> No, that's an absolute tragedy. Some of the youngsters here might not be aware, but there was a time when 99 percent of the garbage in a website could be turn

> No, that's an absolute tragedy. Some of the youngsters here might not be aware, but there was a time when 99 percent of the garbage in a website could be turned off with a single blocker, all without impacting anything necessary. Some of the youngsters here might not be aware, but there was a time when sites could reliably send raw TCP and UDP through a popular plugin that implemented a different, and weaker, version of the same-origin policy than the browser did. (For example, in earlier versions of Flash, any video could send anything to any port > 1024 on its hosting server!)