furyferret

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by furyferret 11y ago
What you're describing is definitely a squash.
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by furyferret 11y ago
How secure something is doesn't only depends on itself but also on its environment. There's a vulnerability known by some which isn't going to be fixed. The moment this vulnerability was disclosed to the FBI, the iPhone becam
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by furyferret 11y ago
Re-inventing the wheel in 17 lines of code is called programming.
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by furyferret 11y ago
Unfortunately, this gist is based on the same fallacy that the one it opposes is based on: the idea that visiting sites and consuming their content is a primary need for visitors. The so-called "other ways of funding" are paywalls
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by furyferret 11y ago
EasyList[1] already contains various per-site adblocking based on CSS selectors, with several packages for different languages and site type. I think the community is big enough and motivated enough to manually lists any ads on most website
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by furyferret 11y ago
We need whitelists. I'm using uBlocko to block all third-party requests and manually whitelist requests vital for the site such as those who load the CSS from a CDN. Many sites use their own CDN, with the domain name finishing in .net
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by furyferret 11y ago
It's just web developers who lived in a world where front-end layout was supposed to be hard and who distill complexity out of four or five trivial CSS properties to convince themselves that all of the hours they lost aligning divs wit
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by furyferret 11y ago
Vulnerabilities don't "magically appear". They're there from the beginning and the goal of the game is to find them and fix them before the bad guys find them and exploit them. If you use a software which isn't main