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Now with alt text
@iampytest1 @dalias thx, stole it to edit
Whitney McNamara@iampytest1 @gurkan @dalias Thanks for the alt text! Also: some time ago there was a service that replaced ads with public domain art images -- does anything like that still exist? I use a a hosts file to block now, but curious what the options are.
@whitneymcn This maybe: https://github.com/vuciv/artblock
Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDdIGfo7SaE
I just found it with an internet search; I can not vouch for its safety or legitimacy.
DB SchweinFinding out a game I enjoy, 100% works but has 0 ads when in airplane mode was a total win when so many just won't work!
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Stefan Scholl@iampytest1 @gurkan @dalias I want ads. I want websites to have an income.
But there are no ads. There is spyware. Sometimes even malware.
An ad blocker isn't there to consume something without paying, its job is to protect the user.
Russell Phillips@Stefan_S_from_H @iampytest1 @gurkan @dalias yes. I know of a few sites that display ads without tracking, and I'll happily disable my ad blocker for those.
Cassandrich@rpbook @Stefan_S_from_H @iampytest1 @gurkan If they really didn't have tracking, you wouldn't need to disable your ad blocker to see them.
Ad blockers are really just tracking blockers. They block embeds of third-party images, frames, and javascript code from known or likely tracking companies. Loading these resources from a third party *inherently* exposes you to tracking/privacy invasion by that third party.
Legitimate, tracking-free advertisement is just local text and image resources that are part of the site you're viewing, not third-party embeds.
@dalias @Stefan_S_from_H @iampytest1 @gurkan at least one ad blocker I've used blocked an advert that was a local image served from the site I was visiting.
I never really looked into it, but at the time I guessed it was blocking things like divs with ids associated with adverts.
I've been on my current setup long enough that I honestly can't remember if it was a different setup. It's entirely possible that they've improved significantly since then.