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The Man Who Dabed
Simon McGarr @[email protected]
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Simon McGarr @[email protected]
@Tupp_Ed
Solicitor mcgarrsolicitors.ie Director, Data Compliance Europe datacomplianceeurope.eu Newsletter thegist.ie
- Brexit has been 18 months of watching someone trying to haggle on prices with the automatic scanning machine at a Tesco checkout.
- My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole. It’s a raspberry pi running Ad blocking on the whole house’s network. We’re a few hours in and we’re seeing effects, as well as some teething problems.
- Replying to @Tupp_EdOnce 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.
- Replying to @Tupp_EdFor you can do it too! pi-hole.net
- Replying to @Tupp_EdFirst, 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.
- Replying to @Tupp_EdWe 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.
- Replying to @Tupp_EdCertainly 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.
- Replying to @Tupp_EdThe 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.
- Replying to @Tupp_EdThe 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.
- Replying to @Tupp_EdShould 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.
- TG4 found an Irish-speaking Ukrainian to interview. His Irish is more fluent than mine.An tIriseoir Vitaly Kovalchuk ag caint le @Curraighin ó Mhoscó anocht ar 7LÁ "Tá Vladimir Putin i gcumhacht le breis agus fiche bliain agus ní féidir linn agus le daoine a rá céard atá ar a intinn"
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