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RoundSparrow 🐦<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaEcologyOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaEcologyOpera</span></a> &lt;&lt;&lt; "Media Ecology Opera"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeFirefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeFirefox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeYouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeYouTube</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeAdvertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeAdvertising</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeMarketing</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWakeAdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FWakeAdBlock</span></a> /\</p><p><a href="https://www.techspot.com/news/108232-youtube-shuts-down-ad-blocker-loophole-tightens-restrictions.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techspot.com/news/108232-youtu</span><span class="invisible">be-shuts-down-ad-blocker-loophole-tightens-restrictions.html</span></a></p>
Andreas N. ⁂<p>Kleines Sharepic gebastelt für Familiengruppen u.a.</p><p>Werbung auf Android blockieren in 30s</p><p>Nach Anleitung von <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kuketzblog</span></a></span> danke!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>android</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smartphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smartphone</span></a></p>
infoek.cz :archlinux:<p>🌐 Jak na YouTube obejít „Po přehrání 3 videí bude přehrávač zablokován“?</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://infoek.cz/jak-na-youtube-obejit-po-prehrani-3-videi-bude-prehravac-zablokovan-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infoek.cz/jak-na-youtube-obeji</span><span class="invisible">t-po-prehrani-3-videi-bude-prehravac-zablokovan-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamutovo.cz/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://mamutovo.cz/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> <a href="https://mamutovo.cz/tags/Brave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brave</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>"5 reasons why I switched from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chrome</span></a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Brave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brave</span></a>" </p><p><a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-switched-from-chrome-to-brave-3561491/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">androidauthority.com/why-i-swi</span><span class="invisible">tched-from-chrome-to-brave-3561491/</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/searchengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>searchengine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
NathanALV<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> note that you can do the same thing with <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/adnauseam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adnauseam</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://adnauseam.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">adnauseam.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Radio Azureus<p>This is one important reason why you should rip yourself away from closed source underlords</p><p>The destruction of your privacy by ripping your adblock extensions a new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rsehole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rsehole</span></a></p><p>I stopped using Alphabet's google chrome 100% before this came into effect</p><p>It wasn't just 30 million people using this extension by the way it was much much more (close to 300 million users?)</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mozilla" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mozilla</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@Timpostma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Timpostma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stefano</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alphabet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chrome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClosedSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Underlords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Underlords</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlockOrigin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a></p>
Nick :pirat:<p>Manchmal fühlt sich der Kampf für die (eigene) <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/informationelleSelbstbestimmung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>informationelleSelbstbestimmung</span></a> - den <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Datenschutz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Datenschutz</span></a> - aussichtslos an, <br>ich möchte daher daran erinnern, dass auch kleine Schritte etwas bewirken können:<br>* Nutzt einen Ad- und Tracking-Blocker (<a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlockOrigin</span></a>)<br>* Ändert die Standardsuchmaschine(auch wenn ihr diese nicht zu 100% nutzt) (<a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Ecosia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosia</span></a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Qwant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Qwant</span></a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/SwissCows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SwissCows</span></a>)<br>* Wechselt den <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Browser</span></a>(<a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/FireFox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FireFox</span></a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Brave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brave</span></a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/LibreWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreWolf</span></a>)<br>1/3</p><p><a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Suchmaschine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suchmaschine</span></a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Selbstbestimmung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Selbstbestimmung</span></a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Browser</span></a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Werbeblocker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Werbeblocker</span></a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Werbung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Werbung</span></a></p>
Maciek<p>Finally got round to setting this up. My router does not allow changing the DNS server address, but the DHCP server built into Pi-hole saved the day.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/piHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>piHole</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/adBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adBlock</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Anarch157a (He/Him/Ele)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/@kamikat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kamikat</span></a></span> If I ever needed an argument to use ad blockers is this.</p><p><a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> <a href="https://cyberpunk.lol/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a></p>
woollypigs<p>Ok now I'm confused. After installing DuckDuckGo browser and enabled the App Tracking Protection. I now see that it is blocking trackers coming from the Waterfox browser, which should be blocking trackers already, especially when the Enhanced Tracking Protection is enabled.</p><p><a href="https://sudomakecake.com/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> <a href="https://sudomakecake.com/tags/Trackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trackers</span></a> <a href="https://sudomakecake.com/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spam</span></a> <a href="https://sudomakecake.com/tags/Protection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protection</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Waterfox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Waterfox</span></a></span> (have I done something wrong or is this normal)</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TheBreadmonkey</span></a></span> (added you since you pointed out DuckDuckGo to me)</p>
Hamburg Werbefrei<p><a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Hamburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamburg</span></a>. Ab jetzt mit Videoclips.</p><p>Unterstütze Hamburg <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Werbefrei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Werbefrei</span></a> - den <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Adblocker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adblocker</span></a> für unsere <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Stadt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stadt</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Stadtgestaltung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stadtgestaltung</span></a> <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Werbem%C3%BCll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Werbemüll</span></a> <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adblock</span></a> <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spam</span></a> <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Werbung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Werbung</span></a> <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Lichtverschmutzung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lichtverschmutzung</span></a> <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Verkehrssicherheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Verkehrssicherheit</span></a> <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Verkehrsgef%C3%A4hrdung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Verkehrsgefährdung</span></a></p>
ZEN :upa:The developers of uBlock Origin, in the absence of any complaints from Ukrainians, decided to remove the Ukrainian filters and replace them with "Ukrainian filters" created by ruzzian developers. Considering that Ukraine is constantly under ruzzian cyberattacks, the uBlock Origin developers have committed an act of sabotage, and I no longer have any doubts about the humanity of the people behind this project. <br><br>I will be looking for alternative addons, and I recommend you do the same, because none of you can feel safe anymore as ruzzian filters can easily censor and hide information from you, such as banners about the war in Ukraine or links to support funds or hide the truth about a candidate in the upcoming elections so that you don’t vote for another one.<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://social.net.ua/tag/ublock" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uBlock</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.net.ua/tag/ublockorigin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uBlockOrigin</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.net.ua/tag/adblock" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#adBlock</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.net.ua/tag/adsblock" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#adsBlock</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.net.ua/tag/russiaisaterroriststate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russiaIsATerroristState</a><span class=""><br><br>RT: <a href="https://mastodon.online/users/serhiyguryev/statuses/114450549327185042" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mastodon.online/users/serhiyguryev/statuses/114450549327185042</a></span>
jmcnaughton<p>Do you ever wish that you could block all ads on YouTube because Google is a pressure target for the BDS movement? Or maybe you just hate ads?</p><p>To block ads on YouTube:</p><p>1. Install Firefox</p><p>2. Install uBlock Origin: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firef</span><span class="invisible">ox/addon/ublock-origin/</span></a></p><p>3. (Android) Set Firefox to ask before opening links in apps: <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/set-firefox-android-open-links-native-apps" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/s</span><span class="invisible">et-firefox-android-open-links-native-apps</span></a></p><p>:lovepalestine:</p><p>I wish more leftist creators would migrate to alternative platforms.</p><p><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Agains</span><span class="invisible">t-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/c/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@lemmy.ml</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/BDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BDS</span></a></p>
roddie digital :n64:<p>Just ticked all these in uBlock Origin and now I wished I known to do it sooner</p><p><a href="https://roddie.social/tags/uBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlock</span></a> <a href="https://roddie.social/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlockOrigin</span></a> <a href="https://roddie.social/tags/adBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adBlock</span></a></p>
Stéphane<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Vivaldi</span></a></span> it would be great to have uBlock Origin Lite on the Android version, to block more ads using CSS. Network blocking isn't enough for some sites, like slashdot. </p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vivaldi</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a></p>
Bhavani Shankar 💭I'm really impressed by Ironfox browser. It has builtin ublock origin with optimised settings, fingerprinting protection and a great selection of private search engines like mojeek, swisscows, mullvad leta, and duckduckgo html. <br><br>It's just been upgraded to version 137. 🎉<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/ironfox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ironfox</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/privacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/mullvad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mullvad</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/mojeek" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mojeek</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/swisscows" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#swisscows</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/ublockorigin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ublockorigin</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/adblock" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#adblock</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/browser" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/android" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#android</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a>
Cambionn<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fesshole" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fesshole</span></a></span> Pro-tip, install a local pi-hole on mobile devices (which leave your local network, which could have it's network wide pi-hole) so that not only browsers are protected, but the whole device. It also makes websites not detect you have an adblocker so you can browse freely.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/pihole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pihole</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/adblocker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblocker</span></a></p>
Jannis Strecker<p>While participants saw benefits like improved focus and privacy, concerns around missing important information and isolation also emerged. <br>Our findings highlight the need for intuitive <a href="https://hci.social/tags/XR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XR</span></a> ad-blocking controls and we provide guidelines for future content-blocking XR design.</p><p>👉 Read the full paper here: <a href="https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/121943" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.</span><span class="invisible">500.14171/121943</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hci.social/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlocking</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/AugmentedReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AugmentedReality</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/Advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Advertising</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/DiminishedReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DiminishedReality</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/ExtendedReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtendedReality</span></a><br>2/2</p>
Dendrobatus Azureus<p>Politics had totally changed, instead of having politicians, you only had puppets for the big tech companies: all those puppets did, was make sure that it's companies kept getting more financially powerful, and kept getting even more invasive, as if that were even possible</p><p>I mean they were a literally up your digestive track already, all the way to your spinkster.</p><p>Don't let me talk about flying; it takes you literally 72 hours to book a ticke; 8 hours a day you have to follow those dreadful procedures of which 90% is just ads, to finally get the seat booked with six screens pointed at you only bombarding you with advertisements.</p><p>Trains were even worse; Walls of screens, almost no place to sit, let alone sit comfortably.<br>In busses they left you alone, but what they did, is make the bus almost totally transparent and make sure that all the of the massive screens at the buildings were pointing at you, giving out all your personal information for everyone else to see, including your menstrual cycle, the size of your prostate, and everything else that's supposed to be medically sealed, just to show you walls and walls of advertisements regarding those medical status parameters.</p><p>And do not think that when you're finally at home sleeping, away from your dreadful job, and asleep that you sleep cycle was normal<br>Remember those devices that implanted in you at Birth? Those devices injected at advertisements in your dreams making your sleep horrific and tiring.</p><p>Suicide rates were skyrocketing; it was normal to lose a friend every month who succumbed to suicide because of the horrific carpet bombing advertisements raids. There were more psychiatrists than regular physicians. Funeral parlors were the only places where business was booming for the private sector, owned by fairly regular people. </p><p>Mercedes-Benz almost exclusively made funeral cars because that's what's sold the most and the best and asked for the most, by those who could still afford cars</p><p>/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alphabet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chrome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlockOrigin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/terrible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terrible</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/nightmare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nightmare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Elmstreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elmstreet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/replacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>replacement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/aftermath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aftermath</span></a></p>
Dendrobatus Azureus<p>I've just woken up from a horrific IT Nightmare.</p><p>Only commercial companies were providing services on the internet, Open Source did not exist, Linus Torvalds was never born, Netscape has never come into fruition.</p><p>Every website you went to you have to go through 12 pages of advertisements bombarding you with all the flashes all the sounds and even even HTML5 did not exist everything was Flash!</p><p>There are only two browsers available Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Browser extensions were non-existent; everybody went on the internet like a drone and endured the horrific bombardment of advertisements like carpet bombs falling on your mind, as if you were in Vietnam, getting bombarded by The Enemy Flying B-52 fortresses.</p><p>All the Services constantly changed their end-user license agreement, your mobile devices had eight cameras pointed at you and none to the outside world. Those devices also had seven microphones of which the worst was used for you to talk into with your people and Friends, the six others were used to listen to you environment and sent everything outside.</p><p>Tracking devices were planted in your body at Birth, you are constantly itching because of all those devices in your system, giving you skin irritation and making your complexion like that of sandpaper.</p><p>Even going outside in your garden was horrific, micro drones were constantly following you, listening and looking at everything you do, even if you don't have any mobile devices on you.</p><p>Stores were even worse, everything you bought had tracking and tracing, even The Food you ate had tracking, and traces were going to your digestive track all the way to the toilet.</p><p>And while you were sitting there you had to endure advertisements for every time you use the toilet.</p><p>There were 12 financially Rich families on the planet everyone else was economic slave.</p><p>All religions were converted to advertisement bombardment Systems and to subjugation of people to Ads</p><p>^Z</p><p>/1</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alphabet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chrome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlockOrigin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/terrible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terrible</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/nightmare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nightmare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Elmstreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elmstreet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/replacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>replacement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/aftermath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aftermath</span></a></p>