joshchandra

@joshchandra@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, I thought I saw a similar picker existing in AdNauseam, but I may be wrong. I could definitely get on board with your approach; while Inspector can delete stuff, it doesn’t remember them across page reloads or sessions, so this would be handy indeed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, what can it do that AdNauseam and NoScript can’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Join me in leaving uBlock Origin for AdNauseam! I made a post about it that ended up gaining significant traction: midwest.social/post/25573927

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  omg, I’m using NoScript now and my eyes have been opened; I can’t ever go back!! Thanks for the analogy; that was a much-needed, jolting wake-up call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I was reacting to its GitHub:

  This project is NOT currently being maintained. Code is made available for developers to fork. This is the FireFox version of the project, for Chrome see github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot-Chrome.

  So I’m wondering which fork is best to go off of for Firefox. I could’ve been clearer; my bad.

• What are some ways by which disabled people can discover and volunteer for stem cell treatment?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, right. For Firefox, though, it’s tethered to Mozilla accounts for sync, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the reminder about PeerTube… I’ve gotta look into that, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful: that then enters the world of ad fraud, which randos like us doing the clicking isn’t considered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascinating, thanks for sharing! What is the best, current Firefox fork of this one, if you know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You incorrectly use the term ad fraud, which addresses advertisers themselves automating clicks on their own links to generate fake income. There is nothing wrong with people-with-no-corporate-interest who click.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, lol, I forgot about the date. This has existed for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally, it’s up to you. The idea for fake-clickers is the long game: the marketers think they’re landing clicks over months or possibly even years, but will may slowly realize (gotta account for the stubborn ones) that it’s ineffective and eventually pivot to different approaches, hopefully ones that involve less tracking (I can’t imagine what any worse approach could be, at least).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  this will cause problems for independent website operators.

  This is a legit criticism at first, but AdNauseam allows ethical ads so anyone using good, safe stuff should not get affected. There is an entire section in AN’s documentation about not clicking on this specific ad group.

  As for the vast majority of the rest who don’t use ethical, non-tracking ads: let 'em have it! ⚔ AdNauseam users (and users of any similar tools; I don’t know what else is out there) must first hold a fundamental view that the tracking world is extremely violating, of which ads are a subset. Long gone are the glory days when ads were funny, appealing, and well-made, and didn’t track people; ad companies gather data on us and if they get hacked, that info flies out in the open: all without our knowledge or true consent. Is that something you’re fine with? Additionally, more and more ads are proving to be entire scams, or otherwise shams that did not deliver, that have harmed consumers who legitimately click through.

  The long-term goal is to teach those who use malicious ads that this is an unacceptable, unsustainable practice and that they need to market in better ways if they wanna keep doing this (again, going back to the pre-Internet glory days when Coca-Cola, etc. ran awesome TV ads and when there was no or nearly no account-tracking—or just any semblance of it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely fascinating and promising. Thanks for sharing. Any downvoters clearly didn’t read the article.

• AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blockingadnauseam.io ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Incredible, I had no idea that this was a thing. Is there any tutorial out there that you recommend to figure this stuff out? Or may I ask you questions if need be? I wanna start doing this, too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, though do you have a link for Anomaly? I can’t seem to pull up anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, 5 for free, I see; thanks for sharing. Is your provider Proton Mail?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s often a lot of extra JavaScript that gets called, mostly for tracking

  Do you mean that your tool (whatever you use) can selectively block some JS while admitting others on one website?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I recently left uBO for AdNauseam because it actively attacks advertisers by clicking every link (thereby leading to garbage data that messes up their stats), but it can’t operate with uBO simultaneously. I’ll see what I can do to copy this approach…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang it… I’m starting to feel the appeal now, lol! Hmm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s crazy that you’re being downvoted. I guess they avoid The Atlantic, etc. as well, despite the helpful info in such articles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Doing so would break nearly all Internet access. Do you really run a whitelist rather than a blacklist? Is it not tedious to add hundreds of domains to one rather than a few to the other?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so you literally have hundreds of accounts? How do you manage them all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  None of which I know…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, people forget that Discord’s streaming capability is, unfortunately, absolutely top-notch; no other community-screensharing platform has fewer issues, and my friends and I like to watch each other play games often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly what I was gonna say: I’m amazed that so many millions of people can tolerate its atrocious UI. Even now, the amount of notifications I get from the constant text channels across “servers” (which is such a misnomer for merely “communities”) is so ridiculous that I ignore 99.9% of it.