Mastodawn

there is a whole startup that apparently exists just so that websites can have a one-day r/uBlockOrigin thread about them

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1tc45us/adshield_issue_with_a_local_website/

someone who is good at the economy please help me understand this #adBlocking

Peter Lowe 4d ago

Weekly block list report: 3,549 entries; 3,509 valid / 40 invalid; 8 deleted #ads #adblocking #blocklist #trackers #pglblocklistreport

List URL: https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php

Blocklist of hostnames and domains for blocking ads, trackers and others (format: hosts -- in hosts file format)

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C++ Wage Slave 5d ago

@CaileanG

Yep. This is why #AdBlocking is so good for #MentalHealth.

I use #FreeTube to stream & YtDownloader to download

https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566

#Youtube #Privacy #Adfree #Adblocking

Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋May 12

I run AdGuard on my devices. It works.

Today, I came across a website that showed me an ad. I navigated to the AdGuard plugin, and the webbrowser shut down.

Rinse – repeat.

So I went into the AdGuard app, and blocked the whole damn domain. No ads for me; no ads served for them.

#AdBlocking

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klu9 May 10

You can also play an Internet Archive video on your phone & cast it to your TV (e.g. play it on an iPhone, use Airplay to cast it your Roku TV & watch it there)

#AdBlocking #WatchParty #AdFree #InternetArchive

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klu9 May 8

@klu9

Like Monsterdon, #ReMonsterdon (Sunday 10 May 19.00 UTC. Film: Silver Bullet, 1985) is a "bring-your-own-media" watch party. https://joinfediverse.wiki/Watch_party

You viewers each get the film your own way (stream, download, physical media etc), open Mastodon to the #ReMonsterdon hashtag & press Play when the host says so at the appointed time, so that hopefully everyone is in sync.

But ads in streams can get us out of sync. You can avoid that by:

using an ad-free stream (e.g. Archive.org, Netflix)
downloading in advance (you can probably even put the download on a flash drive to play it on your TV, if you can't connect or cast from your computer or phone to the TV)
using the ad-blocking/ad-avoiding tips in this thread: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566 (for me, Firefox + uBlock Origin work for most streamers except Mercado Play & Pluto)
using physical media

You can find links in the #ReMonsterdon collection (linked below) for various ways to watch the film

stream: Archive (ad-free), Youtube (blockable ads, USA), Pluto (ads, USA)
download: Archive.org, Mega.nz (will be deleted soon after #ReMonsterdon), even Youtube (USA) with a tool like YtDownloader

https://eggplant.place/collection/4fudrrfAyocAtkSv6ltlb6

#WatchParty #PhysicalMedia #AdBlocking

Watch party - Join the Fediverse

Peter Lowe May 8

Weekly block list report: 3,547 entries; 3,515 valid / 32 invalid; 2 deleted #ads #adblocking #blocklist #trackers #pglblocklistreport

List URL: https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php

Blocklist of hostnames and domains for blocking ads, trackers and others (format: hosts -- in hosts file format)

Peter Lowe May 1

Weekly block list report: 3,545 entries; 3,522 valid / 23 invalid; 2 deleted #ads #adblocking #blocklist #trackers #pglblocklistreport

List URL: https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php

Blocklist of hostnames and domains for blocking ads, trackers and others (format: hosts -- in hosts file format)

The New Oil Apr 30

#Webloc and ad-based #surveillance: How everyday app data fuels a global intelligence effort

https://adguard.com/en/blog/weblock-location-tracking-surveilliance.html

#advertising #adblocker #adblocking #SDK #Cobwebs #Spire #Penlink #Quadream

Webloc and ad-based surveillance

Today we'll talk about Webloc system, a location-tracking system that collects data from millions of mobile phones through commercial data brokers, and sells them to intelligence actors

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