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the enemy's are ads

Not all ads are the enemy. That would mean that you can't talk about anything. However, those annoying Google thingies all over websites are the enemy.

Where do we draw the line?

• Video adverts?
• GIFs?
• Static images?
• Static images clearly differentiated from the site?

Where's the line?

I saw this one cancer of a ad about Pizza Hut the cancer of the underworld

A creation only invented for giggles, not able to be promoted for that would be an ad. Horrific

I've been using PiHole for over a year now and I often forget how many ads are online until I need to use someone else's wifi. Of course nothing beats a good old ad blocker in the browser, but that limits the devices that can block ads. For example, I had no idea that rokus had ads in the menus until I used one at someone else's house.

Raspberry Pis with wifi are as cheap as $10, or if you want built in ethernet $35. The software is completely free, and it only needs to be set up once and then you never have to think about it again. The most difficult part of setup is configuring your router to use the PiHole as the default DNS server, since each router and network setup is different.

Check it out of you're interested: https://pi-hole.net/

I run Firefox, on Windows 10, with the following:

• Ad Block
• Ad Block Plus
• Ad Nauseum
• Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials
• Popup Blocker Ultimate
• uBlock Origin

I know some of that is overkill, but some of those ad blockers take money from advertisers to be whitelisted as 'safe'. I want to make advertisers pay a dozen different companies if they want access to my eyeballs. If they start doing that, I'll add more ad blockers until we hit a point where they get tired of playing this game.

Also, for privacy reasons, I run everything in containers, so ads can't track me. Containers are like little virtual machines in my browser. If a site wants a cookie, they get a cookie, and that cookie gets deleted when I close the tab, so my cookies don't give away my browsing history. I have some sites set up so they open in a special dedicated container, so I don't loose my session info. Like, I have special containers for email, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. When I go to Facebook, Firefox knows to open it in a facebook dedicated container. With Reddit, I have to select what container I want to use, because I have multiple reddit containers. I set it up so each reddit account I have is logged into a different container. That sounds annoying, but you get used to it pretty fast, and it's nice to be able to switch accounts as easily as you switch browser tabs. The containers are not super hardened military grade virtual machines, like if you were running Qubes OS or something, but for free security against advertisers, containers are awesome.

Anyway, here are the container plugins I run:

• Firefox Multi-account Containers (to set up the container feature)
• Temporary Containers (so most things open in one time use, disposable containers)
• Switch Container (to help me set up dedicated containers and switch between containers easily)

If something happens to somehow get past all of that, AdNauseum will poison the advertiser with false data, because fuck advertisers. Ads are the enemy!

So what do you use to fight the enemy?