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Blame government for not understanding unintended consequences when they pass laws regarding tech (GDPR)
The law says that agreeing or disagreeing should be equally easy. Companies are breaking that law.
The internet without an adblock is just a scary, misleading place that's trying to trick you into scams, echochambers, bad deals, bad advice, botnets and cryptolockers.
>echochambers >bad advice I doubt ublock does anything about that
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We're two. It's so useful. I use it on those website who display the "accept all cookies", specially on those ones because I'm tired of denying cookie usage. I still don't understand why Firefox, champion of privacy, doesn't make a uBlock native.
Just to make people aware who may not be, you can block a lot of cookie banners and other annoyances that are not blocked in uBlock Origin by default by enabling more specific filter lists in the extension options. In the "filter lists" tab, I would recommended enabling the "Fanboy's Annoyance" list. It's a huge list that focuses on removing various annoying, recurring website components, and it's created by the main…
just installed it today on my father's partner's laptop. in my opinion ublock origin is by now an integral part of the internet infrastructure. it's also the only piece of software which I consistently install on every platform I use (Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS). Raymond deserves some sort of Nobel prize or something for this. The internet is not usable for me without it.
How do you install uBlock Origin on iOS?
The internet without an adblock is just a scary, misleading place that's trying to trick you into scams, echochambers, bad deals, bad advice, botnets and cryptolockers.
In 16 years on the internet with as blocking limited to manually blocked annoyances only I have never had any of those issues. I’m almost certain it’s just an argument to justify adblocking. I wish people had the ability to avoid all the motivated reasoning and just honestly admit the selfishness of their behavior.
Is there any reason not to enable all the blocklists and filters in uBlock Origin that aren't enabled by default? And why aren't they enabled by default? Finally, are there any other quick/easy things that can be done by users to improve uBlock's blocking... like maybe installing some other blocklists that aren't in uBlock Origin at all?
An example of this is that the lists can block very general class or id attribute such as #cookie-banner. While it's likely that you'll want this blocked in general, some small number of sites may have an element (unfortunately) named this that is functional and that you actually want to see.
Because some of the lists have tens of thousands of entries, these edge cases can add up to break more sites than is actually desired. So there is a give/take there.
Another point is that some of the lists are redundant but have different maintainers. So it may make sense to choose one of these, but you it would just be additional overhead to check them all.
In my experience, running the default lists along with the "Fanboy's Annoyance" list and a few custom entries in "My filters" provides a good experience for me.
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The concept of a user agent is hilariously and sadly quaint on the modern web. Can you imagine what a user agent to interact with Facebook would look like? Or Instagram? Or TikTok? It shows how far we slid backwards for large, popular areas of user functionality, post-90s.
On the contrary; the browser is still generally the user's agent (although Chrome can be iffy) - we don't need to imagine, because we can compare the Facebook app to browsing Facebook in a browser, and see that the browser is still far more friendly to the user's interests than what FB ships.
But browsers in 2022 are second class citizens, for business models that can generate positive ROI from developer time. They are at best dissuaded (e.g. Reddit, TikTok), and at worse actively crippled or prohibited.
The majority of users are on apps, and more users are moving to devices (e.g. Chromebooks, Portal). All of which are explicitly not user agents.
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The law says that agreeing or disagreeing should be equally easy. Companies are breaking that law.
I don't want to agree or disagree at all. I want my internet back pre-banners where I just get the content. The new internet is awful.
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It’s hard to know what a law says that requires you to read 11 chapters with 99 sections just to create a website. https://gdpr-info.eu/
completely false, it's trivially possible to create a website without needing to involve GDPR at all.
The only people who think it's particularly hard or onerous are the people referenced by "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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completely false, it's trivially possible to create a website without needing to involve GDPR at all.
Don't collect any information you don't actually have to, and if you do hold personal information, treat it basically like you'd want your own information treated, and you're basically good. It's really that simple. The only people who think it's particularly hard or onerous are the people referenced by "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Did the law in anyway make my life better?