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Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads
Krystalo writes: In addition to the debut of the Firefox Developer Edition, Mozilla today announced new features for its main Firefox browser. The company is launching a new Forget button in Firefox to help keep your browsing history private, adding DuckDuckGo as a search option, and rolling out its directory tiles advertising experiment.
I sincerely hope this is optional.
Not all of us are willing to accept ads. Especially not from the open source browser which is supposed to help be more private.
What is Firefox thinking? From the last paragraph in the article: "Firefox users should 'expect a lot more experimentation in advertising,' Mozilla Senior Engineering Manager Gavin Sharp told VentureBeat."
from TFA: "10 years ago we built Firefox to give you a choice. The Web was a monoculture and the only way in was through the company that controlled your operating system. "
I guess that whole Netscape Navigator thing was a delightful dream, apparently?
Please share here ways to get away from ad loving, privacy sucking browsers.
I'm still on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) with adblock/scriptblock/grease monkey :)
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
I assume Fedora will be dropping FIrefox and replacing it with IceWeasel as Debian did long ago. Pretty sure adverts won't fit into Fedora's philosophy very well.
(I don't need a button to help me forget things!)
Good for the chumps who believe the marketing fodder.
But as the saying goes... if you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer.
They added two new features:
1. A "Forget" button for your privacy, and
2. Ads, that remember everything forever.
Sounds like a case of giving with one hand, and taking with the other!
Oh screw it.
I did it when they force-fed us Australis and have never looked back. I'll never go back to "Fireplop" now. Liberation is available at www.palemoon.org
Fuck advertising
Is this an April Fools joke?
Buck Feta. You know what to do.
I guess Mozilla just signed thier own death warrent. sudo apt-get delete iceweasel. Fuck them.
Get your free Dropbox account with 2 GB Free storage!
...and stay with Pale Moon.
At the very least I'm disabling automatic updates on Firefox.
Please look into Pale Moon.
Built from Firefox sources, it is the closest thing to the lightweight and flexible browser that Firefox promised to be that I'm aware of.
Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, etc.
Kid-proof tablet..
The Advertisements may be disabled in the preferences. They're trying to diversify their revenue which currently is mostly Google. Over the last few releases they've been highlighting the various privacy features and ideology Firefox has in a bid to differentiate themselves against Chrome, so it' a little Ironic to see this Ad compromise.
The Ads only occupy unused thumbnail tiles i believe..so it's not obtrusive. As long as us techies can turn it off, I'm happy. Everyone else will hardly notice, and it'll pay the Mozilla devs.
> What is Firefox thinking?
I suspect they are thinking that it sure was nice to have Google paying them millions of dollars for so long, but with Chrome already having twice as many users, Google won't need to keep doing that. They've built an organization that has expenses in the hundreds of millions. Close to 90% of that is for using Google as the default search. Right now, Google has the power to make the Mozilla foundation vanish. That means, of course, that Google can exercise power over them just by a vague threat, or even simply expressing displeasure with a Mozilla decision.
Each November the foundation releases their financial statement. When preparing this financial statement and the last one, they must have seen that the reliance on Google is a problem. They made some small deals with other companies, like including Bing as an _option_ users can set as their default search, but the other deals don't come close to covering their expenses. So to stop being completely reliant on Google, they need some other revenue stream. Somebody sketched a proposal for how they could run ads in a fairly unobtrusive way, in a way that doesn't seem sneaky or underhanded, and that revenue could cover their expenses.
I don't want ads in my browser. I think clumsily adding ads to Firefox could backfire in a huge way. I also think it would be stupid for the Firefox devs to NOT be looking at clever ways to include fairly acceptable ads, new ideas on how they could generate ad revenue if needed without pissing everyone off.
It CAN be done, and even without being all too clever. Slashdot users are generally less tolerant of ads than the general population, yet there are ads here. We deal with it in one way or another and those ads make money. If Firefox can find some elegant ways to place ads and avoid being dependent on Google, they would be smart to at least have that _plan_ ready in case Google stops paying.
Again, I don't WANT ads in Firefox. I also don't WANT to die, but I do buy life insurance so my family has some protection if that happens.
Just use TorBrowser.
Sounds like a case of giving with one hand, and taking with the other!
Advertizing a free handjob, while it is actually a part of a reach-around.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
I use Pale Moon on Win7 but there's no Mac version AFAIK. On OSX I use Seamonkey, which is also superior to FF but breaks more extensions:
http://www.seamonkey-project.o...
Slashdot is at it again. You people refuse to understand that nothing is free in this world. No one makes anything out of the goodness of their heart. Would ypu work for free?
Without Pale Moon i would be forced to use Chromium. And Firefox gets more user-unfriendly by the minute.
For Firefox - Go to about:config and search for "fb", "facebook", "social", "goog" and you'll see a bunch of questionable settings. Everyone should automatically disable safebrowsing to prevent calling home to google. This has been posted on Slashdot many times before in the comments.
For Chrome - Google automatically calls home automatically each time the chrome browser when it's launched, before any site is even loaded. If you have a software firewall that prompts you access to the internet on a per application basis, like AVG, it will prompt the with such a message. The IP reported if you look it up is a google IP.
AdBlockPlus is also white-listing a load of tracking/ad stuff that have no business of being whitelisted. A while back, Google paid AdBlockPlus folks to not have certain ads removed. Why doubleclick.net/doubleclick.com is ever whitelisted makes no sense. The AdBlockPlus folks is saying that certain things need to be whitelisted or sites would stop working. Don't buy into any of that crap. Unfortunately you need to manually disable the whitelist stuff and there's no way of knowing unless you check your preferences for every site that you load...
Also Akamai is being used buy a bunch of sites that no ad block or /etc/hosts file would ever be able to block. When you launch a site that loads data (amazon/google/yahoo, Whitehouse, microsoft, pretty much major site, even when your AVG anti-virus/firewall does a software update), a lot of this data is part served as part of Akamai's Content Distribution Network. You can't block *.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com because there's way too many IP ranges, and nslookup won't return any IPs on deploy.akamaitechnologies.com. I have still yet to figure out a way to block all of this via iptables or software firewall, and doing so is pretty much blocking majority of the web. Akamai admits storing personal info for marketing purposes. There's really no way around this bullshit... Haven't had any success blocking it at the dns configuration level - the router (using OpenWRT - it reports every bit of connection traffic, and you'll see that *.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com is continuously being accessed even after /etc/hosts, firewall, dns configuration is set up)...
Seems Mozilla has sold out. Which makes their choice of DuckDuckGo as default search engine interesting: have they sold out too?
The thing with DDG is, I'd be happy to believe their no-tracking pitch, but I can't quite understand how they're gonna make money out of a free search engine without it...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
So you don't understand how DDG can make money without ads, but you don't understand why the Mozilla foundation must add ads to survive. Wow. Simply. Wow.
I think I figured out what experiment they're running. They're seeing how low their market share can go by pissing off their users. Chrome tried it and shaved off at least 30%.
My FREE hosts program adds speed, security, reliability & more, doing far more, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?o...
---
A.) Hosts do more than:
1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... )
2.) Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
3.) Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed/redirected dns (& overcome site redirects e.g. /. beta).
C.) Hosts secure vs. malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less "moving parts" complexity
D.) Hosts files yield more:
1.) Speed (adblock & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote dns)
2.) Security (vs. malicious domains serving malcontent + block spam/phish & trackers)
3.) Reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable dns, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ isp level + weak vs DGA, & Fastflux + dynDNS botnets)
4.) Anonymity (vs. dns request logs + dnsbl's).
---
* Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ faster levels (ring 0) vs redundant inefficient addons (slowing slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ os, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization).
* Addons = more complex + slow browsers in messagepassing (use a few concurrently & see) & are nullified by native browser methods - It's how Clarityray's destroying Adblock.
* Addons slowup slower usermode browsers layering on more - & bloat RAM consumption + excessive cpu use too (4++gb extra in FireFox https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...)
Instead, work w/ a native kernelmode part - hosts (An integrated part of the ip stack)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"
...apk
Can adblock do these 15 things hosts files can for more speed, security, reliability, & more:
1.) Secure you vs. known malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious adbanners - see 2 thru 6 below next)
2.) Secure you vs. downed DNS servers aiding reliability
3.) Secure you vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns servers
4.) Protect you vs. fastflux using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
5.) Protect you vs. dynamic dns using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
6.) Protect you vs. domain generation algorithm using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
7.) Speed you up for websurfing not only by adblocking but also hardcoding favorite sites
8.) Get you past a dnsbl you may not agree with
9.) Keep you off dns request logs
10.) Do all of those things and block ads (better than adblock) more efficiently in cpu cycles and memory usage
11.) Work on ANY webbound application (think stand-alone email programs, for example).
12.) Give you direct, easily notepad/texteditor controlled data for all of the above
13.) Block out trackers
14.) Block spam mails sources
15.) Block phishing mails sources
"?"
* Simple YES or NO answers will do for repliers to this - that's all.
APK
P.S.=> The ANSWER ="NO" to each enumerated item above as far as "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (crippled by default & 'souled-out' defeating it's very base purpose) is concerned -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
So, *IF* you feel like doing things LESS efficiently as well -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... ontop of doing less than hosts do (by far) with more complexity + from a slower mode of operations (usermode with more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode, also starting up w/ the IP stack itself, before REDUNDANT inefficient addons even BEGIN to operate, & as the 1st resolver queried by the OS as well)?
That's illogical: I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make them drink!
... apk
Everyone worried about ad's, promptly disable them and then begin sending $10 a year to Mozilla.
You'll avoid ads immediately and ensure their experimentation doesn't have to extend further in the future.
W. Palant wrote me by email 1st saying "hosts are a shitty solution" to which I replied:
"Show us adblock can do more for added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than hosts can, + that adblock does it more efficiently than hosts"
Which on my latter 'point-in-challenge' on efficiency AdBlock's proven by research to be MASSIVELY inefficient -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... & adblock does FAR less than hosts (especially crippled by default).
I sent Wladimir Palant that challenge in response to his statement from 2 different email addresses I use!
Result = Still no answer from him in regard to my challenge put to him to this very day MONTHS later - that tell you anything? It did me!
He knows his addon is less efficient & features laden by FAR vs. hosts - Wladimir Palant RAN like a scared rabbit!
ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock - via native browser methods to DUMP what addons you use (it can't DO THAT to hosts files).
I only tell it how it is on hosts' superiority vs. AdBlock - Funny part is, Wladimir Palant running does too!
Especially considering "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" has 'souled-out' -> Google And Others Reportedly Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> Bottom-Line: Hosts = a superior solution that also fixes DNS redirect security issues (vs. browser addons & their inefficiencies + messagepassing overheads as well as myriad lack of abilities hosts have from 1 file that's part of the IP stack itself - faster, more efficient, & less redundant as well, since TCP/IP has 45++ yrs. of refinement & optimization in it, & runs in a higher CPU serviced ring of privelege & operations in kernelmode vs. slower usermode layering over browsers slowing them more, & hosts = 1st resolver queried by the OS itself also)... apk
My APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... program that I wrote to import, sort, deduplicate & make as efficient as possible the hosts data imported lets you use the source you use (good choice, they're great) & 11 others, all @ once!
(OR by choices of ones you prefer to use only).
* AdBlock & Ghostery = sold-out to advertisers (crippled by default) in the former, & OWNED by advertisers in the latter (ghostery)!
Thus, you might as well trust your chickens in a henhouse guarded by a fox!
AND
Addons don't do a fraction of what hosts do either (per the points in my post you replied to)
PLUS
Addons don't work nearly as efficiently (read the links in my posts regarding that much too - especially regarding tests done on AdBlock CPU + RAM overconsumption (4++gb & more))...
Addons are also redundant, & lastly run in a slower level of privelege, slowing already slower usermode/ring 3 browsers with added messagepassing overheads also.
APK
P.S.=> You ask WHY I post ac? I see no gains in having a "registered 'lusr'" account here is all - only losses in speed & possibly safety (javascript) + tracking & privacy (cookies) by having such an account here... plus, *IF* I have something nice to say to someone, I just say it (ala "good job") or the reverse... so 'modpoints' are b.s. to me as well (& those get massively abused here too - especially by multiple account using sockpuppeteers, which THIS SITE is LOADED with by the truckloads)... apk
Firefox needs a "Forget Firefox 29" button - they need to roll back to their previous version, quit ruining their browser, and cool off on these unnecessary new features until they get the browser right.
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
* :)
(BOTH the source you pointed out AND the one Sir_Eptishous, the poster you replied to, uses in someonewhocares - another good one - are covered & used by my free custom hosts file creation program).
APK
P.S.=> None of them 'catches them all' (or rather, they find different ones, valid also) - so, hence, the "WHY" of why I created my program for custom hosts file creation... enjoy, should you elect to use it... apk
Firefox existed before it was a huge business and it will still exist if the huge business aspect falls apart.
Specifically, the Mozilla foundation had revenue of $5.8 million in 2004, when Firefox was launched as a branch of Seamonkey, the Mozilla browser. They still had some support from Netscape, who had developed the browser while they were worth as much as $17 BILLION. Really, Firefox was created by Netscape, a mutli-billion dollar company.
Tell me, how do I go about replicating this in a hosts file?
youtube.com###yt-masthead-container
AdBlock is not only about blocking static content. With element hiding helper you can instantly hide any part of any website that annoys you.
I haven't used them in ages. I forgot all about them. Thanks for reminding me about DuckDuckGo.
Not until you tell him adblock does all these things hosts can http://news.slashdot.org/comme... (which adblock can't).
I pay yearly for anti-virus, why not just $15 a yr for a firefox? or $29.99 for a version and make every full version upg. kick ass?
Might convince you (it shut BarbaraHudson's mouth easily on that account) -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
* The current literally BEST in the business (malwarebytes) have seen its code & verified it as safe (they even recommend it as the best of its kind @ the top of their hpHosts site -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> I don't owe YOU, or anyone *LIKE* you, to see my source... why? Everyone KNOWS you "Open SORES" bullshitters just steal others' code like mad anyhow (lol, since you CAN'T code yourself - care to prove otherwise? Thought not!)... apk
My FREE hosts program adds speed, security, reliability & more, doing more, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?o...
---
A.) Hosts do more than:
1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... )
2.) Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
3.) Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed/redirected dns (& overcome site redirects e.g. /. beta).
C.) Hosts secure vs. malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less "moving parts" complexity
D.) Hosts files yield more:
1.) Speed (adblock & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote dns)
2.) Security (vs. malicious domains serving malcontent + block spam/phish & trackers)
3.) Reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable dns, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ isp level + weak vs DGA, & Fastflux + dynDNS botnets)
4.) Anonymity (vs. dns request logs + dnsbl's).
---
* Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ faster levels (ring 0) vs redundant inefficient addons (slowing slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ os, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization).
* Addons = more complex + slow browsers in messagepassing (use a few concurrently & see) & are nullified by native browser methods - It's how Clarityray's destroying Adblock.
* Addons slowup slower usermode browsers layering on more - & bloat RAM consumption + excessive cpu use too (4++gb extra in FireFox https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...)
Instead, work w/ a native kernelmode part - hosts (An integrated part of the ip stack)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"
...apk
Can adblock do 15 things hosts files can for more speed, security, reliability, & more:
1.) Secure you vs. known malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious adbanners - see 2 thru 6 below next)
2.) Secure you vs. downed DNS servers aiding reliability
3.) Secure you vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns servers
4.) Protect you vs. fastflux using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
5.) Protect you vs. dynamic dns using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
6.) Protect you vs. domain generation algorithm using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
7.) Speed you up for websurfing not only by adblocking but also hardcoding favorite sites
8.) Get you past a dnsbl you may not agree with
9.) Keep you off dns request logs
10.) Do all of those things and block ads (better than adblock) more efficiently in cpu cycles and memory usage
11.) Work on ANY webbound application (think stand-alone email programs, for example).
12.) Give you direct, easily notepad/texteditor controlled data for all of the above
13.) Block out trackers
14.) Block spam mails sources
15.) Block phishing mails sources
"?"
* Simple YES or NO answers will do for repliers to this - that's all.
APK
P.S.=> The ANSWER ="NO" to each enumerated item above as far as "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (crippled by default & 'souled-out' defeating it's very base purpose) is concerned -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
So, *IF* you feel like doing things LESS efficiently as well -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... ontop of doing less than hosts do (by far) with more complexity + from a slower mode of operations (usermode with more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode, also starting up w/ the IP stack itself, before REDUNDANT inefficient addons even BEGIN to operate, & as the 1st resolver queried by the OS as well)?
That's illogical: I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make them drink!
... apk
W. Palant wrote me by email 1st saying "hosts are a shitty solution" to which I replied:
"Show us adblock can do more for added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than hosts can, + that adblock does it more efficiently than hosts"
Which on my latter 'point-in-challenge' on efficiency AdBlock's proven by research to be MASSIVELY inefficient -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... & adblock does FAR less than hosts (especially crippled by default).
I sent Wladimir Palant that challenge in response to his statement from 2 different email addresses I use!
Result = Still no answer from him in regard to my challenge put to him to this very day MONTHS later - that tell you anything? It did me!
He knows his addon is less efficient & features laden by FAR vs. hosts - Wladimir Palant RAN like a scared rabbit!
ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock - via native browser methods to DUMP what addons you use (it can't DO THAT to hosts files).
I only tell it how it is on hosts' superiority vs. AdBlock - Funny part is, Wladimir Palant running does too!
Especially considering "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" has 'souled-out' -> Google And Others Reportedly Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> Bottom-Line: Hosts = a superior solution that also fixes DNS redirect security issues (vs. browser addons & their inefficiencies + messagepassing overheads as well as myriad lack of abilities hosts have from 1 file that's part of the IP stack itself - faster, more efficient, & less redundant as well, since TCP/IP has 45++ yrs. of refinement & optimization in it, & runs in a higher CPU serviced ring of privelege & operations in kernelmode vs. slower usermode layering over browsers slowing them more, & hosts = 1st resolver queried by the OS itself also)... apk
My FREE hosts program adds speed, security, reliability & more, doing more, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?o...
---
A.) Hosts do more than:
1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... )
2.) Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
3.) Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed/redirected dns (& overcome site redirects e.g. /. beta).
C.) Hosts secure vs. malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less "moving parts" complexity
D.) Hosts files yield more:
1.) Speed (adblock & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote dns)
2.) Security (vs. malicious domains serving malcontent + block spam/phish & trackers)
3.) Reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable dns, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ isp level + weak vs DGA, & Fastflux + dynDNS botnets)
4.) Anonymity (vs. dns request logs + dnsbl's).
---
* Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ faster levels (ring 0) vs redundant inefficient addons (slowing slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ os, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization).
* Addons = more complex + slow browsers in messagepassing (use a few concurrently & see) & are nullified by native browser methods - It's how Clarityray's destroying Adblock.
* Addons slowup slower usermode browsers layering on more - & bloat RAM consumption + excessive cpu use too (4++gb extra in FireFox https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...)
Instead, work w/ a native kernelmode part - hosts (An integrated part of the ip stack)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"
...apk
Can adblock do 15 things hosts files can for more speed, security, reliability, & more:
1.) Secure you vs. known malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious adbanners - see 2 thru 6 below next)
2.) Secure you vs. downed DNS servers aiding reliability
3.) Secure you vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns servers
4.) Protect you vs. fastflux using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
5.) Protect you vs. dynamic dns using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
6.) Protect you vs. domain generation algorithm using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
7.) Speed you up for websurfing not only by adblocking but also hardcoding favorite sites
8.) Get you past a dnsbl you may not agree with
9.) Keep you off dns request logs
10.) Do all of those things and block ads (better than adblock) more efficiently in cpu cycles and memory usage
11.) Work on ANY webbound application (think stand-alone email programs, for example).
12.) Give you direct, easily notepad/texteditor controlled data for all of the above
13.) Block out trackers
14.) Block spam mails sources
15.) Block phishing mails sources
"?"
* Simple YES or NO answers will do for repliers to this - that's all.
APK
P.S.=> The ANSWER ="NO" to each enumerated item above as far as "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (crippled by default & 'souled-out' defeating it's very base purpose) is concerned -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
So, *IF* you feel like doing things LESS efficiently as well -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... ontop of doing less than hosts do (by far) with more complexity + from a slower mode of operations (usermode with more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode, also starting up w/ the IP stack itself, before REDUNDANT inefficient addons even BEGIN to operate, & as the 1st resolver queried by the OS as well)?
That's illogical: I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make them drink!
... apk
W. Palant wrote me by email 1st saying "hosts are a shitty solution" to which I replied:
"Show us adblock can do more for added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than hosts can, + that adblock does it more efficiently than hosts"
Which on my latter 'point-in-challenge' on efficiency AdBlock's proven by research to be MASSIVELY inefficient -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... & adblock does FAR less than hosts (especially crippled by default).
I sent Wladimir Palant that challenge in response to his statement from 2 different email addresses I use!
Result = Still no answer from him in regard to my challenge put to him to this very day MONTHS later - that tell you anything? It did me!
He knows his addon is less efficient & features laden by FAR vs. hosts - Wladimir Palant RAN like a scared rabbit!
ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock - via native browser methods to DUMP what addons you use (it can't DO THAT to hosts files).
I only tell it how it is on hosts' superiority vs. AdBlock - Funny part is, Wladimir Palant running does too!
Especially considering "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" has 'souled-out' -> Google And Others Reportedly Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> Bottom-Line: Hosts = a superior solution that also fixes DNS redirect security issues (vs. browser addons & their inefficiencies + messagepassing overheads as well as myriad lack of abilities hosts have from 1 file that's part of the IP stack itself - faster, more efficient, & less redundant as well, since TCP/IP has 45++ yrs. of refinement & optimization in it, & runs in a higher CPU serviced ring of privelege & operations in kernelmode vs. slower usermode layering over browsers slowing them more, & hosts = 1st resolver queried by the OS itself also)... apk
What you say would be true for 99.999% of web sites. Since Firefox has a couple hundred million users or whatever they can make advertising deals directly with advertisers including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Netflix, etc. For a multi-million transaction, there's no need to give a cut to a middle-man.
ABP can do all of those things easily in conjunction with the filtering done in my router. It's faster and makes pages look better than some dinky software hosts file solution.
Also, why are you talking about yourself in the third person? We all know it's you.
It's almost as if the FREE ultimate SOLUTION paid him to shill and post tons of spam every time someone mentions adblock.
It, like you, outright FAIL: ABP can't do those things by itself - period.
APK
P.S.=> Thank-You for proving my points here:
"ABP can do all of those things easily in conjunction with the filtering done in my router." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @11:31PM (#48365941)
Like I said before - SEE SUBJECT LINE ABOVE (says it all: ABP can't DO all those things here -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & YOU KNOW IT (by proving it with your statement)!)
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"It's faster and makes pages look better than some dinky software hosts file solution." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @11:31PM (#48365941)
LOL: Faster? You mean opperating in a SLOWER ring of cpu priority privelege in usermode (vs. hosts in kernelmode)?? WRONG! AdBlock eats SO MUCH RAM & CPU too -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... That it's not even funny... it's horribly inefficient!
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"Also, why are you talking about yourself in the third person? We all know it's you." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @11:31PM (#48365941)
ROTFLMAO: Why're YOU posting as ac then?? Don't YOU have the BALLS to speak under your "registered 'luser'" account?? Apparently not - Guess it wouldn't look "too good" to outright FAIL as you have here using it, especially vs. myself (& hosts superiority vs. "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" crippled by default)... would it??? Nope... lol!
Again - thanks (for making ME look good & yourself, by way of comparison?? Well... lol, "not so good"... AdBlock too!)... apk
"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" (+ "read 'em & weep", fool) -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme... since in case you apparently don't REALIZE this?
YOU FAIL!
(So does "Almost ALL Ads Blocked", vs. hosts...)
APK
P.S.=> Once more: Thanks for proving my points on hosts superiority to the crippled by default SOULED-OUT "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" + making ME look GOOD... & yourself, by way of comparison? Well... lol, "not so good"!
... apk
My FREE hosts program adds speed, security, reliability & more, doing more, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?o...
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A.) Hosts do more than:
1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... )
2.) Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
3.) Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed/redirected dns (& overcome site redirects e.g. /. beta).
C.) Hosts secure vs. malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less "moving parts" complexity
D.) Hosts files yield more:
1.) Speed (adblock & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote dns)
2.) Security (vs. malicious domains serving malcontent + block spam/phish & trackers)
3.) Reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable dns, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ isp level + weak vs DGA, & Fastflux + dynDNS botnets)
4.) Anonymity (vs. dns request logs + dnsbl's).
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* Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ faster levels (ring 0) vs redundant inefficient addons (slowing slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ os, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization).
* Addons = more complex + slow browsers in messagepassing (use a few concurrently & see) & are nullified by native browser methods - It's how Clarityray's destroying Adblock.
* Addons slowup slower usermode browsers layering on more - & bloat RAM consumption + excessive cpu use too (4++gb extra in FireFox https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...)
Instead, work w/ a native kernelmode part - hosts (An integrated part of the ip stack)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"
...apk
Can adblock do 15 things hosts files can for more speed, security, reliability, & more:
1.) Secure you vs. known malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious adbanners - see 2 thru 6 below next)
2.) Secure you vs. downed DNS servers aiding reliability
3.) Secure you vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns servers
4.) Protect you vs. fastflux using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
5.) Protect you vs. dynamic dns using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
6.) Protect you vs. domain generation algorithm using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
7.) Speed you up for websurfing not only by adblocking but also hardcoding favorite sites
8.) Get you past a dnsbl you may not agree with
9.) Keep you off dns request logs
10.) Do all of those things and block ads (better than adblock) more efficiently in cpu cycles and memory usage
11.) Work on ANY webbound application (think stand-alone email programs, for example).
12.) Give you direct, easily notepad/texteditor controlled data for all of the above
13.) Block out trackers
14.) Block spam mails sources
15.) Block phishing mails sources
"?"
* Simple YES or NO answers will do for repliers to this - that's all.
APK
P.S.=> The ANSWER ="NO" to each enumerated item above as far as "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (crippled by default & 'souled-out' defeating it's very base purpose) is concerned -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
So, *IF* you feel like doing things LESS efficiently as well -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... ontop of doing less than hosts do (by far) with more complexity + from a slower mode of operations (usermode with more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode, also starting up w/ the IP stack itself, before REDUNDANT inefficient addons even BEGIN to operate, & as the 1st resolver queried by the OS as well)?
That's illogical: I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make them drink!
... apk
W. Palant wrote me by email 1st saying "hosts are a shitty solution" to which I replied:
"Show us adblock can do more for added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than hosts can, + that adblock does it more efficiently than hosts"
Which on my latter 'point-in-challenge' on efficiency AdBlock's proven by research to be MASSIVELY inefficient -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... & adblock does FAR less than hosts (especially crippled by default).
I sent Wladimir Palant that challenge in response to his statement from 2 different email addresses I use!
Result = Still no answer from him in regard to my challenge put to him to this very day MONTHS later - that tell you anything? It did me!
He knows his addon is less efficient & features laden by FAR vs. hosts - Wladimir Palant RAN like a scared rabbit!
ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock - via native browser methods to DUMP what addons you use (it can't DO THAT to hosts files).
I only tell it how it is on hosts' superiority vs. AdBlock - Funny part is, Wladimir Palant running does too!
Especially considering "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" has 'souled-out' -> Google And Others Reportedly Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> Bottom-Line: Hosts = a superior solution that also fixes DNS redirect security issues (vs. browser addons & their inefficiencies + messagepassing overheads as well as myriad lack of abilities hosts have from 1 file that's part of the IP stack itself - faster, more efficient, & less redundant as well, since TCP/IP has 45++ yrs. of refinement & optimization in it, & runs in a higher CPU serviced ring of privelege & operations in kernelmode vs. slower usermode layering over browsers slowing them more, & hosts = 1st resolver queried by the OS itself also)... apk
My FREE hosts program adds speed, security, reliability & more, doing more, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?o...
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A.) Hosts do more than:
1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... )
2.) Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
3.) Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed/redirected dns (& overcome site redirects e.g. /. beta).
C.) Hosts secure vs. malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less "moving parts" complexity
D.) Hosts files yield more:
1.) Speed (adblock & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote dns)
2.) Security (vs. malicious domains serving malcontent + block spam/phish & trackers)
3.) Reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable dns, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ isp level + weak vs DGA, & Fastflux + dynDNS botnets)
4.) Anonymity (vs. dns request logs + dnsbl's).
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* Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ faster levels (ring 0) vs redundant inefficient addons (slowing slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ os, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization).
* Addons = more complex + slow browsers in messagepassing (use a few concurrently & see) & are nullified by native browser methods - It's how Clarityray's destroying Adblock.
* Addons slowup slower usermode browsers layering on more - & bloat RAM consumption + excessive cpu use too (4++gb extra in FireFox https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...)
Instead, work w/ a more capable native kernelmode part you already have - hosts (An integrated part of the ip stack)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"
...apk
Can adblock do 15 things hosts files can for more speed, security, reliability, & more:
1.) Secure you vs. known malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious adbanners - see 2 thru 6 below next)
2.) Secure you vs. downed DNS servers aiding reliability
3.) Secure you vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns servers
4.) Protect you vs. fastflux using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
5.) Protect you vs. dynamic dns using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
6.) Protect you vs. domain generation algorithm using botnet attacks and stop their communications back to their C&C servers
7.) Speed you up for websurfing not only by adblocking but also hardcoding favorite sites
8.) Get you past a dnsbl you may not agree with
9.) Keep you off dns request logs
10.) Do all of those things and block ads (better than adblock) more efficiently in cpu cycles and memory usage
11.) Work on ANY webbound application (think stand-alone email programs, for example).
12.) Give you direct, easily notepad/texteditor controlled data for all of the above
13.) Block out trackers
14.) Block spam mails sources
15.) Block phishing mails sources
"?"
* Simple YES or NO answers will do for repliers to this - that's all.
APK
P.S.=> The ANSWER ="NO" to each enumerated item above as far as "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (crippled by default & 'souled-out' defeating it's very base purpose) is concerned -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
So, *IF* you feel like doing things LESS efficiently as well -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... ontop of doing less than hosts do (by far) with more complexity + from a slower mode of operations (usermode with more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode, also starting up w/ the IP stack itself, before REDUNDANT inefficient addons even BEGIN to operate, & as the 1st resolver queried by the OS as well)?
That's illogical: I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make them drink!
... apk
W. Palant wrote me by email 1st saying "hosts are a shitty solution" to which I replied:
"Show us adblock can do more for added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than hosts can, + that adblock does it more efficiently than hosts"
Which on my latter 'point-in-challenge' on efficiency AdBlock's proven by research to be MASSIVELY inefficient -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... & adblock does FAR less than hosts (especially crippled by default).
I sent Wladimir Palant that challenge in response to his statement from 2 different email addresses I use!
Result = Still no answer from him in regard to my challenge put to him to this very day MONTHS later - that tell you anything? It did me!
He knows his addon is less efficient & features laden by FAR vs. hosts - Wladimir Palant RAN like a scared rabbit!
ClarityRay's also DESTROYING AdBlock - via native browser methods to DUMP what addons you use (it can't DO THAT to hosts files).
I only tell it how it is on hosts' superiority vs. AdBlock - Funny part is, Wladimir Palant running does too!
Especially considering "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" has 'souled-out' -> Google And Others Reportedly Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> Bottom-Line: Hosts = a superior solution that also fixes DNS redirect security issues (vs. browser addons & their inefficiencies + messagepassing overheads as well as myriad lack of abilities hosts have from 1 file that's part of the IP stack itself - faster, more efficient, & less redundant as well, since TCP/IP has 45++ yrs. of refinement & optimization in it, & runs in a higher CPU serviced ring of privelege & operations in kernelmode vs. slower usermode layering over browsers slowing them more, & hosts = 1st resolver queried by the OS itself also)... apk
Can your solution block these annoying posts about itself? If yes, then i'm in.
I'm not really here, it's just more probable that i'm here, than anywhere else.
Can your off topic bs block apk's facts of how hosts are better than ABP? No. Prove apk wrong: You can't!
"That link you provided is a website "powered by Malwarebytes". Nowhere on malwarebytes.org do they actually endorse your software (heck they don't even mention it ! I doubt they even know it exists)." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @07:31AM (#48367293)
No? Learn to read: "I'd suggest using HostsMan or APK Hosts File Engine as these will do it all for you;"
THAT'S @ THE TOP OF THAT PAGE, from Mr. Steven Burn, WHO RUNS THAT SITE FOR MALWAREBYTES (He's an employee of malwarebytes, who has seen & verified my sourcecode as safe, you moron).
* They also provide links to it on that same page later on lower down that page of theirs, stupid...
(Unbelievable how DUMB you trolls here truly are... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> IMPORTANT QUESTION: How does "eating your words" taste, stupid? LMAO... apk
APK's ware's been tested by the best in the industry, malwarebytes, stupid http://news.slashdot.org/comme... which shut the weirdo BarbaraHudson's mouth easily on this site on this account before (learn to read, moron) and tell us the answer to this question: How does "eating your words" taste? Struck a nerve when apk told the truth on "Open SORES", now didn't it? Truth hurts! You "Open SORES" goofs can't code and you steal code from those that can. By comparison? APK writes his own code, recommended as the best of its kind in fact per that link and verified as safe/not malware of any sort.Now, You, and those like you? No way. You can't. You steal code and pass it off as "yours" (lol, what a joke!).
I've never been "banned" on /., I just don't see the value in using a "registered 'luser'" account.
Answer the question in my subject then, big talker: Why are YOU posting ac?
ANSWER = YOU Took TOO many spankings from ME before that I can toss right back in your face why?? Yes... lol!
APK
P.S.=> Weak off topic little trolls can't prove my points of fact wrong on how hosts files provide more speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity vs. "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (crippled by default & sold out to Google, PLUS, limited as hell compared to hosts AND inefficient on RAM + CPU like mad compared to hosts also running in slower usermode slowing up already slower webbrowsers with more messagepassing also... and Adblock's being destroyed by ClarityRay ontop of all that too? Please... lol!)... apk
You can't validly prove my points on hosts wrong, & you can't show ABP doing more than hosts (lol) - & you KNOW it: I surely do, as does anybody else reading, it's SO damn obvious... lol!
* I seriously wonder just HOW MANY TIMES I have utterly SPANKED you on this account?
(Can't tell, unless you post using your "registered 'luser'" account here... & then, I'd just point out how many times (since I keep them bookmarked for laughs & times just like these)).
APK
P.S.=> The fact You HAVE to post AC proves my points above (since you've *TRIED* it before & failed, obviously) & so you can bogusly downmod my posts on hosts superiority to ABP & other INFERIOR BROWSER ADDONS - do you REALLY *think* you're "fooling anyone" other than yourself? apk
You missed the fact Mr. Steven Burn a malwarebytes employee runs hpHosts site & is an employee of theirs who verified my sourcecode as safe/clean?
* He is, you FAIL (as usual, lol) & THAT, is that.
APK
P.S.=> I absolutely *LOVE* making fools like yourself "eat your words", every single time... apk
If you use "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (crippled by default & sold out to advertisers + less capable & efficient than hosts) you're screwing yourself, badly... then again?
* You're MORE THAN WELCOME to validly prove my points on hosts superiority to AdBlock wrong, here -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
(Good luck - you'll NEED it: More like a miracle... since it can't be validly done!)
APK
P.S.=> No matter WHAT lowness you all step down to, including downmodding all my posts? You FAIL WHERE IT MATTERS - proving me, wrong (you can't, & anyone reading knows it, lol)... apk
See subject: What's anyone supposed to think here then, that YOU yourselves wrote it? Wrong. Truth got to you, didn't it? Yes, judging by your reaction. Open SORES plagiarism justifications don't cut it from you.
"He has to resort to proxies to AC-post here" - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @07:50AM (#48367351)
"I know isis: We'll be gone, before they get here..." - Mr. 7, StarTrek TOS "Assignment Earth" episode...
* THAT is pretty much all I can say to THAT quote of YOURS - I can't be caged/restricted...
( & NO, you are WRONG - I don't resort to the work of others to do it, as primitive limited OPEN SORES fools like you always have to do... I do it, myself (no limits)).
APK
P.S. => That's the big difference between guys like me, & those like you... & The old-schoolers around here should appreciate that - you can't stop me, for those reasons, pretty much... apk
Will this feature axe my google search/NSA history too? Didn't think so.
Again: I don't NEED the work of others (in proxies) to do unlimited posting here... get it? Good (about time)...
APK
P.S.=> Of course, YOU have difficulty comprehending that obviously - since all "the likes of YOU" can do, is use the work of others (as in proxies you alluded to) - not I... apk
See my subject-line? That's all YOU are capable of, "Open SORES" boy...
* Truth hurt? Obviously it does, based on your "FoAmiNg-@-The-MouTh" reaction, lol....
APK
P.S.=> Learn to construct code yourself - then, next time, the truth of Open SORES plagiarism you practice wouldn't get to you so badly... lmao! apk
That you yourself wrote as you were challenged to do by him. Apk's right about that.
Fact: AdBlock CAN'T DO all of what I listed by itself: Hosts can -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme... so you can mod those down ALL DAY as you have, & it doesn't change a thing... (& you know it, I know it, as does ANYONE ELSE READING too).
* See subject-line above: You fail... so does AdBlock!
APK
P.S.=> You're pitiful (& WEAK)... apk
sburn@malwarebytes.org (Now, the smell of YOU being burnt is palpable) & he'll verify he's seen my actual sourcecode, + verified it's clean - hence WHY they recommend my ware as "best of breed" for what it does (a something the trolling scum likes of YOU will never, EVER, be able to manage... heck: It's obvious you WISH YOU WERE ME!).
APK
P.S.=> Honestly? At this point, You're showing yourself as nothing more than a TOTALLY pitiful loser... apk
See subject-line: I'm could literally write my OWN if I wished - you can't, 1st of all (& it'd be MY OWN CODE, no someone else's ripped off ala "Open SORES" plagiarism).
Secondly (so it sinks in to a no-mind loser like yourself?)/Again:
I don't use proxies OR TOR to post here as much as I like... lol, & all the 'brainiacs' (lol, NOT) of /. can't figure it out HOW I do it (much less stop me).
Face facts: I'm WORLDS ABOVE the puny trolling "likes of you" (lowest of the LOW types of losers online).
APK
P.S.=> Again: You're a pitiful little trolling "ne'er-do-well" no skills in computing stooge, nothing more... apk
I sent an email and got the following reply:
Dear Antony Curacao,
I've indeed been contacted by an individual named Alexander P. Kowalski.
The guy seems highly delusional and completely crazy, his code is batshit insane (trust me you don't wanna see that)
However he threatened to troll us till the end of time like he's been doing on slashdot for years. In order to get rid of his abysmal incoherent emails spamming me *dozens* of times a day, I choose to put that advice on some obscure webpage outside of malwarebytes.org.
I eventually managed to make him believe that this was some sort of great accomplishment of his and he's left us alone since then.
Please don't tell him. We don't want to receive another thousand of his crappy spams again.
Kind regards,
Steven Burn
you can email the dude if you don't believe it !!
Why would he recommend it as the best on his website here then? http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... You're not believable.
Why would he recommend it as the best on his website
He does not, learn to read. The word "best" doesn't even appear on that page. You are ridiculous Peter (and stop acting like it's not you we all know it is. Standard M.O. from a psycho)
Looks good to me "I'd suggest using HostsMan or APK Hosts File Engine as these will do it all for you"
There's actual good solid running code here ... http://start64.com/index.php?o...
That's no code!
All there is on that page at start64 is a binary installer in a zip file. Not a single line of legible code
Are we to understand that you don't know what "code" means ? not knowing what a proxy is was already bad enough for an (alleged) B.Sc., you're going deep down here.
So we went down from "it's the best out there" to "I'd sugest ... it will do it". And you're not even his first choice as HostsMan takes the lead.
I finally feel we're getting somewhere with you. With that nice example, do you begin to understand that words have a meaning ?
You're not mentioned as good anywhere. You're a "ne'er-do-well" troll, nothing more.
Considering you are offtopic & a complete "ne'er-do-well" troll that can't code "hello world" especially, lmao... you're giving me guff?
* Sorry - now *IF* you were a competent peer of mine, which you are not evidenced by your lack of doing *anything* we could see in the way of programs you've done? Then, *MAYBE* I'd take your b.s. to heart... otherwise? You're nothing more than a useless online off topic trolling "ne'er-do-well" (& you KNOW it - we all do).
APK
P.S.=> It makes me wonder how completely STUPID some people can be sometimes (but not after reading your stupidities)... apk
Code you wrote and prove AdBlock can do more than hosts can http://news.slashdot.org/comme... from the points apk put out on that account. Understand first that we all know you can't do either so keep making yourself so easy to setup and knock down like a bowling pin, troll: Keep us laughing at you!
hahaha, APK has been defeated by a troll. He was shown to lie to everyone about his software being "the best out there" when it's not. lmao... napk
You can't show any code you did. You also can't prove apk wrong on hosts being better than adblock http://news.slashdot.org/comme... by a mile. You got slapped!
You can't prove apk wrong on hosts doing far more than adblock here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... so apk's defeated you from the very start here moron, by letting you defeat yourself. Works for him every single time.
You can't prove apk wrong on AdBlock's inferiority to hosts herehttp://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6015253&cid=48360419 and you talk a lousy game being unable to produce a shred of code you've done yourself (obviously that much is beyond a troll like yourself, of course, which we all realize).
you were wrong saying that your crapware is the best. you're defeated apk, stop hiding behind sockpuppets. It's both ilharious and pitiful to see you hide like that, coward!! (or speaking 3rd person, who knows)
plus when you send short lines like this through sockpuppets instead of your usual diatribe, it means that you *feel* defeated. now you've just to admit it, after that life will seem easier, you'll see :)
It's clearly the best being recommended as such http://news.slashdot.org/comme... so where's your your programs you've written? Answer = they're not. You're full of hot air and nothing more than a useless off topic "ne'er-do-well" troll.
On hosts being better doing more than AdBlock here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... and you can't. You fail as always.
hosts cannot block self-hosted ads. hosts cannot white-list. hosts cannot selectively block *anything* (blocking templates). hosts rely on unknown potentially sold-out 3rd parties and are slow to update (poor reactivity) and search (poor linear lookup).
now if only apk could
127.0.0.1 slashdot.org
this would suddenly be a smarter place.
hey, apk !! is "127.0.0.1 *" even possible ? can you try it for us ?
Shown here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... Real ads don't pay if they're hosted on the same server. Hosts can 'white list' your favorite sites (placed at the top of hosts files equates to ~ 3 million indexed lookups if you keep 25 or so such favorite sites) making them access faster since they get cached into ram (rest of the blocked sites' speed doesn't matter, they're known bad and blocked. Who cares how fast you get to those when you don't ever intend to get to them). Hosts perfectly selectively block ads, malware, spam, and more.
* You fail again on all accounts.
APK
P.S.=> You're way, Way, WAY TOO TECHNICALLY "WEAK" to even BEGIN to *THINK* the trolling likes of "you" could even "try" me... you're too weak! apk
And hosts enjoy systemwide protection due to limited amounts users being able to edit them; hosts are also many times more efficient than adblock in terms of ram and cpu use https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... as well as operating in a higher cpu serviced ring of privelege in kernelmode as opposed to usermode browsers, which are slowed up even more by layering on more message passing overheads by layering in browser addons. Fact: AdBlock can't do a fraction of what hosts can OR nearly as efficiently as shown here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... either. Real ads don't pay if they're hosted on the same server. Hosts can 'white list' your favorite sites (placed at the top of hosts files equates to ~ 3 million indexed lookups if you keep 25 or so such favorite sites) making them access faster since they get cached into ram (rest of the blocked sites' speed doesn't matter, they're known bad and blocked. Who cares how fast you get to those when you don't ever intend to get to them). Hosts perfectly selectively block ads, malware, spam, and more. You fail again on all accounts.
They're advertisers (who not only suck up your bandwidth you pay for, but also have infected us many times over the years also due to their negligence on checking exactly what goes on in ads), stupid.
* Get it? Good...
(As for your illusions on self-hosted ads paying? LMAO - admen don't TRUST webmasters on clickcounts, so THAT is not going to happen... & thus your 1 "advantage" IS PURE BULLSHIT, & MOOT!)
Oh, & on 'whitelisting': Ever heard of, or seen, hosts.allow &/or hosts.deny on Linux?
APK
P.S.=> You still can't show "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (inefficient in RAM + CPU use as hell -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... AND slower in usermode, slowing up usermode slower browsers as is, with added messagepassing overheads + CPU & RAM use that's outta control too - crippled by default & SOLD OUT to advertisers as well NOT DOING ITS JOB & being crushed by ClarityRAY too...) doing MORE THAN HOSTS CAN or as efficiently in kernelmode with less CPU & RAM consumed (since it can't & YOU KNOW IT, lol) -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
... apk
"my program have been written and sold to private companies. Yours ? no one wants them, they're crap, so you feel forced to distribute them for free in a pitiful attempt to save face, lol. And even then nobody sane uses them LMAO!!" -
Write Mr. Eric Dickman of SuperSpeed.com (formerly EEC Systems) who bought out my code for their SuperCache I/II system, ok? You'll "eat your words", chump...
(That's also NOT counting the dozens of "enterprise class" sized systems & 100's of smaller programs I'd written as a professional programmer in the MIS/IS/IT realm 1994-2010 as a professional programmer I did too...)
You were asked WHICH companies allegedly bought code from you earlier - you OMIT ANSWERING (due to your lies no doubt, that you can't backup with substantiating facts)... lol!
The gent I ask you to write above? He'll tell you the ideas I had for using SuperCache + SuperDisk made SQLServer increase its performance by up to 40% by using techniques (placing DB devices onto SuperDisk) I noted on their website alongside Mr. John Enck (Windows IT Pro technical editor) to do so, allowing it FINALIST PLACEMENT in the hardest category there 2 yrs. in a row (2000-2002) in "SQLServer Performance Enhancement"... you done better?
Let's see it then from you.
APK
P.S.=> You, or the trolling "likes of you"? Junior, listen: I was doing things like winning esteemed tradeshows in the field of computing while you were STILL IN DIAPERS (that, or making publications galore in the software realm in the same timeframe while working FULL-TIME as a programmer/analyst - software engineer too)... apk
That's right: See subject-line above, and realize - You failed http://news.slashdot.org/comme... Hahahahaha
On 15 things AdBlock can't do, hosts can, here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... (hosts do all that. What both it and adblock do, hosts do more and better with less, no less. Hosts operate globally systemwide (no user left out) with WFP protection + ACL protection adblock doesn't have)).
Further, I don't see any evidence of their forums being hacked (big deal, not hard to do, they didn't write their forums ware either, after all), not that it matters here.
By contrast, I did see evidence of MalwareBytes' ability to take overall best here in a very recent test of efficacy of the wares they did write, which were better than anybody else's in the antivirus/antispyware genre of software this year though, here http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
Your point on self-hosted ads is also moot: Ads that pay aren't served from the same server: Admen don't trust webmasters on view click counts.
On 15 things AdBlock can't do, hosts can, here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... (hosts do all that. What both it and adblock do, hosts do more and better with less, no less. Hosts operate globally systemwide (no user left out) with WFP protection + ACL protection adblock doesn't have)).
and as we expected you avoid answering (and your answer is off target because you didn't understand what we were saying), we've shown you things adblock and others can do that hosts cannot do, thus proving that hosts files are useless and unpractical for actual (aka real-life, as opposed to your fantasy-la-la-land) use-cases.
Further, I don't see any evidence of their forums being hacked
look harder. are you that incompetent that you cannot JFGI ? my grandkids could find that info in 5 sec.
Your point on self-hosted ads is also moot.
it's moot only if you're technically weak. to well-informed rational people, it's not moot. look harder.
You can't show adblock does more, more efficiently than hosts http://news.slashdot.org/comme... and your "so-called 'points'" were b.s.: Advertisers don't trust webmasters on clickview counts, so ads being served from the same server as a website DON'T PAY (and which is why you rarely, if ever, see one). I also don't see any proof of malwarebytes' forums being hacked (not that that would be their fault: Forums wares are easy to hack, and malwarebytes didn't write their forums ware code). I did however, by comparison, see malwarebytes being the most effective antivirus/antispyware package there is as of this very recent test from a reputable source (which you don't have, just b.s. only out of you) http://www.av-test.org/en/news... where what they did write does the job better than anyone else, and they host + recommend apk's host file engine as the best of its kind, doing all you need to create, manage, and optimize hosts files (which do more for speed, security, and reliability online than adblock could ever do).
AdBlock's being eaten alive by ClarityRay (hosts aren't and can't be).
Thanks for playing, see subject-line above, & this link (you fail) -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
* :)
(See that bolded part above? Truth's like that... lol!)
Additionally, once more:
Your "so-called 'points'" are TOTAL bullshit!
(As again, ads that pay aren't served from the same server (which is why you RARELY, if ever, see them that way) - admen don't trust webmaster's view/click counts).
APK
P.S.=> Adblock's SOLD-OUT to NOT do its job-> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
AdBlock's being destroyed by ClarityRay (which can't affect hosts files) ->
AdBlock's also inefficient as hell vs. hosts (eating up 4++gb of RAM & tearing up CPU like mad, not to mention it runs in usermode slowness adding to messagepassing overheads in usermode browsers, slowing them up even more https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... )
AdBlock's also REDUNDANT (hosts do the job way, Way, WAY BEFORE browser addons even start to run - and hosts are in kernelmode (faster/more cpu allowed) vs. usermode browsers + addons... hosts are queried LONG before addons work, period)... apk
Hosts are easy to update fast & current via my work here http://start64.com/index.php?o...
Hosts can "whitelist" easily - don't put things you want BLOCKED INTO HOSTS (are you stupid?) & you can even speed up your favorite sites by entering them hardcoded @ the top of a hosts file for more speed (+ reliability vs. DNS poisoning).
Sold out, you say? Tell us about "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" selling out -> & then, tell us another one (what you are, clearly, is an imbecile). Nothing "POTENTIAL" about that, per this reputable source http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... on that note (adblock selling out to NOT DO ITS JOB RIGHT).
Hosts are FASTER & MORE EFFICIENT (and work, unlike adblock, crippled by default & sold out like it is) by far since they're queried & in use LONG before browser addons are, or didn't THIS point that out to you also (lousy efficiency) https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...
Poor linear lookup? Putting your fav sites hardcoded into hosts @ the top of them as I noted earlier above easily BLOWS ADBLOCK AWAY since hosts gets cached into RAM like any file does, dimwit! Rest of its entries are blocked, known as bad on many grounds (who cares how 'fast' you get to those - you never intended to reach them anyhow).
User specific? Are you THAT stupid?? Hosts operate GLOBALLY protecting globally as they ought to, offering more speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity (that adblock just CAN'T DO, or match, period).
Lastly/Again: Ads that are served from the SAME server as a site don't pay - admen don't trust webmaster viewcounts is why. You rarely, IF EVER, see those. They're not practical and neither is your other bullshit, lol!
APK
P.S.=> You fail again & totally, POINT BY POINT above... & of course, you also FAILED to disprove my points on things Adblock CAN NEVER, EVER DO (that hosts can) in a 15++:.5 ratio, here -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme... - ROTFLMAO! This was "too easy"... apk
Hosts can "whitelist" easily - don't put things you want BLOCKED INTO HOSTS
that's where you show that you're off: hosts cannot forbid ads everywhere but on a few select websites (e.g. your favorite website you want to support). that's called a whitelist :).
Sold out, you say? Tell us about "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" selling out
we didn't say adblock wasn't probably sold out, we said hosts were probably sold out.
hosts gets cached into RAM like any file does
so, to sum it up, on the one hand, you say adblock is bloated and slow because it's using RAM, but on the other hand hosts are fast like light because they're loaded in RAM. see the problem here ?
User specific? [...] Hosts operate GLOBALLY protecting globally as they ought to, offering more speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity (that adblock just CAN'T DO, or match, period).
and again, you avoid addressing the issue with this: "This means that a non-admin user cannot set this up, and has exactly zero way to configure it at will. So if you're at work on a work laptop with non-admin right. hosts cannot help you. Adblock ? easy ! three clicks away."
you fail so much it ain't funny anymore.
Lastly/Again: Ads that are served from the SAME server as a site don't pay - admen don't trust webmaster viewcounts is why. You rarely, IF EVER, see those.
only because you fail at understanding what is asked from you:
hosts cannot block self-hosted ads
a yes/no answer would do.
so, from your lunatic posts all over the place, the answers to the 7 points are:
1, 2, 6 and 7: no
3, 4 and 5: yes
for 3: "they're sold, but so is adblock" is your argument
for 4: "use my crapware" is your argument"
for 5: "go through the bothering process of sorting your file with your favorite sites at the top" is your argument
and you still haven't produced a single line of code or a single proof of all your so-called accomplishments or any diploma you could have.
in any dictionary from now on, right next to the word "failure", there will be a "(syn. apk)"
Adblock IS sold-out, no questions asked, proof's right here http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
See subject above? Simply edit hosts: There's your whitelist (or rename hosts to deactivate it temporarily, & then rename it back if need be...).
Hosts do NOT eat up 4++ gb of RAM like Adblock does (or tear up CPU like mad too) -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...
Ever heard of "run as" or rightclick run as admin? It's an option you know (or it's doable in shortcuts, easily) - you really show you're weak in computing there.
Self-hosted ads don't PAY, fool - you will rarely, IF EVER, see them because of that. Admen do NOT trust webmasters on click counts.
APK
P.S.=> You fail: Especially since hosts do TONS more than Adblock EVER could, & more efficiently by far, on MANY levels (kernelmode operations, not redundant like browser addons with their messagepassing overheads + huge RAM & CPU Usage proven above, AND hosts are queried 1st as the resolver long before redundant inefficient addons even start working)... apk
See subject-line above: MalwareBytes = BEST in the business for antivirus results -> http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
MalwareBytes also recommend, & HOST, my program here http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
* :)
(I haven't heard tell of their forums being hacked - big deal: They didn't WRITE that forums board ware (they're easy to mess with too) but they SURE DID WRITE THE BEST ANTIVIRUS!)
APK
P.S.=> As usual, you fail, badly: Even MORESO here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... where I shot your "so-called 'points'" (pure bullshit, lol) to pieces - AND IT'S FUNNIER THAN HELL YOU CAN'T TOUCH MY 15 POINTS here http://news.slashdot.org/comme... that show 15 things adblock can't do for more speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity that hosts CAN ... apk
You can't prove otherwise here (lmao) & you know it http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
POINT-BY-POINT ANNIHILATING YOU AS USUAL:
Can HostsMan do 64-bit? No.
Can HostsMan function minus sqlite?? No (which is also partially WHY hostsman can't go 64-bit too)
IF sqlite *ever* "goes under"? Hostsman's shot (hate to say it, the author's on the right track as I am vs. browser addons inefficacy, & inefficiency)
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Nobody recommends *anything* from you either (hahaha) & yes, they have links on this page to my ware (which they also host for me) -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... AND yes, they recommend my program above other ones like it (with good reason, see above again...).
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Whitelisting in hosts is as simple as NOT putting entries into hosts to block a site or ad - yes, it's THAT simple to 'whitelist' an entry for hosts.
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Again: Ads on the same server as a website don't pay - advertisers don't TRUST webmasters alleged clickview counts (I don't blame admen that either actually).
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Hosts protect globally & themselves are protected by WPF + ACL (if not readonly attributes) - they protect the machine and people using it, all the time, as they ought to.
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AdBlock's SOLD OUT to NOT DO ITS JOB properly http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... (hosts aren't).
You want to be inefficient as hell, ala -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... ?
* Well, then I suppose that's YOUR business (since you want to be stupid... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> This line of bullshit totally takes the cake from you:
"your so-called 15 points have been debunked by us 10 years ago many times." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:07AM
So it all makes total sense WHY you can't prove my points wrong on how hosts can do 15 things, adblock just plain can't (& what they BOTH do, hosts do more efficiently & better - period) -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme... ... always a pleasure letting you annihilate yourself (while I just sit back & laugh)... apk
See subject-line above & "Read 'em and weep", troll https://adblockplus.org/blog/f...
"you fail: a company using insecure software " - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @05:41AM (#48456319)
LMAO - I love it... pure reverse psychology, and with proof (so much for YOUR bullshit: As I said - & as the forums folks @ MalwareBytes said: "It can happen to anyone" & yes, it did, lol... oddly enough to YOUR favorite too (neither wrote the forums board wares, so I excuse it personally - but malwarebytes did the right thing & moved their forums directly to invision OFF OF MALWAREBYTES' SERVERS - did ABP? Not afaik...)
Plus, of course, MalwareBytes IS #1 in antivirus/antispyware http://www.av-test.org/en/news... of this recent test.
APK
P.S.=> Which is only 1 of more than a few incidences I can cite on AdBlock/ABP forums OR more importantly, their data, being hacked... HOWEVER, ADBLOCK'S ACTUAL WARE DATA WAS HACKED - malwarebytes' code itself wasn't, lol!
... apk
A dose of your own medicine used against you, perfectly (AdBlock hacked) -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
* Had enough FAILING on your end yet? Keep coming... this is great practice!
(@ Annihilating TECHNICALLY WEAK wannabes... like you!)
APK
P.S.=> Want to make ads work for 1 site only? Rename hosts to hostsX for example while you're @ that site, it'll show its ads - then, when you're done there? Rename it back (a simple batchfile from MVPS does that for you in fact -> http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ho... ) - Clue: YOU FAIL YET AGAIN... as always!
... apk