Confessions of a Google Spammer (2015)

Re:Confessions of a Google Spammer (2015) by gnodar on Saturday February 20, 2016 @02:58PM (#11141648)

Interesting. I'm using uBlock Origin with pretty much all 3rd party filters enabled, and only have 19 requests blocked. Would you mind sharing what tools you're using?

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Re:Confessions of a Google Spammer (2015) by gorhill on Saturday February 20, 2016 @04:47PM (#11142102)

Block `twimg.com` and see the count climbing to over 460 -- because of the avatars in the comment section. Personally I block such ubiquitous hostnames by default (using uBO's dynamic filtering), as they are as good as trackers (for Twitter in the current case).

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Re:Confessions of a Google Spammer (2015) by arca_vorago on Saturday February 20, 2016 @05:05PM (#11142172)

Lots of people install ublock but never look at the settings or enable dynamic filtering. Thats probably why you get more than them.

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Re:Confessions of a Google Spammer (2015) by trukernels on Sunday February 21, 2016 @12:58PM (#11145564)

Ironically, the guy you replied to is the developer behind Ublock. He's the person who knows the !most about internet privacy in Canada.

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Re:Confessions of a Google Spammer (2015) by ddorian43 on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:33PM (#11141816)

Maybe he means >40. I have 29 uBlock and 14 Ghostery

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Re:Confessions of a Google Spammer (2015) by inopinatus on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:43PM (#11141860)

The relevant ones are Disconnect & uBlock Origin.

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Re:Confessions of a Google Spammer (2015) by MicroBerto on Saturday February 20, 2016 @02:59PM (#11141650)

Disconnect plugin grabbed most of them for me.

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