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Luckily uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger blocked 39 trackers in that article!

by FerretFred 7y ago

ASalazarMX 7y ago
My god, you weren't kidding! 23 requests blocked just by uBlock Origin alone. That's not advertising, that's a shotgun.
- cwkoss 7y ago
  I really want an ad-ware fuzzer. Whenever a website makes a request to a third party script, unless whitelisted, fuzz the contents of the request. Re-fuzz a several dozen times and resend each to make ~100 entries. I don't like my data being collected, and my voluntary participation in their scheme does not preclude poisoning their dataset. Let them filter the crap out. I wish there was a more adversarial adblocker.
  - GonzaloQuero 7y ago
    Isn't that what AdNauseam does? https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/
    - bsaul 7y ago
      As the original article mentioned, some of those ads actually includes malware. I wouldn't feel safe using an extension that actually clicks on every single one of them (even if on the background and dismissing the response).
  - stirfrykitty 7y ago
    Agreed. I would like to see an add-on that sends a sick amount of clicks to the 3rd party and costs them a fortune. If there was no ROI, ads would diminish. Content does not need to be free. I pay for email. I pay for other online services I use. I pay to go to the cinema despite the eye-watering robbery at the concession stand (my kids love it). Or on the less ramped up scale, something that send all ads to /dev/null, letting them think the ad was delivered and viewed, but it goes into the bit bucket. I remember years ago when Flash was a thing. I used to symlink .adobe and .macromedia to /dev/null to avoid the LSOs. Flash worked, but I never had to worry about LSOs not being cleared when the browser was sanitized.
  - basq 7y ago
    Mozilla seems to (or will) be doing exactly this. https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/hey-advertisers-track-this/ https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/hey-advertisers-track-this/
    - marcosdumay 7y ago
      It is this, but on every page during normal navigation. Not as a one-off activity. Track this is probably better than what the GP asked for, but you must remember to use it, while fingerprint randomization can be done by default.
- ksaj 7y ago
  Glad I didn't click. This is exactly the kind of crap that makes web surfing on Raspberry Pi go south.

Luckily uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger blocked 39 trackers in that article!

ASalazarMX 7y ago

My god, you weren't kidding! 23 requests blocked just by uBlock Origin alone. That's not advertising, that's a shotgun.

cwkoss 7y ago
I really want an ad-ware fuzzer. Whenever a website makes a request to a third party script, unless whitelisted, fuzz the contents of the request. Re-fuzz a several dozen times and resend each to make ~100 entries. I don't like my data being collected, and my voluntary participation in their scheme does not preclude poisoning their dataset. Let them filter the crap out. I wish there was a more adversarial adblocker.
- GonzaloQuero 7y ago
  Isn't that what AdNauseam does? https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/
  - bsaul 7y ago
    As the original article mentioned, some of those ads actually includes malware. I wouldn't feel safe using an extension that actually clicks on every single one of them (even if on the background and dismissing the response).
- stirfrykitty 7y ago
  Agreed. I would like to see an add-on that sends a sick amount of clicks to the 3rd party and costs them a fortune. If there was no ROI, ads would diminish. Content does not need to be free. I pay for email. I pay for other online services I use. I pay to go to the cinema despite the eye-watering robbery at the concession stand (my kids love it). Or on the less ramped up scale, something that send all ads to /dev/null, letting them think the ad was delivered and viewed, but it goes into the bit bucket. I remember years ago when Flash was a thing. I used to symlink .adobe and .macromedia to /dev/null to avoid the LSOs. Flash worked, but I never had to worry about LSOs not being cleared when the browser was sanitized.
- basq 7y ago
  Mozilla seems to (or will) be doing exactly this. https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/hey-advertisers-track-this/ https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/hey-advertisers-track-this/
  - marcosdumay 7y ago
    It is this, but on every page during normal navigation. Not as a one-off activity. Track this is probably better than what the GP asked for, but you must remember to use it, while fingerprint randomization can be done by default.
ksaj 7y ago
Glad I didn't click. This is exactly the kind of crap that makes web surfing on Raspberry Pi go south.