@nixCraft note that you can do the same thing with #adnauseam #adblock
#AdNauseam
Toujours plus loin dans l'infâme et l'innommable...
#adnauseam
#antichasse #protectionanimale #antispecisme
Cc: @AntoineD @damvfl @mascottus
AdNauseam: Clicking ads so you don't have to
#HackerNews #AdNauseam #AdBlocking #DigitalPrivacy #TechInnovation #OnlineAds
#ListeningTo #AdNauseam – No War No More (At some point on "Ad-Nauseam", Track A11) https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=U15OkEtV6sQ #Oi! #NotOnLabel #SelfReleased #UK #1982 #Rock #Punk #Hardcore
Sometimes I'm even getting larger 'stacks' of lines from separators between 'promoted' content on #LinkedIn. Thanks to customer filters in #AdNauseam or @ublockorigin these can be blocked. (Too bad I haven't been able to block 'suggested' content, yet).
Total #enshittification of #BigTech social media.
Hierarchies – Hierarchies Review
By Thus Spoke
Ultra-dissonance is so hot right now.1 Yes, dissonance itself has been a thing for a long time in metal, and in music generally for far longer, but ever since artists picked up what Gorguts threw down and ran with it, this adjective has become associated with ever-increasingly twisted and abrasive soundscapes, the dial of ‘extremity’ moving further and further. The last few years in particular have seen an acceleration of this trend as an explosion of acts offer their take. Enter Hierarchies—formed of members from Acausal Intrusion and Dwelling Below2—who on their self-titled debut, serve up some more wonky, ugly, technical death metal fun for your listening pleasure (or pain).
If you’ve heard Acausal Intrusion, or any of the artists’ other death metal projects, then you’re some way towards knowing what Hierarchies sounds like. But aside from this, the other most immediate impression I got was the similarity to two acts not associated with Hierarchies’ members: namely, Ad Nauseam and Pyrrhon. Hierarchies is sophisticated in its technicality, but naïve in its sprawling, ugly execution. Chaotic and abrasive, it is replete with jangling percussion and stomach-turning riffs, with squealing chords spliced in, and narrated by gurgling, inhuman roars. The soundscapes substitute suffocation with that uncomfortable spaciousness that makes the wild and twisting (“Consecrate Phenomenon,” “Complexity Parallels”) or uneven and creeping (“Twilight Tradition,” “Subtraction”) disharmonies stand out more obviously. It is neither grand nor groovy, but grotesque, complex in a way that wards off rather than entices easy enjoyment. That’s not pejorative, because, in this genre, you work for your enjoyment and sometimes you just witness the weirdness and grin.
Hierarchies are not easy to paint with one broad stroke. At times, there are glimpses of a more ‘accessible’3 strain of (blackened) death metal à la Gigan or Immolation (“Entity,” “Vultures”). The fact that this opens the album exemplifies one way in which Hierarchies ambushes its listener. Other ambushes would be the flirtations with the (almost) atmospheric by way of quiet, pensive strums (“Twilight Tradition,” “Abstract,” “Vultures”) and genuine slips into swooping melody, though they are caught just before they become anything resembling a refrain (“Dimension,” “Abstract”). Hierarchies play very fast and loose with structure, shifting nonchalantly between tempos, riff patterns, structure, and vibe. It is more or less impossible to tell where a song is going to go, and as Hierarchies, broadly speaking, gets more chaotic and unhinged as it goes on, the album thus walks on the knife edge between exhilarating and exhausting. A gnarly bit of guitar might come skittering down out of nowhere (“Dimension,” “Complexity Parallels,” “Subtraction”), and it might even be sort of beautiful. There might even be the thrill of a repeated pattern, before things get weird again (“Abstract”). The very turmoil and technicality of the music on display is quite arresting, often making up for any lack of structure or harmony (“Twilight Tradition,” “Complexity Parallels,” “Vultures”). Yet, as an entity formed of such compositions, flitting wildly between its elements, Hierarchies overall feels a little fickle and a little too restless, as though someone had their finger on the fast-forward button in a whirlwind tour of disso-death.
Hierarchies is helped and hindered by that spacious production hinted at above. Every jarring, smooth, quiet, and furious note, roar, and beat has a clear voice in the fracas. It makes the impressive technicality and scope of these pieces easier to appreciate than if things were denser, but it also amplifies their intensity, as one can’t help but absorb every tiny detail that encompasses every sudden and swooping switch. This is a multi-layered album that unveils progressively more of its intricacies with each listen, and this in itself is a feat. Yet Hierarchies design things neither for mind-boggling scope, nor for intoxicating frenzy, and the result is a behemoth of undeniable prowess whose vacillation makes it hard to keep in step with.
For all its trials and triumphs, Hierarchies remains a very solid slab of ‘ultra-dissonant’ death metal. Given its members’ experience, it’s no real surprise it’s as strong as it is. But in this era, where smart, mind-bending, and savage interpretations of this extreme genre abound, Hierarchies have not done quite enough to elevate theirs above the norm. If you can’t get enough of this stuff, Hierarchies will serve you well; I’m not about to pretend I didn’t have fun with it. Its stamp on the scene, however, will likely be fairly short-lived for all but the most ardent of fans.
Rating: Good
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320kbps mp3
Label: Transcending Obscurity
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: January 17th, 2025
#2025 #30 #AcausalIntrusion #AdNauseam #AmericanMetal #DeathMetal #DissonantDeathMetal #DwellingBelow #Hierarchies #Jan25 #Pyrrhon #Review #Reviews #TechnicalDeathMetal #TranscendingObscurityRecords
@Klaxun Similar. There are obvious differences, and pros and cons, in relation to both. People will have their preferences for all sorts of reasons, and that's fine.
But I'm muting those who start going on about how *over there* is shit because *over there* has said this place is shit #adnauseam
I like the idea behind #AdNauseam. Now put that feature of clicking wildly at ads to cause useless expenses for ad companies and messing up identification databases into a docker container that can be run anywhere.
I'd also be really, really enjoying someone actually spreading something like that to a bot net. Just imagine billions of false clicks from all over the place bringing the (#surveillance) advertisement industry to a screeching halt.
Yeah. That would be awesome. :breadpeek:
we have however apparently parked ourselves right next to the local shit-disco. Same beats, same 5 notes, same melodamned vocals.
#BoomTischBoomTischBoomTisch #AdNauseam
Should work with the AdNauseam browser add-on/extention as that includes uBlockOrigin.
#HugeAIBlocklist #blocklist #AdBlocker #uBlockOrigin #AdNauseam
https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
trying #AdNauseam in place of #uBlockOrigin - let's see what happens 😁
Teeth – The Will of Hate Review
By GardensTale
I approach new Teeth material with a mixture of anxiety and eagerness. I am not a brutal person musically.1 Slam, grind, and extreme dissonance intrigue but do not inspire me. Stuff like Portal and Ad Nauseam go over my head. That’s fine; everyone’s got their niches, and mine isn’t that. But back in 2019 I forced myself to see a random promo pick through for The Curse of Entropy, and I became unnaturally enamored with Teeth’s bludgeoning cosmic horror. Though it did not result in a full-fledged awakening, it at least allowed me some insight into the appeal of feeling like your head is in a spin cycling dryer full of bricks and helped me expand my horizons just a bit further. Let’s see whether The Will of Hate will push them just a bit further yet.
First and foremost, if you liked The Curse of Entropy, you are as good as guaranteed to enjoy The Will of Hate. All the main ingredients remain intact. Vicious, dizzying riffs are lashed together by rapid changes in tempo and direction, ensuring more whiplash than a 40 car pile-up. Drums that not just accommodate but determine this head-spinning mixture of brutality and technicality. Most of all, the mixture of intense, high-energy composition and sparse yet significant use of dissonance has become the band’s trademark sound. It’s this balance that plants the image in my head of imminent cataclysmic destruction wrought by an unknowable deity from beyond the stars.
The deity is a bit less ‘gibbering insanity’ and a bit more ‘massive fleshy embodiment of mutation’ though. By which I mean to say, The Will of Hate is less eldritch in its arrangements, and often resembles more easily digested forms of death metal, though not frequently for very long. Chugged triplets pop up here in there in different forms, offering brief respites with their more recognizable form. But Teeth is best when at its most oppressive, harrowing and inhuman. The decrease in overall intensity means not quite living up to the chest-caving madness of its predecessor. Additionally, it’s a little disappointing that the vocals remain stubbornly one-dimensional, perhaps even more so than before, with nary a syllable rendered in anything but the same unintelligible cavernous growl.
It’s the obvious Achilles’ heel when compared to the diverse, multifaceted songwriting, which remains fully intact and the greatest strength of Teeth. “Pray” breaks up a big nasty chug-filled riff with an inventive stumbling block that makes it all the more neck-snapping. “Shiver” is thick with atmosphere and sports a few melodic semi-solos that somehow combine dark with soaring. Opener “Blight” demonstrates the band’s aptitude for jumping between riffs for optimal head-whirling, and “Apparition” is a masterclass in breaking up straight assaults with momentary pauses for maximum contrast and effect. Few genres have more difficulty making each track stand out, but Teeth has mastered this art, culminating in the doom-laden passages of “Devour.” The production helps distinguish each track as well, as the guitars are afforded enough clarity, the heaviness arising naturally through composition rather than guitar tone alone. A more present bass would have been welcome, but the music does not lack in textural depth, and the mix is otherwise quite solid.
With the benefit of hindsight, I know now that Teeth hasn’t made and won’t make me a brutal or dissonant death metal convert. Instead, this band really just remains something special in that sphere, a band that can balance memorability, a melodic streak, frequent tempo changes, jaw-shattering aggression and a gruesome biomechanical atmosphere. The Will of Hate is perhaps a smidge less Ulcerate and a sliver more Morbid Angel, but the overall impact of the music remains significant. Despite a small step down with regards to the previous album and the Finitude EP, Teeth remains a terrifying force of eldritch death metal.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Translation Loss
Websites: teethtl.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/teethofficial
Releases Worldwide: August 30th, 2024
#2024 #35 #AdNauseam #AmericanMetal #Aug24 #DeathMetal #MorbidAngel #Portal #Review #Reviews #Teeth #TheWillOfHate #TranslationLoss #Ulcerate
Do you want to get rid of all the pesky DuckDuckGo ads for Temu and other crap?
Just chuck this into your own uBlock Origin or AdNauseam filter list:
```
! Block DuckDuckGo ads.
duckduckgo.com###links > .results--ads
```
@marcel @pointlessone
#Adnauseam also doesn't seem to work with Manifest V3
https://adnauseam.io/
Si hay aplicaciones que quieren tus datos, dáselos todos -> https://burp.es/si-hay-aplicaciones-que-quieren-tus-datos-daselos-todos/
It is still Thursday in certain timezones, so I can get away with this.
For #ThursDeath:
Ulcerate: To See Death Just Once
https://song.link/0hxvngcd5hwjr
That's quite the approach. Besides increased bandwidth usage, seems like a legit approach to jamming the signal:
"As online advertising becomes ever more ubiquitous and unsanctioned, #AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users. Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile."
TIL about #vimium https://vimium.github.io/ - really cool when not having to use the mouse any more for webbrowsing. Together with #adnauseam https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam to block ads makes the experience so much better.
We just got schooled on #enshittification by a savvy netizen who's not keen on our ad (see our answer). 😂 Meta's audience controls are like a black hole for marketing budgets. Luckily, our growth hacking prowess is becoming a sought-after treasure. #AdNauseam #AlgorithmBlues #BeyondMainstream
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