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drnick1 5 days ago

No, I won't turn my ad blocker off. In fact, I go further and use uMatrix to block ALL third party content by default on ALL websites (uBlock in advanced mode can also do this). That's on top of an aggressive DNS-level blacklists targeting ads and trackers.

Some manual adjustment to allow CDN on some websites is needed, but 95% of the cruft is left out. That cruft is usually malware in a broad sense: ads, trackers, embedded Youtube videos that seem benign but allow Google to follow users across the Internet, etc.

roscas 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

But how many people know how to do that? Almost zero.

So it is up to us tech guys to teach them about the danger it is to open a single web site without protection. Several levels of protection.

Including stop being abused by Windows, switch to Linux. But there is so much more to do, that it is very hard to teach and make people do it.

Everything is created to abuse you, and most of people don't have a single clue about what is going on.

AlgebraFox 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

uMatrix is not maintained. Use NoScript or uBlockOrigin.

ranguna 4 days ago | parent [-]

Those are not as good as umatrix unfortunately