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Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
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Re: Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
#12This is not precisely about the filter list but the whole shenanigans that led to it. Persons from other countries might be interested in this little quirk of Finland. Especially as it relates to workers rights in general. In Finland, unique among Nordic countries, political strikes are allowed. What does this mean? Let's say you're not happy about a decision made by Trump you can go to a strike. Sure the company doe…
> It is also questionable from democratic perspective. Why should a subset of population have more saying than the rest. I wouldn't accept this argument at face value unless you were unusually disciplined about applying it equally everywhere. For example, applying this rule equally everywhere means, among other things, eliminating capitalism. After all, capitalism creates a significant imbalance in power in practice…
I should have been more clear with "more say than the rest". I referred to making the laws of the country. In Finland the parliament makes the laws according to the constitution and everyone has a single vote for electing members of said parliament. From what I know companies have no extra votes to give for representatives.
Re: Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It is also questionable from democratic perspective. Why should a subset of population have more saying than the rest. I wouldn't accept this argument at face value unless you were unusually disciplined about applying it equally everywhere. For example, applying this rule equally everywhere means, among other things, eliminating capitalism. After all, capitalism creates a significant imbalance in power in practice…
I should have been more clear with "more say than the rest". I referred to making the laws of the country. In Finland the parliament makes the laws according to the constitution and everyone has a single vote for electing members of said parliament. From what I know companies have no extra votes to give for representatives.
Do they have extra money to give to representatives?
Re: Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I should have been more clear with "more say than the rest". I referred to making the laws of the country. In Finland the parliament makes the laws according to the constitution and everyone has a single vote for electing members of said parliament. From what I know companies have no extra votes to give for representatives.
Do they have extra money to give to representatives?
Yes but at the end of the day all they can do is use that money to try to convince other voters to choose to vote their way.
The power to convince is different from the power to flatly override the wishes of others.
If you start trying to equalize the power to convince, now you're upending the entire media/journalistic system (where reporters and filmmakers and celebrities have far more influence than normal people) as well as the economy.
Re: Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
#15I found that for me a whitelist makes more sense then a blacklist. I use umatrix with these two default rules: * * * block * 1st-party * allow So by default a site can load whatever it wants from its own domain and nothing from 3rd party domains. Then I add rules as needed. The Umatrix interface makes this super easy.
Except most sites use a CDN to serve static content, so this will block a lot of files
And it's "its own domain"
Re: Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
#16This is not precisely about the filter list but the whole shenanigans that led to it. Persons from other countries might be interested in this little quirk of Finland. Especially as it relates to workers rights in general. In Finland, unique among Nordic countries, political strikes are allowed. What does this mean? Let's say you're not happy about a decision made by Trump you can go to a strike. Sure the company doe…
I think this is brilliant!!
This gives political clout back to the normal people.
Cleaners and trash disposal workers on strike for 2 months?? Country comes to a standstill.
Investment bankers on strike for 2 years? Nobody noticed except for retirees that get more pension benefits.
Re: Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
#17I found that for me a whitelist makes more sense then a blacklist. I use umatrix with these two default rules: * * * block * 1st-party * allow So by default a site can load whatever it wants from its own domain and nothing from 3rd party domains. Then I add rules as needed. The Umatrix interface makes this super easy.
Except most sites use a CDN to serve static content, so this will block a lot of files And it's "its own domain"
When you add Decentraleyes and add its ruleset to uMatrix, a lot of things start working.
Context: Decentraleyes is an extension that bundles a lot of those CDN-served JS frameworks and serves the locally stored version when it intercepts a matching HTTP request to fetch from those CDNs.
Re: Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
#18I found that for me a whitelist makes more sense then a blacklist. I use umatrix with these two default rules: * * * block * 1st-party * allow So by default a site can load whatever it wants from its own domain and nothing from 3rd party domains. Then I add rules as needed. The Umatrix interface makes this super easy.
Except most sites use a CDN to serve static content, so this will block a lot of files And it's "its own domain"
Yes, but as I said, it's very easy to add those via umatrix. And you only have to do it the first time you visit a new site.
Example: You go to meetup.com for the first time. You click on the umatrix icon. You click on meetupstatic.com. You click on the save symbol. Done.
Re: Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I should have been more clear with "more say than the rest". I referred to making the laws of the country. In Finland the parliament makes the laws according to the constitution and everyone has a single vote for electing members of said parliament. From what I know companies have no extra votes to give for representatives.
Do they have extra money to give to representatives?
Just like the unions have net worth of billions that they use to fund representatives.
This is Finland where unions are more than just bit strong. Based on gallups the next election likely goes to the union backed party.
Re: Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except most sites use a CDN to serve static content, so this will block a lot of files And it's "its own domain"
When you add Decentraleyes and add its ruleset to uMatrix, a lot of things start working. Context: Decentraleyes is an extension that bundles a lot of those CDN-served JS frameworks and serves the locally stored version when it intercepts a matching HTTP request to fetch from those CDNs.
I've had that installed for about a week now and the counter is still stuck at zero...