Do you happen to know what kind? I'm not sure I've seen a grackle with so much brown.
GlassHalfHopeful
joined 2 years ago
Thank you! This was great to read and to hear the interviews. Congrats to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania!
"I like the light better when there are no Russian electrons." 🤣
There wasn't a source shared, but if this video is legitimate... then that's pretty rad. If this video is misrepresented though, electricity is still pretty rad. 😁
I have filters for Trump and Elon and others myself. It seems to be only for the post title because I can still see posts like this. Which I'm okay with by the way. I just don't need all the additional articles specifically featuring them.
I really love these. Please keep them up. 💜
I seem to have a visceral reaction to advertisements. It's very physical.
The short answer is that the Google Play version won't actually block anything because it breaks their terms of service. So that version just tells you how many trackers and what the trackers are. I still use some of those apps and even respect them (e.g. AP News, AccuWeather), but it completely boggles my mind how they've loaded so many trackers into their applications... 🫤
Longer answer: To actually block trackers and ads, you need to use a third party source to download the app so that it's fully functional. By providing the app that way, they don't have to abide by Google Plays rules.
The link above is for the F-Droid "app store" version, which is one of the more well-known "stores." I highly recommend F-Droid. They host free and open source (FOSS) applications. For most everything you use, there is a FOSS alternative which will be ad and tracker free.
Want a simple ad-free calculator, go there. Want to watch YouTube ad free, go there. Want to download an ad free Lemmy client, go there. Etc etc.
Hurrah for high quality FOSS software!
Yep. It's becoming more and more common for folks to know that they can do it, but it certainly isn't ubiquitous. It wasn't that long ago when I caught my partner listening to music on YouTube with all the ads and I blew their mind away by installing NewPipe. They just had no idea.
Yep, that can work per device or per network. I'm a big fan of Tracker Control because it's going to work on any network. It's also highly customizable.
Fortunately, you can block all those ads on Android. Check out Tracker Control: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol.fdroid
Because I'm not privileged enough to afford it without.
Yeah, the iridescent colors can really trick you. They are fun little creatures.