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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Forget about using IP-blockers to protect yourself during P2P activities, use them to block ads and malware (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was just looking around on different websites for what happened to programs like PeerBlock

Seems like they're not really too helpful to protect yourself against snitches. But they are helpful for blocking the IP-ranges of advertising companies...

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Seconded on NextDNS. It's like $20/year for the "pro" version (no monthly limits) and I honestly cannot recall the last time I saw an ad on any device I control. The sole exception is my Apple TV, where one of the apps I use has ads injected into the video, so, no way to block those.

If advertisers truly cared about serving the customers they claim to care so much about, the ad networks would have better standards and more safeguards to prevent malware. I'd still block them, I just wouldn't feel the same level of pride in blocking them for both annoyance and safety factors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I'd be a good start, if content platforms had to apply the same guidelines to ads, as they do to content. It's kinda telling that people on the platform need to not swear, while the ad below goes "You can't last 5 seconds in this NFT gambling waifu gatcha collector aimed at teens." or just offer money freud scams directly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah. No ads on my regular stuff. My PS4, which I stream with, still gets ads.