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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @4a6ae349ec OP 8 Jul \ parent \ on: How to block tracking and advertizing system-wide with the hBlock utility. tutorials
This is a journey, so take your time. I started moving my work tools from proprietary to open source software back in 2009, then, I moved to Linux in 2014 and I slowly started learning about privacy and security... It's been more than 15 years already.
You're already moving in the right direction so it's just a matter of time, :)
Hello!... If you use the default builtin setup, I'd say 99% of your habitual browsing is not going to be affected and you'll enjoy an add and tracking free experience most of the time.
In the extreme way I use it, yes, that's problematic. I'd say at least once every month some new site, software or service I visit or use doesn't load or doesn't work correctly because there's something being blocked and I have so spend some time looking for what's being blocked to add it to my allowlist. But that's my extreme case. I don't think there's many people as crazy as me, haha.
One important thing I forgot to mention in this tutorial... Please, consider donating to FFMPEG, it's a free and open source project so powerful that a lot of software uses FFMPEG as part of their functionality.
Here's a link to their page:
https://ffmpeg.org/
OHH, I just found an error in the script that can cause problems. I don't see a way of editing the post, but please, don't try the script yet. If I have to remove this post and repost, I'll have to do it, but I dont want to keep the script as is. Let me see if I can edit the post first.
I'm glad you found it helpful. I hope it works flawlessly for you. Let me know if you have any problem or question... I'm new here, but if I get good feedback, I'll post more design tips and tutorials, :)
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