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Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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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.

How do you know what is needed for that without reading the GDPR?

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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I have worked in the ad industry for 10+ years. Firefox, strict mode but no ad blocker for web. What I would not do though, is using an android or ios phone (or anykind of smartphone where I don't know what the system nor the application do). I am not sure that people realize how many power and data are used on these phones, for things totally unrelated to their personal usage

So you don’t use a smartphone at all? Or am I misunderstanding?

Yes, until recently where I have a Pinephone, but at the end of the day, I do mostly a "phone" usage rather than data/camera/social usages

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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I have worked in the ad industry for 10+ years. Firefox, strict mode but no ad blocker for web. What I would not do though, is using an android or ios phone (or anykind of smartphone where I don't know what the system nor the application do). I am not sure that people realize how many power and data are used on these phones, for things totally unrelated to their personal usage

Why not just use an Android phone with Firefox and the same exact settings that you use on desktop?

I guess it is doable as long as you are doing only that with your phone. If it is linked to a google account for example, the OS and "embedded" google application will still report tons of data that will be then use for advertising

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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completely false, it's trivially possible to create a website without needing to involve GDPR at all.

How do you know what is needed for that without reading the GDPR?

if you don't collect personal data or analytics, you aren't covered by GDPR at all.

in the abstract sense of course everyone has to know all the laws of society - the law in its majestic equality forbids unsafe construction practices from builders and greengrocers alike - but that's not a particularly interesting or insightful observation.

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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The internet with no adblock is a little like driving through Breezewood, Pennsylvania https://imgur.com/a/qmAxHfk

That's actually a pretty famous photo. You can right-click and see a much larger one. Must get that full-sized advertising goodness. https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/postwar...

Famous and deceptive. It is a narrow angle shot, taken straight down the axis of very specific strip. Take an off axis, wide angle shot, and billboards disappear. I don't remember the details but photographic tricks like that played a large role in a trial opposing advertisers to people who considered billboard an eyesore. The former used wide angle shots while the latter used telephoto.

We saw a lot of tricks like that related to covid and social distancing. Heavily zoomed pictures of "crowded" beaches, streets, etc... where in reality, it is far less dense than the photo makes it look like.

Re: uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

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Do you think they can't tell when a click is automated?

This gets brought up every time Ad Nauseam is mentioned but I have yet to see a proof of concept.

A proof of concept that a site can tell whether you clicked something automatically? reCAPTCHA.
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