Good list. Is there anything not included on this list that should be?
Browser-fingerprinting.
I Block Ads
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#22I wish it were possible to thoroughly ban all advertising and marketing. I have been that fed up with all of this crap for a long time now.
Yes, or at least all third-party marketing and advertising.
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#23"No communication with me without my consent," is something I want in society, and that is violated by virtually all advertising, everywhere. I wish this was the social norm. The compromise is what the OP did, reactive, only-really-available-to-tech-folk measures. This is unfortunate.
Personally, I would not consent to any communication that was paid for. In that case it's money talking, not the person, and this is quite confusing for people including me.
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#24I don't block adds, I only block tracking cookies, and yet I am told repeatedly by websites that I am blocking ads on a daily basis, and that they will go out of business if I don't disable my "ad blocker." Meanwhile I am quite content with pages that show me full-width banner ads without tracking me.
How do you block tracking but not ads? As in, do you let adsense ads show up, which track you? If not, why do you think the site wouldn't think you are blocking ads?
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#25How do you automatically remove UTM tracking parts of the URLs by default ? Is there a browser extension ?
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#26People say that we won’t have any of the stuff we have on the new internet if we block ads and “don’t pay for it somehow” but I liked the old internet better, so this is win/win.
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#27I mean, all that is the min-bar, isn't it?
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#28Good list. Is there anything not included on this list that should be?
Would love to see links to information on how to block some of the particular avenues mentioned. Some I haven't heard of yet.
I use a pi-hole and uBlock Origin, but am always up to learn more...
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#29If you ever heard your friends complaining about the amount of ads they get on their phones and computers, gladly spend a while to help them install something like Ublock Origin. Let the less techy public know there is a way out.
Recently setup a W11 VFIO VM, even on its own MITM'd vNIC with DPI and custom heurestics to cut most out the naughty MSFT traffic: it was still a dizzying assault of ads and noiseware; being transported from serene LTSC W10 to the cyberpunk advertisment plaza of W11 was like my brain segfaulting.
I won't lie: I could barely think with all the attention-grabbing, adtech bloat. Scary!
Is there a way we can help people who don't know they're being exploited like this?
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#30Advertising based 'free' things cost you far more than a subscription ever would. This is because Advertising Works and it works on you too . You are being manipulated into buying things you wouldn't buy, manipulated into making poor decisions you wouldn't otherwise make. Generations of people lost decades with relatives from smoking and drinking that would not have happened but for advertising. Advertising makes peo…
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