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Post by epgui »

ekianjo wrote: post #122
PeterStuer wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair Youtube has to make a profit somehow. Ad revenue, direct and/or through profile data collection is easy and effective but the worst businessmodel for human sanity. I like that they at least offer an alternative for the ad viewing part through Youtube premium. I don't know about the US as streaming services seem to have catalogues orders of magnitude more extensive than over here in Europe, but compared to…

> To be fair Youtube has to make a profit somehow. I don't care, I still won't watch ads, and if I pay for something, I want to pay for something for that does actively track my watching habits and sell my data, so they are out of luck.

I think you’re missing a “not” somewhere in there…

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by jksflkjl3jk3 »

eikaramba wrote: post #165
lodovic wrote: post #93

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you can block the detection popup itself with uBlock. Seems to have done the trick for me.

No don't do that. And stop spreading misinformation. There is a thread on Reddit explaining why this is absolutely stupid and will only result in you losing access to YouTube. Or do you really think YouTubes for works like this. The biggest problem currently are people spreading those types of misinformation see https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtu...

How would one lose access? Is Youtube blocking IP addresses? Fingerprinting browsers in a way that Firefox's ResistFingerprinting setting doesn't handle?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by Flammy »

lolinder wrote: post #220
loughnane wrote: post #189

Yesterday I figured out how to block cards in my LI feed that contained certain words. Here's the one for things containing "excited to" ``` www.linkedin.com##.relative:has-text(/excited to/i)``` between that, blocking images, and user taglines my feed is much more concise and readable.

This is cool, but sincere question: what is even left after you block all the fluff? I rarely bother to go to my LinkedIn feed, but when I do it's all fluff that I don't need to see. Is there actually value buried somewhere under there?

IMO I care much more about contacts changing jobs, getting laid off, and talking about their side projects than anything else.

I probably should see if someone has a linkedin script to remove non-1st connection content.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by benhurmarcel »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #204
d3vmax wrote: post #80

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I still use adblocker on everything else and I know YT without adblock / premium is terrible. However, YT premium is only 2-3 USD/mo in India. So, I use that to get ad-free experience on YT and also YT music is great.

You are now "paying" google twice - once with money and twice by giving them your data.

Your data is worthless if they can’t use it to show you targeted ads.

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Post by theshrike79 »

theshrike79 wrote: post #162
skrebbel wrote: post #83

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Hmmm source? I know youtube does but I didnt know Chrome does.

Site and browser owned by the largest ad company in the world don't want you to block ads. News at 11.

(If you disagree, don't just click the down arrow, argue your point.)

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Post by SmarsJerry »

bluish29 wrote: post #196
kibwen wrote: post #174

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You realize that Apple is ad company too, right? Just like every other shitty tech company these days. Apple generated $5 billion in ad revenue in 2022.

From the app store ads mainly. Omitting this fact is dishonest at best.

I think they are requiring apps on their store use ads provided by their store as well though.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by bloopernova »

flutas wrote: post #219
bloopernova wrote: post #209

uBlock Origin can also be used to modify the DOM or CSS in specific URLs via its "My Filters" screen. For instance, I use it to switch HackerNews to dark mode, and restrict the width of comments to about 10-12 words: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/c39c83f2f97c3c6b1c307c... It's a great alternative to GreaseMonkey or other user style extensions.

Thanks for the gist. I tweaked it a tiny bit since overscroll on FF on osx was showing as white, figured I'd share it back. It's not perfect, but the BG color differences are close enough to not bother me. ! Invert the colours of the site, making a dark mode that I like ! `invert(95%)` does most of the work, ! but you can tweak the hue-rotate value to fine tune the colours news.ycombinator.com##body:style(filter:inve…

Hey that's good stuff, thank you!

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Post by freedomben »

qwertox wrote: post #179
codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

Thanks. Good to know. Solidifies my belief that additionally using Pi-Hole can only improve things.

For now, hopefully DoH/DoT isn't forced upon us

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by freedomben »

bluish29 wrote: post #196
kibwen wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You realize that Apple is ad company too, right? Just like every other shitty tech company these days. Apple generated $5 billion in ad revenue in 2022.

From the app store ads mainly. Omitting this fact is dishonest at best.

How much was from outside the app store?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by gustavus »

Justsignedup wrote: post #137
codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

Ad nauseum solves this. Sure you get tracked but you also send all the wrong signals.

I'll give a warning with that, the traffic generated by adnausem starts to get cloudflare suspicious and then you end up having 1/2 of the internet made inaccessible because Cloudflare decided at some point you are a bad actor and you're pretty much hosed from that point on.
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