Welp, looks like Ublock Origin is over... YT now detects it and harasses your ass to try & give up your safety/comfort just so they can throw malicious ads down your throat.
And no, I won't stop using my adblocker as it keeps me safe, comfortable and secure from the tones of malicious/toxic ads YT tries to expose you to.
Hopefully UBlock manage to find a patch that stops YT from doing this if its still possible.
Chromium browsers are vulnerable to the GPU.zip pixel stealing vulnerability where malicious webpages can view pixels on other pages. https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu.zip/
Chrome is vulnerable because it:
allows cross-origin iframes w/cookies
where it renders SVG filters
on the GPU.
Until Google decides whether and how to patch, it seems blocking all third-party iframes can mitigate this issue, using this uBlock Origin rule:
Nachdem ich mal wieder irgendeine News gelesen habe, dass Chrome nun also wirklich so dramatisch viel tracken würde, dass man ihn nicht nutzen sollte, habe ich die Gelegenheit genutzt und die aktuelle Safari-Version für zwei Wochen getestet. Leider komme ich damit einfach nicht klar. Zunächst finde ich partout keinen Adblocker, der in Safari das selbe leistet wie mein aktueller in Chrome. Das scheint ja auch nicht ganz ungewollt zu sein. Dann gibt es doch immer mal wieder Seiten, die mit einem Hinweis auf den Browser den Dienst verweigern (was ich für ein Armutszeugnis in der Webentwicklung halte und nicht für Safaris Schuld, aber das ist in dem Moment ja egal). Ansonsten ist natürlich sehr angenehm ins Betriebssystem integriert (was er vielleicht gar nicht sein sollte, aber naja), jedenfalls wechsle ich wieder zurück auf Chrome und ignoriere die weiteren Warnungen.
Update: If you activate "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" privacy filter in #uBlockOrigin, it will do the filtering as well, just not the redirect-skipping. (h/t @oatmeal)
However, I needed to manually activate the "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" privacy filter, it wasn't on (and doesn't seem to be active on fresh installs either).
(I also didn't see the "skip redirect" feature in #uBO.)
If website owners agree to display ads which they have no control over and which could be promoting the exact opposite of their values, doesn't that mean that they care about $$ more than the products/causes the ads are promoting?
Or do the ad platforms let content creators choose what ad topics and keywords to disallow?
@Em0nM4stodon I don't know how much privacy you think you're losing with L.in. Unless you know L.in/MS are either selling your data or using it for ads (I wouldn't know, I have #uBlockOrigin on #firefox), I think it's a great tool for getting a new job. Just put in as minimal data as possible (say, last ten years of experience), and run in on its own profile.
Somewhat inspired by @theprivacydad's most recent blog post, here's a list of privacy-friendly software that "just works" about as well as (if not better than) more invasive alternatives, even for the relatively non-tech savvy:
On peut ne pas être d'accord avec toutes les idées d'Hillary Clinton, mais je dois avouer qu'elle a des bons points dans ce texte.
Notre mode de vie actuel nous isole. Nos lieux de travail sont loins, nos magasins sont loins, il faut prendre la voiture et rester coincer dans le traffic. On passe moins de temps à voir nos amis. On travaille trop et on n'a pas le temps ou l'énergie de rejoindre des groupes communautaires.
Achten Sie im Web aufs #Energie-Sparen? Löschen Sie z. B. unbenutzte Fotos aus der #Cloud und #streamen Sie Videos in geringerer Auflösung?
Vivian Frick, Expertin für #Digitalisierung & #Nachhaltigkeit, betont im FOCUS: Es braucht bessere Vorgaben für Betreiber, aber auch sensibilisierte Nutzer*innen. Hier ein weiterer Tipp:
How do you talk about #privacy with "normal people"? (The ones that don't care.)
How do I make sure people treat my stance seriously? Being radical about privacy doesn't improve the chances of convincing people. I'm afraid it makes us look like tinfoil-hats and nerds, more than 'just aware of the problem'.
I see several issues here. These might be assumptions of mine.
The topic is complex network of concepts and facts. It's hard to talk about it without mentioning all these parts of the problem (which one would need to keep in mind, which I don't, making it even harder).
People like easy explanations. There is no easy explanation they would accept.
They value their convenience more than this abstract thing called privacy.
I'd love to see different perspectives on this topic, so please reply and/or boost!
@pfm I personally find it extremely difficult to even start the conversation if whatever more private alternative I’m preaching isn’t at least on par in terms of features and ease of use with the service/application it’s meant to replace.
For example, I’ve had a much greater success getting people to install #uBlockOrigin on their favourite browser than getting them to ditch Google Maps in favor of OsmAnd.
@pallenberg ublock Origin. Seit vielen, vielen, vielen Jahren das erste und wichtigste Add-On auf jedem neuen System. Und der Grund, warum ich auf Android den #FirefoxMobile nutze. #Firefox#ublockorigin