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Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser

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I’ve tried a lot of ad blockers over the years. Browsing mainstream news on the internet, in particular, highlights the absolute cesspool of pop ups and auto-playing videos that characterize the contemporary web. None, least of all Stop the Madness, have worked as well and on as many devices as this simple bookmarklet, whose author I don’t know but who has saved me countless aggravations javascript:(function%20()%20%…

Can you give an example of sites encountered in regular browsing this helps with?

For example, the top bar on New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/riding-lon... .

Or a more obviously one, the HUGE top bar on Material Design site: https://material.io .

Re: StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note how it says "limit", not "stop" ad tracking.

Yes, it says "limit" because Apple cannot guarantee all 3rd party ad tracking stops in every piece of software. What it does is set your personalized advertising ID to all 0s, making you indistinguishable from 20% of Apple users. That is, it completely opts you out of Apple's tracking ID that the poster was complaining about. I mentioned you can also turn off Windows personalized ID, but for some reason that post (an…

I would argue the correct behavior is not sending it at all and having an error if the other side requests it. Why should my OS offer any information even a bucket of 20% of users?
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