Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention

Re:Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race ... by interfixus on Thursday January 11, 2018 @02:58AM (#16122159)

Nope. My personal preference is uMatrix, but that's an implementation detail. I rarely see an ad, and I didn't see any on this page. Also, I have more or less tuned out Facebook and similar sleaze, and I try to maintain some vigilance concerning anything which begins to unduly attract my attention.

And then I have to wonder: Am I living in a cleanroom? Am I letting my defenses rot? Am I setting myself up for a fall if some day I end up face to face with all the unfiltered gunk out there, presented in some new, insidious manner that I believe myself far too sophisticated to succumb to? Have I - or we - perhaps already succumbed, but do not know it?

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Re:Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race ... by stewbrew on Thursday January 11, 2018 @09:38AM (#16124094)

Didn't the author of uMatrix stop using it himself in favor of uBlock origin?

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Re:Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race ... by interfixus on Thursday January 11, 2018 @09:47AM (#16124146)

No idea. It's certainly still being maintained. Gives you loads of very finegrained control. Not quite clear to me why it's so overshadowed by the good but far less capable uBlock.

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Re:Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race ... by mar77i on Thursday January 11, 2018 @11:29AM (#16125166)

I'm pretty sure you let your defenses against invasive advertising rot if you live in your adblocker bubble. You know, pathogens and immune systems and such...

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