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Scoopta@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Zikeji@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sites that block adblock - I have network based filtering I’m not going to take the time to specifically figure out what ad providers you’re using (which is probably that same as everyone else) just to unblock your shitty site.

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  • Scoopta@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LOL, I also use DNS based filtering soooo I feel your pain.

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    • WaLLy3K@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hilariously, I find the Pi-hole feature “disable for 5 seconds” often works because it’ll be down for long enough to load the page but not the ads.

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      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Reminds me, I need a pihole

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      • Scoopta@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t use pihole…didn’t know that was a thing…still don’t plan on using pihole but that’s cool

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• ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The fun part is that websites that do this are illegal in the EU

  They need to start flexing that 4% revenue / year fines

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  • peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hope one day they just start fining everyone doing it all at once

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And i hope they start using that sizing thing at airports to keep people from carrying on their massive samsonite tuba-sized suitcases and jamming them into the entirety of the overhead storage.

      But we can’t always get what we want.

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• hairyballs@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why the fuck would they prevent private browsing? I use that a lot to be sure the session is closed correctly.

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  • Scoopta@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s lots of newspaper sites in the US, that do this. They’ll be like “wanna use private browsing, make an account, or go visit from normal browsing.” Idk why they do it but they do. Apparently there are discrepancies in the way browsers handle persistent storage features between private and non-private browsing that allow for detection

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    • KillerTofu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      12ft.io

      I use this to deal with paywalled articles.

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      • Scoopta@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This comment needs more upvotes…I did not know this was a thing and I’ll try to remember it next time I hit a wall

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d guess they just want to keep track of what you read and how many articles. You still can wipe that information from your browser but private browsing makes it more convenient so they ban it

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cause they can’t track your browser history that way.

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• ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t use adblock, and yet i keep getting “disable adblock to view this” messages, fuck this shit

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most browsers block some ads by default as well as some other privacy protections nowadays. I’m guessing whatever sites you’re hitting have advertisers so scummy they’re blocked by default

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    • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Might be, might be

      I’m using Firefox and might’ve set a couple of the privacy settings “too high”, haven’t checked those in forever

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