So you’ve decided to do something about all those annoying ads you’re barraged with online. What pushed you over the edge? Auto-play video ads? Blaring banners? Tired of your music interrupted by a sudden sponsorship? Was it the realization they intentionally make the ‘Close’ buttons [x] on ads super tiny so you accidentally click the […]
    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      Besides it’s usefulness as an adblocker, I like how it allows you to disable javascript for a site with just 2 clicks. Closing a newsletter popup works for a visit, but no javascript works forever.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    17·
    5 months ago

    In short: all are Crap, use UBlockOrigin

    (ABP is worse, Adguard “intelligently shows ads”, Ghostery is spyware)

  • Archaeopteryx@kbin.run
    8·
    5 months ago

    I also would vote for uBlock Origins. This is by far the best solution on the market. It blocks more than just ads and trackers. uBlock blocks also malware sites, popups, miners and other annoyances. Or you can also use it as an URL shortener tool to get rid of the tracking parameters in the URLs.

    Something I’ve also been looking at more closely for a few days now is Arkenfox to hardening my Firefox more effective. Does anyone here has some experiences with Arkenfox?

  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    5 months ago

    DNS blocking with DNS over TLS (DoT) with OpenBSD unwind + disabling javascript

    • userscripts where javascript is required and the site is cancer (youtube, twitch, other corpomedia)
    • disable/compile without DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
      • I’m not sending my DNS requests to cloudflare, and I want my DNS to be system-wide

    always disable DNS prefetch

    works in any browser (system-wide actually), not just in Firefox/Chromium