Max Leibman has moved!Jul 21, 2023

"Ad blockers are unethical—ads are how they pay to keep the lights on!”

Exactly. It's how THEY pay to keep the lights on. It's not how I pay for anything. I didn't agree to see ads, although I'm ok with some ads; what I definitely didn't do is agree to be tracked and profiled and have arbitrary third-party code running on my computer just so I could read this awful, pointless, SEO-ified shitfest of an article that doesn't come close to answering the question I was googling.

#enshittification

Show threadMax Leibman has moved!Jul 21, 2023

"But you agreed to ads and tracking when you decided to use their website!”

I did no such thing. Opening a webpage in my browser is not entering into a contract. Unless they've gated the content somehow, I agree to nothing. If it's on the open web, I can do whatever I want with the bits on my own device (including not let some of them onto my device in the first place).

Show threadPusher Of Pixels (old account)Jul 21, 2023

@maxleibman right. At *most* I agreed to be served things from their site. AThey send me a script from some *other* site? Sorry it's a whitelist scenario and they ain't on it.

NoScript is a godly extension

Show threadHexxy The Grouch
@pixelpusher220 @maxleibman Agreed. My personal favorite cocktail is Noscript + uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger + a Pi-Hole. It's a bit of a pain temp whitelisting domains, but it keeps me from accidentally leaving a domain on script wise. It's also kind of an interesting tell to see what script domains want to run and how many of them. I know there's also uMatrix(?), but I found it to be more of a pain despite the granularity it appeared to offer.
Jul 21, 2023 at 10:10pmWeb
Show threadZyneJul 22, 2023
@hexxy_the_grouch @pixelpusher220 @maxleibman nice list. Mirrors mine. I also use little snitch.