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Re:macOS Big Sur by bredren on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:00PM (#25073460)
Consider setting up a pihole locally or on a vps.
Re:macOS Big Sur by josephcsible on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:07PM (#25073569)
This isn't that effective anymore. A lot of sites now proxy their ads through their own Web server for the express purpose of making them harder to block. The only way to effectively block these, without something horribly draconian like breaking TLS, is a browser extension.
Re:macOS Big Sur by bredren on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:33PM (#25074568)
I wonder if the newly enabled safari extension capabilities paired with pihole largely cover for what is missing from what Chrome can do.
Re:macOS Big Sur by reaperducer on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:51PM (#25074068)
for the express[ed] purpose

This doesn't mean what you think it means. What you wrote means that web sites put text on their pages stating, "We're proxying our ads so you can't block them, nanny nanny boo boo!"

You probably mean "specific" purpose.

More to the point, this isn't new. We were doing this on web sites at least as far back as the early 2000's.

Re:macOS Big Sur by cshimmin on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:01PM (#25074976)
Uh, no GP's usage was fine. Take Collins dictionary: "If you refer to an express intention or purpose, you are emphasizing that it is a deliberate and specific one that you have before you do something".

Perhaps you are thinking of the term "express written consent", but there it's the word "written" that means it was, well, written.

Re:macOS Big Sur by minitech on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:55PM (#25076362)
Yeah, I guess if you insert the incorrect [ed], it becomes incorrect.
Re:macOS Big Sur by spurgu on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:57PM (#25075649)
Or NextDNS.io if you trust them. I do and it's super convenient, both on desktop and mobile.