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> The web is unusable without a proper Adblock. It's a privacy nightmare as well. Few people reason how much data they give away to a host of shady companies
by 9cb14c1ec0 10mo ago
> The web is unusable without a proper Adblock.
It's a privacy nightmare as well. Few people reason how much data they give away to a host of shady companies just by letting ads display.
- drfolgers 10mo agoAds and page level analytics aren’t the only thing gathering data. There is server-side now (and previously) hosted by the site owner. It’s a lost cause to fight this. I admire you all for using FF because uBO just for the experience, but it’s only a partial data block. Serverside and thumbprinting- you can’t be anonymous even with Tor, VPN, etc.
- xedrac 10mo agoAny privacy benefits of blocking ads are incidental compared to the usability improvements it brings. I have near zero tolerance for ads.
- cons0le 10mo agouBo + tamper monkey is needed just to block popups. Adblock on brave is basically non existent compared to uBO
- ekianjo 10mo agoBlocking even part of it is a win. Not sure why we should treat this as a dichotomy
- ghssds 10mo ago> It's a privacy nightmare as well. Few people reason how much data they give away to a host of shady companies just by letting ads display. Imagine all the data Cloudflare vacuums.
- psychoslave 10mo agoIt's kind of crazy that a popup like "we and our 1244 partners want to share your data to better serve you". That's the kind of dystopian event you would think only visible as caricatural SF, but it's the kind of thing one can actually see on a daily level just browsing around.
- Podrod 10mo agoThey really take the piss, even supposedly essential cookies get lumbered with hundreds of "partners" with "legitimate interests" harvesting your data.