Current Events > ublock origin can't block twitch ads

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nexigrams posted...

It's not a binary choice. Adblock exists so I will do that.

RadiantAdolin posted...

Which just makes you a bad person .

RadiantAdolin posted...

Which just makes you a bad person .

If protecting my PC is considered bad then that must make you downright awful for wanting people to get infected
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voldothegr8 posted...

If protecting my PC is considered bad then that must make you downright awful for wanting people to get infected

You aren't protecting anything try again.

RadiantAdolin posted...

You aren't protecting anything try again.

https://www.cisecurity.org/blog/malvertising/
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voldothegr8 posted...

Or get uBlock Origin and very seldom worry about ads again. If they do get through sometimes like in this case you can be certain it'll be blocked in short order.

Ublock, Privacy Badger, and Noscript makes the internet a quiet and peaceful place.
Any one of them will block "add this <script> tag to your global site header" surveillance-heavy ads, but all three at once is like wearing a tinfoil hat, lead underwear, and two condoms.

voldothegr8 posted...

https://www.cisecurity.org/blog/malvertising/

RadiantAdolin posted...

You aren't protecting anything try again.

RadiantAdolin posted...

You aren't protecting anything try again.

My god, why are people responding to this guy? Such a lazy troll and you all keep biting and expending way more effort than he is.

And for what it's worth, I'll allow ads to run if a website A) asks nicely, and B) those ads are non-intrusive. If you block me from using your site because I ad-block, I don't need your site. And if you use auto expanding, video, or sound ads, you can get fucked there too. Text and or pictures is acceptable, I understand that servers cost money.

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Crazyman93 posted...

And for what it's worth, I'll allow ads to run if a website A) asks nicely, and B) those ads are non-intrusive. If you block me from using your site because I ad-block, I don't need your site. And if you use auto expanding, video, or sound ads, you can get fucked there too. Text and or pictures is acceptable, I understand that servers cost money.

Seems like a good time to link to Doc Searls, and pop in some excerpts.
https://medium.com/@dsearls/separating-advertisings-wheat-and-chaff-47858adfcb20

Whether it was an ad you heard on the radio, saw in a magazine or spotted on a billboard, you knew it came straight from the advertiser through that medium. The only intermediary was an advertising agency, if the advertiser bothered with one.

But advertising today is also digital. That fact makes advertising much more data-driven, tracking-based and personal. Nearly all the buzz and science in advertising today flies around the data-driven, tracking-based stuff generally called adtech. This form of digital advertising has turned into a massive industry, driven by an assumption that the best advertising is also the most targeted, the most real-time, the most data-driven, the most personal and that old-fashioned brand advertising is hopelessly retro.

See, adtech did not spring from the loins of Madison Avenue. Instead its direct ancestor is whats called direct response marketing. Before that, it was called direct mail, or junk mail. In metrics, methods and manners, it is little different from its closest relative, spam.

And it isnt just about giving up data. Its about submitting to constant surveillance by unseen entities, and participating, unwillingly, in what Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism, which she says,

Kapersky Labs calls the leeches adware. Specifically, adware is the payload of cookies, programs and other code inserted into your browser, your computer and your mobile device, mostly without your knowledge or permission. The adtech industry associations (such as the IAB and the DAA) say adware is all about giving you a better advertising experience or whatever. But to the Kaperskys of the world, adware is an attack vector for bad actors such as malware spreaders , looking to siphon money off an easily gamed system, often by planting hard-to-find bots and other malicious files inside the hardware and software through which we live our digital lives. Kaperskys 2014 report, for example, is full of arcana thats hard for civilians to understand, but is worth reading just to get an idea of how very bad this problem is for everybody.