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honey the codewitch wrote: . Many sites are so overrun with ads
Occasionally I come across a site like that and I just close the tab and move on. They clearly don't have anything of value for me.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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I've had some sites where i was a regular eventually go that route. I did eventually move on.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I use uBlock, and it's defaulted to "block all". And it gives you a count of how many it blocks...
If I use a site more than a couple of times, and the count is small enough, it gets added to the whitelist, like CP is.
If the number if too high - and I've seen 40 or so on some sites - I'll just bugger off and not go back. Very little on t'interwebs is so unique that I can't find what I want on a less greedy / more user friendly site.
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That's true. There have been times when I've become a regular at a site though and later they add a bunch of ads. Like I told ZD, I eventually move on in those cases.
Some sites like Mediaite will actually crash your browser with all of its ads, and they have a blocker detector.
I never visit.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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uBlock does not work for Edge, does it? I use the hosts file and it works just fine.
modified 6-Jan-20 18:05pm.
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The only thing that works for Edge is downloading Chrome or FireFox ... it doesn't even read EPUB files anymore, and that is the only thing it did at all well!
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I use Firefox but had to revert to Edge to correctly print articles on, uh, this website. I think the problem[^] is being worked. As for Chrome, I consider Google evil and would never install it.
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I posted that from work, and I don't see ads on CP at work because... well, I don't know why. I can't install software of any kind. It's a DoD system, so they may be doing something.
At home, I'm running PiHole DNS, which blocks ads based on their URL. It updates itself automatically every so often.
I'm not going to apologize for not wanting to see ads.
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FTR, I never said you should apologize.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: "Make dashboards without IT staff!" - umm, we're pretty much all devs here. 
Which is probably a good audience, to a manager that has to spend his advertisement budget. Ads are the best way to burn money, and the best thing is it doesn't even have to have a positive ROI - as it also puts out your name, your brand, or grows your market.
Using an ever-growing hosts-file; I don't care if the ads are unobtrusive. It is showing content from third-parties and can be abused.
Malvertising - Wikipedia[^]
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I suppose, but I'm not that concerned.
It can't be worse than that IE6 exploit wherein you could inject executable code into a JPG file header and run it in IE's address space.
A banner campaign that could nuke your PC without scripting. Pretty near impossible to disable.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I suppose, but I'm not that concerned.
I'm not concerned either, since I'm prepared. Same for someone trying to break into the house.
honey the codewitch wrote: It can't be worse than that IE6 exploit
So, explain me how that is technically impossible, and how that makes you feel safer?
honey the codewitch wrote: A banner campaign that could nuke your PC without scripting. Pretty near impossible to disable.
No banner campaigns being loaded here, regardless of browser. Domains serving ads are blocked on the system level, so it works with all browsers, and even on my Kubuntu machine. A small C# app synchronizes them; GETting the latest file on a webserver and adding the last local modification date to that header. If the server replies "not modified[^]", the file isn't even downloaded, making the impact on the system very low. Plus I don't spend bandwidth (which is cheap nowadays, granted) or computing power on downloading and displaying ads (and/or malware).
It matters not how strait the browser, how charged with malware the ads,
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: So, explain me how that is technically impossible, and how that makes you feel safer?
No security vulnerability is impossible. I never said otherwise.
I feel "safe" because I could light my computer on fire and not lose my work.
Truth is, I'm not very good at feeling unsafe, and yet I've made it about 4 decades so far.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Plus I don't spend bandwidth (which is cheap nowadays, granted) or computing power on downloading and displaying ads (and/or malware).
Good for you. The exploit I was talking about had nothing to do with banner ads specifically. Any jpg will do.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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In the early days, before targetted ads, they all said 'russian brides make loving wives'.
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Your brain is always so sharp honey witch!
And I know why[^] now! 
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I think you just called me old.
Funny. I'm not ancient yet. Aspirations though.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Mmm... I did realised my terrible mistake right after posting....
Sorry, I am suffering from simple anthropomorphism... nearing 50, I imagine every one else does too! 
At any rate, the article is interesting, me think....
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I am 51 shortly. It beats the alternative. Shame the world went to hell in a handbasket though
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Quickly! Post anything as a reply to this: CCCWNSO[^]
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If the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people had been born in Somerset, would he be the Dalai Farmer?
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or perhaps be the leader of the dairy llamas?
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Alpaca your bag. You get your coat!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Yes - the'd call him "Dalai of the land"
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If he gets reincarnated in Whales, people will go "meh" 
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That would be Dalai Karma.
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