I've been halfheartedly saying I'm going to start a religion based on ads being bad for one's soul. It makes more sense every day.
do it so we can claim anti ad blocker measures are discriminatory
Your move Satanist church.
I'd join. Nice username
You too, Detective
Nice Trick
"The real money is in starting a religion." - L. Ron Hubbard
Please add me to that newsletter, and may the billboards be cast from your sight, brother!
With that, you could sue Google and other companies pushing anti-adblocker tech for discrimination, just bring up all the cases when the supreme court sided with cristofascists to oppress other people.
I'll subscribe
Not just for security, selling snake oil is also grounds for ad blocking.
I don't need "grounds" for ad blocking, and neither do you. My property rights say that I'm entitled to modify the computation my system is doing as I see fit.
No way they can be the same.
The adblock stops malware, makes my browser perform better, and stops things from disrupting me. The most common result of anti-virus the complete opposite of each of those 3.
I cannot express how much I loathe antivirus software. Mostly it's been because it has been nothing but trouble in my work environment, without ever catching anything, for over twenty years. It's the modern corporate snake oil.
simple, don't use an antivirus, stick to windows defender (before the linux crowd comes in yes I know there are basically no viruses threatening you chill), your own brain, and also not an admin account!
Don't download shady shit, and if your PC asks you for some mysterious admin permission - the answer is "no". If something does slip through windows defender will most likely handle it no problem!
Ugh Linux... I tried so hard to get viruses working in wine but in the end I gave up. Full compatibility my ass...
Linux gets viruses too (see recent xz-utils vulnerability that almost got into production environments) and its kind of a shame that corporate antivirus software like Norton and McAfee end up ruining the reputation of antiviruses. In theory the idea of having a software that can scan for common viruses is a great way to increase security, even if it shouldn't replace common sense. I'm not too sure if there are any good FOSS antiviruses, but if there aren't there should be.
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Coming soon with web 3.0...
Please pay $0.01 as a piss-poor solution to DDOS.
If I saw a popup tell me to disable my antivirus Id nope out of there even faster than the ones that demand I disable my ad blocker.
Yep. I see popups asking to disable adblocker the same way as that.
A good Adblock is a digital equivalent of an armored car. You can go everywhere, comfortably. Visit the most terrible sites or places. All this time protected from the bullets of capitalism.
I swear I'm about done with YT. The ads are long, overabundant, irrelevant, and timed specifically to fuck with people in the middle of specific segments of content. I mean, I keep getting ads for Oppenheimer for the past four days. I already own Oppenheimer - and Google knows this. My Google account is linked to my MoviesAnywhere account, they have this information. What is the point of "targeted" advertisements if they net the advertiser zero value? Is Google just messing with users trying to block their ads at this point?
Haven't seen ads in ages... Firefox on linux with uBlock origin.
Half the point of ads these days isn’t to advertise to you, it’s to piss you off enough to upgrade to a paid plan. If they happen to also make money from the adverts, then that’s just an added bonus.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-01-12
I'd say we haven't got to all-despising baby skull yet, but youtube still keeps trying to recommend Joe Rogan.
I used to subscribe to YouTube premium as of just a few days ago. Even without the ads. There was something very seriously wrong with the suggestion algorithm.
I was getting cartel violence videos, and dead animal videos. Never watched one before in my life. Yet. YouTube seems to think that I should want to watch this crock of shit. This started coming up about 6 months ago. Until now I've been reporting each video as they come up. But that doesn't seem to help at all.
At this point I think YouTube is a danger to society - if it's recommending cartel violence videos to me unsolicited, what are they suggesting to my nieces?
I have completely nuked it from my life. Almost all of the YouTubers I like are on Nebula or Floatplane so it doesn't feel like I'm missing much.
Some of the sponsored shit is crazy too.
I was watching a video on a timeline of events with Puff Daddy and it hit this one part that went something like, “the young man said that Diddy wanted to play with his anus. Which reminds me of our sponsor, the law offices of so and so. Life is unpredictable and you or your loved ones could get molested too. If that happens you’ll need legal representation! Our sponsor will represent you…”.
Holy shit my brain shorted on that one.
Install SponsorBlock.
I am enjoying Freetube on desktop, and I just don't watch videos on my phone.
Don't be silly. Wrap your willy.
As a sysadmin I have so many devs asking me to set up antivirus exceptions for their apps, disable UAC, run the service as full admin, etc
Hell no. Submit your shit to virus total and learn how to program.
Antivirus programs are way too inaccurate to be used authoritatively, especially for developers. It’s not uncommon that some virus will use a well-known open source library or packaging tool, and then the antivirus decides that any binary with that same library or stub from that packaging tool must also be a virus. When your program depends on it, if you can’t turn the AV off or make an exception, you’re just fucked. Also, programming is an iterative process. Make a small change, test, repeat. Requiring that developers upload and wait for a scan from some third party for software that they compiled locally and have no intent to distribute is a giant waste of everybody’s time, especially the developer’s. It’s a huge drag on productivity for the sake of bureaucracy.
I'm quite sure the guy above is not talking about devtest environment, but production deployments...
Nah, the heuristics shit picks up a shedload of nothing as dodgy sometimes. No-one submits work in progress stuff to be accepted with the antivirus providers to bypass that. Only final versions.
Don't have a problem where I work. Likely the choice of antivirus, or they're whitelisting our development folders automatically.
Windows defender is a Little jumpy though when it comes to self compiled software other than Visual Studio‘s
You clearly don’t know how programming works. Or how idiotic most antivirus software is.
When apps have code obfuscation in use, injects into dlls, and has detection for when running in a vm when it has no business doing any of these things then yes I think I can complain to the devs about it.
Why is the antivirus software detecting my Cortex-M3 binaries as dangerous to an amd64 computer? Happens on Windows 7 through Windows 10, across 3 different employers.
And how do I submit my builds to Virus Total if they're getting deleted as soon as they come out of the linker?
What website that ask you to disable antivirus ? Capt ?
They don't, because it would be an insane proposition. The point of the meme is to say that asking to disable my ad blocker is like asking me to disable my antivirus.
Ad companies don't or very poorly vet their submissions, and it's incredibly easy for malicious actors to slip hostile code in through ads. Ad blockers prevent that and are a first line of defense.
Not websites, but some people ask it to use their applications/games, that turn out to be viruses.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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I often disable my adblocker on sites of smaller and more independent news companies, if they don't run Google ads (I've heard them getting dropped in countries like Hungary and Russia for obvious reasons).
