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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1034 points deryilz | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
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ur-whale[dead post] ◴[12 Jul 25 19:39 UTC] No.44544526[source]▶
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perching_aix ◴[12 Jul 25 19:47 UTC] No.44544579[source]▶
> unless you're still using the spying machine

So a computer?

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bowsamic ◴[12 Jul 25 19:48 UTC] No.44544594[source]▶
If you use a free operating system https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html then you have less chance of being spied on. At least you can check
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perching_aix ◴[12 Jul 25 19:53 UTC] No.44544641[source]▶
> At least you can check

I don't think they enable me to inspect e.g. my CPU's firmware, or that they're able to provide any guarantees about the hardware itself.

So it still just makes for a large shopping bag sized trust-me-bro box executing hundreds of billions of instructions a second. But now with a false sense of comfort.

I'm more than happy to concede on this being overly dramatic though, provided you concede on having been engaging in a similarly unserious hyperbole of your own.

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1. bowsamic ◴[12 Jul 25 21:00 UTC] No.44545122[source]▶
I don’t think that free software is an unserious hyperbole, actually. (It really does exist, even though big tech wants you to think it does not). But yes of course the hardware must be free too, at least insofar as it does not impede on our freedom to understand what it is doing to the software we run on it, and the firmware must also be free software
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2. perching_aix ◴[12 Jul 25 21:29 UTC] No.44545348[source]▶
> I don’t think that free software is an unserious hyperbole, actually.

Me neither, considering that doesn't even work grammatically. Very clearly I was referring to "unless you're still using the spying machine" being the unserious hyperbole.

> It really does exist, even though big tech wants you to think it does not.

I must have been continually missing "big tech's" efforts on that front. They do engage in other efforts that go against either the spirit or the proliferation of software freedom, but what you describe I legitimately have not witnessed at all.