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Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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Post by Waterluvian »

pensatoio wrote: post #39
bagacrap wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for every site you visit? yeah no thanks

I think you’re setting unreasonable expectations. Ad blocking has years of work behind it, and it still isn’t an exact science. Cookie banners are even harder, because they usually only come in the form of an element that blends in.

That's kind of the point. The solution is one by one blacklisting?

If so it needs to be better than making tickets. What about a system to hide the elements manually and that action feeds into a database?

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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Post by ludwigschubert »

ronyfadel wrote: post #33
terramex wrote: post #15

Your mileage may vary but the first 3 websites I opened after installing it: - https://twitter.com/ still shows cookie banner at the bottom - https://botland.com.pl still shows cookie banner at the bottom - https://www.17track.net started showing "You are seeing this message because ad or script blocking software is interfering with this page." at the bottom of the page and asked me to solve a captcha

I'd recommend you file an issue (or even better, a pull request) at https://github.com/oblador/hush/issues

It turns out the author links a Google Form for reporting problems in the app:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeox139lwja1Yl94dIZ...

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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Post by _jstreet »

mikhailt wrote: post #30

Is there any work being done to revert the requirements of cookie banners, age consent, etc? These are all utterly pointless and easy to bypass. While we're at it, get rid of the forced "piracy is harmful" ads on every media disc too. Pirates don't actually see these messages, they're stripped out in the final copy, so the actual legal customers are the only one suffering through it as they can't be skipped either wi…

I wonder that too. Would this be something the W3C would look into introducing some configurable cookie-consent (i.e. "Accept all", "necessary only", "block all" options) that browser vendors could then pick-up on and adopt so that it wouldn't require manual checks at each website visit?

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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Post by ryukafalz »

mikhailt wrote: post #30

Is there any work being done to revert the requirements of cookie banners, age consent, etc? These are all utterly pointless and easy to bypass. While we're at it, get rid of the forced "piracy is harmful" ads on every media disc too. Pirates don't actually see these messages, they're stripped out in the final copy, so the actual legal customers are the only one suffering through it as they can't be skipped either wi…

I think the cookie banner requirements are just fine: they're only required if sites are tracking you. It's a good sign that if I'm on a site that's not bothering me with a cookie banner, it's respecting my privacy: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

Making the widespread surveillance that was previously invisible visible (and annoying) seems like a good move to me.

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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Post by detaro »

_jstreet wrote: post #43
mikhailt wrote: post #30

Is there any work being done to revert the requirements of cookie banners, age consent, etc? These are all utterly pointless and easy to bypass. While we're at it, get rid of the forced "piracy is harmful" ads on every media disc too. Pirates don't actually see these messages, they're stripped out in the final copy, so the actual legal customers are the only one suffering through it as they can't be skipped either wi…

I wonder that too. Would this be something the W3C would look into introducing some configurable cookie-consent (i.e. "Accept all", "necessary only", "block all" options) that browser vendors could then pick-up on and adopt so that it wouldn't require manual checks at each website visit?

Something like the Do-Not-Track header? The history of that pretty much shows how much adoption to expect for a feature like this, sadly.

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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Post by swinglock »

ronyfadel wrote: post #33
terramex wrote: post #15

Your mileage may vary but the first 3 websites I opened after installing it: - https://twitter.com/ still shows cookie banner at the bottom - https://botland.com.pl still shows cookie banner at the bottom - https://www.17track.net started showing "You are seeing this message because ad or script blocking software is interfering with this page." at the bottom of the page and asked me to solve a captcha

I'd recommend you file an issue (or even better, a pull request) at https://github.com/oblador/hush/issues

May be better to report it to Fanboy. This app seem to be almost entirely based on it. Doing so helps many more users than those of this app. Are improvements upstreamed or does it just piggyback?

https://github.com/oblador/hush/tree/master/data

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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Post by jdeibele »

andrethegiant wrote: post #35
thekid314 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, 1Blocker running on Safari and NextDNS connection in the background means I never see ads these days.

Thanks for the NextDNS tip, it looks amazing. I was about to set up Pi-hole today but this looks better.

AdGuard DNS is easy to set up and free. I went with it because there are 5 of us at home all the time due to COVID and I didn't know if we would hit the NextDNS limit of 300,000 queries a month.

10,000 queries a day sounds like a lot but our router (Orbi) isn't doing any caching so maybe it's not.

AdGuard DNS doesn't let you have any configuration. My college student had to change her DNS settings once because an app was being blocked as an ad blocker.

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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Post by dheera »

mikkelam wrote: post #48

I've been using "I don't care about cookies" for years now https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a... It's fantastic. Browsing the web on my iPhone, I feel like slaying myself. Current state of the web is just fucking annoying.

Exactly. I don't care about cookies because I block all of them anyway except on sites I need to login to, which means those sites won't be able to remember cookie accept/decline settings either because ironically they need another cookie to store that setting.

I used a bunch of custom CSS until I got tired of it, then I started using uBlock Origin which also helps block other annoyances like those stupid "Can I help you?" chat bubbles and other popups on various websites.

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