy-related settings. 🔒

#DataPrivacyWeek #DataPrivacy #Tracking

rudi, to reddit
@rudi@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

If only I was active on , this would be amazing for r/MissingThePoint, while using a to read an article about VPN Blockers and this popped up. I took the continue without disabling option because honestly at this point it's harder to jump through the hoops to get unfiltered Internet on my untrusted phone so I'd have just not read the article otherwise 🤷‍♂️

Thank you for at least giving us the skip option

kubikpixel, (edited ) to Youtube German
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

»YouTube: Sperren gegen Werbeblocker nun global«

Auch deswegen nutze ich YouTube nicht direkt, sondern Links über @invidious* oder nutze es mobil via @newpipe*, um Videos zu sehen und so weit frei vom Tracking zu sein. Leider sind noch nicht sehr viele anregende Videoproduktionen im Fediverse zB auf @peertube vertreten.

📺 https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/youtube-sperren-gegen-werbeblocker-nun-global/

kubikpixel, (edited )
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

🧵 …mal sehen ob die oben erwähnten Lösungen, um #Video's auf #YouTube sich Datenfreundlich anzusehen, auch davon betroffen sein werden oder schon sind. Abgesehen davon, empfehle ich wie schon oben erklärt, @peertube als unabhängige #Alternative diesbezüglich und auch weil es ein Teil im #Fediverse ist.

»Werbeblocker: YouTube geht gegen Drittanbieter-#App's mit #Adblocker vor«

📺 https://www.computerbase.de/2024-04/werbeblocker-youtube-geht-gegen-drittanbieter-apps-mit-adblocker-vor/

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