I'm telling you, w3m or any other text-based browser wins right here! The content we care about is usually text, forget about popups, ads, and subscription requests!
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RT @RobStuttaford
It's almost as if the page isn't about the content https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1435827240286109702
https://twitter.com/RobStuttaford/status/1435918566201626625
@b6hydra I’m not familiar with cname cloaking.
I do enjoy going back to basics when it works so incontrovertibly well, though.
@worldsendless CNAME cloaking is a fancy term for what’s basically just falsifying DNS records. You still serve ads and tracking cookies from 3rd parties (i.e. doubleclick.net), but you use a CNAME record to make it look like it’s coming from the 1st party domain (i.e. google.com). It makes browser add-ons or network level adblockers like pi-hole or adguard home ineffective because everything looks like it’s coming from the actual site you’re browsing.
@b6hydra Thanks for the explanation. And here I am just trying to get my apache redirects to work cleanly.
@worldsendless I’ve been using a DNS based ad blocker on my LAN for years, but if the ‘CNAME Cloaking’ and server-side tracking techniques start becoming even more popular I have zero problem going back to text.