Wouldn’t the proper response be to write a system disabling, data destroying virusg that automatically installs upon the request or receipt of ANY Malware??
Ads on websites are like someone piling junk mail on top of the book that you are trying to read.
using ghostary.
no ads.
if I cant get in, I don’t bother going there.
If you’re a little dyslectic trying to use the internet without a good ad blocker is near impossible.
another way to bypass forbes’ and other nonsense is to install noscript on firefox, and use it essentially in white list mode, where one disables only selected script sources, leaving the necessary ones intact. takes a bit of work and trial and error that way but works great once you get the 100 or so worst script sources blocked. sonetimes you just block the site itself from downloading scripts and that does the trick, though you won’t be able to do anything interactive like comment or whatever ...
With Safari I can get past content blockers (subscription needed, monthly maximum of free articles reached or whitewash requests, for examples) by clicking reader view the instant it appears.
I’ve had quite a few web sites, a lot I open on Drudge and Whatfinger, that require dropping Ad Blocker to read article. I refuse to do that for any web site and simply close the link.
Actually, nowadays the current version of Google Chromes (68.0.3440.106) blocks a lot of malware by default.
I run UBlock, Ghostery, AdBlockPlus and if there are any ad-blocking tools in my browser settings I employ those too.
Rarely ever do I see ads. And if a page won’t let me in unless I disable ad-blocking, I leave.
Most of the programs I mentioned I learned about from the Very Smart People here at FR. So here’s a question: I visit a couple of sites where a separate video box shows up on my screen (but doesn’t play because I’ve set it up that way). How do I prevent the video box from even popping up at all?
I avoid ALL sites which attempt to control and manipulate your personal computer. I’ll keep my ad blocker and tell the site, see ya!
I never see a single ad on any of my computers (5) attached to my network. If you were to come into my home and get on my WiFi, you'd be protected from seeing any ads too, as long as you're going through my WiFi.
I can see all free content on Forbes w/o seeing a single ad. Same for YouTube, Daily Caller and others.
My device connects to a service hosted on Amazon where I have lists of all known advertising servers, malware infected servers etc.. That service updates my device (and the devices I have out for beta testing) daily with the latest and greatest lists.
The device itself costs $35. All the software on it is Linux with some open source code I built and other open source code that's freely available that I modified for purpose for this device.
Now, there are devices out there on the market that are similar to what I've done, none of them do what I do via the update service and social reporting of adware/malware/advertising sites to keep the devices current or use Amazon Web Services the way I do.
Other devices sell for over $200. I'm planning on releasing mine for $99 w/1 year free updates as soon as I get my patent.
BTW, this device is so easy to install, it's literally "plug it in, turn it on and you're done." It auto-configures.
Anyone who doesn't want to install another device on their network, I have a full Linux based VM option that runs on VMWare Player/Workstation, Parallels, VirtualBox, QEMU and Windows Virtual PC. That's going to be available for download for $49 w/1 year free updates.
More and more of news sites are doing this.
I refuse to disable and just make a search for the same story at other sites.
Making websites civilly and criminally liable for malware served via their sites would put a lid on that.
A fully thing happened to me when I hit their wall because of my ad blocker. I clicked away and found something else to read. Within a minute or two I found something else to read.
Then oddly, the rest of my day went normally.
Turns out nothing they publish is really that critical after all.
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I’ll pay good money for an ad blocker that is 100% effective and undetectable by the server. Has to be possible.
I had an old Raspberry PI sitting around and set it up as a pi-hole last weekend.
Blocks all the ad servers, and they can’t even tell you are using it.
https://opensource.com/article/18/2/block-ads-raspberry-pi
I choose to keep my ad blocker, and that's that. I neither disable or whitelist.
If a story is truly earthshaking, it will appear on a more consumer-friendly source. If not, tootle-do.
I’ve been using Ad Blockers for years and recently have noticed a large increase in the number of sites that won’t let you access them with it.