thatprivacyguy, to Youtube

Today I filed a formal complaint against #YouTube with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for their illegal deployment of #adblock detection technologies.

Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on an end user's terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.

In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.

retrohistories, to random
@retrohistories@digipres.club avatar

To protect your privacy and shield yourself against 0-days and malicious advertisers, an adblocker is an important part of your security stance.

The FBI, NSA, CISA, and UK National Cyber Security Centre all recommend adblocking as a protective measure.

You'd never disable your firewall or antivirus because a site asked you to. NEVER DO THIS WITH YOUR ADBLOCKER.

That's the only pertinent point here. Everything else is noise.

bekopharm, to random
@bekopharm@social.tchncs.de avatar

Nothing warms my heart more than another website picking up the idea "Detect Missing Ad-blocker" of https://stefanbohacek.com/project/detect-missing-adblocker-wordpress-plugin/ (after seeing it on mine in action).

It's made for WordPress but the idea is so dead simple that it can be integrated in almost anything with some work (if nobody else did that work already :D)

spideymang, to Meme Spanish
@spideymang@mstdn.mx avatar

Times Square with adblock
enabled

#adblock #meme

jbouter, to firefox
@jbouter@fosstodon.org avatar

By remaining to use a chromium browser, you're assisting in fucking up the web. I get it, it was nice and shiny. But it's time to come back to Firefox, folks.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/12/chromes-next-weapon-in-the-war-on-ad-blockers-slower-extension-updates/

#Firefox #chrome #floss #adblock #freedom

markuswet, to Youtube

: If you are a user, and you suddenly started getting ads on , check out this Reddit post:

TL;DR: either purge the filter list cache or disable/re-enable the "Quick Fixes" list.

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/154vtwy/getting_ads_on_youtube/

In other news, I'm currently recovering from this mild heart attack of suddenly experiencing ads on YouTube for the first time in probably 10+ years. 😵

owlbear, to Youtube

Last month, YouTube extended its ad blocker detection to users in the European union.

But privacy campaigners say that the adblock detection techniques used by YouTube (and almost everyone else) could be illegal under the EU’s ePrivacy Directive.

For WIRED, I looked at at the legal and technical arguments and spoke to privacy advocate Alexander Hanff (@thatprivacyguy) and MEP Patrick Breyer (@echo_pbreyer) about their work in this area.

https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-ad-blocker-detection-eu-privacy-law/

kuketzblog, to ads German
@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de avatar

Wer grob testen möchte, wie gut seine Adblocker (uBlock Origin, Pi-hole, AdGuard etc.) funktionieren, kann diese Testseite besuchen. 👇

Meine Blockrate: 99%

https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html

kuketzblog, to RaspberryPi German
@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de avatar

Einrichtung eines Pi-hole als werbe- und trackerfreies DNS-Filter-System im Heimnetzwerk, inklusive Installation, Konfiguration und Anpassungen. 👇

Zielgruppe: Einsteiger bis Fortgeschrittene. Bitte teilen!

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/pi-hole-einrichtung-und-konfiguration-mit-fritzbox-adblocker-teil1/

gianmarcogg03, to piracy
kzimmermann, to reddit
@kzimmermann@fosstodon.org avatar

Adblockers and alternative frontend will only get you so far in this. It's literally just a matter of time until step it to yet another level. Want some real change? Stop giving them power. these fuckers.

"Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox" -> https://archive.is/yAdak (link to avoid direct )

Bring down closed data silos like . Empower federated platforms like .

reillypascal, to privacy
@reillypascal@hachyderm.io avatar

This guy made a tool that beeps every time a website sends data about you to Google. The beeps blur into a continuous buzz: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/

I use Privacy Badger (https://privacybadger.org/, blocks trackers), uBlock Origin (https://ublockorigin.com/, adblocker), Firefox, and the SearXNG search engine (https://searxng.ca/ or find instances at https://searx.space/), but it's annoying I have to.

#Privacy #Tracking #Google #AdBlock #uBlockOrigin #Security #SearchEngines #SearXNG

A video of navigating various popular news sites (Daily Mail, nu.nl, telegraaf.nl) in Chrome. A terminal is visible in the background, running a program that beeps ever time the site reports back to Google.

unfortunateshort, to firefox
uncomfyhalomacro, to Youtube

you use youtube with adblocker? i use yt-dlp and mpv. we are not the same.

screams in "i cant see comments"

others: also there is invidious so :P

btw my fav instance is https://onion.tube

qaqelol, to web
@qaqelol@toots.niark.nexus avatar

Did not know that uBlock has a "disable large media" option.

When enabled it tries to block any media larger than a specified size (until you click on said media)

Less data to load means a faster and cheaper internet 😄

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-large-media-elements

jmcrookston, to random
@jmcrookston@mastodon.social avatar
dis, to grafana

Today's adventure in #darkpattern #surveillance comes from #Grafana #Loki. (Not a surprise, but this is why I run egress filters and dns #adblock in my #homelab clusters.)

I know not everyone agrees that #optout #telemetry is a dark pattern, but you might agree with me about this one after you see it documented:

> # -- Optional analytics configuration
> analytics: {}

Enlightening, isn't it? There are other empty blocks, but they are either fairly standard or are described elsewhere in the document.

If you are familiar with #helm, you won't despair because you have the power of analytics.enabled: false. That works on the rest of this chart and is the standard way to en/disable things.

It doesn't work that way.

Let me save you some time with the terrible new #github code search. Here is the actual syntax:
"analytics.reporting_enabled: false"

This was caught by #adguard and enforced by an egress #networkpolicy

#monitoring #prometheus #kubernetes #k3s #k8s #helmchart

stefano, to FreeBSD
@stefano@bsd.cafe avatar
smallcircles, to Youtube
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

When figures out how to make ineffective is likely a time of big influx and uptake of on the .

The privilege of enraged people with regards to the fine volunteer maintainers who spent sweat and tears to serve us with software stood out:

> And then one of the moderators actually deleted their Reddit account. “The ID in the post wasn’t updated because my mother was hospitalized,” they said

Discussed in this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38061642

eunews, to news
@eunews@mastodon.social avatar

YouTube’s Ad Blocker Detection Believed to Break EU Privacy Law

A complaint filed with the EU’s independent data regulator accuses YouTube of failing to get explicit user permission for its ad blocker detection system, potentially violating the ePrivacy Directive.

https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-ad-blocker-detection-eu-privacy-law/

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #Adblock #YouTube #Google #BigTech #Privacy

tournesol, to Youtube
@tournesol@peculiar.florist avatar

Superbe vidéo de Micode sur le combat Youtube vs AdBlock et pourquoi la menace Google n’est pas finie

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRFf7zjmmc
#AdBlock #UBlockOrigin #Youtube #Google #web #Firefox #YoutubePremium

mainframed767, to Youtube
stefan, to ads
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

My "Detect Missing Adblocker" WordPress plugin is now in active use on 70+ websites!

Do you know how to make a page element look like an ad to various privacy and ad-blocking tools?

I could use your help!

https://github.com/stefanbohacek/detect-missing-adblocker/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3Aad-detection+sort%3Aupdated-desc

More about the project: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/detect-missing-adblocker-wordpress-plugin/

arda, to wireguard
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