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EDIT: converted to a text post instead of link. hoping someday there’s easy way to re-toot Mastodon post to lemmy
Watching the counter on uBlock Origin skyrocket on any google or meta page is the same feeling.
My uBlock Origin is showing 73 blocks on THIS PAGE here on lemmy after allowing the scripts to play the video. Without the video, only 1.
0 on mbin, even after playing the video.
The video is a link from a mastodon instance (masto.host). So they use trackers here?
Mine sits at 3.5 million and this isn’t even that old of a setup.
I built this computer just under 3 months ago and I’m at 5.26M.
I’ve been using ublock on the same browser for over a year now and I’m only at 2.3M. What kind of sites are you guys on?
Probably majority piracy sites because considering my habits I hit a combined count of a 1 year old desktop browser + 1½ year old mobile browser 993k in total. And I am online for an unhealthy amount already.
Might be related, but even youtube, after 8 minutes of video that tab has 90 blocks.
8? My subsciption tab is about 2h open and collected 619 blocks. Ridiculous.
It went up by 2 while typing that comment!
Where are you all browsing? My PC is about 1 year old and in all it’s lifetimeshas seen 700k blocks.
Now mind you I am browsing a fair bit mobile and watch YT on my TV but even with mobile firefox + ublock combined it’s 993k in total.
there should be an ublock origin plugin that beeps every time
It’s like a Geiger counter for privacy.
I run uBlock origin on every device I can. I use PiHole on my home network. I’ve canceled every streaming service in favor of self-hosting, and IoT devices are blocked from the internet. Incoming connections are geoblocked. Meta is blocked at the DNS level. Suffice to say I have put a lot of effort into privacy and security.
I still can’t get rid of Google, though, solely because of Gmail. I’ve had the same address for so many years (ever since the invite-only days), it would be an absolute nightmare to try to change it.
Forward gmail to new provider and then use new email from now on. Eventually you’ll want to go in and update your email address for all the other sites you frequent…takes a few hours but you’ll be free.
Did it last year and it was relatively easy.
Buy your own site and actually contrill your email. Like 20 a month and I have full control.
Nah, just get some email provider with a good reputation and setup gmail to forward all mail. From there you can start to change the emails in all your accounts one by one. And hey, even if takes you 5 years to complete, it’s still worth it. Oh, some else had the exact same recommendation. I should have read the other comments first. Oh well
That’s what i did. Took me ~8 months to have everything migrated over. But it’s so worth it
This hurt to hear tbh. If there’s a solution, I hope you make it known
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For some reason I imagine that scene in of one of the first few episodes of the HBO mini-series Chernobyl, when they wade into the water near the exploded reactor and their flashlights just immediately die due to the massive amount of radiation and the episode ends in darkness with the crew’s Geiger counters just going absolute ape-shit sounding like a singular continuous tone.
I would love to see a fork of this that makes it sound like a Geiger counter.
Maybe with scale options, so it doesn’t just become a humming sound.Cursed idea
At least in drinking games you black out, wake up, regret, wait a week and you’re ready to do it again
Instead of being deaf
There is always this if that’s what you’re looking for.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I would love a comparison to the old web and with an ad blocker.
Seconded.
All the ad-blockers and privacy plugins.
About 20% of my traffic is blocked by pihole, a netwrok wide ad blocker.
That sounds absolutely nothing like an old school modem
Sounds more like getting a text in front of speakers
Sounds more like a floppy disk drive to me.
You go deaf or crazy or both
Somehow less than I expected - but probably bc the beeps were very short duration:-).
