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Re: URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

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Seems nice. I'm curious, how do you make money / stay in business? I couldn't find any paid options.

Maybe this has changed since your comment, but I see three paid plans on the homepage.

Yes always been there. There are additional plans once you register for more short links and teams.

Re: URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

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>I honestly didn't think anyone browsed the web without javascript enabled. How common is that? Not the person you asked, but speaking for myself, all the time. I have a javascript toggle I use several times a day, and leave it set to off as much as I can.

Interesting..How many sites work without javascript these days? Does google?

Plenty, and you get used to either toggling or enable the specific scripts that need to run.

Re: URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

#103

I really wish web browsers would strip tracking code bullshit from URLs. When I copy/paste a link for friends I always manually edit that crap. On the other hand I do love websites like WireCutter which only exists because of referral codes.

Yes wirecutter exist because of affiliate links but they do offer detailed reviews. I use/trust them often for purchases and amazon affiliates do not cost the user anything extra.

Re: URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

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As someone who uses a whitelist approach, I am curious whether people ever experience false positives or missing entries with these lists? I have little experince with those lists except for going through one of them once and being shocked at what was in there. The setup I use is customised for me, i.e., Rube Goldberg would be proud. I can view and manipulate all traffic from outside the application and outside the o…

What is the user interface for your setup like? It sounds attractive but possibly prohibitively frictious to be workable for me. I currently use a combination of uBlock Origin blacklisting, NoScript whitelisting, and Little Snitch alerting, if you need a baseline to compare. I've also run a Pihole instance in the past to loop my phone in, but that's not running as of today.

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Re: URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

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Sorry about that. I honestly didn't think anyone browsed the web without javascript enabled. How common is that? We do offer a simple to use api that you could build on top of to shorten link. Also an extension that offers the ability to shorten a url in one click. API Docs: https://t.ly/docs/ Extension: https://t.ly/extension

>I honestly didn't think anyone browsed the web without javascript enabled. How common is that? Not the person you asked, but speaking for myself, all the time. I have a javascript toggle I use several times a day, and leave it set to off as much as I can.

Would you mind offering a bit more detail about the "toggle"? Which browser, what's the name of the extension, etc. I would love something like that but don't really want to go through the effort of setting up a whitelist right now.

Re: URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

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Interesting..How many sites work without javascript these days? Does google?

More than you'd think, not as many as I'd hope. Easily 2/3rds of the ones I visit work, FWIW. Google works fine without javascript. Stunningly fast.

> Google works fine without javascript. Stunningly fast.

Until they block you for "suspicious behavior" after a few minutes of using it like that.

Re: URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

#109
post #64

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That list is questionable at best. There are many claims the list author makes without any source code at all, though a lot of buzzwords. The reddit r/pihole moderator pulled the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/kh5dit/the_quantum_... . The thread was more entertaining before the list author deleted every downvoted comment they made.

I agree that it's questionable. I commented the same in the thread I linked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513161 However, at least for Pi-Hole users, more is usually better, so I added the list to my Pi-Hole.

> > We were testing an AI that could show some basic emotions about internet content, and turns out it was very precise at getting “annoyed” by ads and “unsolicited” third party connections…

Holy shit that's such bullshit.

They are basically claiming they invented a artificial general intelligence, with feelings, that happens to feel the same way about ads as us. It's basically sentient instead of publishing research papers, they turned it into an ad blocker.

Re: URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

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post #64

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That list is questionable at best. There are many claims the list author makes without any source code at all, though a lot of buzzwords. The reddit r/pihole moderator pulled the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/kh5dit/the_quantum_... . The thread was more entertaining before the list author deleted every downvoted comment they made.

I agree that it's questionable. I commented the same in the thread I linked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513161 However, at least for Pi-Hole users, more is usually better, so I added the list to my Pi-Hole.

No, more is not usually better. Especially with a garbage ""AI-generated"" (not) list with untrustworthy maintainers like this one. It's better to add a low number of lists with trusted maintainers, who actively curate their lists and respond to false positives. That means no "mega-list" abominations like oisd.nl.

I suggest: https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/

https://gitlab.com/curben/urlhaus-filter/raw/master/urlhaus-...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notracking/hosts-blocklist...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master...

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