joshchandra

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[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

To be technical, you mean "scammers," who are far, far worse.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But then 5 of them would need to be connected in a line, right?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

Hmm, I thought I saw a similar picker existing in AdNauseam, but I may be wrong. I could definitely get on board with your approach; while Inspector can delete stuff, it doesn't remember them across page reloads or sessions, so this would be handy indeed!

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Oh, what can it do that AdNauseam and NoScript can't?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Join me in leaving uBlock Origin for AdNauseam! I made a post about it that ended up gaining significant traction: https://midwest.social/post/25573927

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago (6 children)

omg, I'm using NoScript now and my eyes have been opened; I can't ever go back!! Thanks for the analogy; that was a much-needed, jolting wake-up call.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I was reacting to its GitHub:

This project is NOT currently being maintained. Code is made available for developers to fork. This is the FireFox version of the project, for Chrome see https://github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot-Chrome.

So I'm wondering which active fork is best to go off of for Firefox. I could've been clearer; my bad.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oops, right. For Firefox, though, it's tethered to Mozilla accounts for sync, right?

I'm also hoping to find a way to reach and use a whitelist more easily, although I suppose it's mostly one-time activation.

But I think I'm gonna go the NoScript route that someone else mentioned here, since that lets you selectively enable some JS while disabling others on the same website.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks for the reminder about PeerTube... I've gotta look into that, too.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Careful: that then enters the world of ad fraud, which randos like us doing the clicking isn't considered as.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fascinating, thanks for sharing! What is the best, current Firefox fork of this one, if you know?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 10 points 5 days ago

You incorrectly use the term ad fraud, which addresses advertisers themselves automating clicks on their own links to generate fake income. There is nothing wrong with people-with-no-corporate-interest who click.

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