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> It does tend to get me profiled as a "bot" by CloudFlare Since Cloudflare employees are known to lurk here, I'd like to know: is this considered a false positive, or working as intended?
I have no releation to CF but from my perspective, if a human is marked as a bot - that's a false positive.
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They made it addictive and it's not possible to uninstall on Android. You can only deactivate the application.
And what is the effective difference between uninstalling and deactivating it for you, assuming you want to do either of those to prevent over use?
Otherwise the same once it's done.
I've been MITM'ing my traffic to, among other things, strip ads and rewrite pages with things like custom CSS, ever since I discovered The Proxomitron over 2 decades ago. It does tend to get me profiled as a "bot" by CloudFlare and such, but there are not-so-trivial ways around that too. It also shows why things like remote attestation are hazardous for user freedom.
Network level ad-blocking like Privoxy and pi-hole have so many downsides like they can't handle inline adverts. My pi4 pi-hole is unplugged right now because it just didn't work well. After hours wasted trying to make it work with all the services, I've thrown in the towel. The time involved is just not worth it for a home network. What works are browser based ad-blockers and app patchers like ReVanced. As my saving…
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Here's hoping that, if they do it, they'll start blocking corporate TLS mitm regimes too.
Why? This isn't the 90s any more. You shouldn't use your employer's systems for anything other than work.
This is interesting, I’ve been trying to figure out the best solution for handling blackout rules for sports apps. You pay full price but they specifically block anything in your market which is absolutely ridiculous. Yes, you can slap an antenna on the back and view low resolution local stations assuming you’re picking up a decent signal. Haven’t found the most elegant way. Probably the path of least resistance is g…
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> I bet some of y'all blocking YT ads are paying for Spotify. That's just bad planning [..] Because it's trivial to block youtube ads. There are no decent free Spotify alternatives or ways to get it for free, that I know of.
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Google keeps tracking your behavior for advertising purposes. This defeats completely any reason to give them money.
The primary benefit that many pay for is to not see ads and to support creators you enjoy, not to avoid tracking.
I've been MITM'ing my traffic to, among other things, strip ads and rewrite pages with things like custom CSS, ever since I discovered The Proxomitron over 2 decades ago. It does tend to get me profiled as a "bot" by CloudFlare and such, but there are not-so-trivial ways around that too. It also shows why things like remote attestation are hazardous for user freedom.
> It does tend to get me profiled as a "bot" by CloudFlare Since Cloudflare employees are known to lurk here, I'd like to know: is this considered a false positive, or working as intended?
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No, Google will keep fucking you over and destroying the Internet, whether you pay or not. Not to mention the fact that what they pay out to creators is absolutely pathetic. Go find their Patreon, their Ko-fi, hell their paypal, anything but giving Google 13 bucks. Adblocking Google is morally right.
Stop using Google if you want to promote alternatives. Otherwise you're just rationalising freeloader behaviour.
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Here's hoping that, if they do it, they'll start blocking corporate TLS mitm regimes too.
Why? This isn't the 90s any more. You shouldn't use your employer's systems for anything other than work.