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Why don't you use an ad-blocker?
by Filligree 8y ago
Why don't you use an ad-blocker?
- sandworm101 8y ago"Secure" work computer. Security settings. Windows. We have a very short list of available software. I cannot even clear my browser history without first emailing IT.
- Flenser 8y agocan you edit your hosts file or get it changed by IT?
- anticensor 8y agoLatter may be possible but it is not specific to one instance, it is required to applied to all available instances.
- sigio 8y agoWeird... using an adblocker would be the easiest and most efficient way to improve security.
- IanCal 8y agoI can understand the reluctance to install things that have the ability to read and modify all webpages read though.
- forgotmypw 8y agoIn that case, a hosts file can go a long way.
- ams6110 8y agoThat is indeed a big downside of adblocker plugins. You are giving a lot of permissions/trust to a third party. I assume uBlock Origin is safe, but in that I am trusting not only the author but also that the Firefox AddOns "store" is uncompromised. Those are things I probably could not verify on my own.
- muro 8y agocan't clear browser history - lol, what? plenty companies with sane work environments are hiring :)
- sandworm101 8y agoLol. I'm in the military. But our work environment is 1000% better than anything I ever saw in the civilian/tech world. Every assumption people have is wrong. We are more casual and friendly than any startup. Food is better too.
- stcredzero 8y agoThere's a reason why Gene Roddenberry based his version of utopia on the US Navy.
- sandworm101 8y agoWell, I would say that 1950s/60s USN is a far cry from our culture. They didn't have casual fridays.
- logfromblammo 8y agoLast time I worked on base with a "secure" computer, every IT policy I read was silently appended with "...but your computer also has Visual Studio installed on it, and you have permission to run anything you can compile." But it was also airgapped from the other computer in my cube, that could reach the public internet, so not much point in writing my own ad-blocker. Mostly, it just made it a pain in the ass to use third-party GUI controls and data visualization libraries, and open-source was effectively banned. There's also a pretty wide divide between the work environment of the genuine government employees and the contractors' employees. Anecdotally, there's still a bit of a good-ol'boy network pulling on the purse strings in the industry. If you have the choice, and you work in tech, prefer to take contracted jobs from Navy and Coast Guard customers over other branches. I won't say why, but you'll probably be happier if you do.
- mjevans 8y agoWouldn't disabling javascript, preferably selectively, be an /improvement/ to security?