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by dartersnek 1593 days ago
You say you use uBlock. Are you using it to block ads, or do you have it turned off on Twitter, Instagram, etc.? If you want to

> avoid interacting with content like this

an ad blocker is definitely a good option.

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I use uBlock for my laptop browser, and Safari content blocking on my phone, and have looked into stuff at the router level. I don't disable ad-blocking for any site.

The issue is primarily with mobile apps, which don't support ad-blockers and serve ads from their domains. I just found out about Nitter the other day, and didn't realize that you could now use Instagram/DMs from a web browser instead of using the app, so I will try that going forward.

This possibly affects things like YouTube recommendations too, not ads - I use it logged out and mostly search for music but if right now I open the site my top recommendation is a meme video "no amount of therapy will make this scene ok". I don't see any cookies and am not sure how to reset whatever session id for a fresh start.

uninstall, remove files, reinstall. Alt. replace browser consider browsing in VMs consider fresh start hw/sw & account hygiene