The NSA and CIA use ad blockers

Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by annoyingnoob on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:58PM (#28631883)

I did too until it broke all of my wife's online shopping. Happy wife, happy life.

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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by metissec98 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:01PM (#28631928)

With recent piholes you can now ignore specific devices! This what I do for my partner.

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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by salzig on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:07PM (#28632001)

Thanks for the hint.

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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by optymizer on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:40PM (#28632455)

From a practical point of view, the only thing it broke was Ad sponsored results on Google, so I had to teach my wife to go for the normal results, or search directly on Amazon or Wayfair or wherever. What broke for your wife's online shopping?

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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by annoyingnoob on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:45PM (#28633403)

Several sites shes uses load images from a CDN, she would get to a page that should be full of pictures and those pictures would be missing.

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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by trutannus on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:30PM (#28633170)

You're not alone. I took out my partner's online calendar by mistake with a PiHole. I think I blocked all her productivity SaaS tools too. Found out in under 5 minutes.

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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by charwalker on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:39PM (#28635027)

My dad had an outdoorsy distribution list that shoved all links through an ad domain, like straight up as if it was clicked on a site. He was able to copy and paste the text just fine...

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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by x3n0ph3n3 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:09PM (#28635444)

I recently transitioned to the phrase "happy spouse, happy house." We all deserve to be happy.

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