• N3Cr0@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Why even view pirated low-quality content, hidden behind a paywall? I mean, that’s what too many newspapers and magazines offer. Unfortunately.

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      9 months ago

      I’ll pop in to defend the Winnipeg Free Press as one of Canada’s few independent papers. They still have their own journalists breaking stories.

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        9 months ago

        If you arent already, highly recommend ublock origin. Great broswer extension thats pretty much required to use the intermet nowadays if you dont want to pull your hair out.

        Though some of theae websites still have popus like this built in unfortunately. But Ublock helps a lot.

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          I was already using ubo and Adguard, but these damn popups still came up. I’m going to tweak my filter list to see if I’m missing something.

          If it’s a site I visit frequently, I tend to manually block undesirable elements. But this was a one-off.

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            9 months ago

            Fyi you don’t need two adblockers on the same browser. They use the same lists anyways, you’re using double the resources and improving load times for no real benefit

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              Yes, I do agree.

              However, I find that the element blocker in UBO is better than AdGuard, and it gives more control over blocking things like remote fonts. Since I run AdGuard system-wide, I just leave it on for the entire browser.

              Adguard does create issues where certain sites simply will not work, so I have to disable Adguard, and I’ll leave UBO on to block any ads or trackers that get through as a result.

              It works for me. 😂👍

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                9 months ago

                Understood. It’s fine to not follow the “best practices” if our use case requires otherwise. The important thing is to be aware of it!

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                  9 months ago

                  It is a good reminder, though. I’m going to have to reevaluate some of my add-ons and settings. I prefer things to be minimalist, and perhaps I really am overlapping features unnecessarily.

          • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            If you are on Firefox, the ghostery addon is really nice as well. It blocks ads, trackers, and cookies, plus gives you information about what’s actually on the site (what the cookies are, how many it wants to shove on you and why, etc.)

            It won’t block all the popups, but it does auto-decline some stuff, so you don’t get cookie notifications, for example.

            Never-Consent Clicks you out of all consent dialogues in favor of never tracking. This unequaled feature adds convenience to each website visit and acts like your globally active privacy advocate towards content providers.

            https://www.ghostery.com/ghostery-ad-blocker

            • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOP
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              I’ve used Ghostery before, for a while, actually! I love the extra details it provides.

              Since I have a paid Adguard account, I use that system wide. UBO is left on because I like the element blocker it uses.

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                9 months ago

                Give it a try again and see if it gets rid of that top popup. I never get notification requests like that.

                The subscribe one will probably still be there though.

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                  Give it a try again and see if it gets rid of that top popup. I never get notification requests like that.

                  Well, shit! I just installed it on a secondary, clean browser and did a before and after. What do you know? No popup when using Ghostery!

                  Now I have to figure out if it’s a list that isn’t enabled in the other blockers, or if they just suck. LOL

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    9 months ago

    I’ll just assume the article had nothing worthwhile to read. Thanks for sparing my time!

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      I had it running. I also had Adguard (system wide) enabled. I need to tweak my filters 😂

  • Jay@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If you haven’t already, would highly recommend looking into Unpaywall! Really helpful when it comes to viewing articles that require you to pay a subscription or sign up before viewing. Doesn’t always work but it gets a good amount! Plus it’s open source which is always a added bonus