Yeah. As if hacking into someone's mind is their right. Talk about entitlement...
Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
The trade body called it “illegal circumvention technology”
Lol. Fuck off.
U@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
IllNess@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
What should be considered illegal circumvention is allowing articles behind a paywall to be included in search results.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And this is exactly why Google did away with Manifest v2 (what uBlock runs on) and why they wanted to introduce their “web integrity” standard. At that point the pages would be signed with ads and in the signature didn’t match the page wouldn’t even be shown.
They tried to play it off as “ensuring that you truly get the correct copy of the page and no bad hackers have intercepted it” but really it would have 100% forced ads.
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Then I guess I’m not looking at those pages. No skin of my nose. That said, Firefox with Ublock Origin plus a couple of ad-blockers seems to be working pretty well for me. Anything with a paywall, I just move on.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Then I guess I’m not looking at those pages. No skin of my nose.
That works until every website starts doing it.
Dojan@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I use Mullvad’s VPN and DNS on a router level. Every device on my network is blanketed by it. Some services don’t work, but I am willing to sacrifice their profits for my integrity. Thus, to them I say 然らば fuckmothers.
chellomere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To think that Google once had ads that I considered OK, just a bunch of text and links. How times have changed…
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Advertisers will always keep pushing things trying to find the limit where people will just barely tolerate it. Then when they push it too far they cry “no fair!” When people stop putting up with it.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The O.G. add blocker.
The concept is close to the same, how this could be seen as “illegal circumvention technology”? Just shows us how disconnected the people in these positions can be.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuckers want to colonize my property (my computer). that illegal!
1984@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
They wont be happy until eye tracking technology makes sure we sit and watch their fucking ads before the actual content appears.
I mean, none of this is getting better. Its only going to become worse. I have ads in the fucking pause screen on my streaming tv app. So if I want to take a toilet break, I get an ad in my face. Its just so ridiculous.
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Booboofinget@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What most of these people don’t get is if they didn’t get so invasive with those ads, people would not have to resort to ad blockers. Be it tho shut up the ads every few seconds on YouTube or having to play whack-a-mole every time I read an article, eventually you run out of patience and say “enough!”
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I actually agree with that but the only other solution is subject yourself to deeply concerning levels of surveillance, not to mention surveillance pricing.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Toggles like that are available in other adblockers too and they pose a problem. They ad a random to showing you ads. You don’t want the ads but if the advertisers pay the adblocker company they get whitelisted and you see the ads anyway.
Never use those toggles.
lemmyng@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
All ad networks, even the less intrusive ones, can be abused to distribute malware. In this day and age not having an ad blocker is like rawdogging internet strangers.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
You could say the same thing about the webpage itself.
RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Lol they will even say blocking phishing links are unethical
zerofk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Say here’s a thought: can we sue ad companies for theft of electricity? They’re using my electricity to display their ads, without my consent.
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Not to mention my internet fees.
Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That was for 12ft.io Bypassing a pallway. Not blocking ads.
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
They can still fuck off.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Once the data enters my network it’s my fucking data and I can do with it what I please.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Likewise, I can prevent anything from even entering my network that I don’t want on it.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s more to the point!
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Unless it’s intellectual property that belongs to the movie industry. Then you better not touch it. Or that’s illegal.
But if it’s advertisements, then you have to watch it, or that’s illegal.
Taldan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mildly pedantic, but uBlock blocks the connection before it enters your network