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How do you implement your policy of not visiting sites with ads? How do you block a site prior to visiting it? Are you using a custom hosts file to block all s
by leejoramo 9y ago
How do you implement your policy of not visiting sites with ads?
How do you block a site prior to visiting it? Are you using a custom hosts file to block all sites that are known offenders?
Many of us are blocking ads for security and privacy concerns. How do you confirm that a site is safe prior to visiting it so that you can allow ads if it is a safe site?
Unfortunately, the only tools I have found block the good with the bad.
- jmcdiesel 9y agoBlack the ads, fine... but when you see ads blocked, leave the site?
- evilDagmar 9y agoIt's actually not that hard to eliminate the worst of it. You just leave the ad-blocker on, full-time until you visit a site. If the site isn't an abhorrent "content farm" with link-baity headlines and vague, poorly worded nonsense, then "So far so good..." you whitelist them and hit the reload button. Thanks to the race to the bottom that advertising has become, >90% of the bad sites won't make it past this first stage. If after disabling the ad blocker the content becomes buried in interstitials, auto-playing videos, and is so crowded with ads that the actual content turns into snaketext that looks like someone tried to outdo The Odyssey in haiku form, you turn the ad blocker back on.