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Let's talk about Google Chrome and ads, and getting around Google's ad enforcing tactics (manifestv3) (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google has been blocking adblockers, or atleast trying to for some time now. Notably on Youtube.

I barely feel the impact of this because I use Mastodon, Lemmy, Peertube and other services that don't have ads.

Unlike your traditional website, these services federate, with each other over this Fediverse thing we all know about.

What's good about this is if, some severs wants to be greedy against it's users, users can easily just change servers and not have to worry about losing familiarity with the platforms user interfaces that they grew accustomed to.

Legally the largest Mastodon, Peertube servers and other can't do anything to smaller servers as the software used for the Fediverse platforms, generally are open source and federated with each other with help from activity pub which is also open source.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it will give a rise to blocking ads through intercepting network connections...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I already block a crazy amount of ads with DNS blocklists (and block Google as well) but I’m at a point where I’m about to start intercepting my own HTTPS traffic in order to cache it.

I’m tunneling all my internet traffic through commercial VPNs to a completely different country across the planet with better privacy laws but damn the high latency is exhausting.

Doing some neat HTTP header manipulation with Privoxy would be incredible too.