• slazer2auEnglish
    40•7 months ago

    Consent-o-matic instead of cookies and adnausem instead of ublock origin.

    Consent-o-matic will actively opt out of popups.

    Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently “click” on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.

    • @Nonononoki@lemmy.world
      18•7 months ago

      uBlock Origin can just hide cookie pop ups if you enable said filter, and AdNauseam still loads the ad so you still have slower page loading speed and increased network traffic.

    • @RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      14•7 months ago

      Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently “click” on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.

      Tried it a couple of months ago. Didn’t nearly work as well as uBlock Origin, seemed buggy as hell.

    • @Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4•7 months ago

      I love my pie hole and I love the functionality of being able to access a VPN and use on my home network stuff on the go it’s pretty good

    • @Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
      2•7 months ago

      Truly! I have a streaming app for local TV and I recommended it to a friend and he said  “no way man! Way too many ads in it!” That’s when I realized how awesome Pi-Hole is 🤣

      • @SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
        1•7 months ago

        I use both, and that way when I have a game I need googling while I have it open, I can have a browser that won’t open my 300 tabs, just have a second browser. I do this on my phone too, and yours

  • @LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world
    8•7 months ago

    You could add that extension that replaces clickbait titles by community-made descriptive ones. (lemmy do your thing and find the name please)

  • @RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4•7 months ago

    Advanced kit: add NoScript and block first party scripts by default. Works surprisingly well for visiting sites you don’t care about, just want to read the article etc. Just switch it off if you’re trying to buy something and get through the checkout.

    • @glaber@lemm.ee
      3•7 months ago

      AFAIK every function of NoScript exists in uBlock Origin. So just get uBO and cut the redundancy. The less vectors the better

    • @bobo@lemmy.world
      2•7 months ago

      Does this actually work? I just tried it on a story on The Atlantic website and I just got a print page that looks exactly like the locked paywall page (i.e. not the whole article).

      I use the web archives extension for firefox to easily get the archive.is version of pages. Unfortunately, doesn’t work when I’m using a vpn, but otherwise works like a charm.

      EDIT: I found this comment on the previous thread:

      https://lemmy.world/comment/13080227

      “The idea is you quickly press print before the paywall loads, so you can read the full article”

      That may work in some cases, but not all. Because not all paywall pages behave in a way where this is functional. The Atlantic is an example, it produces a partial page if you’re not past the paywall, so ctrl-p doesn’t work. The web archives extension still works though (I use it to easily access archive.is) and the extension is available on mobile firefox as well.

      I have also used 12 foot ladder in the past, and it works well. In fact, testing it now, it seems to even work when I’m using Proton VPN. archive.is does not work for me through the vpn, so I may switch back to 12ft.io. 12ft.io just has you append the paywalled url to their url, so it should be easy enough to make a bookmarklet.