AdNauseam
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AdNauseam
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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge
It does not actually clicks on the ads. It sends the request to ad server but does not execute any response from the server, so it's safe to run
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-does-adnause...
- AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users
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AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads
>https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-does-adnause...
>AdNauseam 'clicks' Ads by issuing an HTTP request to the URL to which they lead. In current versions the is done via an XMLHttpRequest (or AJAX request) issued in a background process. This lightweight request signals a 'click' on the server responsible for the Ad, but does so without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. Further it allows AdNauseam to safely receive and discard the resulting response data, rather than executing it in the browser, thus preventing a range of potential security problems (ransomware, rogue Javascript or Flash code, XSS-attacks, etc.) caused by malfunctioning or malicious Ads. Although it is completely safe, AdNauseam's clicking behaviour can be de-activated in the settings panel.
Isn't this easily detectable? XHRs are easily detectable through various headers, so it's trivial to filter out the fake traffic from this extension. Failing that, thanks to ad fraud there's a whole industry of bot/ad fraud detection firms using browser fingerprinting and behavioral analysis to detect fake ad clicks. I have no doubt that an extension that's "clicking" on every ad using XHR is going to get detected and filtered.
- Noiszy: A browser plugin that creates meaningless web data – digital “noise.”
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Subreddits have proposed a blackout from June 12-14. Third party users should join them and avoid Reddit during that period.
I'd think it's infeasible for advertisers to regularly audit third-party apps on reddit's behalf to make sure the ads they're paying to display aren't being requested but cosmetically hidden or even shadow-clicked. I'm sincerely curious if there are any example platforms that do this with their API; I can't find anything after a search.
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take your daily medicine guys
What is your opinion on AdNauseam?
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uBlock Origin/Ad Nauseam and YouTube
Please use this page to report issues or ask questions about Ad Nauseam. This specific issue has already been addressed:
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Lifelong Chrome user switching to Firefox, are there any extensions that are a MUST on the browser?
Other than that, Libredirect and AdNauseam to be pretty neat. Allows me to avoid using certain sites directly and when I do, I mess with their ads engagement enough. A bit petty, but I'll take what I can get.
- The vast majority of us are being tracked with surveillance tech. These are the systems you need to know about
Waterfox
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In 2024, please switch to Firefox
> [Monday](https://github.com/WaterfoxCo/Waterfox/releases/tag/G5.1.9),
- Waterfox not opening after updating to G6 on Windows 8.1
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Slow Browser Issue
With 4GB of RAM I would recommend that you use the ESR version or some lightweight fork like Waterfox that I've been testing these days. Is really lighter and can use Firefox Sync. But it has his problems. I would prefer to go with ESR and deactivating smooth scrolling if I was you.
- Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan
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Rethinking Window Management in Gnome
> I wish Unity didn't die
Hi from Unity on Ubuntu 23.04.
I am running the Unity flavour:
https://ubuntuunity.org/
It uses the latest Unity 7.7, released earlier this year:
https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity-x/unityx
I run it on 3 or 4 machines, one of which has 2 screens and one of which has 3. Works great, scales well, handles modern Ubuntu just fine.
I use it with the Waterfox browser, which integrates natively with the Unity global menu bar, without any addons or config. I am currently on -- (hits alt-H, A) -- version 5.1.9.
https://www.waterfox.net/
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Waterfox runaway memory usage, vsize-max-contiguous using all the ram
Post issues on Gihtub for reporting bugs. https://github.com/WaterfoxCo/Waterfox/issues
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Waterfox or Librewolf ?
I've made sure security updates have now been available ASAP for quite a while now. G5.1.9 released on Monday, for example. This is a day before Mozilla, but mostly because Mozilla spend a day or two doing QA.
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Firefox ESR 115 confirmed to be the last version of Firefox for macOS 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14. Supported until September 2024.
I've been a fan of Waterfox for some time now
- Comment le gouvernement veut complètement bloquer les sites illégaux
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Trinity Desktop Environment – a modern KDE3 fork
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1201/extend-panel-men...
Of course, GNOME broke it in a later release. This is why no amount of extensions are an answer: they break. Extensions do not work from one release of GNOME to another, and when they fail, the whole desktop often fails.
> Also, it’s not really Gnome’s fault that linux doesn’t have as great metadata from apps to be able to display the apps’ menubars (unity could do it).
False. Gtk exposes this; Unity didn't have stored metadata on lots of apps, it just displayed the existing controls' contents somewhere else. If you run brand new Gtk apps on Unity today, they get panel menus. This was not some clever hack.
Unity is still around:
https://unityd.org/
The distro is back again:
https://ubuntuunity.org/
Brand new apps, like Waterfox, integrate with it fine although they did not exist when it was written.
https://www.waterfox.net/
> With all due respect, that is bullshit reasoning. Selectively displaying useful things is the whole point of UIs.
I disagree.
1. I want to choose what is shown or not. In order to choose, I have to be able to see it. In other words, it needs to be there at first, and then I can choose whether I want to show it or not.
If I can't see it in the first place, then how am I to know it's there?
It's the users' choice what is shown or not. It is not up to the developer to say "they don't need to see this and I'm going to hide it away."
Any piece of software that does that is user hostile.
> Otherwise why would you roll up your window?
Again: it's my choice. I get to choose. It's my computer. They are my windows. I choose if they are shown or not.
That is the point of free software: Choice.
GNOME says it's free, but it takes choices away from me. I object to that.
> Why do you have menus in the first place that hide their content until clicked?
To save space for my document. You can't show everything all the time: that is why you leave it up to the user to choose what they show and when.
(Incidentally, this is also why in my opinion the Microsoft ribbon based fluent interface fails. It tries to show far too much all at once, and the result is that it wastes a huge amount of screen space, and is actually more difficult to hunt through for what I need when I need it.)
> That is no longer the corner, so it doesn’t benefit from this law at all.
False.
Fitt's law is about target size.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law#Implications_for...
It is not about corners. It is about edges too.
By the way I do have a clue about this stuff... for example here is a screenshot of a piece of software which I designed about a dozen years which makes use of Fitt's Law.
https://twitter.com/SimplicityComps/status/54085863397497241...
> The super key is the same as the windows, or the mac command key.
So, yes, but those environments don't suddenly change your entire screen.
> Also often called Meta.
That is a different key. Meta and super are not interchangeable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_key_(keyboard_button)
> What’s the problem here exactly? Is alt+f4 written over the screen? Or ctrl+c? Especially that the same behavior is expected from the windows start menu.
The problem here, as I'm attempting to spell out, is that there were existing conventions for this stuff, and GNOME does not respect them.
> It’s a community for its users. You clearly don’t use it nor contribute to it either by work or financially, so it is not really fair to ask someone else to work for you specifically..
No. What I do is, I write about it for a living. I analyse this stuff, I draw comparisons, I point out weaknesses and strengths. That's my job.
In my professional capacity, the GNOME foundation invited me to its GUADEC conference about six or seven years back. I asked a lot of awkward and difficult questions, because that's my job, and I didn't get invited back.
> Literally every OS and distro suck at it.
False. For example, using most other interfaces, such as XFCE, I can treat a multiscreen desktop as one big space. I can have one panel at the far left, and one on the far right, of the entire multi-monitor desktop.
But GNOME doesn't let me do that.
Why not?
> Nonetheless, I feel you are reasoning from a very biased point
Because I disagree with you, you think that I'm biased?
Do you think that everyone who disagrees with you is biased?
Have you considered that perhaps I have opinions, and can draw upon years of knowledge and experience, and make reasoned arguments based on evidence, and that is not the same thing as being biased?
> I don’t think it is as fruitful a discussion.
So because I can counter your arguments with examples and reasoning, you don't think that it's fruitful discussion?
Personally, I think that the arguments where people can defend their points, and produce evidence to back them up, are the most fruitful kind.
What are some alternatives?
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
anti-adblock-killer - Anti-Adblock Killer helps you keep your Ad-Blocker active, when you visit a website and it asks you to disable.
clean-flash-builds - Repository of clean Flash Player builds.
bypass-paywalls-firefox - Bypass Paywalls for Firefox android
Waterfox-Classic - The Waterfox Classic repository, for legacy systems and customisation.
block - Let's make an annoyance free, better open internet, altogether!
iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser
Never-Consent - Never consent to any GDPR consent management platform
firefox-scripts - userChromeJS / autoconfig.js and extensions
privacypossum - Privacy Possum makes tracking you less profitable
waterfox-deb-rpm-arch-AppImage - Unofficial repository with Waterfox Web Browser packages for Ubuntu, Debian (deb), Arch Linux (pkg.tar.xz), Fedora, CentOS 7, Alma, Rocky and openSUSE (rpm) and AppImage packages for all distros following with CentOS 7.