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The default settings I run under prevents most scripts from running. I visit sites I trust with another browser (just noticed that's what you do) and pretty much everything else will be treated with suspicion.
I also use a custom hosts file (you'd know - from the MVP group) which offers excellent passive safety. While my intention is not to prevent any website from making revenue, I can't trust webshites like forbes with my privacy or safety.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: So, it's OK for websites to push out malware but not for the users to take preventive measures to protect themselves?
If you think that is what I said or implied, you are wrong.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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What were you implying then? The person you responded to mentioned that he had to block forbes.com from displaying adverts because they started serving malware. To him, you responded that he's stealing.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: that he had to block forbes.com
Quote: that there are plenty of "big name sites"
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Am I missing something here? 
There are plenty of high traffic websites, serving up a steaming pile of malware. So, the other poster blocks it. He was very clear in implying that he wouldn't know if a website could be trusted until it's visited, so what's wrong in being proactively safe?
There are other people here saying that they visit trusted websites using a different browser, which sounds very reasonable to me (it's what I do). There's no reason for forbes or any other crap website to track me and invade my privacy in spite of my browser settings telling them precisely not to do that. If they're not playing fair, why should the user do so?
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Am I missing something here?
Yes.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: There's no reason for forbes or any other crap website to track me and invade my privacy in spite of my browser settings telling them precisely not to do that.
I agree.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Am I missing something here?
Yes.
Want to substantiate that claim?
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Want to substantiate that claim?
No. I have no interest in this topic anymore. I made my statement very clear and people are going to disagree with me. And people like Mark Wallace are going to be childish jerks and that's life on the internet.
You can disagree or agree. I do not care.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You did in fact make your opinions very clear and yes, many seem to disagree with it for one underlying reason: privacy, and security.
As to the trolls, I can't comment. 
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: trolls
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: I guess that is how you justify stealing to yourself.
What a total @rse you are, talking to honest people that way.
Visiting a web-site is not stealing.
If you don't want people to visit your web-site without paying, lock it off with usernames and passwords.
If your only reason for presenting a web-site is to gain advertising revenues, it's probably not worth visiting anyway.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, thanks Forbes. If it were not for their heavy-handed attempt to circumvent adblockers, I would have never would've thought to learn how to write a program to make web calls so I can read the text response directly*. All the articles I want without the ads and the browser. At some point, I might just write a parser to coax out and display only the text of the body. It's a pain reading through all the HTML.
* I just wanted to see if I could
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Try using Privacy Badger in Chrome or Firefox...I don't seem to have any trouble reading articles at Forbes.com.
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Forbes never gets past NoScript in Firefox, which I am okay with. I have a thing about websites that will not display content without scripts enabled, I don't like them.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Wow.
Lucky you.
You made another wu mao.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm paying my computer and my Internet connection, so I decide what my Internet connection will download and what my computer will load.
Using my bandwidth and my computer to show what someone else wants without my consent is the book definition of theft.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: Using my bandwidth and my computer to show what someone else wants without my consent is the book definition of theft.
I see you have found a way to justify stealing. If you don't like what they serve you, then don't go there. But to pretend that you have the right to control what content they deliver you is pure insanity.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I control who enters in my home, who uses my car, who access my bank account... and who dumps things in my computer!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: I control who enters in my home,
By not letting people in. You wouldn't let a goat in and then complain that they are eating your furniture. You wouldn't let them in the first place.
den2k88 wrote: who uses my car,
By locking it and not letting someone in. You wouldn't let a 3 year old get behind the wheel and then decide no, they can't drive.
den2k88 wrote: who access my bank account
By not sharing the credentials. You wouldn't first give your credentials to everyone and then decide to take them back if someone misused them.
den2k88 wrote: who dumps things in my computer!
By not visiting a website.
 Justification always sounds good to oneself.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: By not letting people in
AdBlock does that; Plus if a person enters my home uninvited I shoot him/her dead. I'm inviting the contents of the website, not the ads.
RyanDev wrote: By locking it and not letting someone in.
Yep, AdBlock does that too;
RyanDev wrote: By not sharing the credentials.
AdBlock helps me avoid scam;
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: I'm inviting the contents of the website, not the ads.
It's funny that you think those are 2 different things. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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What you may probably not find very funny is that a court has ruled for like, FIVE times thinking along the same lines[^].
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I don't let the corrupt judicial system tell me what is right and wrong morally, let alone the flippin German court system.  
If you allow the judge's to tell you what is moral and not, then I think you have bigger problems.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Wow, seriously?
I've been a professional software "developer" for 33 years. And exactly ZERO of my income has anything to do with advertising.
I'll say that again, ZERO.
I could say more, but I'll just leave it there.
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Basildane wrote: And exactly ZERO of my income has anything to do with advertising.
Did you think I suggested that a developer's income came from advertising? If so, you misread it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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