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It isn't silently hidden at all, it's just on the second page because this story has many comments
Thank you I feel silly I don't think I have ever even noticed the more button at the end.
I took the most recent block lists that uBlock Origin was using at the time and filtered out all the css-based selectors to just get the domains and urls.
Unfortunately it basically broke nearly every site that I went to, largely in part to blocking some top-tier domains from Google I think.
You could run lead-dns locally on your machine, or on another machine on your network.
I still think its a good approach and will be looking into Pi-hole since its a lot more developed than my early experiment.
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Use a different root filesystem. Ext4 is not robust against power loss, as I've discovered in multiple embedded Linux systems where Ext4 was used. The best filesystems for robustness against power loss seem to be log-structured filesystems like YAFFS2 or QNX's ETFS. The design of the filesystem basically means that a block is never modified on flash, only obsoleted by future writes. The trade-off is that the filesyst…
Back in the day (also before ext4) we solved this by mounting the root filesystem read-only. Depending on any other application for the machine, you may not need filesystem writes at all once it is set up. Bonus: it’s even friendlier to the flash.
Troy's perspective seems to be lacking in several levels. The first thing is the nature of advertising. Advertising is an attack on the client to convince him to believe and ultimately to act in ways that could not be contrived through honest communication. It is an attempt to manipulate. Even his very benign banner represents an attempt to manipulate. A company buying such a banner wants an author to speak as he wou…
Additionally, you make this appeal to what is natural, implying that natural is better. You seem to be defining natural as something that you would do without money informing your decision, but no one is a machine that makes all or even many of their decision on conscious thought.
Additionally, you don't seem to understand either that Troy runs a service Have I Been Pwned, for free, and there is no advertising there at all. The ads that he has aren't just funding his $20/month blog, but a service that tens of thousands of people rely on, and can easily cost him $1000s of dollars per month (he has made some posts on this previously).
Laaastly. Regarding your last claim of "adblock blocks his source of revenue"... Are you running adblock right now? Does it even block his banner? I doubt it.
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I would absolutely pay $10 a month to an aggregator like HN or /. that then paid publishers a portion of that based on article rank and/or number of clicks through.
Yes, agree that fixed-price deals with publishers / aggregators are tenable. Spotify works for people, for example. The original argument was essentially that there was a minimum transaction size that was cognitively viable at scale.
2) I know my next suggestion goes against net neutrality, but what would stop an ISP from doing something similar at the level of their router (or cluster of routers)?
Update: Actually for 2), some places that provide Internet access to their users who aren't ISP customers (e.g. businesses, malls, municipalities, colleges/universities/schools) could roll this out as well citing bandwidth savings (therefore cost savings).
1) What would be the quickest way to get a either a Pi-hole device or a router supporting that level of functionality (ad-blocking, and DNSCrypt) into the hands of normal consumers on a mass scale (e.g. completely non-technical users like my parents or grandparents)? 2) I know my next suggestion goes against net neutrality, but what would stop an ISP from doing something similar at the level of their router (or clust…
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I'm on the latest version of the browser, and there's a "Payments" tab in Settings where you can add funds with BTC / ETH / BAT / LTC, set monthly budgets, and see what your percentage is. So I'm not sure where you saw that they discontinued that feature or sell ads.
I am guessing they will replace it by the following feature : Support your favorite sites with Brave’s blockchain-based tokens called Basic Attention Tokens. (coming soon to mobile) https://brave.com/features/
[0] https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1036724148146384896 [1] https://brave.com/faq-payments/#previous-bitcoin-wallet [2] https://basicattentiontoken.org/
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Sort of like Patreon. Except it would work a bit differently. Say I approve N number of sites (NY Times, WaPo, EE Times, etc.) They each get paid out of a monthly fund based on how much I visit each of them.
Wouldn't that in itself involve tracking your behaviour on the web, though, which is what commenters on this thread started off saying they disliked?