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+date: '2023-05-23'
+title: 'I block ads'
+draft: false
+tags: ['advertising', 'privacy', 'tech']
+image: https://cdn.coryd.dev/blog/adblocks.jpg
+---
+
+I block ads in the browser.
+
+I block ads at the DNS level.<!-- excerpt -->
+
+I block analytics, metrics, reporting and diagnostic logging.
+
+I block programmatic pleas to disable ad-blocking.
+
+I block the ping attribute on URLs.
+
+I block tracking beacons.
+
+I strip UTM campaign tags.
+
+I unshorten URLs.
+
+I block the page visibility API.
+
+I stop videos from autoplaying.
+
+I block prompts to install your app.
+
+I block all cookies that aren't strictly required for your site to function.
+
+I block email pixel trackers.
+
+I provide a masked email address.
+
+I unsubscribe from your mailing list (and block your address if I can't).
+
+I don't answer the phone unless you're in my contacts.
+
+I block and report SMS messages.
+
+I pay a company to wrangle data brokers.
+
+I throw your physical mail in the recycling without opening it and unsubscribe from it when I can.
+
+I block ads, and you should too.
+
+> "Let the products sell themselves
+> Fuck advertising, commercial psychology
+> Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed"
+> Minutemen, *Shit from an Old Notebook*, 1984