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Websites being hacked does not necessitate ad block. It necessitates better browser security. The title here is fallacious. I say this in all fairness as someon
by nashashmi 2mo ago
Websites being hacked does not necessitate ad block. It necessitates better browser security. The title here is fallacious. I say this in all fairness as someone who uses adblock extensively, where I don't even like cookies being held by ad companies.
- voxleone 2mo ago>>Websites being hacked does not necessitate ad block Their users do.
- worldthruword 2mo agoCrowdStrike Outage means we need better Windows.
- helterskelter 2mo agoA secure browser that loads an ad doesn't prevent you from being surveilled. Tor mitigates this to a large degree but doesn't entirely eliminate it. The only real solution is to block ads altogether. This is a silly distinction anyway. Blocking ads is an obvious first step to improving browser security.
- BLKNSLVR 2mo agoRecommended by more than one US Federal three letter agency.
- helterskelter 2mo agoThe greatest rec of all was seeing the NSA crying about tor in the Snowden docs. Doesn't get any better than that.
- jiveturkey 2mo agoindeed. the post may as well be, javascript must be disabled.
- downrightmike 2mo agoYou are right, adware comes through ad systems regardless. Block everything regardless as well.