uBlock Lite has made its way to Safari with iOS/iPadOS 18.6 with declarativeNetRequest bugfix making adblockers more effective without alternative browsers.
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Weekly block list report: 3,440 entries; 3,419 valid / 21 invalid; 2 deleted #ads #adblocking #blocklist #trackers #pglblocklistreport
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> "Some of these forced changes in consumption patterns are often explained away by manufacturers and retailers alike with the phrase "Nobody wants that anymore." Laptops with 4:3 or 5:4 screens, for example. Or slightly bulkier laptops but with decent thermal design. Or a laptop with a DVD player that will let me watch one of the many movies I own that's not available on a streaming service."
Weekly block list report: 3,445 entries; 3,419 valid / 26 invalid; 6 deleted #ads #adblocking #blocklist #trackers #pglblocklistreport
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With #GoogleChrome preventing extensions like #uBlockOrigin working properly anymore, would setting up #AdBlocking via #NextDNS be a viable alternative instead?
As always, #AdBlocking is #infosec:
https://infosec.exchange/@InfobloxThreatIntel/114930229670245228
If you're still using #GoogleChrome or #MicrosoftEdge then switch to #Firefox and install the #uBlockOrigin extension. It works on desktop and on Android. That alone will give you a safer, more enjoyable browsing experience.
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Like CEOs at Coldplay concerts, we keep finding malicious adtech hiding behind well-known advertising brands. While these platforms may appear credible, they allow malicious actors access to their platform, and profit from their successes.
Our posts often focus on adtech operators because they are the ones who manage the infrastructure. But they are not the only ones profiting from this business. Affiliates play a big role by driving traffic (aka visitors) to the adtech platform (TDS).
Malicious affiliates do this by tricking visitors into clicking hidden links or manipulating pages to redirect them automatically. They are so good at it that they generate a profit just due to the sheer volume of traffic they drive into the platform.
Legitimate affiliates do this by posting what they believe to be normal ads on their web pages, tempted by promises of big rewards. Unfortunately for them, this is rarely the reality, and there are many reports of affiliates being underpaid or not paid at all. Additionally, affiliates risk damaging their own brand image – no one wants their legitimate website redirecting to malware, right?
As a user, regardless of how you find yourself diverted into a malicious TDS, if you happen to fit the profile then you face the risk of being sent to a malicious landing page. Scams, disinformation, malware…you name it.
As there are many players involved in this scheme, we’ve created an infographic that highlights who they are and how they fit into the malicious adtech landscape.
Have you come across any of these shady platforms or, worse, been lured into becoming part of the scheme? Let us know!
#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #adtech #maliciousadtech #advertising #affiliates #scam #malware #phishing
Weekly block list report: 3,439 entries; 3,411 valid / 28 invalid; 3 deleted #ads #adblocking #blocklist #trackers #pglblocklistreport
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#uBlockOrigin is forever disabled in #Chrome. Why it happened and what to use instead
https://adguard.com/en/blog/ublock-origin-disabled-chrome.html
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New York University: Ad blockers may be showing users more problematic ads, study finds. “Privacy-conscious users relying on ‘acceptable ads’ programs encounter 13.6% more problematic content than those without ad blockers, NYU Tandon researchers discover.”
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I can believe it. Mrs Wife sometimes grumbles about our #PiHole. She hasn't understood that #AdBlocking is infosec.
So @naomibrockwell blew my mind about how are smart TVs are spying on us with Automatic Content Recognition and other advertising profile scripts. Yikes! Thanks for the heads up!
https://youtu.be/jeq2m-OM53A?si=DPW7TQiDSopBdqiS
I don’t have the resources to switch to a more secure streaming device yet (I’m gonna build one with mini PC running LibreELEC with Kodi hopefully).
In the meantime, I setup a Pi-Hole on an old Raspberry Pi 3B I had laying around last night to block as many ads and outgoing unwanted scripts as I could.
https://pi-hole.net/
It is working great from what I tell! Even removed the ads from my Roku TV home pages lol! I’m sure some stuff is getting through, but at least it’s minimal.
Here is the PiHole install video I watched from Micro Center, but I also added SSH via private/public keys too. How to Block Ads Using a Pi-Hole With A Raspberry Pi
https://youtu.be/oX4NqFisC5Y?si=-AdahVN0F6UchwnP
Oh and it has a built-in Star Trek NG LCARS theme!
https://github.com/MichalSvatos/pi-hole-star-trek-picard
#pihole #pi-hole #raspberrypi #linux #adblocking #cybersecurity #homenetworking #homelab #privacy #dataprivacy #digitalrights #mydatamychoice #privacyisahumanright #privacymatters #blockads #surveillancecapitalism #optout #FOSS #startrek #microcenter
Weekly block list report: 3,440 entries; 3,403 valid / 37 invalid; 3 deleted #ads #adblocking #blocklist #trackers #pglblocklistreport
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"#Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there's #wealth, there's a natural #human desire to make more #wealth. Ever since #Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a #mosquito to an #artery to the #Google #cash #firehose. #TheRegister noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned #five."
"And as for that #money — remember back in 2018? That's when #Google dropped "Don't be evil" as its #motto."
"#Mozilla's #leadership is #directionless and #flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a #profit, because it never had to make a #profit. It's no wonder it has no real #direction or #vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a #business."
"Like we said, don't #blame the #app. You're still #better off with Firefox or a fork such as #Waterfox. #Chrome even #snoops on you when in #incognito mode, and as we #warned you, Google removed the APIs #adblocker #extensions used. You still get better #adblocking in #Firefox."
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"#Mozilla has missed so many boats that it's not even funny to #catalog them, but sadly, I must."
"Most of the #web runs on #advertising, as it has for 20-plus years. You might think Mozilla would, say, buy and integrate an #adblocker. Acquiring #adblocking #companies has been a thing for a #decade. Other #browsers integrate ad-blocking, and you don't even need something controversial like #Brave – for instance, #VivaldiBrowser has offered it for years. Many of the #team behind #Vivaldi previously made #Opera, and it #blocked #ads too. (Soon afterwards, the company sold it to a #Chinese group.)
But no. Instead, Mozilla goes and buys an #ad firm and then removes its promise not to #sell your #data. Once again, it's as if the #leadership were actively trying to work out the worst direction to turn."
"The #AI trend is a cult now for many.
Whither Mozilla? Oh, it built a #bot into its docs #server in 2023, then promptly had to turn it off again. Its #chief product #officer was quite gung-ho about AI in early 2024. He left the company soon afterwards.
In 2024, Mozilla made more layoffs and announced it would invest in open source #AI. This year, Mozilla finally integrated a #vertical #tab bar into #Firefox and, you guessed it, built an AI #chatbot into it. You can, at least, turn it off."
#VivaldiBrowser team has just released a new desktop update, Vivaldi 7.5
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-5/
I personally love the new smooth way of interacting with Speed Dials and Dashboard elements (Widgets), the new Mail and Calendar look, as well as the new Ad Blocker supported rules (badfilter, strict3p, and strict1p).
P.S. Related to the **real bugs** hotel: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-5/#:~:text=We%20squashed%20bugs.%20But%20we%E2%80%99re%20kind%20to%20the%20real%20ones. Does anyone know where I can find the #drill in the photo? I like it. It must be as powerful as #VivaldiBrowser. Maybe it even has a button to change its colour :)
Please, do you know where to get it from? Possibly on the Vivaldi Store? TY!
New blog post!
Today it's about how I finally learned how Pi-hole is spelled.
I also talk how I moved from Google to Unbound as the upstream DNS server, and that I added additional blocklists to Pi-hole, all that making my adblocking solution even more private and secure.
YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures
｢ One thing that people have ran into is “fake buffering”, where videos will take a while to load due to a lot of buffering, but only at the very start of the video (there’s no mid-video fake buffering). As I’ll explain, the fake buffering is 80% of the length of the ads you would’ve seen, so even with fake buffering you’re still saving time using an adblocker ｣
loopsYouTube’s new anti-adblock measuresHow I wrote filter rules for YouTube
Weekly block list report: 3,449 entries; 3,421 valid / 28 invalid; 2 deleted #ads #adblocking #blocklist #trackers #pglblocklistreport
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PC World: YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads. “It’s fairly easy to block the constant, incessant advertising that appears on YouTube. Google would prefer that you don’t, or pay up (quite a lot) to make them go away. Last weekend, the company started its latest campaign to try and badger ad-block users into disabling their extensions. Since then, it looks like YouTube has […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/pc-world-youtube-might-slow-down-your-videos-if-you-block-ads/
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