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better version of: https://lemmy.world/post/21210097

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Nonononoki@lemmy.world 23 points 5 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.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 days ago

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.

Tried it a couple of months ago. Didn't nearly work as well as uBlock Origin, seemed buggy as hell.

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 8 points 5 days ago

Oooo. Now that's something to try.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] T156@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Also the heuristics can be exploited to create a unique identifier for your browser, so it’s not a flawless solution.

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fyi you can still enable heuristic blocking from settings.

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 7 points 4 days ago

Privacy badger doesn't require somebody to add an address to a list to block it, it figures our statistically when something should be blocked. The upside is that it can block things that are new and haven't been added to a list. I assume it could also better adapt to new methods to get stuff through a typical blocker.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago (6 children)

What's wrong with privacy badger?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 95 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not OP, but what puts me off is that it calls itself badger, but really it's just a software that has nothing in common with those glorious animals. Did you know that badgers' keen sense of smell is about 800 times sharper than our own?

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 49 points 5 days ago (1 children)

!subscribe to badger facts

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Did you know that badgers keep their homes in tip-top shape by creating a latrine pit as a bathroom? They won’t defecate in their homes, instead making a pit out of dried grass and leaves just outside their burrow.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 3 points 4 days ago

Is that where they dump the ads they block?

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[–] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 4 days ago

Is that how they sniff out the ads to block?

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think UBO makes it redundant.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

The layered security model has redundancy built in as a feature.

[–] trespasser69@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

Well, it can be replaced with uBlock Origin and some people dont recomend it anymore

Privacy Badger has historically allowed tracking until it successfully identifies a domain as a likely tracker. Like the air bags going off after you've already wrapped your car around a telephone pole. But it's now been changed and is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):

Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default, as “local learning” may make you more identifiable to websites.

They've since corrected one of the core issues with PB by doing so, but it still it is very weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.

uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.

Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging "please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!".

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

A European shout out to Ghostery who auto refuses everything on our GDPR popups.

[–] LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] lelfr@jlai.lu 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Thanks! I don't use it but I want it so much on freetube and newpipe 🥲

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[–] errer@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Need to add a pihole to that stack

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

the return dislike plugin is just stupid. it's a community database now, so rather than being based on the actual number of dislikes on youtube it's based on the dislikes of the people who have the plugin.

it used to be that it actually got the real numbers but youtube removed that endpoint so now it's just a misanthropic echo chamber.

[–] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 41 points 5 days ago (6 children)

It's better than nothing. Also I'd probably weigh the opinion of people who have the extension higher than of those who don't.

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[–] atan@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago (7 children)

What an awful mischaracterisation. While the dislike feature may appeal to misanthropes, it also appeals to the much larger pool of people that are intelligent enough/respectful of their own time to understand the value of the feature in helping to avoid poor quality and misleading content.

It really bears out in the results. For those who recall what old ratios looked like, for sufficiently popular videos, they still hold true with this plugin.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It's honestly relatively representative afaik

Even though it, SponsorBlock etc. could just be neglected by using piped or just federated alternatives.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

except W instead of P. I don't really need that shit.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I read, "With Butter"

Gotta finish my coffee

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

People at the top of Mozilla Org making crappy decisions.

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[–] Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago

I just installed consentomatic right now and I didn't know it existed thank you

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago

I would 1000% add temporary containers to that list. Wish I could get it on Android too!

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Advanced kit: add NoScript and block first party scripts by default. Works surprisingly well for visiting sites you don't care about, just want to read the article etc. Just switch it off if you're trying to buy something and get through the checkout.

[–] glaber@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

AFAIK every function of NoScript exists in uBlock Origin. So just get uBO and cut the redundancy. The less vectors the better

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