sounds like you're not using a decent/proper ad filter... i rarely see any n my browsing... i'm using firefox with adblock and noscript... when i was
facecrook, no ads... i use twitter all the time, no ads... those click-ba icles you menti
Re: Re: proliferation of 'bai
By: Warpslide to Rampage on Fri May 22 2020 11:28 am
uBlock Origin is another good one.
pushed it out to all of the computer
at work.
uBlock Origin ÅÅ. I've been using it
for a couple of years with Firefox and
Chrome (at work), and it and Ghostery
are probably the only thing keepin the
Web usable these days. Works pretty
well on Android, too.
I've often wondered how prevalent
people setting up PiHoles at home are.
I've yet to do it myself (too big a
chance of accidentally interfering with
something and getting a wakeup at 03000
) but it's on my to-try list.
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Hello Rampage!
** On Friday 22.05.20 - 08:26, rampage wrote to Ogg:
...The rest of the page is
loaded with ads; the flashing or animated ones are really annoying Ogg>> to me.
sounds like you're not using a decent/proper ad filter... i rarely see any ads in my browsing... i'm using firefox with adblock and
noscript... when i was using facecrook, no ads... i use twitter all
the time, no ads... those click-bait articles you mention above, no ads... amazon, no ads... sure, it took me a little while to get
noscript set so that only the stuff needed for a site to work was
loaded but once that was done, no ads...
Right. I don't have any blockers installed, anymore. I just have "Disconnect for Facebook" which claims to disable 3rd party websites from accessing my Facebook.
I did use noscript for a little while. Instead of adblock, I used uBlock. Again.. newer versions just stopped working with my current XP + FF 52.8
I have something called FBC installed on my Win7 desktop and a newer FF.
FBC has a rather nice config system perfectly matched to control the many options in Facebook: Rooms, MyStory.. etc.
Since you mention noscript, I reinstalled it on the Win7 desktop today,
and got a bit overwhelmed on the per site settings required. I only disabled a couple of things and FB complained that "scripting was
required". So, I allowed scripting and disabled pretty much everything else, but then it failed to finish loading the next time.
My desktop Win7 pc has unlimited DSL, so data use for all the extra stuff
is not such a noticeable problem.
My XP machine still remains my go to system for most everything. I have a newish refurbished Thinkpad 540p Win7pro since Dec 2019 too, but I just can't wrap myself around to using it full time yet. The chicklet keyboard
is a bit of a detractor. I like using that laptop for watching films/ files, but not so much for regular use.
I might go back and take another look at noscript on the Win7 desktop pc, but I am basically fed up with FB anyway. And I should really just steer away from the clickbait "information/news" sites that have 2 sentences of "real" content per page and force you to numerous "NEXT" pages to read the next two sentences. Those are just a complete abomination.
but I am basically fed up with FB anyway. And I should really just
steer away from the clickbait "information/news" sites that have 2
sentences of "real" content per page and force you to numerous "NEXT"
pages to read the next two sentences. Those are just a complete
abomination.
Nice part about Pi-hole is your OS on your pc, phone, etc is
untouched.
Re: Re: proliferation of 'bai
By: Moondog to The Doctor on Sat May 23 2020 10:15 pm
Setting up a pi-hole at home was
simple. Enter the basic IP informat
in
the setup program and the installer
does the rest. When finished, pick
which additional block lists you wis
to run.
It's built on top of Raspbian, as far
as I know, so the usual configuration
utilities should work just fine with
it. Side effects like the 'Hole
interfering with networked gaming or
video conferencing is my concern.
Which, I know the probability of
problems is vanishingly unlikely, but I
still get yelled at for listenin to a
podcast for boggin down the network,
when it's usually Windows Update
caching patches.
The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
https://drwho.virtadpt.net/
I am everywhere.
that's what QoS (Quality of Service) is for... it helps to ensure that netwo packets with a higher priority are sent out the wire first... the trick is having a QoS that is configurable and adjusting it so that some stuff has higher priority than other stuff... but this also depends on the QoS
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