Great news: our #adblocker was added to the @humanetech list!🎉🎉
That's really motivating and encouraging, as well as our growing #community!
https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech
That's really motivating and encouraging, as well as our growing #community!
https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech
GitHub - humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech: Promoting Solutions that Improve Wellbeing, Freedom and Society
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in reply to TBlock • • •I've once tried using the /etc/hosts file in linux to do this, you might be aware of this project - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
But here's my question, where else would there be ads on your system except your browser ? If you're a Linux user then most of the programs you use would be FOSS and ad-free anyway. And we all know that ublock origin is better for blocking browser ads.
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GitHub - StevenBlack/hosts: 🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
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in reply to Rokosun • • •And to answer your previous toot, yes, StevenBlack hosts are officially supported by TBlock:
https://tblock.codeberg.page/repository/?filter=stevenblack-hosts (warning: unfortunately this link requires JS)
Filter list repository | TBlock - An anticapitalist ad-blocker that uses the hosts file
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in reply to Rokosun • • •Basically, the service simply executes /usr/bin/tblockd --daemon --config /etc/tblock.conf
I just opened an issue for that: https://codeberg.org/tblock/tblock/issues/44
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Unknown parent • • •The revenue is an eternal discussion. It's likely that without ads more services are paid, either as one-off or subscription.
That's nice if you have the money, less of if you are not that privileged. There are revenue models that take this into account e.g. "Pay what you want" and maybe with a minimum of $1 or something.
There's a range of other options to pick.
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Unknown parent • •So I would argue the "tracking" is not the biggest issue with ads at all. It is the "ads" themselves, that are a result of our trade based society. A society that all it values is trading, this for that.
And yeah, on top of this all, ads encourage those who make them to hype anything, lie, deceive....
So, a lot of issues with a(i)ds.
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in reply to smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) • • •However, what we oppose to is targeted advertising and surveillance-capitalism. We don't believe ads are evil. But we think tracking is. Ads should never compromise the privacy of people. That's what we fight against.
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in reply to Tio • • •The latter we can't do without. If you hadn't 'advertised' #TROM I wouldn't know about it.
If behind a door is a bakery but no indication it is there, then no one will get to their bread.
So I think not all advertising is bad. But the word itself we see as 'evil'.
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in reply to smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) • •So the ads-market is what I am talking about of course. The ads that are about consumerism.
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in reply to Mx. Savanni D'Gerinel • • •Still greatly enjoying an ad-free web :D
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Unknown parent • • •/Business/ on the other hand, is about conversations, about community interdependencies, about being useful. I have no problem with businesses being useful, even if I don't care for that use-case.
I'm not, however, fond of marketing. I'd so hoped #structureddata would obsolesce it.
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in reply to Martin Atkins • • •But marketing is a broad field. If you'd say "Writing is propaganda", that's also a non-match. Squeezing something broad into something narrow. Same with marketing. If I reach out to fine folks for my FOSS projects, then I do marketing and PR.
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in reply to smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) • •I cannot see how marketing is a good thing overall. This is not a general term like "writing". It is specific to trading.
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Unknown parent • • •Tracking is a related issue since used to target adds mainly.
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GitHub - gorhill/uBlock: uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
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Unknown parent • • •Because what you do is really generous, and it would be great if more people did it :)
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Unknown parent • • •It all ties back to my initial point about advertisement, I wish more people knew about projects like yours instead of these useless brand names and such. How can it be OK for us to show ads about commercial companies when there are lots of good projects out there that need our attention for good.
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Unknown parent • • •And I don't know if you need consumer magazines to get advice on purchases, if a product is good enough then people who use it will recommend others. And I believe there are some communities for this kinda stuff, like /r/buyitforlife on reddit.
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