Mobile ad blocking self-hosted Algo wireguard vpn
Set up a personal VPN in the cloud. Contribute to trailofbits/algo development by creating an account on GitHub.
Privacy disclaimer: Algo is not focused on privacy, but prioritizes security. You host it yourself on a cloud instance, so you are attached to a single IP.
As an iphone user, I have not seen many good ad-blocking solutions and I sadly expect zero anonymity on mobile. Perhaps Disconnect was OK. I would like to know more if they exist.
Algo gives an option to install an adblocker on your vpn server and it seems to work fairly well. You can set it up in under half hour and destroy your $5 instance as needed. You can use on desktop if you want, but I prefer dynamic IP VPNs when possible.
GitHub's NPM acquisition sparks Microsoft-related worries
Whenever Microsoft gets involved in the open source world it tends to cause some observers to challenge the software giant's motives. GitHub's NPM acquisition this week served up fear of the Microsoft proprietary hand.
> It would be an overstatement to say Microsoft now has an iron grip on JavaScript, a view that is rooted in fear among those who remember the time when Microsoft was openly hostile to open source, Murphy added.
> "How you package for Node.js is hardly controlling the future of JavaScript," he said. "Microsoft does have a large play in JavaScript as a whole, but it is an open community."
Use the "site" search operator to help find non-commercial results
Avoid commercial sites by adding your own flavor of top level domain (TLD) limitations, e.g. "(site:.org OR site:.net OR site:*.edu))"
For example: instead of returning the top result on ahrefs.com, this query:
- 'search operators "site" (site:.org OR site:.net OR site:*.edu))' makes it easier to find: "https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/GoogleTips" in what would be a sea of SEO gamed results on .com domains.
Reference:
- https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/GoogleTips