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We need a concentrated effort to move solutions like Ghostery and Ad Block Plus up the chain, from the browser in to the router. And we need to make it user fri
by bittermang 9y ago
We need a concentrated effort to move solutions like Ghostery and Ad Block Plus up the chain, from the browser in to the router. And we need to make it user friendly and sexy.
And for what it's worth, I don't like in Ghostery, a plugin I run to try and stem the tide of tracking, how many times it begs me to send usage data and create an account. That's literally the opposite of why I downloaded you, Ghostery.
- bahjoite 9y agoRemove ghostery and install privacy badger instead https://www.eff.org/privacybadger https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
- bittermang 9y agoI rolled with the Badger for a while, but I've moved away from it and toward a more network wide approach. Can't install plugins on my devices, and I don't want thirteen different browsers on my tablet. And my Xbox is stuck with Internet Explo-- I mean Microsoft Edge -- so I need a more comprehensive solution. And this article only points out more reasons why that is becoming necessary. But my stack is ugly and kludgy and not fit for regular human consumption. We need a comprehensive community effort to make it sexy and easy.
- technofiend 9y agoMaybe the pihole is for you, then? Certainly the price is right to try it. https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/
- tombrossman 9y agoPi-hole is absolutely the way to go. Not only for the ad-blocking, but for checking to see where your devices 'phone home' to (and optionally blocking that, too). I've got it running in a Linux container on a Turris Omnia and it blocks over 90% of requests, with nothing to install on the devices.
- JoshMnem 9y agoTry umatrix. https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix