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Nope Nope NOPE When I click on a link I have no idea what is behind it. If every link had some pointer-hover stats that popped up to tell you that it will be m

by feld 11y ago

Nope Nope NOPE When I click on a link I have no idea what is behind it. If every link had some pointer-hover stats that popped up to tell you that it will be making X requests and X amount of data will be downloaded it would be possible for users to make informed decisions. Instead we click a link and pray that we don't get socked with malware from an ad network. Every link click is executing unauthorized code in your browser sandbox. And let's not forget that "news" on the internet today is simply "copying and pasting an entire article from another site, modifying the title to be clickbait, and waiting for the masses to consume your ads" Websites with original content are not the ones trying to fuck over the users, and if they offered good pay-for content people would... pay for it! All the thieves can go bankrupt for all I care.

nickpsecurity 11y ago
"When I click on a link I have no idea what is behind it." You're a real, online adventurer if the links you click are so random that you have no idea what's on the other side. That means you religiously avoid sites like Google, Yahoo, Youtube, Facebook, etc where you understand what your getting and what's supporting it. The rest of us know what's behind some links and not others. "Every link click is executing unauthorized code in your browser sandbox." It's authorized because you clicked it knowing that. Whole web model is others supplying HTML and JS, at a minimum, to your browser without you knowing what's in it before hand. It's why I run sandboxing and isolation schemes. Anyway, you're more than happy to run all of it but the advertisements. So, clearly that isn't your real worry. :P "And let's not forget that "news" on the internet today is simply "copying and pasting an entire article from another site, modifying the title to be clickbait, and waiting for the masses to consume your ads"" Given that, I guess you don't use news sites either. Means the hacker who is controlling your PC is also an avid reader of Hacker News. You might want to restore from backups and harden your system more. Adios.

by feld 11y ago

nickpsecurity 11y ago

"When I click on a link I have no idea what is behind it." You're a real, online adventurer if the links you click are so random that you have no idea what's on the other side. That means you religiously avoid sites like Google, Yahoo, Youtube, Facebook, etc where you understand what your getting and what's supporting it. The rest of us know what's behind some links and not others. "Every link click is executing unauthorized code in your browser sandbox." It's authorized because you clicked it knowing that. Whole web model is others supplying HTML and JS, at a minimum, to your browser without you knowing what's in it before hand. It's why I run sandboxing and isolation schemes. Anyway, you're more than happy to run all of it but the advertisements. So, clearly that isn't your real worry. :P "And let's not forget that "news" on the internet today is simply "copying and pasting an entire article from another site, modifying the title to be clickbait, and waiting for the masses to consume your ads"" Given that, I guess you don't use news sites either. Means the hacker who is controlling your PC is also an avid reader of Hacker News. You might want to restore from backups and harden your system more. Adios.