Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

Post by int_19h » Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 8:41 PM UTC

cft wrote: post #249

denton-scratch wrote: post #227

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> Getting money for running websites is also non-mandatory? Your business problems aren't our concern. If you're financing your business by stealing personal information from users and selling it to data brokers, then you're a crook. Crooks tend to have high hosting expenses.

"Our" as in Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety concern? What do you know about hosting expenses? I have been running a website that you know and use with 100m users since 2004!

Post by int_19h » Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 8:53 PM UTC

snarf21 wrote: post #159

daitangio wrote: post #142

I will never stop to talk about PiHole and how much changed my home browsing experience: https://pi-hole.net/ I suggest everybody to give it a spin

We need a $20 appliance that is plug and play. Most users aren't installing Docker containers.

Post by tornato7 » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 12:44 AM UTC

mdavis6890 wrote: post #365

disintegore wrote: post #178

I categorically reject ads. I want them completely abolished. I will do everything that's in my power to get them out of my machines. If I had just a little bit more courage I would go out at night with cans of spray paint and deface billboards.

"I will do everything that's in my power" Will you pay money for the content you consume?

Post by LocalH » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 12:26 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #347

alexb_ wrote: post #216

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95% of users have no idea what any of this is.

Developer wages would crash through the floor and all the way down to the centre of the Earth if ad blockers really took off without users also accepting micropayments or subscriptions for web services at the same time. Maybe we should be a little bit glad that the main thing keeping massive amounts of money in tech is accepted by users. The key thing that most people in tech don't appear to grok very easily is that…

Post by scarface74 » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 2:56 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #582

scarface74 wrote: post #580

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What does uBlock do that 1Blocker can’t if you enable the web extension ?

uBlock has full control over the browser's network access and can run code to determine the outcome of the request. 1Blocker/AdGuard/etc use two mechanisms: 1) declarative blocking - where you can specify rules to allow/deny requests matching a certain pattern. Those rules need to be declared in advance, you can't do matching at runtime using custom code. 2) they inject a bit of JS into the page to try and tamper wit…