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Reading about spying headphones on website where video with sound starts automatically and continues to play when pressing pause (but jumps to right corner, jus

by ungzd 10y ago

Reading about spying headphones on website where video with sound starts automatically and continues to play when pressing pause (but jumps to right corner, just like hoaxes for Windows 95 where "start" button evaded mouse) — we're living in adtechpunk world.

coldpie 10y ago
You don't have to put up with that. Protect yourself. Install uBlock Origin and NoScript.
- distances 10y ago
  Or another option: uBlock Origin + uMatrix. Playing embedded videos will need such an amount of configuration that you'll really want to watch it before bothering. This could be a positive or a negative, depending on the person :)
  - HenryBemis 10y ago
    I always suggest for people that are using Adblock+ to filter beacon, analytics, metrics, and other similar terms It's a Procrustean approach but it works.
  - kakarot 10y ago
    I use NoScript, uBlock Origin AND uMatrix on most of my instances. Noscript as the first line of defense against 3rd party scripts, uBlock in advanced mode for fine-tuning what content goes through, and uMatrix for being the safety net as well as providing cookie control and spoofing/referrer masking, since Cookie Monster still cannot work with multi-process mode. I really wish uMatrix and uBlock would just combine forces or that uBlock would at least match uMatrix's privacy protection.
    - unicornporn 10y ago
      Don't you find that your surfing is a configurational nightmare? Using uMatrix was doable, but I finally gave it because it always interupted my browsing. Adding NoScript to the mix would probably drive me insane. Do you have any special techniques? :)
      - kakarot 10y ago
        It usually only takes a moment to configure uMatrix for any given site. However, adding NoScript into the mix means that, each time I allow a new script or group of scripts, I have to refresh so that previously unallowed external requests can be made and uMatrix can register them. uBlock is usually not a problem and I usually don't have to touch it, but sometimes I have to let a request or two through. Sometimes it's absolutely infuriating when I have to spend 5 minutes configuring a new site before I use it, incrementally configuring and reloading, but my anger directed isn't towards my addons. It's directed towards the shitty website that requires a thousand external APIs to function properly. When it's bad enough, it's a sign that I don't need to be using that website. After all, what is the point of having three layers of blocking (not counting my other addons) if I just let everything through anyway in order to use the site? I also don't allow any third-party cookies and that is non-negotiable for any service. If it's absolutely critical, as in work-related or I cannot find my information elsewhere, I spin up a thinly-provisioned untrusted VM to minimize my exposure to malware and spy/tracking agencies. All of this effort is completely pointless if you let yourself get pixeled[0] or pinged with APIs like Google AJAX. And it's pretty much currently impossible to avoid getting pixeled entirely. Until we fix the major security holes that allow beacons to track us, it's all just intellectual masturbation when we use these tools. What I would like to see is an addon that intercepts all images and provides them as a tree to allow whitelisting of images, and a caching system similar to Decentraleyes[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon#Implementation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon#Implementation [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...
        cryptarch 9y ago
        Sorry for going meta, but I find it very odd your comment was dead, as your GP post was not. I've been seeing this quite a lot in the last 2-3 months, perfectly reasonable comments that are [dead] for no discernible reason; could this be trolling or a form of botting?
- snakeanus 10y ago
  You don't need noscript if you enable dynamic filtering on ublock
- 6t6t6t6 10y ago
  AdNauseam is more fun.
throwasehasdwi 10y ago
Enable the tab mute button that's existed in chrome for years but is still hidden: Go to URL chrome://flags in a new tab Search for the ‘Enable tab audio muting UI control’ flag Hit the ‘Enable’ link Relaunch Chrome when prompted (on Chrome OS a full restart is required) Now you can click the little speaker that appears next to the tab's close button when a tab is playing sound to stop that tab from playing audio. God knows why this isn't enabled by default, somethingsomething advertising money...
- Sidnicious 10y ago
  I believe that the button is disabled because it's too easy to click by mistake. You can mute a tab in the right click menu without turning on any flags.
  - throwasehasdwi 10y ago
    Didn't know that! Thanks
- mrec 10y ago
  It's enabled by default in Firefox.
  - orthecreedence 10y ago
    Wow, this is awesome. Thanks for mentioning this. I've been using Firefox for months now (switched from chrome) and never knew about this feature in either browser.
    - kakarot 10y ago
      When you regularly have open 100+ tabs in more than one instance of Firefox across multiple VMs, this is an absolutely indispensable feature. Before its time you would basically have to shut everything down and start over instead of finding that obscure tab that suddenly started belting out news headlines
bo1024 10y ago
Here's what I saw: http://imgur.com/a/B83o4 http://imgur.com/a/B83o4
mahyarm 10y ago
We need in-page javascript popup blockers like we needed normal popup blockers 14 years ago.
HenryBemis 10y ago
They have a video?? I didn't even notice! ;) I've been "training" my Adblock+ and my NoScript for soooo long that by now most of the metrics/trackers/beacons/crap don't even load.
ksk 10y ago
And recently rogue sites have figured out a way to hijack Chrome notifications to show ads.

by ungzd 10y ago

coldpie 10y ago

You don't have to put up with that. Protect yourself. Install uBlock Origin and NoScript.

distances 10y ago
Or another option: uBlock Origin + uMatrix. Playing embedded videos will need such an amount of configuration that you'll really want to watch it before bothering. This could be a positive or a negative, depending on the person :)
- HenryBemis 10y ago
  I always suggest for people that are using Adblock+ to filter beacon, analytics, metrics, and other similar terms It's a Procrustean approach but it works.
- kakarot 10y ago
  I use NoScript, uBlock Origin AND uMatrix on most of my instances. Noscript as the first line of defense against 3rd party scripts, uBlock in advanced mode for fine-tuning what content goes through, and uMatrix for being the safety net as well as providing cookie control and spoofing/referrer masking, since Cookie Monster still cannot work with multi-process mode. I really wish uMatrix and uBlock would just combine forces or that uBlock would at least match uMatrix's privacy protection.
  - unicornporn 10y ago
    Don't you find that your surfing is a configurational nightmare? Using uMatrix was doable, but I finally gave it because it always interupted my browsing. Adding NoScript to the mix would probably drive me insane. Do you have any special techniques? :)
    - kakarot 10y ago
      It usually only takes a moment to configure uMatrix for any given site. However, adding NoScript into the mix means that, each time I allow a new script or group of scripts, I have to refresh so that previously unallowed external requests can be made and uMatrix can register them. uBlock is usually not a problem and I usually don't have to touch it, but sometimes I have to let a request or two through. Sometimes it's absolutely infuriating when I have to spend 5 minutes configuring a new site before I use it, incrementally configuring and reloading, but my anger directed isn't towards my addons. It's directed towards the shitty website that requires a thousand external APIs to function properly. When it's bad enough, it's a sign that I don't need to be using that website. After all, what is the point of having three layers of blocking (not counting my other addons) if I just let everything through anyway in order to use the site? I also don't allow any third-party cookies and that is non-negotiable for any service. If it's absolutely critical, as in work-related or I cannot find my information elsewhere, I spin up a thinly-provisioned untrusted VM to minimize my exposure to malware and spy/tracking agencies. All of this effort is completely pointless if you let yourself get pixeled[0] or pinged with APIs like Google AJAX. And it's pretty much currently impossible to avoid getting pixeled entirely. Until we fix the major security holes that allow beacons to track us, it's all just intellectual masturbation when we use these tools. What I would like to see is an addon that intercepts all images and provides them as a tree to allow whitelisting of images, and a caching system similar to Decentraleyes[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon#Implementation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon#Implementation [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...
      - cryptarch 9y ago
        Sorry for going meta, but I find it very odd your comment was dead, as your GP post was not. I've been seeing this quite a lot in the last 2-3 months, perfectly reasonable comments that are [dead] for no discernible reason; could this be trolling or a form of botting?
snakeanus 10y ago
You don't need noscript if you enable dynamic filtering on ublock
6t6t6t6 10y ago
AdNauseam is more fun.

throwasehasdwi 10y ago

Enable the tab mute button that's existed in chrome for years but is still hidden: Go to URL chrome://flags in a new tab Search for the ‘Enable tab audio muting UI control’ flag Hit the ‘Enable’ link Relaunch Chrome when prompted (on Chrome OS a full restart is required) Now you can click the little speaker that appears next to the tab's close button when a tab is playing sound to stop that tab from playing audio. God knows why this isn't enabled by default, somethingsomething advertising money...

Sidnicious 10y ago
I believe that the button is disabled because it's too easy to click by mistake. You can mute a tab in the right click menu without turning on any flags.
- throwasehasdwi 10y ago
  Didn't know that! Thanks
mrec 10y ago
It's enabled by default in Firefox.
- orthecreedence 10y ago
  Wow, this is awesome. Thanks for mentioning this. I've been using Firefox for months now (switched from chrome) and never knew about this feature in either browser.
  - kakarot 10y ago
    When you regularly have open 100+ tabs in more than one instance of Firefox across multiple VMs, this is an absolutely indispensable feature. Before its time you would basically have to shut everything down and start over instead of finding that obscure tab that suddenly started belting out news headlines

bo1024 10y ago

Here's what I saw: http://imgur.com/a/B83o4 http://imgur.com/a/B83o4

mahyarm 10y ago

We need in-page javascript popup blockers like we needed normal popup blockers 14 years ago.

HenryBemis 10y ago

They have a video?? I didn't even notice! ;) I've been "training" my Adblock+ and my NoScript for soooo long that by now most of the metrics/trackers/beacons/crap don't even load.

ksk 10y ago

And recently rogue sites have figured out a way to hijack Chrome notifications to show ads.