Ad Filtering Puns

Anyone else getting a huge cluster of Ad Content Filtering tasks during the last few days? I am not from US locale, but getting tons of these from English : United States. Don't think I've ever gotten this many of the specific task type.

this site: https://cricstream.me/the-ashes-australia-vs-england-live/stream-1

This script portion (I think) ` const trackImgId = "#" + siteConfig.trackImgId; const blockMsg = "kindly remove/disable adblock, and reload the page."; const sleep = function (time) { return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, time)); }; const videoMsg = function (blockMsg) { let i = 0; while (i < 5) { sleep(2e3).then(() => { videoEle.html(blockMsg); }); i++; } }; $(trackImgId)[0].addEventListener("error", function (event) { videoMsg(blockMsg); }); const empTrack = siteConfig.tracker; if (empTrack) { $(trackImgId).attr("src", empTrack + "&h=1"); const emprefs = setInterval(function () { const curTm = Math.round(new Date().getTime() / 1e3); if (curTm > siteConfig.trackEndTime) { clearInterval(emprefs); } else { $(trackImgId).attr("src", empTrack + "&rf=1&_" + new Date().getTime()); } }, siteConfig.trackRefTs); } const doesElementIsBlocked = function (elem) { if (elem.offsetParent === null || elem.offsetHeight == 0 || elem.offsetLeft == 0 || elem.offsetTop == 0 || elem.offsetWidth == 0 || elem.clientHeight == 0 || elem.clientWidth == 0) { return true; } else if (window.getComputedStyle !== undefined) { var elemCS = window.getComputedStyle(elem, null); if (elemCS && (elemCS.getPropertyValue("display") == "none" || elemCS.getPropertyValue("visibility") == "hidden")) { return true; } } return false; }; const bait = document.createElement("div"); bait.setAttribute("class", "pub_300x250 pub_300x250m pub_728x90 text-ad textAd text_ad text_ads text-ads text-ad-links ad-text adSense adBlock adContent adBanner"); bait.setAttribute("style", "width: 1px !important; height: 1px !important; position: absolute !important; left: -10000px !important; top: -1000px !important;"); window.document.body.appendChild(bait); if (doesElementIsBlocked(bait)) { videoMsg(blockMsg); } else { fetch("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wmcmurray/just-detect-adblock/master/baits/pagead2.googlesyndication.com").catch((error) => { videoMsg(blockMsg); }); } window.docum

Thanks to discussions in this sub, I'm now just straight up hiding job ads on Indeed that don't give a salary. (And I give feedback as to why.) If they can't tell me what my time is worth, they're not worth my time. I'm also just hiding any job for remote work that won't take people form Colorado. If basic labor protections are too much for them, I've already good a pretty solid idea how much they'll value me. (Never, ever accept "We don't need a law/contract/other formal, binding thing, we just do the right thing!" That's always code for: "We're planning to screw you and don't want any legal entanglements to get in the way.")

I have just setup Pihole, set up my router to use the Pihole DNS, and added a handful of adblock lists, but literally no ads are blocked. Even sites that I know use 3rd party ads. I have tried manually specifying the DNS on my PC, restarting my computer, restarting my router, and reinstalling pihole with no luck. It shows that queries are being made and blocked on the dash, but I don't know how that's possible since again, I see ads on every single site I go to.

Has anyone else run into a similar issue?

EDIT: Running on a Synology DS920+ through Docker. Also changed part of my post to specify that the issue is not only on sites that serve ads from their domain.

UPDATE: Thanks for all of your tips/suggestions for getting this to work better. In the end I guess my setup is working correctly, but my expectations for Pihole were a bit too high. It seems like a great service and I am still interested in finding out how to make it work better, but if I can't figure anything out over the next few days I will most likely just stick with Ublock Origin.

Hey group. I had a friend of mine asking me to help him with his 11 and 13-year old that is caught in porn already. My heart breaks for him as I understand what this is like. I was a young teen when I looked at my first playboy and then on the internet for porn throughout my whole teenage and young adult life. In another thread, I spoke about the fact I *still* have to guard my heart and mind against it and I am very happily married 15 years! I don't take chances, and if you or your spouse just want to "will it away" or run unprotected and you think that is good enough I've got some swampland to sell you. I cannot stress the folly it is if you or your spouse has struggled with porn not to have a filter. I can't further stress how foolish you are not to protect your children from stumbling upon or searching for porn in your own home. Anyway enough preaching!

Back in the day, I used K9webfilter, it worked excellently but had one blind spot. It only protected the computers you installed it on. I ran across this while searching for a replacement. OpenDNS Family shield, this is FREE and protects NETWORK WIDE on all devices. The only hole I've found is if a person has a device and just switches from wifi to cell phone 4g/5g short of that this works great. Take 9 mins (and another 20 to set it up) and protect yourself and your family, please.

No this isn't me, just the best video I could find as a walk thru.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trMQvKhStww&ab_channel=PrincipalBoom

Hello,

I am trying to have dynamic remarketing campaign in Google Ads with only top products.

I have added ads_labels attribute with value "top" to mark these products in google feed.

Products should be then filtered by setting inventory filter (labels equal to "top") in campaign setting. But I still see other products in ads preview and hostorically campaigns I tried this on generated traffic to both filtered and non filtered products.

Have any of you managed to get this working? I tried this technique now and also in the past and I just don't think the inventory filter works in display campaigns (maybe it does in google shopping).

Or is there other way how to filter products in dynamic display in google ads?

Thanks a lot PPC buddies :)

Hi all,

I'm a newbie in opnsense firewall. We are planning to migrate from sophos xg to opnsense. In sophos xg we filter web categories based on a user(active directory) for example is one user can access social media like facebook while the other user cannot. My question is, is this possible in opnsense? I cant seem to replicate it in opnsense since the web proxy is limited, or is there a plugin that can replicate this? I'm very much a beginner in opnsense so if someone can send me a guide on how to do this it will help me so much. Thank you.

Any ideas how can I filter B2B and B2C users from a single keyword on Google Search Ads?

I run B2B ads and the biggest issue I have is having consumers clicking on my ads on very expensive keywords.

Like for example: “outsourcing” I keep getting people looking for jobs instead of companies looking for services.

I tried everything but no luck. Any ideas?

We have a pretty complex Azure AD environment, and a large number of our users are being synchronized to the AAD directory with GUIDs as their SignInName instead of the custom attribute we generate on-prem, I need to filter out these users and also get a unique ID (link for on-prem IdP) for each of them that is stored in an extension attribute for the user. Naturally, with the large volume of users, my script can't handle it. Can someone explain threading to me? Or is there some other way to improve the speed in which my script rolls through all of the users? I'm a bit of a novice in PS, so any tips would be greatly appreciated! Sorry for the poor script formatting, on mobile.

$users = Get-AzureADUser -all $true | Where-Object {$_.SignInNames.Value -match '\w\w\w\w\w\w\w\w-\w\w\w\w-\w\w\w\w-\w\w\w\w-\w\w\w\w\w\w\w\w\w\w\w\w'}

ForEach ($u in $users) {

$n = (Get-AzureADUserExtension -ObjectId $u.ObjectId).get_item(“extension_exxxxxxxxxxxx_refid")

Write-Host $n, $u.SignInNames.value, $u.DisplayName

}

Edit: To all the people saying there is already a 'budget' option, there are a few reasons why just that is insufficient. For one, budget is purely subjective, 300$ is budget to some people, while it is expensive for others. Secondly, you cannot browse budget for a specific theme and commander. Thirdly, 'budget' and 'expensive' are not specific enough. If you are attempting to build a 25$ deck I assure you this program will be useful.

Is EDHREC clogged up with overpriced cards that you could never hope to afford? Brewing on a budget? Fed up with WOTC's reprint policy? Then this is for you. Filter out cards on EDHREC that you cannot afford with a couple of clicks so that you will only see the best cards within budget.

How to Install:

1. Download both of the files below
2. Drag them into any folder with no other contents
3. In Google Chrome on a computer, go to chrome://extensions
4. Turn on "Developer Mode"
5. Click "Load Unpacked Extension"
6. Select the folder that you put the downloaded files into in Step 3.
7. To use the extension, go to pretty much any EDHREC page, click the little button that says "Filter" in the bottom left hand corner. A menu will open up with options to filter by price. Click "Apply" to apply your filters. Clicking the "Filter" button again closes the menu.

Unfortunately, I don't have a chrome web store developer account, so it can only be installed like this.

Suspicious?

I understand. The internet is a dangerous place. Fortunately, If you go to chrome://extensions and click 'Details' under this extension, you will see it only has permission to do things on edhrec.com. Even if I had malicious intent, the worst thing I could do is see your EDHREC history. If you do know JavaScript, feel free to go through the code.

Download: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11enarkEtaSuyDdXF4SFXdIHKYKgbE3ga?usp=sharing

I've been on a long hiatus from the iPhone, but I'm using one temporarily. Is it possible to search for applications that are free, don't have ads and don't have in-app purchases?

If this isn't possible in the app store, are there any third party websites where I can perform a search with these filters?

Is there any way to filter ads with certain titles? I'm tired of scrolling through a thousand "Work you way...." ads.

Hi all,

Can you please tell me how to block sponsored and suggested posts in the Facebook feed using uBlock Origin? I don't know how to write a proper filter.

Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone,

I often see flamewars on this site about the topic of adblocking, often publishers v. users and thought I could chip in my two cents to bring up another angle: An operational/administrative one. This post may be long, but has been several days in the making.

To run a successful international communications infrastructure, be it radio, Internet, phone, or whatever there needs to be operational cooperation among all stakeholders to keep the infrastructure and all of its endpoints healthy. Communication systems are almost constantly operated on the precipice of destruction due to the precarious nature of having everyone's cooperation in ensuring that health.

The key issue is that a huge number of publishers and those in advertisement approach the Internet as a publication platform and data farm — a simple vehicle, not a multi-stakeholder communications infrastructure. They don't see an operational angle to what they're doing, just design, content, products, services and business. They just see the Internet as a vehicle to their end goal of getting their content out there and income flowing through advertisements. Doing so in an operationally responsible manner just isn't in their sights.

This is why radio communications has such strict licensing requirements because it is known that those who simply use it as a vehicle would be negligent to the point it would become abuse and trample upon carefully engineered standards. Internet publishing and advertising proves that licensing correct for existing. It proves publishers and advertisement industry can't be left to their own devices to be responsible.

The Internet also has a mechanism to deal with negligence and abuse: Filters.

From the advent of the Internet, even before the web as a publication medium was a glimmer, there has always been selective filtering of traffic. Filtering can take place in the form of firewalls, routing rules, filtering proxy servers, mail/spam filters, killfiles, ban lists, access control lists (ACLs), and a multitude of other manners including ad blockers. It's how the Internet community seeks to regulate and marginalize bad behavior and seek to correct that behavior or at minimum reduce the impact.

In my opinion, the Internet has three unwritten operational core tenets: Stability, Security and Accountability centering around an element of Trust. If you end up in someone's filters, chances are, something you did violated at least one of the three and damaged ot

Hi all.

Can someone please provide some info? We want to enable Hybrid Azure AD Join via Azure AD Connect, and was hoping to test it on a single device OU first. However, it seems Azure AD Connect OU filtering has included numerous OUs with devices in them (for some reason some guy in the past have configured to sync everything to the cloud).

- what is the value of syncing devices to Azure AD in the first place, if not intending to enable Hybrid Domain Join?

- Can I just remove the OU filtering on those device OUs from Azure AD Connect, and only include the test OU that I want to use? Would it have any drastic effect? Currently all devices are showing up as Azure AD Registered, possibly from Office 365 installation and login.

- is there a better way to test Hybrid Azure AD join without doing it through AAD Connect?

Many thanks!

Over in r/worldnews, yet another thread about Twitter being infested with Russian-paid trolls shot to the top because NBC recently published a database of 200,000 bullshit Tweets. Read the 50k karma thread here:

https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7xzi6k/nbc_news_publishes_database_of_200000_deleted/

And read the news article here:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/now-available-more-200-000-deleted-russian-troll-tweets-n844731?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

Now read what a redditor, u/CrookshanksTheCat, had to say on the issue:

>Reddit is becoming worse. Everyone on here talks about ditching FB & Twitter. Reddit is no better and is quickly becoming worse and worse everyday. It's just another social media platform full of bots, spam, shitpost memes, and advertisement. No different than Facebook or Twitter IMHO.

Of course, this was far too much for the paid mods and/or dishonest admins, so now the comment has been removed:

https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7xzi6k/nbc_news_publishes_database_of_200000_deleted/duciphf/?context=3

At the time of removal, the post had nearly 2200 upvotes.

If you don't think reddit is manipulated by dishonest people looking to make a buck, then you haven't been paying attention.

Im looking to possibly implement an on premise AD password filter so that we can encourage long passwords instead of shorter complex passwords. I am really liking Lithnet password protection but im a little leary only because it is open source and the project could be abandoned in the future.

These are a couple that seem promising.

https://github.com/lithnet/ad-password-protection https://www.anixis.com/products/apr/default.htm https://nfrontsecurity.com/products/nfront-password-filter/

Any recommendations or cautions?

After owning a iPhone 7 plus the last few years and never using filters or ad blockers I barely experienced ads using apps, browsing online or using YouTube.

I've had the s20 ultra for 3 days and while I love the phone I cannot believe the amount of ads that are constantly shoved in my face regularly it's so overwhelming.

How does one get rid of all of these ads? Ad blocker apps or another method? I love the phone but absolutely hate the ads, that is for any input.

Title says it all, is it possible to search the Play Store for truely free apps?