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[-] Ravi@feddit.de 53 points 1 year ago

Got a pi hole, what are ads in general?

[-] ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 year ago

I know that I'm at fault here for using such services, but Pihole can't block the ads that are hosted on the same server as the service, eg. Half the ads on Youtube.

[-] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

It's still really good for privacy though, blocking mIcRoSoFt spyware and all kinds of other stuft. And you can create your own blocklists.

[-] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I just got a pihole setup and im curious how youd block Microsoft stuff using it. Is it part of a blocklist or is it something you manually filtered?

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

one of Dan's list blocks a bunch of them, has something like 500k item on it.

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[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Just know that DoH is probably going to ruin the fun for you. Unless your blocking all DoH hosts.

In my Opnsense setup I have some lists added to block all traffic to known DoH servers...

[-] ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, definitely!

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

nextdns is also pretty good.

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[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

I'm not loyal to a browser, I'm loyal to features. If Chrome supported ad block on mobile and FF stopped, I'd switch overnight

[-] Darth_Vader__@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

Which is exactly the way it should be. And it's a godsend that firefox supports uBlock in mobile.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Definitely, YT background play and ad block have been a lifesaver on car rides

[-] Zastyion345@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Have you heard about our god and savior newpipe ?

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Libretube is also a fine option. Available on F-droid

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Libretube is definitely the better option if you don't use a VPN but still want to hide your IP from Google, since it uses Piped to proxy everything

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

From me it would need more. Chrome has more (mostly privacy related) disadvantages compared to Firefox than that

[-] OscarRobin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You don't care about the many other ways that not using and supporting Chromium is better, ie. not having Google's new invasive advertising system?

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[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 34 points 1 year ago

Fuck Chrome

[-] Laitinlok@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago

I still prefer firefox for other reasons

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

I just set up a pi hole, I was late to the party.

So much shit is pushed from our PCs, and phones. 49.85% of requests are blocked by it.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago

It's even more horrifying when you realize that's a lower bound. It doesn't even include dynamically loaded ads from the same domains, and it doesn't include ads that can't be blocked because it would stop services from working.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Infuriating, isn't it? Half of all requests are completely unnecessary and serve you no purpose

[-] llama@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

Was using Chrome as my main browser and FF as my second browser last week. Uninstalled Chrome, made Firefox my main browser and Waterfox as my second browser. Forget Chrome and forget Edge!

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Why would you need a second browser?

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It's helpful when something doesn't work in your browser and want to test in a different one. I use FF as my main browser and Chromium as my backup.

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[-] llama@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Because I'm an admin of multiple Azure tenants so I have the main one logged in on Firefox and the other one on Waterfox.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Makeshift@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

if only ublock could stop these Firefox ads

[-] elouboub@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile Mozilla: fires 200 workers to pay the CEO 2M :)

[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 22 points 1 year ago

Ah well then I guess Google actually isn't destroying privacy after all

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

There's LibreWolf, Waterfox, Basilisk, Pale Moon and Pulse. You don't have to support Mozilla if you don't want to and at the same you don't have to submit to Chrome's supremacy.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I love librewolf

[-] shinysquirrel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] elouboub@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Happened during COVID haven't kept up with Mozilla news since.

[-] produnis@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Darth_Vader__@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] Micromot@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

First slide says something along the lines of "boo, i just use adblock" and the second one should make sense

[-] droans@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

WEI has a lot of issues and should not ever be implemented, but it's not going to stop you from using ad blockers, nor could it be made to do so.

The issues with it are that it makes it much easier to individually track users and it will make it nearly impossible for new browsers to gain traction.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Not directly, but indirectly it can. By simply just blocking browsers that allow meaningful ad blocking. And not just ad blocking, but it can be applied to any kinds of user-side modifications.

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