Ad blocking

Yeah, I mean, apart from, like you said, just like being knowledgeable that this is a thing, there are some things you can do, I guess.

I guess the most important thing that I think blocks a lot of these attacks is just using Adblock or a content filter, such as like, you know, uBlock Origin, or you can use like DNS-based ones.

I think, you know, that's going to block most like malicious looking ads um online as well and a lot of um these dns blockers also have um protection against malware and a lot of sites that are hosting this this content are blocked by those so that's one thing um the article itself also mentions this um this offer on mac os called block block which basically will monitor your processes and It will see if something is operating in a way that looks suspicious and it will stop it from running.

So there's that as an option too.

I do have my little

Raspberry Pi that's doing my ad blocking and all my DNS port, whatever it is, forwarding thing.

Ad blocking, Stephen Scott?

You should

be ashamed of yourself.

It's virtually impossible to read an article.

You click on something and you just get stuck in ads and ads and ads and you get a paragraph and then three ads and sometimes you get stuck in an ad.

Ad blocking is actually, you know what, if it means I can read it, I'm sorry, but I'm going to block those ads.

I have DuckDuckGo and they don't do that.

Also, I have Adblock.

but i fair point yeah go past the sponsored links look for the pdf of design document for pepsi that i don't know how long ago this came out this came out like i want to say before the 2020s it was like somewhere in the 2010s like i don't know if it leaked but it is it is the funniest shit ever it like if you look at that you will suddenly realize like what a fucking sham corporate marketing and design and shit can be it's it's it's really fantastic i highly recommend it

really is uh so Just for an example here, in 1927, so the Phoebus cartel has been in power for a little, like, between two and three years.

I was very confused at the approach that...

And in sites that I generally speaking like, although growing to dislike more and more, particularly with Deadline, I think Deadline's aggressive advertising and their aggressive strategy with handling anyone using Adblock is getting to be a problem.

But generally speaking, Deadline are really good at making sure all their stories are sourced.

But I found that one to be...

Well, he's in Brave right now.

Yeah, I have Adblock.

Oh, well.

How do we disable Adblock? Let's find out what it looks like.

Oh.

That's what I'm saying.

So sweet.

The other thing that they released, not as part of Firefox 155, but separately, Firefox on iOS now has an ad blocker.

So that's nice.

So if you're a Firefox user like I am and you are on iOS, you can now block ads.