While Replacing Firefox, I wanted to look into a solution for abstracting out advertisement blocking.
I failed.
I have Firefox set up to let me type single words into the location bar to trigger its search feature. Polipo breaks this, trying to go to http://keyword Multiple keywords work, so this is rather strange.
See also Ad-blocking with Polipo
I bumped into an interesting old article. Since it’s nowhere else on the web I thought I’d share it.
This was written in 1997. Linking and images added by me, because I think its original author would find it funny.
THE PLACE TO BE
Product placement is big business, benefiting both movie studios (who get their props for free) and corporate marketers (who gain valuable exposure for their products). Done right, it can be amazingly cost-effective. Leveraged properly, it can drive sales. But the entertainment business can also be unpredictable and occasionally unkind.
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Food / Diet / Culture jamming
A rough rambling I didn’t think much about and never finished.
Why are you fat?
Polipo >
See also Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper
I did not follow these notes. They’re just here for reference.
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/polipo/
A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server).
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https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996
Did you know about this? I didn’t. Thanks to some random surfing and an EFF post, I just learned of it.
With this browser plugin you can permanently opt out of the DoubleClick cookie, which is an advertising cookie that Google uses. The plugin lets you keep your opt-out status for this browser even when you clear all cookies.
was pierceive.com
AdBlock Plus maintains a list of subscriptions.
coming later
There are those who want to relinquish power, believing that others are more capable and therefore qualified than themselves to run aspects of their life or world for them. This could be ignorance, this could be laziness, this could be willful. Fnord is a related hesitation. Or I could be completely wrong.
I tend to additionally attribute fnord to concepts of doublethink and doublespeak.
See also:
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
to re-watch
My first DVD. I was given this when I wouldn’t even own a DVD player until a year later, when my PlayStation 2 was given to me.. well, forced on me. Whatever.
