{"id":10070,"date":"2025-01-01T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=10070"},"modified":"2025-01-01T13:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:03:34","slug":"deleting-google-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/deleting-google-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Deleting Google Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interesting look into Google Ads, and it appears they make a lot of money with trash ads. Kudos to websites that pass on the money and delete Google Ads. Consequently, you can see where they prioritize money over responsibility regarding who they allow to advertise. One point as he mentions mobile, you can run your own <a href=\"https:\/\/pi-hole.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pi-Hole<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.pi-hole.net\/guides\/dns\/unbound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unbound<\/a> DNS servers that filter out a lot of ad domains which cleans up mobile and anything on your home network. Also, better VPN services have similar blocking which is just about as good as your own Pi-Hole\/Unbound DNS server. And the only VPN companies I <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/vpn-tier-list-of-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trust<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/mullvad-vpn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mullvad<\/a> followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/proton.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Proton<\/a>, as shady interests connected to intelligence were gobbling up a bunch of VPN companies so you can bet they have ways to identify people, which is mainly an issue for whistleblowers, press, informants&#8230; (carefully use Tor and GnuPG instead if that&#8217;s your use case).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deleting Google Ads\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OhiLDquz8DU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting look into Google Ads, and it appears they make a lot of money with trash ads. Kudos to websites that pass on the money and delete Google Ads. Consequently, you can see where they prioritize money over responsibility regarding who they allow to advertise. One point as he mentions mobile, you can run your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10072,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070\/revisions\/10072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}