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62 lines
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date: '2023-05-23'
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title: 'I block ads'
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description: "I block ads in the browser. I block ads at the DNS level."
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draft: false
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tags: ['advertising', 'privacy', 'tech']
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image: /assets/img/og/adblocks.webp
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---
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I block ads in the browser.
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I block ads at the DNS level.<!-- excerpt -->
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I block analytics, metrics, reporting and diagnostic logging.
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I block programmatic pleas to disable ad-blocking.
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I block the ping attribute on URLs.
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I block tracking beacons.
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I strip UTM campaign tags.
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I unshorten URLs.
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I block the page visibility API.
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I stop videos from autoplaying.
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I block prompts to install your app.
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I block all cookies that aren't strictly required for your site to function.
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I opt out of allowing apps to ask to track me.
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I filter sponsored content out of the RSS feeds I follow.
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I block email pixel trackers.
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I provide a masked email address.
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I unsubscribe from your mailing list (and block your address if I can't).
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I don't answer the phone unless you're in my contacts.
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I block and report SMS messages.
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I pay a company to wrangle data brokers.
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I throw your physical mail in the recycling without opening it and unsubscribe from it when I can.
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I block ads, and you should too.
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> Let the products sell themselves<br/>
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> Fuck advertising, commercial psychology<br/>
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> Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed
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Minutemen, *Shit from an Old Notebook*, 1984
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---
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**Update:** For a list of adblocking resources (and to contribute your own), please see [Awesome adblock](https://github.com/cdransf/awesome-adblock).
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