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Sorry Telstra but this is my F@ST 5355 router:
Roughly a week ago I decided to give https://pi-hole.net/ a go having endured yet another ad laden website. All went we'll[sic], installation was smooth and was up and running 15 minutes later.
All that remained was to set my routers(sic) DNS server to the pi's and my home devices would be safe. I remember seeing the option in there for it.
WTF, it was now disabled. A quick google around revealed that about a year ago (June 2017) Telstra simply decided to remove that functionality.
Surely it had nothing to do with the Australian government implementing DNS based censorship in June 2017?
So fuck you Telstra, that's my router you made me purchase. Time to find out how to take it back.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 20 2020, @04:44PM (3 children)
Fail #1 install Firefox - don't want it, lost my freedom already.
Fail #2 deny all javascript - although much adware travels in javascript, this is like "curing hepatitis" by banning all Mexicans, far from all Mexicans have hepatitis, and Mexicans are far from the only carriers for hepatitis, you're applying a far from perfect prejudice, and I happen to like Mexican food.
Question: UBlockOrigin - how, if at all, does this relate to CORS (Cross Origin Resource Scripting) security measures that appear to be baked into Chrome and other browsers?
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(Score: 2) by Fishscene on Monday July 20 2020, @05:25PM (2 children)
Chrome is far worse. IE and Edge - who knows what's being leaked to Microsoft.
I know I am not God, because every time I pray to Him, it's because I'm not perfect and thankful for what He's done.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 20 2020, @05:37PM (1 child)
Chrome is far worse for what - tracking? Or: in-your-face ads?
I've always kind of respected Google / Chrome / Gmail for their in-your-face: yes, we're reading your mail and serving you ads based on what we see. Yes, we're keeping your location history: here's where' you've been for the last month/years. Yes, assume every bit of data about you is being recorded and collated like this - just because the other companies aren't demonstrating what they're doing to you doesn't mean they aren't doing it - Apple most of all.
I run a uBlock origin addon in Chrome, I still see some ads, and some butt-hurt sites that complain about the ad blocker. What I really wish would happen would be for Google's news feed on my phone to stop showing me headlines with links to subscription sites - that's really annoying.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @07:11PM
That doesn't engender respect from me. Only scorn and the (not acted upon) impulse to fire bomb all Google data centers. I never log in to Google. I never use GMail. I use a throwaway email address for GApps on my Android device. I disable GPS *and* Google location services on my phone as well.
My Pi-hole also blocks Google Analytics and a number of other Google domains as well.
I find it odd that Google (or anyone else) abusing their position engenders respect from you. If I were to seduce your wife/girlfriend, then force you to watch while I use her sexually, then have you clean us both up afterward, would that engender respect for me as well? Because that's pretty much the same thing. Then again, some folks are into that sort of thing [motherless.com]. [NSFW]