• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Consent-o-matic instead of cookies and adnausem instead of ublock origin.

    Consent-o-matic will actively opt out of popups.

    Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently “click” on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.

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      26 days ago

      uBlock Origin can just hide cookie pop ups if you enable said filter, and AdNauseam still loads the ad so you still have slower page loading speed and increased network traffic.

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      26 days ago

      Truly! I have a streaming app for local TV and I recommended it to a friend and he said  “no way man! Way too many ads in it!” That’s when I realized how awesome Pi-Hole is 🤣

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      26 days ago

      It’s not bad, just mostly redundant these days, as the heuristic features are no longer enabled, and the defaults ublock lists will cover a lot of the same.

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    27 days ago

    Pretty soon, Firefox will need to be replaced with Waterfox and LibreWolf, unfortunately.

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    26 days ago

    You could add that extension that replaces clickbait titles by community-made descriptive ones. (lemmy do your thing and find the name please)

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      26 days ago

      Does this actually work? I just tried it on a story on The Atlantic website and I just got a print page that looks exactly like the locked paywall page (i.e. not the whole article).

      I use the web archives extension for firefox to easily get the archive.is version of pages. Unfortunately, doesn’t work when I’m using a vpn, but otherwise works like a charm.

      EDIT: I found this comment on the previous thread:

      https://lemmy.world/comment/13080227

      “The idea is you quickly press print before the paywall loads, so you can read the full article”

      That may work in some cases, but not all. Because not all paywall pages behave in a way where this is functional. The Atlantic is an example, it produces a partial page if you’re not past the paywall, so ctrl-p doesn’t work. The web archives extension still works though (I use it to easily access archive.is) and the extension is available on mobile firefox as well.

      I have also used 12 foot ladder in the past, and it works well. In fact, testing it now, it seems to even work when I’m using Proton VPN. archive.is does not work for me through the vpn, so I may switch back to 12ft.io. 12ft.io just has you append the paywalled url to their url, so it should be easy enough to make a bookmarklet.

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      27 days ago

      Are you talking about the browser that added its own referral codes in cryptocurrency sites?

      (Yeah, maybe I’m a bit vindictive…)

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      Being a chromium based browser, they’re fixing to loose access to the same features that’s killing Ublock. So in the near future, the Brave CEO is still going to be a cunt, but your ad-blocking is going to be forever inferior.