And all the volunteers keeping those lists up-to-date.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2024
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It's kinda sad that without Mozilla, Raymond, the NoScript guys and TOR we would lose control over the internet pretty much immediately
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Gladly upvoted to ~~worship~~ honor one of the open source heroes.
Never knew the name of the guy behind it. Nice! This is why Everybody Loves Raymond!
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Ad/content blockers of various types are the only reason the internet is still generally usable for me.
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He's far too kind of a person. He doesn't accept any donations for the many years of a better and safer internet experience I've gotten from his work
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All hail Raymond Hill :0
And the people maintaining the lists his work depends on.
If only, I know so many people who don't bother with adblocking at all. I honestly have no idea how they use the Internet without going mad
I also don't understand it. But now I am wondering if we would not have had those "careless" (indifferent ? ignorant ?) millions of people not blocking ads then Google and others may have started pushing anti-adblock measures years earlier, no ?
People just don't know, I've been showing my wife the way little by little and she's always blown away
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My kid discovered that he can hit the "report" button on the YouTube app on the TV to skip the ads immediately. So now every ad gets reported as "inappropriate".
I'm proud of him.
Tip: if you have an Android TV, you can install SmartTube as an alternative, privacy-friendly YouTube client. It has no ads and sponsorblock integration
And as a better option, use an actual device instead of a short lifecycle planned obsolescence embedded android device on a "smart" tv.
At least the Chromecast with Google TV (HD) is cheap.
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😀 👍
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Can you imagine the amount of corruptive influences and persuasions he is resisting?
Insightful point. And it does remind me of the corporate purchase of the Don't care about cookies extension for Firefox (And the Simple Mobile Tools for Android). Luckily it was forked. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies Open source FTW!
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I hadn't even thought about that. Thank you.
Raymond Hill: “Get behind me, Google.”
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Seriously. Says a lot about the modern internet, though. Both good and bad.
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