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Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.
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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.
>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.
>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.
>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.
>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.
>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.
>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.
>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!
>Lemmings problem now solved.
>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.
>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.
>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.
>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.
>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.
>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.
#samsung#privacy#surveillance#pi hole#raspberry pi#internet#adblock#adbusting#youtube#twitter thread#pihole
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Thom_Thom_2000 Shoreditch ad busting: Graffoto by nolionsinengland
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one small ad screen consumes more energy than 3 average british homes annualy, (and there are rougly 30.000 in Britain alone) and online advertising uses up to 50x more of the CPU power than an actual website. also for an ad campaign to get just one purchase it has to show the ad 1 MILLION times. just imagine how much energy is needed for a company to get normal amounts of sales..
DESTROY. ADS. (before they destroy us)
they use soo much energy, like uncomprehensible amounts of energy, yet the amount of ads continually rises, and soon we need more energy to power vehicles and shit? ADS ARE UNSUSTAINABLE. fuck ads.
#advertising#ads#anti ads#anti advertising#adblock#adbust#adbusting#energy#energy usage#anti consumerism#consumerism
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#Adbusting- Mit Fake-Plakaten versuchen in #Niedersachsen Aktivisten eine Debatte über die Rolle der Grünen bei der #Verkehrswende anzetteln. Die reagieren dünnhäutig...
Mit Fake-Plakaten versuchten jetzt in Hannover, Lüneburg, Braunschweig, Osnabrück Aktivisten eine Debatte über die Rolle der Grünen bei der Verkehrswende anzetteln. Der Niedersächsische Landesverband der Partei reagierte ausgesprochen dünnhäutig. Laut Informationen der Nachrichtenagentur dpa erstattete er bereits am Dienstag Strafanzeige. Die taz berichtet:
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tanz theater musik & heroin . . #graffitiart #billboard #Munich #münchen #grafittiart #adbusting #yellow #streetart #streetartmunich #art #contemporary #wall #wallart #painting #graffiti #streetartphotography (hier: Schwere Reiter - Tanz Theater Musik) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd2yWjuo2r1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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#90’s ads were wild#and that’s also when AdBusters also became a thing so that’s a good side arc for season 2
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these quotidian moments of joy are not meaningless
#sorry for the weird photo quality#it’s a picture of a page in one of my magazines#adbusters I think#I come back to this though#when I’m looking for soemthing#a reminder#studyblr#coffee#inspiration#light academia#literature#poetry
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Corrected McDonald's bus stop ad in London
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ADBUSTERS, Spring 1996.
#photography#advertising#magazine#color#anti advertising#adbusters#tobacciana#anarchist#anti capitalism#1990s
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#advertising#anti capitalist love notes#anti capitalists be like#anti capitalist excellence#aesthetic#vintage#graffiti#adbusters#late stage capitalism#mind pollution
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as a retrospective, occupy wall street was the endpoint of the kind of ‘horizontalist’ politics that was popularized with the anti-globalization movement. the involvement of adbusters in establishing the initial ows is more than enough to show us how direct this influence is. underpinning the anti-globalization movement in the global north was a reliance on the framework consecrated by liberalism, and idealist notions that democracy had been distorted from its optimal function by the presence of trans-national corporations bypassing the power of the state. the idea that in the first instance, the state is an instrument of class power - specifically the power of the bourgeoisie, in the capitalist epoch.
occupy’s failure, is the shared failure of that anti-globalization movement, and in between - that of the arab spring, which had seemingly exhausted imagination for another kind of social modality other than one informed by neoliberalism - islamist or not. even the anti-globalization movement came to fore as a sort of post-cold war rebuke of state socialism and the vanguardist politics used to set it up, only to fumble once confronted with the hard power of the state and especially great power conflicts - in a way that ‘actual existing socialist’ states could not do. the occupy movement also forgoed the kind of deep organising that could actually build class consciousness and galvanise the working class into making demands.
i’m not saying that the occupy movement was bad, or counterproductive: it politicized a generation of people, and broke out of this anhedonic, apathetic morose typical of atomised subjects under neoliberalism. I’m just saying that it was no threat to the ruling class, to any corporations, to anyone wearing the robes of institutional power. pro-ows assessment would rather we think how well ows spread and that was the real victory, like there wasn’t a demand for the neoliberal epoch - whether it was explicity stated or otherwise.
#occupy wall street#ows#occupy movement#anti-globalization movement#adbusters#horizontalism#socialism#anarchism#reformism#arab spring#neoliberalism#class struggle#state socialism#working class#organising#marxism#direct action
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LOL ADBUSTERS IS THE PRIVATIZED COINTELPRO ALGORITHM
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