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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by Spivak on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:25AM (#15526712)
Why not get an ad blocker? Good for attention, privacy, and security.
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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by jstanley on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:28AM (#15526726)
I do on my computer, but I watch a lot of YouTube on my phone.

I ran AdBlock Plus for a while until I discovered that it runs as an open proxy, allowing anyone on the same wifi network as you to fetch content through your phone.

In combination with a VPN client that routes everything over the VPN, I considered that an unacceptable risk.

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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by Spivak on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:31AM (#15526739)
Firefox for Android has extension supprort and in particular uBlock origin support. Same as your desktop browser.
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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by muxator on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:18PM (#15529302)
Could you elaborate on the "open proxy" part? I now switched to unlock, but still miss adblock plus interface. This could help me not switching back
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