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[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 323 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Can you imagine the amount of corruptive influences and persuasions he is resisting?

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 236 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure he has them blocked

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 79 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Though you may be right, I have a feeling that he is facing formidable opposition. That may include anything from social engineering to full on psyops.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 43 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Bet he’s had people “happen” to bump into him IRL, and gets pull requests from bad actors that are very subtly trying to take the project in the wrong direction.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 months ago

Your second point is especially interesting, considering the recent xz backdoor. The bad actors manipulated a poor burnt out maintainer for it. In comparison, I'm impressed with gorhill for his perseverance and mental strength. I would like to know how he avoids burn out with such negative influences.

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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 66 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Insightful point. And it does remind me of the corporate purchase of the Don't care about cookies extension for Firefox (And the Simple Mobile Tools for Android). Luckily it was forked. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies Open source FTW!
🙂 🐧

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 6 months ago

Simple Mobile Tools was forked into "Fossify *" for anyone interested.

There's a reason uBlock Origin overtook Adblock Plus in popularity.

[–] OriginalUsername7@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The VLC guy turned down what a quick search is telling me was “several tens of millions” to show ads. I can’t even imagine what getting people to drop ublock would be worth.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

I wouldn't blame him if he took it, but I greatly respect that he didn't.

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 months ago

Raymond Hill: “Get behind me, Google.”

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 249 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And all the volunteers keeping those lists up-to-date.

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 49 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yea it’s mainly those that do the work actually

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 57 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Still big kudos to Raymond for providing the foundations to make it all work too.

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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 211 points 6 months ago (12 children)

It's kinda sad that without Mozilla, Raymond, the NoScript guys and TOR we would lose control over the internet pretty much immediately

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 62 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Kind of agree. Though there is pi-hole and several others. And there's i2p, Freenet (now called Hyphanet) and GNUnet, and similar.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pi-hole is nice for devices that you don't fully control. But it's not enough, due to the fundamental limitations of DNS based blocking. If the ads and the content are hosted on the same domain, it can't do anything.

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[–] h05@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

I definitely agree, although really a LOT of non-Linux/(IT) guys use Chrome, some even Edge, if on Windows

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[–] DivineDev@kbin.run 179 points 6 months ago (16 children)

If only, I know so many people who don't bother with adblocking at all. I honestly have no idea how they use the Internet without going mad

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 215 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

My kid discovered that he can hit the "report" button on the YouTube app on the TV to skip the ads immediately. So now every ad gets reported as "inappropriate".

I'm proud of him.

[–] JVT038@feddit.nl 86 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Tip: if you have an Android TV, you can install SmartTube as an alternative, privacy-friendly YouTube client. It has no ads and sponsorblock integration

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 6 months ago (3 children)

And as a better option, use an actual device instead of a short lifecycle planned obsolescence embedded android device on a "smart" tv.

[–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is why I refuse to buy a "smart" TV. My old flat screen TV works perfectly fine with a Chromecast with Google TV. I can even use the Chromecast in my projector or any other device with HDMI input to make it smarter than most TV interfaces I have tried.

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[–] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm of two minds about people not adblocking.

On one hand: Ads are gross noise pollution, and people are increasingly unaware of all the noise around them (or the noise they're generating) largely because they've been passively trained to "tune out" ads. Also consumerism.

On the other hand: As long as there are a significant amount of people oblivious to the possibility of adblock, corporate ad mobsters and the other worst people in the world out there will largely leave those of us blocking their ads alone. If everyone ran adblockers, we'd definitely live in a world of WEI... and probably worse. So, maybe all those people are watching ads so that I don't have to, as the YouTube thumbnails say.

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[–] variants@possumpat.io 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People just don't know, I've been showing my wife the way little by little and she's always blown away

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[–] JulesTheModest@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's shocking to see how many ads they jam in now. I felt so dirty.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 127 points 6 months ago
[–] land@lemmy.ml 113 points 6 months ago (5 children)

What would we do without ublock origin

[–] MuAraeOracle@real.lemmy.fan 22 points 6 months ago

Use vblock ingress!

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[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 71 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Seriously. Says a lot about the modern internet, though. Both good and bad.

[–] adamantris@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Thank Raymond and the list maintainers, you keep the internet usable

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Raymond Hill made a great plugin, but the people maintaining the lists are the real MVPs

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're all gods among men.

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 53 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He's far too kind of a person. He doesn't accept any donations for the many years of a better and safer internet experience I've gotten from his work

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[–] kirbowo808@kbin.social 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ours@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

And the people maintaining the lists his work depends on.

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Never knew the name of the guy behind it. Nice! This is why Everybody Loves Raymond!

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/gorhill

About

Free. Open-source. For users by users. No donations sought.

If you ever want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which are available to use by all for free.

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[–] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 41 points 6 months ago

Im genuinely so thankful for this project, the creator and maintainers. You are doing the lords work.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 31 points 6 months ago

Gladly upvoted to ~~worship~~ honor one of the open source heroes.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ad/content blockers of various types are the only reason the internet is still generally usable for me.

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[–] uhrbaan@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

There is something very wrong when deleting 50% of wep page is the least it takes to make the internet usable...

[–] andri@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Messiah of the internet

[–] JATtho@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I have been using uBlock Origin and uMatrix together for so long, that I don't remember when they became permanent must have.. uBlock origin sanitizes the site, while uMatrix prevents any surprises since I last visited a site. The more garbage the site is, the more broken it is on my setup.

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