Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

News publishers take #paywall-blocker 12ftio offline
The News/Media Alliance says it will take action against similar tools in the future.
12ftio — or #12FootLadder — allowed users to view webpages without #ads, #trackers, or #popups by disguising a user’s browser as a #webcrawler, giving them unfettered access to a webpage’s contents. Software engineer Thomas Millar says he created the site when he realized “8 of the top 10 links on Google were paywalled”
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News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline

The News/Media Alliance has announced that it has “successfully…

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ragman

Motion Sickness

#ads, #enshittification, #webdev

Behold, the current Chrome browser experience now that they’ve fully upgraded to Manifest 3 (killing adblockers).

SMBC definitely gets some of the blame here too – I bet people have been reading it without an adblocker for years, and this experience is SMBC's choice.

But more broadly, this is the internet that Google has incentivised, and thus, created.

I’m so angry. The web should be better than this.

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Jul 17, 2025, 18:53 · · · 0 · 0
Kevin Karhan :verified:

@dragonfrog @lispi314 @foone granted I remember the days when people worked around forced #ads in Online-RTS Browser games like #OGame by literally loading, but not displaying the ads so that is a possibility per very nature of the web.

Even #AdblockerBlockers can't actually see what's displayed, and Servers can only check what files they served.

mastodon.sdf.org/@dragonfrog/1

dragonfrog (@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org)

@lispi314@udongein.xyz @foone@digipres.club @kkarhan@infosec.space…

Mastodon @ SDF
ᏕᎯᏕᏣᎻᎯ :antifa:

glaub ich nehme mir erst dann 3 Wochen Urlaub am Stück.

bin einfach zu fertig.

die letzte Juli Woche bis zu meiner 5 Tägigen Fortbildung. Danach 2 Arbeitstage, 1 Teamtag und 2 weitere Tage Fortbildung. Dann ist September und ich könnte noch 6 Urlaubstage verplanen (vielleicht im Dezember um Weihnachten-Neujahr).

#urlaubsreif #urlaub #notjustsad #ads #adhs

d0rk ✅

Die #Tagesschau glänzt mal wieder durch Inkompetenz: "2 Millionen sind an dieser psychischen Störung [ADHS] erkrankt".

Als wenn das noch nicht genug ist an dem Tag heute, war da noch eine 'Expertin': "Bei Männern zeigt sich das durch Bewegungsdrang, bei Frauen scheint diese Unruhe eher nach innen zu gehen"

😡🙈

#adhs #adhd #ads

Jul 13, 2025, 18:28 · · · 0 · 0
Mix Mistress Alice💄

"When he first bought WhatsApp for $22 billion, he promised that the app would never run ads. That was a lie. A lie that took years to manifest, but it’s finally here. But the lie doesn’t just end there. Zuckerberg is still lying directly in the statement about how they will be running ads inside WhatsApp. These are supposed to be “ads built with privacy in mind”. No, they are not. For now, the ads will be targeted based on your country, city, language, your channels and ad interactions.
Which on its own is a uniquely profiled set of data. But this is a boiling the frog moment. Because everything inside WhatsApp is prepared to take that next step further when quarterly earnings call for it. All the technology to use your WhatsApp data, including your phone number and personally identifiable information, is ready to be linked to your shadow advertising profile Zuckerberg secretly keeps on everybody whether they like it or not.
Why do you think Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $22 billion? To get to the phone books of 1.5 billion people around the world. In WhatsApp, phone number registration is mandatory, you can’t avoid giving Zuckerberg your phone number to use it."—The Hated One

Delete WhatsApp Already. >

youtu.be/WizR11X_csQ

#meta #WhatsApp #lies #fake_privacy #ads #targetted_ads

Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

Bought a used #Kensington #Orbit #Trackball with Scroll Ring a couple of years ago for testing instead of using a classic computer #mouse because the surface of my Microsoft #Intellimouse Optical from ~2000(!) finally went goo: reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comment

#OrbitTrackball: Love at first use. And it's #ergonomic and not wireless. 👍

Unfortunately, this week one of its buttons started to act weird so I just bought a new one as a replacement.

kensington.com/p/products/feat

I can totally recommend that thing.

#unpaidadvertisement #PIM #hardware #computermouse #inputdevices #advertisement #ads

pb 🇺🇦

Вот и настал день третьего манифеста #mv3 в #google #chrome, который убил отличные расширения для блокировки той же рекламы :( #ubo #umatrix #ads #theoldreader и т.д., и т.п. #rip Видимо пора возвращаться, блудному сыну, на #firefox

Jul 11, 2025, 22:09 · · · 0 · 0
Andreas Grois

I want the "fake mobile game" #ads back on #Youtube. I had always thought those were rock bottom, but no, youtube managed to reach an even lower level: Ads for tools to generate #AISlop.