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Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads
MojoKid writes "Despite the fact that I've been using Windows 8 for the past three weeks, I somehow managed to overlook a rather stark feature in the OS: ads. No, we're not talking about ads cluttering up the desktop or login screen (thankfully), but rather ads that can be found inside of some Modern UI apps that Windows ships with. That includes Finance, Weather, Travel, News and so forth. On previous mobile platforms, such as iOS and Android, seeing ads inside of free apps hasn't been uncommon. It's a way for the developer to get paid while allowing the user to have the app for free. However, while people can expect ads in a free app, no one expects ads in a piece of software that they just paid good money for."
This is why Linux is King (in 2013)!
Oh, really? So, adblock doesn't PARSE the webpage first? Bullshit... there is your SLOW right there, for starters! How does it make the determination as to WHAT is an adbanner or not, by parsing tags, right?
Secondly?
"I ran benchmarks" - by Tenebrousedge (1226584) on Thursday November 08, @06:20PM (#41925925)
Oh, really? WHICH ONES test this?? None I know of... & you need to LEARN a few things, boy:
Clue: The majority of my custom hosts file is BLOCKED ENTRIES (ones I never intended to get to anyhow, lol, so "speed" is NOT of the essence) - 1,850,750++ to be precise in fact!
PLUS?
MY "FAVORITES" ARE @ THE TOP OF THAT, 1st 20 entries too
Thus, & even an index over 2 million ++ entries (if they were "mixed up" together alphabetically by domain name order) WOULDN'T BE ANY FASTER for those either...
So, thus, so much for DNS indexing (topping itself off by being more complex, eating more CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O too, as well as electricity (especially IF setup as yet another entire system)).
See subject-line - for the majority of my custom hosts file, they are blocked (I never intended to get to those entries since they're KNOWN malicious so getting to them "fast"? Not an issue... (bad stuff, as in botnet C&C Servers, bad adbanners and normal ones too, &/or rogue DNS servers malware makers use too & more are blocked in my custom hosts file... Can adblock do THAT for you too? No!)
Face it - Adblock can't speed up your favorites, block out malware serving sites, malicious botnet C&C servers, rogue DNS servers, & more (& it only runs for a SINGLE browser family... hosts work for ANY webbound app!).
The list goes on... AdBlock's INFERIOR to custom hosts, not nearly as "versatile" AND IT'S OWNED BY ADVERTISERS (talk about "foxes in the henhouse", lol).
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"Adblock is faster." - by Tenebrousedge (1226584) on Thursday November 08, @06:20PM (#41925925)
B.S.! It's written in SLOWER interpreted languages (vs. the IP stack in C & Assembly) and it runs in a FAR SLOWER RING OF PRIVELEGE (ring 3/rpl 3/usermode) vs. hosts in ring 0/rpl 0/kernelmode.
AdBlocks also MASSIVELY inferior & doesn't do as much as custom hosts files do, period... they're FAR MORE "VERSATILE"!
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"You're totally ignorant, it seems, of how Firefox operates internally." - by Tenebrousedge (1226584) on Thursday November 08, @06:20PM (#41925925)
LMAO - YOU ARE TOTALLY IGNORANT OF HOW THE IP STACK WORKS, since hosts files are called on FIRST, over the local DNS clientside cache, or remote DNS servers (and they're FASTER BY FAR too on this latter one).
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Your DNS caching server can run on the same hardware as your browser, it doesn't have to be remote" - by Tenebrousedge (1226584) on Thursday November 08, @06:20PM (#41925925)
So? It STILL consumes MORE RAM, CPU cycles, & other forms of I/O... for what?? Doing what a hosts file can do, & not as efficiently by "layering on" MORE COMPLEXITY for no good reason??
(Please... lol, you FAIL yet again!)
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"I get the feeling that you've never actually tested any of this, and are just going by your gut feeling" - by Tenebrousedge (1226584) on Thursday November 08, @06:20PM (#41925925)
Your "tests" are bullshit... see the above facts vs. your fictions... and face it about AdBlock - it just "ain't what it used to be":
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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option
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Is it?
Nope, not by default (& marketers that OWN it know most