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Pi-Hole is beautiful and open-source. As long as it doesn't get too popular, tech savvy people can continue to enjoy network wide content blocking. Consider supporting them (but not too much ;): https://www.patreon.com/pihole
Someone on here recently recommended uMatrix for this purpose and I find that a nice trade-off between usability and request blocking. It's an extension but given it's less opaque than a generic ad-blocker I feel more in control and that it's less likely to go 'rogue' like adblockers do.
I do not mind, but I can imagine it easily gets annoying for many people rather quickly. (OTOH, those people would not care to set up Pi-hole, either.)
Someone on here recently recommended uMatrix for this purpose and I find that a nice trade-off between usability and request blocking. It's an extension but given it's less opaque than a generic ad-blocker I feel more in control and that it's less likely to go 'rogue' like adblockers do.
Longtime uMatrix user here. The most frustrating thing about UM (which is the same problem I had with NoScript back in the day) is that some scripts call other scripts. So, particularly when I'm trying to play an embedded video served by another site served through a CDN, the process for getting the damn video to play is something like: Click video -> Open uMatrix -> whitelist some scripts -> reload -> whitelist more…
I rarely see an ad. I didn't see Troy's responsible sponsor message either. I should have and would have if he had chosen to display the thing without the need for scripting. So I don't feel hugely guilty.
Someone on here recently recommended uMatrix for this purpose and I find that a nice trade-off between usability and request blocking. It's an extension but given it's less opaque than a generic ad-blocker I feel more in control and that it's less likely to go 'rogue' like adblockers do.
Longtime uMatrix user here. The most frustrating thing about UM (which is the same problem I had with NoScript back in the day) is that some scripts call other scripts. So, particularly when I'm trying to play an embedded video served by another site served through a CDN, the process for getting the damn video to play is something like: Click video -> Open uMatrix -> whitelist some scripts -> reload -> whitelist more…
Uh, sorry, but uBlock Origin blocks it. Also, does anyone else finds themselves jumping straight into `reader view`?
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Longtime uMatrix user here. The most frustrating thing about UM (which is the same problem I had with NoScript back in the day) is that some scripts call other scripts. So, particularly when I'm trying to play an embedded video served by another site served through a CDN, the process for getting the damn video to play is something like: Click video -> Open uMatrix -> whitelist some scripts -> reload -> whitelist more…
Yes, a bit bothersome at times. But if I take the trouble to finetune worthwhile sites I run into, and make the settings permanent, life does get markedly easier after a while. I rarely see an ad. I didn't see Troy's responsible sponsor message either. I should have and would have if he had chosen to display the thing without the need for scripting. So I don't feel hugely guilty.
edit: Okay, it's not blocked by default with uMatrix: https://i.imgur.com/B97lf35.png
> And yes, I'll chat to her about the Fox News situation as well! Highlight of the article right here.
Pi-Hole is beautiful and open-source. As long as it doesn't get too popular, tech savvy people can continue to enjoy network wide content blocking. Consider supporting them (but not too much ;): https://www.patreon.com/pihole
Why the "not too much"? IIRC Adblock was "compromised" in a way because it was more profitable for them to make deals with advertisers. If they made more money off of donations they wouldn't need to sell out.
But on a more serious note, it is simple products like AdGuard DNS which will probably make Ad-Tech sweat more, because it's so easy to use for average users.
Adblock was compromised due to lack of integrity imho.
Killing two birds with one stone here: proxying access through a VPS to hide the home IP address && blocking ads.
Apart from it occasionally blocking legitimate sites that begin with the word "ad" (something like, say, "adrian.blog.thing"), it works great. Because it's an HTTP proxy, it offers an interface for bypassing these unintended blocks.
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Longtime uMatrix user here. The most frustrating thing about UM (which is the same problem I had with NoScript back in the day) is that some scripts call other scripts. So, particularly when I'm trying to play an embedded video served by another site served through a CDN, the process for getting the damn video to play is something like: Click video -> Open uMatrix -> whitelist some scripts -> reload -> whitelist more…
Yes, a bit bothersome at times. But if I take the trouble to finetune worthwhile sites I run into, and make the settings permanent, life does get markedly easier after a while. I rarely see an ad. I didn't see Troy's responsible sponsor message either. I should have and would have if he had chosen to display the thing without the need for scripting. So I don't feel hugely guilty.
