What if US government demands the retained data, or another party requests it through legal process

Text-only, no CAPTCHA, no Javascript, no geo-blocking, no DDoS shenanigans

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA25wnGP

Now that's how to do advertising

No surveillance, no so-called "tech" company intermediary (mmiddleman)

What Linux distribution^1 has the highest percentage of users who compile from source

Is it Gentoo

1. Besides Linux from Scratch

Who else would be likely to look at what a web page is trying to get the browser to do, e.g., trigger requests for ads using Javascript. There are a variety of places to look, it is not like this is seriously hidden from those with even the slightest curiousity

That a former MDN volunteer is apparently disappointed by ads on MDN yet satisfied with MDN anyway because of a community-sourced browser add-on. An add-on that can be rendered useless at any time by the browser vendor, including the one that puts ads on MDN

It is not unimaginable that one day uBlock Origin may cease to work on Firefox when Mozilla sells search data to Google as its primary source of income and is actively working on such things as "making ads more private"

I thank the volunteer for their past work on MDN, I'm not singling him out, nor am I holding it against anyone for thinking this way, but I wonder how many uBlock Origin users believe themselves to possess some "specialised knowledge",^1 for lack of a better term, but would be all but helpless against advertising without a solution provided by someone else, e.g., a browser extension

The point I'm making is that today it seems like "knowing which app to install and how to install it" is considered specialised knowledge instead of actually knowing how to avoid ads to an extent where if the app stopped working they could devise another solution

There are definitely some HN users who can do it, and you, dear reader may be amongst them, but it seems, based on the comments I have seen over the years, there are many, many more who cannot. In that sense the situation is a bit like the IRC comment

The more one understands about online ads, the more clear it should be that so-called "ad blockers" is only a temporary solution at best, and these only work with web browsers

IMHO it is important that more people who wish to avoid ads become more curious about how they work instead of only installing a browser extension and concluding the problem is solved for the long-term

1. Many calling themselves "engineers" for example

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No claims were dismissed without leave to amend

Defendants have failed to stop this litigation from going forward

Expect a settlement before this moves into discovery

The Court's understanding of "localhost" in this Order may be less than complete but if this litigation progresses further and experts are retained then that could change

I test mobile apps on a throwaway phone to see what connections they try to make, if any

Ingress and egress traffic is allowed, not blocked, but requests for ads, tracking, telemetry, etc., if any, fail

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