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POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time.
(sh.itjust.works)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It has become really nasty for sure...
But I can't really blame them. Who wouldn't want to know? And who doesn't do it? It's just always MS who gets shit on for doing it. Everything and everyone tracks our every movement and click. If ET had been an android-phone he had been long called home before the intro started.
Don't get me wrong, i effing abhor these things from the depths of my nerdy heart and do everything to block them all. But we just can't avoid it anymore. We can just hope to get it all blocked or that it at least only sends anonymous usage-data and nothing else.
Speak for yourself. Besides, all-or-nothing privacy is a false dichotomy. Giving out less personal data is still better than giving out everything, and you don't need 100% privacy to be unprofitable to advertisers.
You misread. It IS unavoidable nowadays or most of the surface-web is non-functional if you block anything that isn't content. Besides the amount of work it takes to just not be tracked rises and rises.
Doesn't mean I don't do whatever i can do avoid it. To every techy it should be more than obvious that there is no binary approach. You can only do more or less to avoid more or less but never eliminate it.
So yeah, the less the better. And one might even partially reach a state where one is unprofitable to advertisers. Yet that can change tomorrow or on the next site or when you use some phone-app or or or...
That's what i meant with "unavoidable". You can't avoid a persistent ever-evolving problem.
Idk what you're talking about. I have a pi hole and use uBlock and I rarely have any issues. And, when I do, it's not even a site that I really care about anyway.