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Just FYI, folks…

Make sure your adblockers are set to “11,” before hitting thst site.

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It even blocked the "go back" action of my browser.

Like, just, a nice f''k you for good measure.

Amazing

<alt><left-arrow> ... and never return, blacklist them.

TIL (I'm 52): <alt><left-arrow> equals the back button. Thank you tejtm!

That seems to be a common thing on most sites these days to not be able to click back button on a browser. I'm noticing it more and more even on well-known sites like Microsoft.

On some sites now after you click a link to it and you're on the site the back button is not clickable to go back. Even a right-click on the button doesn't allow you to select page history. I thought it was a bug on Firefox and it seems people are reporting it as so. I'll have to use another browser to test to see if it's browser-related or site-related.

It then makes the site unreadable by yelling about ad blockers.

Plain old Pihole works though.

> Plain old Pihole works though

Yup: I set up one the other day and it "Just Works [TM]". It's trivial to set up if you've got any experience with the Pi and in case you don't there are many tutorials out there. Highly recommended.

I’m doing it in Docker now days and it seems even easier than doing it ‘for real’.

A word of warning though, if you run it on a machine with lots of containers, is buggers up internet access for the other containers and it’s a complete pain to solve (and sometimes reverts to broken on reboot).

It's surprising how much putting the following in one's hosts(5) file helps:

    0.0.0.0         adservice.google.com
    ::1             adservice.google.com
    0.0.0.0         ssl.google-analytics.com
    ::1             ssl.google-analytics.com
    0.0.0.0         www.google-analytics.com
    ::1             www.google-analytics.com
    0.0.0.0         www.googletagservices.com
    ::1             www.googletagservices.com
    0.0.0.0         www.googletagmanager.com
    ::1             www.googletagmanager.com
    0.0.0.0         partner.googleadservices.com
    ::1             partner.googleadservices.com
    0.0.0.0         pagead2.googlesyndication.com
    ::1             pagead2.googlesyndication.com
    0.0.0.0         googleads.g.doubleclick.net
    ::1             googleads.g.doubleclick.net
    0.0.0.0         securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
    ::1             securepubads.g.doubleclick.net

I recently got a new MacBook for work and when I was surfing there was all sorts of popups and ads and such. I got none of these things on my personal iMac. It took a day or two for me to realize that it wasn't about (e.g.) the different version of macOS or Safari that I was running.

Once I updated the work machine's hosts(5) file things it was a night-and-day difference.

I cannot believe that people tolerate surfing the web without any ad filtering / blocking.

Just curious, is anyone intentionally not using an ad blocker?

It got ad blocker blocker :(

I didn't notice that ad blocker blocker on Firefox + uBlock Origin.

Neither did I using Brave.

There need to be ad blocker blocker blockers!

If by ad blocker you mean a browser plugin, then I do not have one of these.

I use a hosts file that ignores many ad hosts at the DNS level.

No need for a low performance solution.

uBlock Origin does not noticeably affect the responsiveness of my T100 from 2013 with a Bay Trail atom CPU and 2GB RAM. What exactly are you browsing on?

Intel i7 1165g7

Anyway, I don't want to waste CPU cycles or battery life on such things.

Do you regularly update the blacklist yourself? Ublock origin uses close to no memory or cpu for me, and offers instantaneous, effortless disabling in times where it is needed.

Of course I do update the list!

It is taken from here https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

And I have another ~40 entries not included in that list.

You should try it. It is another layer of protection in case you want to keep using uBlock Origin.

On desktop sure, but just plain safari on iPhone. If I hit an article like this one I just click straight off it.

There is actually a fairly good ad blocker for safari available. It's called AdGuard and works quite well.

Me. I want websites to actually face the consequences of excessive advertising, like driving me away. I'm not happy with the idea of more ads being shoved at a smaller fraction of the visitors.

Wow you weren't lying. There is literally an ad every 2 paragraphs.

And each paragraph is 1-3 sentences.

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