# Adblocking ## Before uBlock ### Forbes before: #### **Initial load in:** ![Initial load in](https://i.imgur.com/Zvcvb91.jpg) #### **Front page:** ![](https://i.imgur.com/yGYWu0h.jpg) #### **Lower front page:** ![](https://i.imgur.com/Yt81sKd.jpg) #### **Inside article:** ![](https://i.imgur.com/aGQntZq.jpg) ## After uBlock: ### Initial load in: the ad is **GONE** #### **Front page:** ![](https://i.imgur.com/SQohIbl.jpg) #### **Lower front page:** ![](https://i.imgur.com/PrjnNIr.jpg) #### **Inside article:** ![](https://i.imgur.com/XopEnlN.png) --- ## Adblock Readings Even adblockers aren't safe from the grasp of capitalism. [Ads have become more and more invasive.](https://hackmd.io/@cazmingu/HJEBhtOVi#2--Reflection-on-Online-Advertising) We have regular ads that follow us around, soaking in our information. Ads help "inform" the potential buyer about the product that is being marketed to them. Though what separates good seller ads from bad seller ads is signaling. #### "Signaling is an action that sends a credible message to a potential counterparty". Basically, the more costly an ad is made out to be, the more the buyer is more likely to want to buy it. It shows how confident they are about their product. We also have ads like [gimp](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-ad-for-gimporg-served-info-stealing-malware-via-lookalike-site/) that trick us to get even more information out of our devices. Malware is hidden behind an ad; specifically, an ad for a website the user would usually visit and feel safe clicking on. Once clicked on, the info-stealing trojan attaches itself to your software. How this gimp malware scheme happened is a mystery to me. If Google states that "both display and landing page URLs should be within the same website. This means that the display URL in your ad needs to match the domain that visitors land on when they click on your ad." then how are gilimp and glimp similar? With invasiveness online comes the ability to shield yourself from it. Ad blockers are the saviors of our privacy. ***Kind of***. Now Ad blockers are getting paid out. Instead of blocking all the ads on any site, you go on, they block obnoxious ads and allow some ads to go through. Similarly to those who are paid to write positive reviews on products, companies like google can pay to have their ads bypass the blocker. This sneaky way of still getting ads viewed is just an extra security measure for those companies to maintain their access to your information.
Last changed by  
 
cazmingu
80

Read more

Reading Responses | Set 2

1 | Reflection on: TikTok's catfish problem is worse than you think via GIPHY "Our ideas about truth and authenticity are meaningless.." - Rebecca Jennings Catfishing used to be fun! Being able to become a completely different person and mess with people was something I used to do as a kid funnily enough. The thought behind doing it was just to entertain myself. I could act older and mess with people I would never see again. I would not go beyond myself and try to create a popular online persona, I would just get my laughs in and log off. This new era of catfishing is just disturbing. From legitimate CGI influencers to deepfakes to appropriation, people are taking it too far. Tiktok is a breeding ground for this kind of behavior. Everyone wants to be something they are not. You have the wannabe Kardashians. People who would like to capitalize off of black culture and adopt only certain aspects. You have people who love to fetishize Asians; to make it seem less weird by trying to adopt stereotypical Asian features. Then you have weirdos like Coconut kitty who purposely makes herself look like a young teen to capitalize off of pedos.

12/2/2022
Home Page | ♡‧₊˚

Carolyn [Caz] she/her/hers Who is Caz? hellooo, my name is carolyn but I also go by caz. I'm a fourth year psych major w/ a minor in communications. one thing to summarize me is that i get passionate about things quickly! quick facts about me - cat mom - peaked at bronze 2 on valorant ˊᯅˋ - fav artist : joji

11/21/2022
Privacy

My identity Government name results Only one result, which was the first result, actually was connected to me. The result is my LinkedIn, which is useful to my career if I was focused on that right now. None of my social media accounts are shown in the results. Social Media Username results Since I did not find many results connecting to me, I searched for my username. I use the username Cazmingu for most social media-related things. When I searched it up I found links to my Twitter, Twitch, TikTok, and even hackmd. What I found most interesting was that I found someone had taken a video I posted on Instagram and posted it on Twitter.

11/21/2022
Reading Response | Set 1

1 | Reflection on How HTTPS Secures Connections: What Every Web Dev Should Know Best STI* protection against the internet? Math. This is how Hartley Brody describes the process of security through key encryption on the internet. Or at least my way of understanding what he meant. STI in this context meaning System Technology Infection What Brodly taught us in our first TechEd class is there are different paths (networks) to our destination (requests) on the internet and different options of protection (HTTPS) that is used to get to them. On this path, any malicious user could stop and see this information on your path; Information you do not want them to see like your passwords or credit card information. To prevent this STI from even getting a chance, things like TLS, or more specifically, Public Key Encryption, are used. But Carolyn, I thought you said math was the best way?

10/20/2022
Read more from cazmingu
Published on HackMD