It would be 100% if I could do it on mobile.
ublock origin is available on firefox mobile is you use android.
Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
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#12It would be 100% if I could do it on mobile.
Android offers Private DNS, just point that at nextdns.io and block things even within apps that aren't browsers.
The biggest benefit is definitely the sheer speed at which news websites load on my phone now, even when I'm on a crap connection.
Another benefit: This isn't a VPN, so you can still use a VPN whilst using Private DNS.
Edit: Also... lol, I can't access TFA as plausible.io is also blocked on my network and phone. I'm going to assume that the article is actually an analytics competitor whose pitch is "GA is blocked, use us instead!".
Edit 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=plausible.io Yes, assumption was correct.
Edit 3: NextDNS stats from my home network: 11.45% of DNS requests blocked, but from my phone 23.7% of DNS requests blocked. You need this more on your mobile than in a web browser!
Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#13I surf in private mode. A super simple solution for all your tracking protection needs people. It boggles my mind how this comes up again and again yet we have private browsing since when? The 90s? Don’t be lazy - that’s the real reason, isn’t it? Having to login again..
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#14Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#15There is a German movie about the system that is used to gather TV ratings. It's a special box that some users get which reports what they are watching. Small sample size goes into a big statistic (not sure how accurate the portrayal of the system in the movie is). These boxes are given to the people who pay the German public TV fee, which excludes i.e. students (they don't have to pay) and some other groups. This group of critical people figured that out and started to hack into these machines to fake ratings. They faked the ratings away from stupid trash TV towards some higher quality stuff, documentaries, culture, ...
Obviously in the movie then the country saw a renaissance, everyone got smarter, yadda yadda, you get it.
I feel like this is similar. All tech savvy people block ads and analytics and at least the known tricks they use against us. So the internet only tracks the defenseless people and is then built to serve them (and or exploit them).
Maybe we should engage in large scale AdWords fraud. Send come fake traffic away from Facebook and over to Wikipedia.
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#16It would be 100% if I could do it on mobile.
On Android I use personaldnsfilter (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dnsfilter.android/), which creates a local VPN, there are also actual VPN apps that allow blocking ad hosts, and you can also use AdGuard DNS directly.
Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#17I surf in private mode. A super simple solution for all your tracking protection needs people. It boggles my mind how this comes up again and again yet we have private browsing since when? The 90s? Don’t be lazy - that’s the real reason, isn’t it? Having to login again..
Yes, because of course private mode protects you from fingerprinting tech and other tracking infrastructure
/sarcasm
Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#18There is a German movie about the system that is used to gather TV ratings. It's a special box that some users get which reports what they are watching. Small sample size goes into a big statistic (not sure how accurate the portrayal of the system in the movie is). These boxes are given to the people who pay the German public TV fee, which excludes i.e. students (they don't have to pay) and some other groups. This gr…
You mean something like AdNauseam?
Edit: it's an adblocker that is supposed to click on EVERY ad that it blocks.
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#19It would be 100% if I could do it on mobile.
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#20It would be 100% if I could do it on mobile.
Use Brave.