It's a war out there!

Posted by: JamieWednesday on 30 September 2017

Like many I use adblock when smurfing, for all sorts of reasons but primarily in aiming to preserve my cool when trying to scroll down a web page which otherwise refuses to budge while it's loading up all the Gifs pushing stuff I have no interest in whatsoever.

This morning I noticed some ads on a (Corporate) site I visit occasionally and I thought 'Hello?', saw a little logo on the ads described as 'adrecover' which led tothis.

Time to mobilise some troops ADP...

Posted on: 30 September 2017 by tonym

Blimey! I notice the latest version of Safari has some very comprehensive ad-blocking features.

Posted on: 30 September 2017 by Gazza

Yep and the ad agencies are not happy and have written to Apple to complain it spoils their party, Apple in their usual spirit gave them short shrift, customers deserve the choice of privacy!

Posted on: 30 September 2017 by Massimo Bertola

But I suppose that advertising popups have been payed to Apple..

Posted on: 30 September 2017 by NFG

Gazza posted:
Yep and the ad agencies are not happy and have written to Apple to complain it spoils their party, Apple in their usual spirit gave them short shrift, customers deserve the choice of privacy!

Good, I can actually tollerate a small amount of very politely targeted advertising & there it ends, the advertisers just dont get it, piling a truckload of rubbish along with the prospect of 'carefully selected' malware shoved in up your nose on a regular basis - yep even the BBC was recruited by a malware slinger injecting ransomeware - Ad blocked & then theres NoScript...

So I have for many years used AdBlock Plus and now U Block Origin along with NoScript & Ghostery which remove crappy scripts, trackers & other bilge on an ever increasing biblical scale. The moment I hit a site that states 'ooh it looks like you are ad blocking' I hit the back button & thats that. Just load the above add ons into your browser then visit the cess pit the Daily Mail is & you will see,

Posted on: 30 September 2017 by Huge

Indeed you may trust the website itself; but if there are adds on it, do you also trust them not to try things like a drive by attack?

My anti-virus package has frequently found suspicious content and invalid certificates on the ads that have made it past my ad-blockers.

Posted on: 01 October 2017 by NFG

While Im thinking of it, edit your hosts file and add these lines:

127.0.0.1 stags.bluekai.com

127.0.0.1 tags.bluekai.com

along with the IPs for any other grubby data gathering organisations you dont want your computer to talk to, usual disclaimers apply or search for how to...