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Don MartiPoint of order: if you use <a href="https://federate.social/tags/adBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adBlocking</a> as a security tool, then DNS filtering alone is _not_ adequate protection.The biggest current <a href="https://federate.social/tags/malvertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#malvertising</a> issue is search ads, which need either element blocking in the browser, or blocking of the click-through redirect.Blocking the redirect can be done without an ad blocker on the client if you deploy an enterprise policy. (One advantage of policies over extensions: they cover all profiles and all user accounts)<a href="https://blog.zgp.org/search-malvertising-protection-using-enterprise-policies/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.zgp.org/search-malvertising-protection-using-enterprise-policies/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseHow-To Geek: uBlock Origin’s New Update Changes Built-in Blocklists. “uBlock Origin, the popular browser extension for blocking ads and trackers, just received another update. uBlock Origin version 1.66 adds new blocking options, removes some built-in lists, and makes a few other changes.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/09/how-to-geek-ublock-origins-new-update-changes-built-in-blocklists/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/09/how-to-geek-ublock-origins-new-update-changes-built-in-blocklists/</a>

mkjIf ad blockers are somehow ruled to be illegal… it would really be a shame if there were DNS or routing issues disproportionally impacting ad delivery service endpoints & networks, don't you think?Now, I'm *obviously* not suggesting huge companies shouldn't have the unrestricted right to deliver spyware to third parties, or that network administrators should *deliberately* degrade network service quality. What makes you think anything of the sort?<a href="https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/index.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/index.php</a><a href="https://social.mkj.earth/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdBlock</a> <a href="https://social.mkj.earth/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdBlocking</a>

Peter LoweWeekly block list report: 3,439 entries; 3,420 valid / 19 invalid; 4 deleted <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ads</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/adblocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adblocking</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/blocklist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blocklist</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/trackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trackers</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/pglblocklistreport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pglblocklistreport</a>List URL: <a href="https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php</a>

The New OilRevived anti-ad blocking lawsuit puts users’ rights and the Internet’s future at risk<a href="https://adguard.com/en/blog/axel-springer-adblock-plus-case-revived.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://adguard.com/en/blog/axel-springer-adblock-plus-case-revived.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdBlocking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#advertising</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Germany</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a>

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬'<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Ad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ad</a> Blocking is Not <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Piracy</a>' Decision Overturned By Top German Court There’s little doubt that online businesses reliant on advertising revenue are negatively affected by increasing use of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/adblocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adblocking</a> solutions. Yet it’s thanks to abusive and invasive <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ads</a>, and threats to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> due to incessant online tracking, that <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/adblockers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adblockers</a> became so popular. <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-is-not-piracy-decision-overturned-by-top-german-court-250819/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-is-not-piracy-decision-overturned-by-top-german-court-250819/</a>

N-gated Hacker NewsGerman Court does the legal hokey pokey, declaring ad blocking is now akin to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#piracy</a> again! 🚨🙄 Axel Springer clings to its newspapers like they’re precious family heirlooms, while the internet collectively rolls its eyes and keeps on scrolling. 📜🔒💤 <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-is-not-piracy-decision-overturned-by-top-german-court-250819/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-is-not-piracy-decision-overturned-by-top-german-court-250819/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GermanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GermanCourt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdBlocking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AxelSpringer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AxelSpringer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InternetRegulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetRegulation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LegalNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LegalNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ngated</a>

Hacker News'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-is-not-piracy-decision-overturned-by-top-german-court-250819/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-is-not-piracy-decision-overturned-by-top-german-court-250819/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdBlocking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Piracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GermanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GermanCourt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InternetFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetFreedom</a>

Hacker NewsWhy It's OK to Block Ads (2015)<a href="https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhyItsOKToBlockAds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhyItsOKToBlockAds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdBlocking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalEthics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlinePrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlinePrivacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InternetFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetFreedom</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseThe Register: No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers. “A recent ruling by the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has reopened the possibility that using ad blocking software could violate copyright law in Germany. In a decision last month, the BGH – the final court of appeals on civil and criminal matters – partially overturned an appeals court decision in an […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/16/the-register-no-more-blocktoberfest-german-court-throws-book-at-ad-blockers/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/16/the-register-no-more-blocktoberfest-german-court-throws-book-at-ad-blockers/</a>

jbz⚠️ Mozilla: Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. ｢ The BGH (as the Federal Supreme Court is known) called for a new hearing so that the Hamburg court can provide more detail regarding which part of the website (such as bytecode or object code) is altered by ad blockers, whether this code is protected by copyright, and under what conditions the interference might be justified ｣<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/08/14/is-germany-on-the-brink-of-banning-ad-blockers-user-freedom-privacy-and-security-is-at-risk/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/08/14/is-germany-on-the-brink-of-banning-ad-blockers-user-freedom-privacy-and-security-is-at-risk/</a><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/adblocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adblocking</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a>

Eugene :emacs: :freebsd:> "Some of these forced changes in consumption patterns are often explained away by manufacturers and retailers alike with the phrase "Nobody wants that anymore." Laptops with 4:3 or 5:4 screens, for example. Or slightly bulkier laptops but with decent thermal design. Or a laptop with a DVD player that will let me watch one of the many movies I own that's not available on a streaming service."<a href="https://www.datagubbe.se/lessads/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.datagubbe.se/lessads/</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ads</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/adblocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adblocking</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a>

C++ Wage SlaveAs always, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdBlocking</a> is <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infosec</a>:<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@InfobloxThreatIntel/114930229670245228" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://infosec.exchange/@InfobloxThreatIntel/114930229670245228</a>If you're still using <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GoogleChrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoogleChrome</a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MicrosoftEdge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MicrosoftEdge</a> then switch to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> and install the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uBlockOrigin</a> extension. It works on desktop and on Android. That alone will give you a safer, more enjoyable browsing experience.

The New Oil<a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uBlockOrigin</a> is forever disabled in <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chrome</a>. Why it happened and what to use instead<a href="https://adguard.com/en/blog/ublock-origin-disabled-chrome.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://adguard.com/en/blog/ublock-origin-disabled-chrome.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdBlocking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/ManifestV3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ManifestV3</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/ManifestV2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ManifestV2</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/UBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UBOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/guide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#guide</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseNew York University: Ad blockers may be showing users more problematic ads, study finds. “Privacy-conscious users relying on ‘acceptable ads’ programs encounter 13.6% more problematic content than those without ad blockers, NYU Tandon researchers discover.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/new-york-university-ad-blockers-may-be-showing-users-more-problematic-ads-study-finds/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/new-york-university-ad-blockers-may-be-showing-users-more-problematic-ads-study-finds/</a>

Captain_Faraday :fedora:So <a href="https://www.minds.com/naomibrockwell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@naomibrockwell</a> blew my mind about how are smart TVs are spying on us with Automatic Content Recognition and other advertising profile scripts. Yikes! Thanks for the heads up! <a href="https://youtu.be/jeq2m-OM53A?si=DPW7TQiDSopBdqiS" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/jeq2m-OM53A?si=DPW7TQiDSopBdqiS</a>I don’t have the resources to switch to a more secure streaming device yet (I’m gonna build one with mini PC running LibreELEC with Kodi hopefully).In the meantime, I setup a Pi-Hole on an old Raspberry Pi 3B I had laying around last night to block as many ads and outgoing unwanted scripts as I could. <a href="https://pi-hole.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pi-hole.net/</a>It is working great from what I tell! Even removed the ads from my Roku TV home pages lol! I’m sure some stuff is getting through, but at least it’s minimal.Here is the PiHole install video I watched from Micro Center, but I also added SSH via private/public keys too. How to Block Ads Using a Pi-Hole With A Raspberry Pi <a href="https://youtu.be/oX4NqFisC5Y?si=-AdahVN0F6UchwnP" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/oX4NqFisC5Y?si=-AdahVN0F6UchwnP</a>Oh and it has a built-in Star Trek NG LCARS theme! <a href="https://github.com/MichalSvatos/pi-hole-star-trek-picard" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/MichalSvatos/pi-hole-star-trek-picard</a><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/pihole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pihole</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/pi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pi</a>-hole <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/raspberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#raspberrypi</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/adblocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adblocking</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/homenetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homenetworking</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/dataprivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dataprivacy</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/digitalrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digitalrights</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/mydatamychoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mydatamychoice</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/privacyisahumanright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacyisahumanright</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/privacymatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacymatters</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/blockads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blockads</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/surveillancecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillancecapitalism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/optout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#optout</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/startrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#startrek</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/microcenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microcenter</a>

stfnNew blog post!Today it's about how I finally learned how Pi-hole is spelled.I also talk how I moved from Google to Unbound as the upstream DNS server, and that I added additional blocklists to Pi-hole, all that making my adblocking solution even more private and secure.<a href="https://stfn.pl/blog/74-pihole-unbound/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://stfn.pl/blog/74-pihole-unbound/</a><a href="https://fedi.stfn.pl/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#degoogle</a> <a href="https://fedi.stfn.pl/tags/adblocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adblocking</a> <a href="https://fedi.stfn.pl/tags/pihole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pihole</a> <a href="https://fedi.stfn.pl/tags/unbound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unbound</a>

jbz👀 YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures ｢ One thing that people have ran into is “fake buffering”, where videos will take a while to load due to a lot of buffering, but only at the very start of the video (there’s no mid-video fake buffering). As I’ll explain, the fake buffering is 80% of the length of the ads you would’ve seen, so even with fake buffering you’re still saving time using an adblocker ｣ <a href="https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/</a><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#youtube</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/adblocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adblocking</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehosePC World: YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads. “It’s fairly easy to block the constant, incessant advertising that appears on YouTube. Google would prefer that you don’t, or pay up (quite a lot) to make them go away. Last weekend, the company started its latest campaign to try and badger ad-block users into disabling their extensions. Since then, it looks like YouTube has […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/pc-world-youtube-might-slow-down-your-videos-if-you-block-ads/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/pc-world-youtube-might-slow-down-your-videos-if-you-block-ads/</a>

iam-py-test :unverified:I thought I posted this but I guess I didn't. DNS4EU is apparently using Peter Lowe (<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@pgl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@pgl</a>)'s list to block ads. DNS4EU is a European Union project to provide a private European DNS server.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DNS4EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNS4EU</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PeterLowe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeterLowe</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AdFiltering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdFiltering</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdBlocking</a>

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