If large websites respected our choices regarding ads (DNT is a decade old, people!) and served contextual ads when asked to not track, we would not need to use #AdBlockers.
Instead, for over a decade now web publishing industry's been hell bent on screwing readers over, ignoring clearly stated preferences, misrepresenting what they do with the data, and using dark patterns to maliciously mis-implement legal requirements when forced to do so.
@rysiek ~20% of my DNS requests are currently blocked (ads, tracking...). I tried to disable my adblocker but some websites are overrun with ads. So I am keeping my adblocker activated on all my devices (computers, smartphones...) #AdBlocker#Internet#Browsing#Safe
j'suis le seul a avoir un #Firefox desktop cassé ? 😬 certaines pages ne se chargent plus, certains médias non plus, j'ai des erreurs aléatoires genre "Impossible de se connecter au serveur" ... aucun soucis avec d'autres navigateurs ni avec la version mobile... 🤔
[EDIT3] j'ai trouvé !! c'était #adBlocker ultimate qui déconnait, en le désactivant sur Mastodon & Fastmail (où j'ai pas de pub :smart: ) tout fonctionne nickel de nouveau, ouf 👌
Powerful people imprisoned by the cluelessness of their own isolation, locked up with their own motivated reasoning: "It's impossible to get a CEO to understand something when his quarterly earnings call depends on him not understanding it."
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Or if you're connecting to a webserver that tries to track you by fingerprinting you based on your computer's RAM, screen size, fonts, etc, you can order your browser to send random data about this stuff:
Or if you're connecting to a site that wants to track you and nonconsensually cram ads into your eyeballs, you can run an #adblocker that doesn't show you the ads, but tells the site that it did:
I’ve never used an #adblocker on my phone before, but I think I’m going to start. I have an #iphone and use #firefox. Can anyone suggest their favourite? TIA!
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket. Your car's digital infrastructure is a costly, dangerous nightmare - but for automakers in pursuit of postcapitalist utopia, it's a dream they can't give up on.
But the billions that have been thrown at remote attestation over the decades is only incidentally about solving CAPTCHAs or verifying your cloud server. The holy grail here is being able to make sure that you're not running an #AdBlocker. It's being able to remotely verify that you haven't disabled the #bossware your employer requires. It's the power to block someone from opening an #Office365 doc with #LibreOffice.
They might balk - #change is #scary, they're used to Chrome - but Chrome has >90% market share, and that effectively lets #Google do whatever they want, and tell the #open#web to go hang. But tell them #Firefox is faster, uses less memory - especially with an #adblocker.
"Ad blockers are unethical—ads are how they pay to keep the lights on!”
Exactly. It's how THEY pay to keep the lights on. It's not how I pay for anything. I didn't agree to see ads, although I'm ok with some ads; what I definitely didn't do is agree to be tracked and profiled and have arbitrary third-party code running on my computer just so I could read this awful, pointless, SEO-ified shitfest of an article that doesn't come close to answering the question I was googling.
@maxleibman Marketing is manipulation. It is based, among other things, on the findings of Edward Bernay's propaganda, Sigmund Freud's theories and methods of psychoanalysis. Advertising and marketing are also unethical because many promises are hard-hitting deception. This does not create a win-win situation. With the Internet, real-time profiling and long-term profiling are added, which is simply perverse and violates human dignity.
Let's get this out of the way: they give a number of #reasons why #webservers "might wish" to establish that a web #client is running on a "#trusted" software stack, including things like "make sure other game players aren't cheating" and "ensure I'm talking to another human".
There are only two things here that #Google cares about:
Having better #evidence that #ad#impressions are being served to actual humans-behind-browsers rather than to #bots. This is because the more certain they can make advertisers feel about this, the more they can #charge for an ad impression.
Ensuring that #users do not use ad blockers, because that hurts the bottom line.
Using #Google as an example, Google #Chrome will probably only #trust the attestation of ... Google Web Environment Integrity Attestation! Well, plus Microsoft's and Apple's, so it isn't too obviously an anti-competitive #cartel. Which it would be, of course.
Do you think those attestation #services are going to give a "#trusted" #rating to any #browser that wants one? Do you think they'll give it to any browser with an ad-blocker?
Tipp Nr.18: Eine einfache Möglichkeit, Werbung und Tracker auf Android bzw. iOS systemweit (in allen Apps) auf Eis zu legen, ist die Blockierung über einen DNS-Anbieter. Das geht ganz einfach und ist gerade für Anfänger/Einsteiger super geeignet. In 5 Minuten ist alles erledigt (inkl. Lesen).
When I tell em to use an #adblocker my partner dismisses me saying ey sometimes see things ey want to buy because the ads are so well targeted to em.
But it's not the content of the #ads that's the problem; it's that they are there, taking up my #attention. The more targeted they are, the more of my attention they absorb which encourages the #advertisers to advertise more.
Eine Warnung an alle #Content-Owner: jedes #Video, das nur bei YouTube vorgehalten wird, ist langfristig verloren. Das hier ist nur ein kleiner Schritt von vielen, sie YT zu einem #walledgarden umwandeln werden.
Bitte spätestens ab sofort Alternativen wie beispielsweise #PeerTube zumindest parallel nutzen!
Und bitte auch weiterhin #AdBlocker zu deiner eigenen IT-Sicherheit weiternutzen!