Global stocks are throwing a tantrum because oil prices are playing hard to get. 🌍📉 Meanwhile, the NYT demands you disable your ad blockers so they can pay for their next "Breaking News" about how clouds are made of water. 💧🙄
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/business/stocks-iran-oil.html #globalstocks #oilprices #newsmedia #adblockers #economics #HackerNews #ngated

#AdBlockers are a necessary #ITsecurity measure because #Malvertising is a huge problem!

• Espechally targeting #TechIlliterates and vulnerable people...
  • Thus it's imperative to not just normalize #AdBlocking but also blocking #Malware like #JavaScript which is used to commit these acts alongside #CryptoJacking and even abuse visitors' browsers for #DDoS attacks!

Because by observation I can claim with confidence that most #JS is unnecessary #bloatware if not #malicious as it's #WastefulComputing and used to #track and #deanonymize users without setting #Cookies!

#ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #Advertising #Cryptocurrency #DriveBymining #CyberCrime #Crime #Internet #Enshittification

Ah, the NYT has graced us with another groundbreaking revelation: your #DNA is the latest #gossip columnist for #Neanderthal hookups 😏. But wait, first, ensure #JavaScript is enabled and ad blockers are down, because who wouldn't want some digital nagging while learning about ancient bedroom antics? 🙄🔍
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/science/human-evolution-neanderthal-sex.html #AdBlockers #AncientAntics #HackerNews #ngated

Check out EdTech Situation Room Ep 369 - Dogpile and Dark Arts
https://edtechsr.substack.com/p/edtech-situation-room-ep-339-dogpile

#edtech #edtechSR #MediaLit #DDoS #AdBlockers #ethics #DigCit #DarkArts #AI #CoWork #Claude #Gemini

by @neif and @wesfryer

Check out EdTech Situation Room Ep 369 - Dogpile and Dark Arts
https://edtechsr.substack.com/p/edtech-situation-room-ep-339-dogpile

#edtech #edtechSR #MediaLit #DDoS #AdBlockers #ethics #DigCit #DarkArts #AI #CoWork #Claude #Gemini

Chrome : une étude prouve que les adblockers sont plus forts que jamais, malgré le Manifest V3 https://www.clubic.com/actualite-599251-chrome-une-etude-prouve-que-les-adblockers-sont-plus-forts-que-jamais-malgre-le-manifest-v3.html #google_chrome #googlechrome #navigateur_web #navigateurweb #adblockers #antipublicité #manifest_v3 #manifestv3 #étude #bloqueur_de_publicité #bloqueurdepublicité

#Adblocking is alive and well, despite #Chrome's attempts to make it harder
#Google Chrome's latest revision of its browser extension architecture, known as #ManifestV3 (MV3), was widely expected to make content blocking and #privacy extensions less effective than its predecessor, #ManifestV2 (MV2).
"Our results reveal no statistically significant reduction in ad-blocking or anti-tracking effectiveness for MV3 #adblockers compared to their MV2 counterparts"
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/chrome_mv3_no_harm_ad_blocking/

Youtube's war on adblockers continues, sends cease & desist to invidious.io - you know what to do 😉

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/eoUMEfK73oRDsTLKG88URx

This feels new in the war against ad blockers… Sites seemingly intentionally crashing if your ad blocker is not disabled?

Well congratulations you’ve lost me as a visitor to your site ever again.

#adblock #adblocking #adblockers #Admiral

How-To Geek: YouTube is breaking ad blockers again. “This immediate fix that came when not using an adblocker is a pretty clear signal of what is happening here. YouTube has not officially acknowledged the problem, which is typical for silent updates to anti-adblock detection scripts.”

🎉BREAKING: The internet mourns as Scott Adams clicks the proverbial unsubscribe button on life. Meanwhile, inc.com reminds us that even in death, #JavaScript is more essential than oxygen, and ad blockers are the real villains here. 🙄💻
https://www.inc.com/jennifer-conrad/scott-adams-dilbert-dies-at-68/91286247 #ScottAdams #InternetCulture #AdBlockers #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look! #Iran played a game of "No Internet For You" with #Starlink, while Forbes reminds us that, in 2023, reading an article without enabling #JavaScript is apparently an Olympic sport. 🥇✨ Meanwhile, ad blockers are still the sworn enemy of #journalism, because who needs page aesthetics when you can have a circus of pop-ups? 🎪💻
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/01/11/kill-switch-iran-shuts-down-starlink-internet-for-first-time/ #NoInternet #AdBlockers #HackerNews #ngated

Speaking of /etc/hosts files. For probably a decade I've based my local /etc/hosts file on data supplied here:
https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Any #Linux or #Windows types out there know of a good replacement for this file? The site hasn't been updated since 2021; getting out of date. My half-dozen ad blockers (etc) help, of course, but still looking for replacement.
(Yeah yeah, running Win10 + Cygwin, but don't beat me up yet; I've been a hard-core Unixoid since the UCB 7th edition days.)
#adblockers

Turned off my #AdBlockers for a few minutes, started closing sites that had too many "in your face" / unskippable / full-screen blocking ads because it is infuriating (how do people live like this?)/ Then I had a thought... what if I decided to stop visiting sites with no ads? I'd have almost no sites to go to daily (besides mastodon of course).

#Business #Analyses
Ad blockers helped kill the open web · “We failed to innovate monetization.” https://ilo.im/1698ic

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#Publishing #Advertising #Monetization #SearchEngine #Content #Privacy #OpenWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #AdBlockers

I dumped Windows 10 in February 2025 and moved to #ZorinOS and wonder why I stuck with #Microsoft #Windows for so long.

Around the same time, after years of using #adblockers, I set up a #PiHole with #ubound dns for my whole home network. And after years of being a dedicated #FireFox fan, with the direction #Mozilla was taking, I switched to #Vivaldi.

Thanks to @pluralistic, I discovered #Kagi so sprung for a paid subscription. It reminds me of the way #Google used to be.

Today, I discovered #Tailscale and installed it get access to my #RaspBerryPi #PiHole to filter ads on my devices when I'm out of the house.

As I was setting up Tailscale, I discovered it supports a self-hosted #VPN, which is perfect for my use case, so I can take advantage of my fixed IP to access some remote services.

And after setting all that up, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that #Tailscale is #Canadian.

All-in-all, a productive year of IT infrastructure changes in protest of #enshittification !

🔥🤡 Ah, private equity, the insatiable financial vampire, has sunk its fangs into volunteer fire departments! Because who wouldn't want their local heroes replaced with profit-driven suits? Also, #NYT, thanks for the polite pop-up reminder to disable my ad blocker—such a pleasure! 🙄💸
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-private-equity.html #privateequity #volunteerfirefighters #financialvampires #adblockers #HackerNews #ngated

I know this is (metaphorically) NOT kosher, but can anyone please point me to some #adblockers?

Specifically, adblockers that work on #Youtube and can be downloaded to a #samsung #Galaxy #android.

Youtube has gotten really aggressive with their #advertisingBlitz, lately they're repeating ads within minutes of playing them.

I'm not joking; I sit through a #homedepot ad just to start a video and the SAME AS repeats within MINUTES.

Why #adblockers are a top #security and #privacy defense for everyone
Ad blockers can help defend against some of the top hacks, scams, and #surveillance today. Here are some of the best ad blockers that you can use. https://this.weekinsecurity.com/why-ad-blockers-are-a-top-security-and-privacy-defense-for-everyone/

📢🥳 Breaking: Water is wet, and #Meta hides bad news! Meanwhile, the internet holds its breath as it waits for Reuters to invent a time machine to 2010 when ad blockers were edgy. ✨🕰️
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/ #BreakingNews #WaterIsWet #AdBlockers #TimeMachine #HackerNews #ngated