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I’ve been using @nextdns for a few days now. It’s impressively easy to set up. But… for my main use case (ad blocking), it’s not as consistent as AdGuard DNS. Many ads are getting through — even though NextDNS claims to use AdGuard DNS’s own block list. (It’s an option; I have it enabled.)

Anyway now I’m confused why the service that should be blocking MORE is actually blocking LESS.

🤔🤷‍♂️

Your daily reminder that the Australian Signals Directorate requires web ad blocking in Maturity Level **One** of the Essential Eight:

> User application hardening: Web browsers do not process web advertisements from the internet.

cyber.gov.au/resources-busines

It's a *best practice*, so don't resist to install ad blockers in your browser(s)!

I was a bit gutted that my blogs were erased when my server died. I have re-written this one about my AGH setup

Perhaps it will help someone install a network wide ad-blocker or help improve their own setup. It isn't perfect but it does the job for me.
What I recall was important from the last time: I do not have or run it on a Raspberry Pi or equivalent. It's an old laptop running PopOS and a virtual machine running Yunohost.

ruaraidh's blog · My AdGuard Home SetupI believe it is imperative that we reduce the impact of Big Tech and its ability to stalk us and shape our opinions, views and relationsh...
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While participants saw benefits like improved focus and privacy, concerns around missing important information and isolation also emerged.
Our findings highlight the need for intuitive #XR ad-blocking controls and we provide guidelines for future content-blocking XR design.

👉 Read the full paper here: alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.

#AdBlocking #AugmentedReality #Advertising #DiminishedReality #AdBlock #ExtendedReality
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www.alexandria.unisg.chAd-Blocked Reality: Evaluating User Perceptions of Content Blocking Concepts Using Extended RealityInspired by the concepts of diminishing reality and ad-blocking in browsers, this study investigates the perceived benefits and concerns of blocking physical, real-world content, particularly ads, through Extended Reality (XR). To understand how users perceive this concept, we first conducted a user study (n=18) with an adblocking prototype to gather initial insights. The results revealed a mixed willingness to adopt XR blockers, with participants appreciating aspects such as customizability, convenience, and privacy. Expected benefits included enhanced focus and reduced stress, while concerns centered on missing important information and increased feelings of isolation. Hence, we investigated the user acceptance of different ad-blocking visualizations through a follow-up online survey (n=120), comparing six concepts based on related work. The results indicated that the XR ad-blocker visualizations play a significant role in how and for what kinds of advertisements such a concept might be used, paving the path for future feedback-driven prototyping.

Upgraded Pi-hole to the new version 6 this morning. Ran into a few issues. I had to reconfigure the upstream DNS servers. Apparently, those settings were lost during the upgrade. Easily done in the web interface.

Except, it also did not offer to disable lighttpd, so you may need to run 'sudo systemctl stop lighttpd' and/or 'sudo apt remove lighttpd' after the update to get the web interface working again.

pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/in

pi-hole.netIntroducing Pi-hole v6 – Pi-hole

Und hier nochmal eine Erinnerung, warum wir von #Google unabhängige Browser brauchen: #uBlockOrigin, was die Browsernutzung erträglich macht, fliegt nun wegen der lang angekündigten Umstellung auf #ManifestV3 endgültig aus #Chrome / #Chromium raus. #uBlockLite ist leider komplett kastriert und kann nur rudimentär Werbung blockieren.

#Firefox unterstützt weiter #ManifestV2 und ist die Empfehlung des uBlock Origin Entwicklers gorhill. #Librewolf hat das Add-on vorinstalliert.

github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock

GitHubAbout Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin - uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues

「 But one of the biggest changes is in disallowing "remotely hosted code," which includes the filtering lists that ad blockers keep regularly updated. Ad blockers that want to update their filtering lists, perhaps in response to pivots by platforms like Google's YouTube and ad servers, will have to do so through the Chrome Web Store's review process. Ad-blocking coders see it as an intentional gatekeeping and slowing 」

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0

Ars Technica · Chrome’s Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soonBy Kevin Purdy

🚨 Google will start cracking down on adblocking extensions next week.

「 Google, which makes about 77 percent of its revenue from advertising, has not published a serious explanation as to why Manifest V3 limits content filtering, and it's not clear how that aligns with the goals of "improving the security, privacy, performance and trustworthiness" 」

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0

Ars Technica · Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next weekChrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

Geebus, I just opened a link to a site on my #iPhone and got blasted with #advertising.

Context: my home network, which has network-wide #adblocking. On my phone I had adblock plus for Safari; somehow this has mysteriously been uninstalled/removed. And I use a vpn service with #adblocking.

My default browser is #FireFox, #tootclient, though, ignores the #iOS defaults, and opened the link in #Safari.

#Apple is circumventing my dns, blockers; they are circumventing my #vpn.

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@evan

I see very few advertisements, using #pihole + #uBlockOrigin + #PrivacyBadger (does not affect advertising, per se, but does affect tracking which *does* affect advertising.) + more.

I answered 'Qualified no'. I am generally positive toward sites which serve their own advertising - e.g. sailboatdata.com - which circumvents all my adblocking. But ads are the primary distribution for exploits - which M$/Goog/&c. know - so any ad is a risk.

#AdBlocking is #CyberSecurity.