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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
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This is how I KNOW it works as intended (i.imgur.com)

submitted 9 months ago by anarchy79@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

no issue with firefox and ublock origin just yet over here

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it seems like it's intermittent. Like there's either an arms race going on between uBlock and Youtube system, or else maybe they're slowly experimenting with the noose to see at what point and with what effectiveness the consumer parts of the equation will start choking up money again.

[–] Forestial@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

YouTube has been blocking me for a couple of months now, with one or two short breaks. I have Firefox and uBlock Origin. Even after I whitelisted YouTube, the blocking continues.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It seems that a lot of folk have wildly different experiences on wild variety of browsers and hardware. I use Mullvad VPN and I think their new DNS blockers seem to eradicate advertisements even on Spotify Free. I also don't think Google made the adblock rollout global, but did if for whatever subsections of the network. Looks like they've backed off for now, even, no doubt a time out to calibrate the evil cheater detecting algos...