better version of: https://lemmy.world/post/21210097
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Why is Badger bad?
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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It's not bad, just mostly redundant these days, as the heuristic features are no longer enabled, and the defaults ublock lists will cover a lot of the same.
Fyi you can still enable heuristic blocking from settings.
What's that?
Privacy badger doesn't require somebody to add an address to a list to block it, it figures our statistically when something should be blocked. The upside is that it can block things that are new and haven't been added to a list. I assume it could also better adapt to new methods to get stuff through a typical blocker.
A European shout out to Ghostery who auto refuses everything on our GDPR popups.
You could add that extension that replaces clickbait titles by community-made descriptive ones. (lemmy do your thing and find the name please)
It's DeArrow
Thanks! I don't use it but I want it so much on freetube and newpipe 🥲
Whats that?
I would 1000% add temporary containers to that list. Wish I could get it on Android too!
except W instead of P. I don't really need that shit.
Youtube made changes that make Invidious pretty much unfunctional, videos won't load in my browser for me :(
Noitced their instanxce list shrunk ;-; also that Japan server does still work. Used it last night.
I read, "With Butter"
Gotta finish my coffee
What do you need dislikes on YT for? You can't tell a shitty video by it's shitty title and shitty thumbnail?
Advanced kit: add NoScript and block first party scripts by default. Works surprisingly well for visiting sites you don't care about, just want to read the article etc. Just switch it off if you're trying to buy something and get through the checkout.
AFAIK every function of NoScript exists in uBlock Origin. So just get uBO and cut the redundancy. The less vectors the better
Consent-o-matic instead of cookies and adnausem instead of ublock origin.
Consent-o-matic will actively opt out of popups.
Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently "click" on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.
uBlock Origin can just hide cookie pop ups if you enable said filter, and AdNauseam still loads the ad so you still have slower page loading speed and increased network traffic.
Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently "click" on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.
Tried it a couple of months ago. Didn't nearly work as well as uBlock Origin, seemed buggy as hell.
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What's wrong with privacy badger?
Not OP, but what puts me off is that it calls itself badger, but really it's just a software that has nothing in common with those glorious animals. Did you know that badgers' keen sense of smell is about 800 times sharper than our own?
Is that how they sniff out the ads to block?
!subscribe to badger facts
Did you know that badgers keep their homes in tip-top shape by creating a latrine pit as a bathroom? They won’t defecate in their homes, instead making a pit out of dried grass and leaves just outside their burrow.
Is that where they dump the ads they block?
"Exterior plumbing for the win"
-Someone who takes demon shits
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Need to add a pihole to that stack
Truly! I have a streaming app for local TV and I recommended it to a friend and he said "no way man! Way too many ads in it!" That’s when I realized how awesome Pi-Hole is 🤣
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the return dislike plugin is just stupid. it's a community database now, so rather than being based on the actual number of dislikes on youtube it's based on the dislikes of the people who have the plugin.
it used to be that it actually got the real numbers but youtube removed that endpoint so now it's just a misanthropic echo chamber.
What an awful mischaracterisation. While the dislike feature may appeal to misanthropes, it also appeals to the much larger pool of people that are intelligent enough/respectful of their own time to understand the value of the feature in helping to avoid poor quality and misleading content.
It really bears out in the results. For those who recall what old ratios looked like, for sufficiently popular videos, they still hold true with this plugin.
i just think dearrow seems like the better choice for that purpose.
How so? Like/dislike ratios are a very quick and effective means of identifying problematic content. Clickbait titles and thumbnails are another issue - they aren't a reasonable indicator of the quality of the content. It's an emerging trend in an oversaturated environment in which even creators of high quality content feel the need to partake.
but like... the like/dislike buttons are there for the algorithm. they're there to tweak your recommendations. always were. the problem with having the ratio visible is that people will brigade, and that "mainstreams" your recommendations, making them less useful. that's why youtube removed the visible ratios. putting them back, and just for people with the plugin, means your recommendations will start to align only with the people who have the plugin. it literally becomes an echo chamber.
Like I said, many of us use like/dislike ratios to gain insight into quality of content; whether or not that was the intended use of the feature is really irrelevant.
You're massively overstating the incidence of brigading. A tiny fraction of videos have experienced this. The idea that brigading is significantly affecting user recommendations and even causing them to align is hyperbolic nonsense.
It's better than nothing. Also I'd probably weigh the opinion of people who have the extension higher than of those who don't.
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