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Why Geo-Block? Not every country needs to reach your server. If you run a local business in Brazil, you don't need traffic from North Korea. If you serve customers in the EU, you...
Converge is stepping up efforts to make the internet a safer place for all, especially children. In 2025 alone, Converge denied nearly 12 billion entry requests to websites hosting...
PLDT and Smart announced today that they will block more than one hundred websites found to be streaming or hosting footage of school shootings and other acts of extreme violence....
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Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a sh...
Pop-up blockers didn’t just kill annoying banners. They carved out a hidden audience whose behavior stays invisible to standard analytics, and that gap messes with project timeline...
Pop-ups. Autoplay videos. Trackers that follow you everywhere. Ads got loud this year, and most people just want them gone. A good Ad Blocker fixes that fast. It strips out […] The...
Code: Megapixel99/kestrel Kestrel is a macOS browser I have been building on WKWebView to test whether a browser can hold a memory budget the way a game engine holds a frame budg...
Blocking Instagram on your laptop means little if the feed stays open on your phone beside you. Conversely, overly aggressive software can ruin a workflow by locking down essential...
AI traffic is not one thing, and a policy which treats it as one thing gets the answer wrong in both directions. Here the decision is written down, class by class: the crawlers whi...
Back in March I sung the praises of Jeff Johnson’s StopTheScript and StopTheMadness Safari extensions. I want to re-link to StopTheScript in particular. I wrote last week about ad-...
Someone told me this week, correctly, that ClaudeBot and GPTBot respect robots.txt, so there is no need to block them by other means, and that the really bad bots disguise as Chrom...
Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.
Most businesses running a data collection project start by scraping one site successfully with a simple script. Your marketing team rejoices at the success and wants to repeat this...
You can block short-form videos from apps like Instagram and YouTube.
If you let users publish something, such as a page, prototype, or dashboard, sooner or later you want an "embed this" button so they can drop it into a blog, a portfolio, or docs,...
Introduction Over the past three years, the Karnataka High Court has become the principal forum for testing how far the Union Government’s power to control online content in India...
Media companies have gotten pretty good at blocking AI bots. They have been less good at deciding which ones should be allowed in. Reports say most major publications almost univer...
Government directions to restrict online content witnessed a dramatic surge between March and July this year, with nearly 1.95 lakh blocking orders sent to Instagram, Facebook and...
Key TakeawaysPop-ups are a common type of advertisement users encounter while browsing websites, some of which can be potentially dangerous or annoying.Microsoft Edge offers featur...
ShieldFont's innovative approach could reshape digital content protection, challenging AI data collection practices and sparking legal and ethical debates. The post ShieldFont disr...
Patreon just started actively blocking the AI bots that scrape creators' work to train models, and it's good to see a platform plant a flag on the creators' side. I just wouldn't m...
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