An alle: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica und Vodafone Mobilfunknutzer: Widerspruch bei der Online-Werbeplattform Utiq einlegen - für ein Jahr gültig. 👇
Apple pulls the controversial "Crush" ad and apologizes.
"The ad, posted on social media Tuesday by Apple CEO Tim Cook, was met with backlash from internet users who felt that the ad celebrated technology’s destruction of human creativity and art."
It stands to reason that if you want to get a hold of a lot of data, which technically has value, your job would be the devalue said data as much as possible.
This is what happened to the #internet citc 2000, when #ads covered every single page like a plague of locusts. Your eyeball time was devalued.
Then, #Facebook basically devalued your personal information by making it normal to give all of it away.
Now Facebook wants $10 to remove ads, but not #tracking.
Can you imagine working for Google with a straight face on technology like this and just sleeping at night? Fucking nuts right? Like you think you’re changing the world but you’re just making sure teens get 0.2% more ads for Ozempic per day than before. These people do it then go to chipotle and get a burrito like a sociopath. #google#ads#privacy
Your Roku TV could soon show you #ads every time you hit pause — even on other devices or apps.
#Roku recently filed a patent for a technology that would let it inject ads into third-party content—like an #Xbox game or #Netflix movie—using an #HDMI connection
The patent describes sophisticated ways to detect when you’ve paused your content and analyze what you’re watching to show relevant ads. #Privacy
@georgetakei
Dispassionate refutations of MAGA disinformation will have no effect. What may work is an ad campaign, preferably with lurid and disturbing images, showing crime worse under Trump.
Too many liberals are timid about repetition. Repeated messaging acts as a reinforcement in any successful ad campaign.
Our targets are swing and undecided voters - small as that group is.
Political campaigns aren't footnoted lectures to PhD students.
»Die umfassende Überwachungsmaschinerie, die für digitale Werbung entwickelt wurde, ermöglicht nun direkt die Massenüberwachung durch den Staat« [1] Zitat von @wchr.
Daher: Ein Tracking- und Werbeblocker gehört auf jedem Smartphone/PC/Netzwerk zur Grundausstattung! [2] 👇
Con la nuova versione di NewPipe che supporta anche shorts e dirette, non c'è davvero più alcuna motivazione per usare l'app ufficiale di YouTube. Complimenti agli sviluppatori @newpipe
Ich wusste ja, dass viel #tracking und #ads in Webseiten drin steckt, aber das ist dann doch schon hart.
Fast zwei Drittel der #DNS Abfragen sind unnötig für die Funktionalität
Vom Gerät mit der meisten Useraktivität, mein Linux NB, sind es "nur" 27%. Am meisten >70% ist ein Tablet, das nichts macht - zumindest ist der Bildschirm aus.
Being interrupted by ads is far more likely to make me start avoiding a product or brand than actually buying their stuff because I start to associate them with being annoyed.
Clearly my reaction is not common enough to make ads unprofitable. It would be nice if it were.
Now that streaming services are re-introducing or forcing ads (like YouTube), I'm cancelling in return.
A must have, if you want to browse the web without ads, trackers, malware and more. There are other browsers you could use, but with #firefox, you can install add-ons to help you mitigate all the tracking and ads. You can even install desktop only add-ons now, and supporting a engine which is not #chromium (controlled by Google) like every other major browser.
There are multiple forks available on the F-droid if you don't want to use plain firefox. This works on desktop too, I recommend #LibreWolf.
My favorite way of blocking ads, you have control over which domain the app can connect. It works like a VPN, but it does not make any outgoing connection. The bad thing is, if you want to use an actual #VPN, you can't have both at the same time and you need to disable your custom DNS.
I recommend to enable in settings > advanced options > block system apps, and individual domains too. When you open the app for the first time, it asks you if you want to block essential request for the apps to work, I recommend to enable this if you don't want apps breaking.
You android vendor may be killing the app, for this reason is necessary to add the app in the list of apps not be optimized by the system. If this issue keeps happening follow the guide from dontkillmyapp.com (advanced)
A DNS works like a translator, computers are good with numbers, but we are not good at memorizing long numbers. Computers communicate with each other using the Internet Protocol (IP), which are pure numbers. For example, your instance #IP is 104.26.8.209 but is easier to us just type lemmy.world.
A DNS is like a table where it has a relationship between keys pointing lemmy.world to 104.26.8.209, so your computer knows where is the computer is trying to connect.
Let's imagine an app is trying to connect to "https://ads-from.company.com", if you are using a DNS which blocks known domain ads it will redirect that request to "0.0.0.0" which is like sending it to a black hole. There are multiple DNS available, which different purposes, for ads, malware, porn, gambling, etc.
Have in mind that these are not full bulletproof protections, one may work better than the other, and can break from time to time. With popular services with ads, like social media, you could use alternative front-ends to their official client or website.
Here is a list of alternative front-ends and an add-on to automatically redirect to them, you have to use it with a browser and you can add as a shortcut to the home screen, better if it works like a #PWAhttps://libredirect.github.io
Google is doing everything to drive Firefox users with adblock extensions crazy. Some Firefox users are still experiencing a 5 second delay when trying to view YouTube content.
YouTube's response: Pay for premium, switch to Chrome or disable your ad blocker.
@nixCraft This move doesn't make complete sense. I like Firefox but it doesn't even block ads out of the box unlike Librewolf and @brave and I'm not seeing any noticeable slowdown or delay on @brave... Is it because I'm logged in? #YouTube#YT#ads
YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads ( www.spacebar.news )