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looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don't run a complaint browser ( cough...firefox )

here is an article in hacker news since i'm sure they can explain this to you better than i.

and also some github docs

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[–] [email protected] 410 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Ad Blocking is cyber security

[–] [email protected] 209 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Every once in a while I help a family member or friend out with their machine and am stunned when I see the web without an adblocker. It honestly reminds me of the malicious early 2000s porn and “free downloads” sites… but it’s everywhere now, like cnn and eBay and shit. First thing I do is install Firefox and ublock origin, and mostly for their security.

Youtube has also been running basically porn ads on “for kids” youtube channels as well and my kindergarten aged niece and nephew have been exposed to that shit. Adblock is 100% cyber security AND for kids safety.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% agree. The few times I have to turn off uBlock because it is breaking some obscure website it is always an awful experience. Auto-playing videos, ads taking up half the screen, and those annoying as fuck cookie banners. I can't imagine using the internet without an ad/cookie blocker. I accidentally turned it off on Lemmy for a while and it was the only site that I didn't immediately notice.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's always nice when you look at uBlock Origin and it says

connected: 1 out of 1

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh? When I visit lemmy.ca, it also shows me 1/1

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opening the debug console shows that it connects to other lemmies, like the originating one here, lemmy.dbzer0.com.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah okay, that makes sense. Federated network with dozens of different servers and all that

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I said this in another thread, but a lot of the internet is unusable without uBlock Origin IMO.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's the shadowy lands run by bots that only unsuspecting bots go to.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

and am stunned when I see the web without an adblocker.

True, True, it's damn near unusable. You take it for granted what a job your blocker is doing for you.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

You remember browser toolbars? People would have 3 of them at once, having no clue where they got it from nor how to remove it.
Good times.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I installed uBlock Origin on clients computers when I worked at Geek Squad, even.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It kinda makes sense. All the people who know better already use an ad blocker so they don't know what it's really like and all the people who don't know to use an ad blocker don't know any better and that's just what the internet looks like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What company was running those ads on "kids" channels?

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Malvertising (a portmanteau of "malicious software (malware) advertising") is the use of online advertising to spread malware.
It typically involves injecting malicious or malware-laden advertisements into legitimate online advertising networks and webpages.
Because advertising content can be inserted into high-profile and reputable websites, malvertising provides malefactors an opportunity to push their attacks to web users who might not otherwise see the ads, due to firewalls, more safety precautions, or the like.
Malvertising is "attractive to attackers because they 'can be easily spread across a large number of legitimate websites without directly compromising those websites'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Just as noscript and pop-up/new tab blockers are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's the point ofc.

Quiet parts out loud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

A better quote