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[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 94 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Oh god, uBlock or privacy badger needs to do this

[–] MSBBritain@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago (5 children)

While funny, the whole idea of tracking your data enough to give you a wrapped kind of goes completely against everything these extensions are supposed to do.

My suggested alternative is you click the wrapped button and it just says:

"Fucked if I know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It could keep a local count, wouldn’t need to communicate it out. It basically already shows you how many things are getting blocked, it would just be a funny end of year easter egg

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah a local record of blocked ads would be trivial to save and no need to upload.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

It already shows how many ads have been blocked.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 9 points 1 month ago

"who cares, fuck em"

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Well. uBlock does track total blocks

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

But it does say right on that page:

Take note that the network request logger in uBO is a forward-looking logger: this means only future requests can be logged.

In the spirit of efficiency, uBO will log entries IF AND ONLY IF the logger is opened. Otherwise, if the logger is not opened, no CPU/memory resources are consumed by uBO for logging purpose.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Or it could just be made up static data

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 21 points 1 month ago

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam is the closest to this that I know of

[–] ArchEngel@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

That would legit get me to pay them or donate or something. Such a hilarious idea.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 9 points 1 month ago

I totally want a uBO version of that

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Advanced Privacy" app on /e/-os (opensource android ROM) sends me occasional notifications about apps with most trackers haha. Also has a "wall of shame" (it's literally called that) where you can browse the worst offending apps