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Always do ublock origin + privacy badger (and pi hole when you're at home)
by nvr219 9y ago
Always do ublock origin + privacy badger (and pi hole when you're at home)
- tylersmith 9y agoI set up a network-wide pi hole recently and it took less than 15 minutes once I had the rpi and sd card in hand. It's a fun and easy experience that I highly recommend it to anybody. I check the dashboard every morning to see how much I've blocked, and to what. And my wife, who doesn't care about privacy for some insane reason, now has more privacy than she expected without any work.
- bonestamp2 9y agouMatrix is well worth the time it takes to use too. It shows you a matrix of exactly what each site is requesting. I've become so much more aware of what is happening on websites since installing the plugin about a year ago. The great thing is that it's so quick and easy to enable/disable/customize too. For example, I've identified two scripts that block websites from loading when it doesn't get loaded... so I allow those to load on every website -- no ads, but the site still loads. Mixpanel is blocked by default in the blacklist that I subscribe to.
- faitswulff 9y agoAre those two scripts widespread or specific to a site? And if they're quite widespread, would you be able to share how to identify them?
- bonestamp2 9y agoJust saw one a few minutes ago. It's actually not even the script you need to allow, it's just an XHR request to adiode.com. I can't remember the other one, I'll report back here when I see it again (usually every couple days). I saw the adiode.com one on https://www.merriam-webster.com https://www.merriam-webster.com if you want to have a look for yourself.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoYou mean the "Something interfered with this website loading" fake error screen? Yeah, that "something" is their bloody script. Bastards. I hit that one pretty much every other day somewhere; I wonder, how did it spread so quickly? It must be linked to by some popular ad network or analytics package.
- bonestamp2 9y agoYup. So if you allow the script to make that XHR request then it thinks the ad blocker is off and it will show the page but not the ads.