Moogle Stiltzkin
Gawd
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This is utter CRAP. I install both ublock origin and ghostery on nearly every machine I touch. I have found out the hard way that infections, malware and SCAMS are nearly eliminated when you block connections to about 95% of the ads and trackers on the internet. Supposedly "legit" ads servers and trackers I might add.
Making Ublock Origin or Ghostery non-effective will make me militant about vocally opposing any of my customer's continued use of Chrome. I will actively fight for using something else.
The ad server issue on the internet has reached a point of absurdity. It doesn't matter what the revenue streams are there is so much malicious code out there getting pushed that you can't trust ANY of it. And Google isn't doing jack diddly bupkis to create an environment of trust for even its own ad servers.
Almost without fail, when I get a user in here that doesn't have the blockers on I'll be locked up on some web page to "call this number now your computer is infected!"
i use ublock and umatrix. it's awesome, because umatrix the moment you visit a site, prevents anything (e.g. scripts,cookies) from auto loading unless you whitelist it first. This is the way it ought to be.... especially considering how some ads are a vector for malware.
Ad-Based Malware: Malware embedded in advertisements has always been common, as third-party networks are often the driving force of many ads. Simply viewing a malicious ad could be enough to inject malicious code into an unprotected device. These ads are often distributed and viewed on large, trusted websites, which makes many users potentially vulnerable. Malicious ads can also be directly embedded into apps and served through apps that are otherwise trusted. In recent years, many of these malicious ads have been used to mine cryptocurrency (in other words, to generate digital currency that can then be used by hackers). The popularity of cryptocurrency has bolstered the spread of ad-based malware, which in turn takes advantage of the user’s computer resources and may impact the stability of their system.
Yes it's an extra step having to whitelist stuff first, but once you get the knack of it, it is really easy, and ends up becoming a good internet surfing habit to follow through on. some common elements like youtube you can set to global whitelist since they appear on most sites. and most other times you have site specific whiteblocks only. You end up not having to tinker with most sites you visit once you whitelist it the first time.
the moment they begin to block this, i'm switching browsers. probably to firefox.
Chrome is planning on making it's own adblocker. Who is gonna trust that? especially after what they are doing to destroy addons like umatrix/ublock from working as it should
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/02/15/google-introduces-ad-blocker-chrome-will-work/
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