Kingsilva@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agoAd blocker uninstall rises due to YouTube bansamrome58.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
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minus-squareLvxferre@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe ad blockers in question were AdGuard and Ghostery, acc. to the article. uBlock Origin is still working fine for me. And NewPipe in the cell phone.
minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoGhostery isn’t even an ad blocker, it’s just to prevent tracking.
minus-squareLvxferre@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoGhostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises (eh) itself as such. Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.
minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoOh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn’t advertised as an ad blocker back then.
The ad blockers in question were AdGuard and Ghostery, acc. to the article.
uBlock Origin is still working fine for me. And NewPipe in the cell phone.
Ghostery isn’t even an ad blocker, it’s just to prevent tracking.
Ghostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises (eh) itself as such.
Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.
Oh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn’t advertised as an ad blocker back then.