ITT: We devise a plan to destroy all the ads in the world.
>>54932001
just tell all the people you can about adblocking.
tell them to tell all the people they know about it.
>>54932021
>"But then how will the websites gain any monies?"
>>54932021
That sounds too simple... Too simple.
Wouldn't Google and other companies attempt to make ad-blockers illegal, since it is getting in the way of company finances?
>>54932133
>people actually say this
>>54932295
>That's the joke
I like NoScript for Firefox
>>54932001
Wasnt there a guy who blocked ad servers by ip?
Crowd sourced list of every ad out there to feed into an open google glass alternative, to block them.
>>54932379
I don't know. But we need to do this more often.
>>54932379
>>54932480
Adblock hosts files
>>54932239
No they would just put adds in their apps like google is already doing with their map software.
So instead of a banner at the top you get a map pin that is an add when you're trying to find shit.
>>54932548
That's even worse. So, block all google ad servers? Shut them down maybe?
If it happens enough times, maybe they'll be inclined to find a less annoying alternative.
>>54932648
This is the less annoying alternative. People didn't want banners so they got rid of them. The only other way they have to serve ads is through the applications themselves.
I wouldn't be surprised if they made it so that blocking the server that sends the ad map pins would also block the server that sends you all the actual map pins.
>>54932648
You cannot block all their servers, ever. They have thousands, hundreds of thousands of IPs and they can get more or change existing at any moment. Just avoid browsing as much as possible on mobile devices where you cannot do anything with ads.
>>54932711
>what is a hostname
#!/bin/bash
set -o nounset
set -o errexit
###############################################################################
##### This script will generate an IPv4-only hosts file that blocks domains
##### responsible for advertisements, analytics, and malicious activities
#####
##### Modified from: https://github.com/fr0stycl34r/update-hosts
###############################################################################
## We must be root in order to modify the contents of /etc
rootcheck() {
if [[ $UID -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "Please run this script as root"
exit 1
fi
}
rootcheck
## Backup the current hosts file
mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak
## Create a temporary file to dump the various lists into
temphosts=$(mktemp)
## Download various pre-made lists into our temp file
wget -nv -O - http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts >> $temphosts
wget -nv -O - http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt >> $temphosts
wget -nv -O - http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt >> $temphosts
wget -nv -O - http://adblock.gjtech.net/?format=hostfile >> $temphosts
wget -nv -O - http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp >> $temphosts
wget -nv -O - "http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext" >> $temphosts
## Cleanup the list; remove commented lines, remove duplicates, etc
sed -e 's/\r//' -e '/^127.0.0.1/!d' -e '/localhost/d' -e 's/0.0.0.0/127.0.0.1/' -e 's/ \+/\t/' -e 's/#.*$//' -e 's/[ \t]*$//' < $temphosts | sort -u > /etc/hosts
## Append some necessary stuff to the beginning of the file
echo "# Last updated on $(date)
127.0.0.1 $HOSTNAME" | cat - /etc/hosts >> temp && mv temp /etc/hosts
## A bit of cleanup
rm $temphosts
Destroy their ad services from the source somehow. I'm not a hacker.
I believe in a world without ads. A beautiful world. A paradise.
>>54932737
Sorry, I'm a retard. What is this?
>>54932001
Make advertisements to persuade users to install Ad block.
>>54932021
>>54932239
>>54932379
This is going to drive websites like Google/Facebook/Reddit to serve subtle ads by customizing what content you're exposed to over other content, then we won't even know what is an ad and what isn't.
>>54932771
I remember this I think. It's a script somebody wrote that blocks ads on the router level. You have to be running a router that allows you to ssh in and run stuff.
>>54932767
script to make a 60k entries hosts file that just block known ad/malware sites
>>54932793
Also changes the 127.0.0.1(localhost) to 0.0.0.0(drop invalid) so it doesn't spend time trying to resolve them
>>54932789
I don't need websites telling me what I like and what I don't.
>>54932021
This will make websites add unblockable ads.
e.g. Youtube would edit uploaded videos so ads are part of it.
If you have anything more than uMatrix you are doing it wrong.
>>54932882
Exactly. How could we possibly stop or avoid ads if it gets to that?
Virus that infects target hosts file with a list of IPs to block. Ads will be blocked whether you like it or not.
Municipal ISPs that out-compete Jew telecom companies and block advertising domains at the ISP level.
>>54932913
you stop going to this sites. for example, cnet is just an advertisement catalog.
>>54932957
Right, and every time an alternative to one of those sites gets big enough to want to monitize, they'll do the same.
>>54932915
>>54932923
Sounds nice. But then again, I'm not tech savvy. I came to this board to propose ideas to make my dreams a reality.
>>54932379
a lot of people do this. also this is the only viable in some cases (e.g. android apps)
Using hosts file is retarded, and inefficient.
Don't really need to do anything different, ads pay less and less all the time, which is why youtube red exist.
>>54933014
Ok chad
>>54933014
???
>>54933014
Nice try Google
>>54932913
Presumably the search engine starts you off at a default state where it's trying to figure out what you like based on your first few initial searches.
I guess it's possible for you to clear your browser history so the site has no idea that you've been there before. Tracking based on IP isn't really an effective way to keep track of this sort of thing. Some college campuses internet activity can look like it's coming from a small subset of IP's. What if it's more than one person sharing a connection?
So the odds are pretty good if you delete your browser history you'll get around it.
Or use startpage since duckduckgo is for cucks.
>>54933045
>>54933060
>>54933087
How many entries do you have per root domain chucklefucks?
>>54932793
>60k entries
Convince people to use a browser extension that automatically clicks ads or automatically make searches in the background so ads and data mining lose value.
Like these
https://adnauseam.io/
http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
Or share a script that automatically clicks ads on the same website until the advertiser drops them.
>>54933099
It doesn't need to "see what you like". Google functions fine based on the program that made the company what it is in the first damn place.
>>54933099
Yeah, we need a browser that isolates all your logged-in websites if you have any, and automatically clears everything they can use to make a profile of you.
>>54933214
It's called cookies and browser history and all of them are able to clear out.
>>54933232
Yes, but do you have anything to add to the conversation?
Is there a self destructing cookies analog for chromium-based browsers? I know it has such functionality out of the box, but you need to manually type-in all exception entries.
>>54933267
Yeah the fucking correction to your statement that makes no sense. It's not a special power to make a browser forget where it's been. It's not necessary to make browser that it purpose built to forget. It's 5 clicks to do the thing you talk about on firefox.
>>54933232
I can't imagine that would stop facebook from building shadow profiles of non-users which they have allegedly started doing now.
>>54933299
I'm not saying it's something impossible to ask for. I know you can tell firefox to delete your cache and cookies automatically. But since some sites force you to at least temporarily allow cookies in order to function, say you're on 2 sites at once - then you leak information that could be used to build a profile on you.
>>54933313
Facebook has likely been doing that for years. Those like buttons you see on social media websites have a link back to them they can see who views them even if they don't have a profile.
>>54933313
I didn't know about this, three minutes browsing the internet on this says that facebook builds these profiles based on saying yes to facebook connecting with your gmail or other online presences.
So the dodge for that would be to not do that assuming this is the only way people can get their info harvested. The rub is I imagine that if somebody has you on their phone and uses facebook then facebook already has your number and it's totally out of your control.
I feel like it's a separate problem that requires a different solution than the one that keeps google from tracking you based on browser history.
>>54933403
>The rub is I imagine that if somebody has you on their phone and uses facebook then facebook already has your number and it's totally out of your control.
That is what's happening:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/anger-mounts-after-facebooks-shadow-profiles-leak-in-bug/
>This data is being gathered by Facebook about individuals through their friends' information about them - harvested when a user grants Facebook address book or contact list access.
Say you had an SMS conversation with someone who has the Facebook app on their phone - now Facebook knows information about you from the content of that conversation, as well as your phone number and name.
If Facebook is doing this, I'm sure Google and as many other services/websites are too, or will be soon.
>>54933368
Supposedly you can combat this by blocking the Facebook domains with noscript.
But then that would give an incentive for Facebook to make the actual website host the service themselves, which you couldn't block without breaking the site.
>>54933173
how many of you are repeated? either way, it is pointless to flash your epenis without sharing
>>54933622
None. I'm checking for duplicates with built-in checker of hostman and also checking from loonix. Here it is if you like
http://www28.zippyshare.com/v/Yjytlllu/file.html
>>54933232
> clears cookies
> still leaves pretty much unique fingerprint with IP, timezone, screen dimensions, color depth, useragent string, HTTP_ACCEPT header, canvas fingerprint, WebGL fingerprint, list of browser plugins, list of system fonts, touch support and probably shitload of other things
> thinks he's not being tracked
>>54933769
thanks.
what is the source, though. in the script you could just add the source and it would incorporate them.
do you have a source?
>>54933864
Would it be possible for a browser to spoof all (or most) of that when reporting it to whatever the most popular value is?
>>54932001
If at any point in my lifespan Youtube has to charge for each video I watch, I will kill you.
Ads exist because we choose free services over paying ones.
>>54933979
So you don't use an adblocker?
>>54933895
That's all of them. Some are probably duplicating so will require removing of duplication, this hostman application is doing that automatically.http://hosts-file.net/hphosts-partial.asp
http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp
http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=1&mimetype=plaintext
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts.win
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
http://adblock.gjtech.net/?format=hostfile
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext
http://adaway.org/hosts.txt
http://hosts-file.net/download/hosts.txt
Why not whitelist instead of blacklist?
>>54934105
Only web browsers could really pull that off without being too annoying. If you want to do that just get ublock origin and set it to block all content by default with dynamic filtering.
