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Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions?

An anonymous reader writes: One of the most powerful features of modern browsers is the ability to install third-party extensions. They allow third-party developers to work on really useful niche functionality, and let users customize their browser with the tools they need. Unfortunately, this environment has the same discover-ability and security problems as standalone software. Thus, my question: what are your most useful (and safe) browser extensions? I can't live without some privacy basics like NoScript, AdBlock, and Ghostery. I also find FoxyProxy helpful for getting around geolocation requirements for media streaming. OneTab works pretty well for saving groups of browser tabs, and Pushbullet keeps getting better at managing my phone while I'm at my PC.

353 comments

  1. Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Try the "Noob" extension.

    1. Re:Really? by Darinbob · · Score: 0

      I thought "noobs" were a problem best dealt with by a training bra.

    2. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Better than "moobs" I guess.

  2. Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A lot of these addons have millions of downloads. Perhaps browser makers need to get the message and include popular functionality that people want.

    1. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by master_kaos · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well think aboout it, why would Google want to have adblock enabled by default, when most of there revenue comes from ads.
      Similar with mozilla where a lot of there revenue comes from google (or I guess yahoo now)
      Microsoft with bing.

    2. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I remember people making this argument when Firefox was just a wee bare bones browser named Phoenix. Now look at it! Look at what it has become!

    3. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Of course they'd want to block the ads, all but their own. Imagine the PR nightmare that would create though.

    4. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Krojack · · Score: 2

      Browser: Google Chrome
      Extension: Tabs to the front!
      What it does: Brings newly created tabs to the foreground.

      When opening a link in a new tab on my phone and having to take the extra time to then change to it enrages me. Why would anyone long press a link and choose "Open in new tab" and not want to view that tab right away? Why does Chrome toss it in the back?

    5. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I almost always want the new tab to open in the back. I'm usually opening shit that I want to read after I finish whatever I'm currently reading.

    6. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I open things in new tabs all the time that I want to read after I'm done with the current page. What you really need is a way to do both behaviors according to the situation.

    7. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Tower · · Score: 2

      Having a setting for that would be nice, but I much prefer my new tabs to pop to the back. I will usually scan through a page and open the set of links I want to read, then read them after the page I'm on, or switch and dive into one, but a lot of times it is just to build the queue. On my phone, I open them just so I can read them on a real screen later, since I can see my tabs and history from all devices.

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    8. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by lectos · · Score: 1

      Porn

    9. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by JMJimmy · · Score: 5, Informative

      As well, why not have a neutral platform you can build on to your needs instead of introducing bloat that only some people will like/use.

      Firefox:
        - AdBlock Plus + Element Hiding Helper
        - Chatzilla (IRC Chat)
        - FireFTP
        - SnapLinks Plus (right click multi-link select/copy/open)
        - Firebug
        - HTTPS Everywhere
        - Quickdrag (drag drop links into white space to open in new tab, drag drop images to download them)
        - SQLite Manager (manually browse and fix Mozilla's privacy blunders)
        - TableTools2 (manage table data when site options don't offer it)
        - YouTube HD (forces specific sizes when possible)
        - Live HTTP Headers (see what's really being sent)

    10. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Dorianny · · Score: 3, Informative

      Add:

      FlashControl (To disable automatic running of applets is a must with the constant 0-day exploits and the widespread use of tracking applets.)

      Vanilla Cookie Manager (automatic clean up after gorging on cookies.)

    11. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by gsslay · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Having them as addons is the browser makers getting the message. Some people want what an addon does, some people don't. Providing capability for addons to deliver functionality is giving people exactly what they want, and not burdening them with stuff they don't want.

      Or would you rather have your browsers provided as bloatware full of functionality you don't want and can't get rid of?

    12. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by codeButcher · · Score: 1
      Apart from finishing the current article and starting new one(s) only then, continuing to read the current article also allows a slow link to finish the non-instantaneous (sometimes painful) process of loading.

      I've you'd used Firefox, you would have a little checkbox that allowed you to choose between the two options sans plugins.

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    13. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by qvatch · · Score: 2

      Or, as firefox says, why not both?

    14. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      FlashContol, FlashBlock etc are no longer needed. Both Firefox and Chrome support it out of the box, for all plugins: flash, java applets, silverlight, adobe pdf, etc

    15. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Bengie · · Score: 1

      Wow, thanks for the list. I'll have to see if Chrome has anything like "YouTube HD". I hate how YouTube defaults to 480p for me, buffers about 1/2 of the video instantly, then I switch to 720p just to have it reload. Seems so wasteful since I almost exclusive use 720p for my low resolution, except when listening to mix-music.

    16. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Snotnose · · Score: 1

      Me too. Having the new tab be on top would drive me nuts.

    17. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 2

      I'll add:
      NoScript (stops most of the baddies, just turn on what you need, when you need it)
      Ghostery (clean up what AdBlock Plus and NoScript miss)
      FireSSH (because FTP's inherently insecure)
      Leet Key (great for transforming all sorts of text)
      gTranslate (in-context automatic language translation!)
      Tree Style Tab (if you use lots of tabs)

    18. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chatzilla (IRC Chat)

      Don't give Mozilla any ideas, or the next version of Firefox will have a full fledged IRC client built in. I think they're already working on the kitchen sink.

    19. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by JMJimmy · · Score: 1

      Definitely going to check out some of those, thanks!

    20. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by JMJimmy · · Score: 1

      Chatzilla (IRC Chat)

      Don't give Mozilla any ideas, or the next version of Firefox will have a full fledged IRC client built in. I think they're already working on the kitchen sink.

      Chatzilla has been around for years. It is a full fledged IRC client as an addon - pretty light weight as well.

    21. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      A lot of these addons have millions of downloads. Perhaps browser makers need to get the message and include popular functionality that people want.

      And then you end up with Firefox as it is now, (stupid UI decisions aside) losing users who want their browser to be lightweight and only have the plugins that they actually want.

    22. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by RabidReindeer · · Score: 1

      A lot of these addons have millions of downloads. Perhaps browser makers need to get the message and include popular functionality that people want.

      Ah, you mean functions like not having the buttons and links bounce up and down because the browser keeps re-organizing the page as it loads new elements? Or refreshes and re-scrolls back to the top while you're halfway down reading something. Or suppressing the pushy ads that shove everything you're trying to look at out of the way?

      Nah. Who'd want a plugin for that?

    23. Re: Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Kvathe · · Score: 1

      You might want to listen to music in 720p as well; according to Google audio from videos at less than 720p plays at a lower bitrate.

    24. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by labnet · · Score: 1

      What. No treetab control.
      This is the first thing I install on Firefox. I have 50+ tabs open at any one time, and don't get how anyone can do that with horizontal tabs.

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    25. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by spitzak · · Score: 1

      Because they want a reliable way to return to the previous page. If you use the new tab a lot there will be a huge number of history items you would have to back up over to go back to the original page.

      I prefer opening the new tab in back, however. I probably want to keep reading the page I clicked.

      I seem to remember earlier Android browser having two items on the pop-up, one for a foreground tab and another for a background tab. Either my memory is faulty or this was removed a few years ago.

    26. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This should certainly be a settable feature.

      I have the opposite use case. I see a page full of thumbnails that represent pictorials of... gardening techniques. I open 6 tabs going through the page scrolling down until I've completed it, then I go to the tabs to see if any of the.... gardening tips were worthwhile. Computer-folk will call this a breadth first search. It is no more valid than a depth first search. It's just different.

    27. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by JMJimmy · · Score: 1

      I tend not to have that many tabs open at once since they introduced the "reload on restart" (for lack of a better name). Since I've got to reload the content of a tab after a restart of the browser I figure it's faster to just re-search the page rather than sort through the tabs to figure out which tab belongs to what information. Especially since not all tabs have useful title names.

    28. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by JMJimmy · · Score: 1

      Oh and to clarify - normally I wouldn't restart the browser but Windows 8.1 has a limit of 2GB of accessible 32bit memory so every time I launch a game I have to quit firefox or get nag messages from Win8 about low RAM (which pull me out of the game). If I could I'd just leave the browser open.

    29. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by smithmc · · Score: 1

      Google could include an adblocker that blocks everything but Google ads...?

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    30. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by jeffmflanagan · · Score: 1

      Same here. It's bad enough that searching Google for a word in a page opens Google in the foreground in Chrome.

    31. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Get a real computer? Run 64 bit?

      Who the hell runs games with only 3.5 GB of ram (32 bit limit)?

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    32. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      FlashControl and FlashBlock are also not needed if you don't use Flash.

    33. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by JMJimmy · · Score: 1

      Get a real computer? Run 64 bit?

      Who the hell runs games with only 3.5 GB of ram (32 bit limit)?

      I'm running 64bit but I can't control whether a program runs in 32bit or 64bit. Firefox 64bit will solve the browser portion of it - Win8 is just fucked.

    34. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Multifox.

      Some time ago Firefox guys were planning to add support for multiple identity profiles but for some reasons (revenue?) it hasn't happened yet. Luckily Multifox does that just fine. You can open your gmail account in one window and still browse the web somewhat anonymously in another window.

    35. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by WiPEOUT · · Score: 1

      Adblock Edge for those who don't want "acceptable" ads showing up.

    36. Re: Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      This makes... no sense. Even with a 32-bit OS, each process gets its own address space. Quitting the browser won't free-up any "more" RAM for your game, regardless of the architecture.

      It may cut-down on swapping to virtual memory, but that's just about speed, not about the OS whining about RAM.

      Are you running with severely limited RAM (my definition would be 2GiB or less for Windows 8, either 32-bit or 64-bit).

    37. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by penguinoid · · Score: 1

      Having them as addons is the browser makers getting the message. Some people want what an addon does, some people don't. Providing capability for addons to deliver functionality is giving people exactly what they want, and not burdening them with stuff they don't want.

      If most people want a certain addon, it could be included by default in a new install. Then the people who don't want it can still remove it. I wish they had done it this way with a Chrome-clone addon that could be removed, instead of converting Firefox into wannabe-Chrome.

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    38. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Why would anyone long press a link and choose "Open in new tab" and not want to view that tab right away?

      Typically when I want to read something straight away I click on it and when I'm done I click back.
      When I open up new tabs I typically want to queue my reading for later and instead continue going down the page.

      There's a good reason for the default behaviour. That said there's no good reason for this not to simply be an optional flag in the settings.

    39. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 1

      A lot of these addons have millions of downloads. Perhaps browser makers need to get the message and include popular functionality that people want.

      Sadly, things look like they're heading in the opposite direction. The first thing I do with a new install of Chromefox is download a pile of extensions to turn it back into Firefox, but it seems like every new release requires even more extensions to undo the Chromefox braindamage. So at least for that browser, the developers are making changes that force you to download more extensions, not less.

    40. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by JMJimmy · · Score: 1

      Or just uncheck the box.

    41. Re: Browser Makers Should Get The Message by CrackedButter · · Score: 1

      No. I want to collect the links in the background after reading the parent article. The back button is even worse if it has to reload the original page.

      Which Slashdot does by the way.

    42. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I Like these:
      Clearly by Evernote;
      Pearl Crescent for screenshots of the entire page;
      NetVideoHunter for media;
      Anything that blocks facebook!

    43. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Middle click the link, it does exactly that.

    44. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      epub

    45. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message by jwhitener · · Score: 1

      Do you have a reason for using flashcontrol over flashblock? Just curious.

  3. Hola by X10 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hola internet is the most useful plugin. It helps me watch video's from the US, Canada and the UK that are limited to their respective countries. I wonder, I have BBC on my TV, I can rightfully watch any BBC program, but I can't use the service on the bbc web site to watch it a day later. With Hola, I can.

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    1. Re:Hola by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      *videos

    2. Re:Hola by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Went to check this out, but at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hola/ all I found was:

      "This add-on has been disabled by an administrator."

    3. Re:Hola by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you're cool with other people using YOUR internet connection to look up stuff then by all means... keep using this.

    4. Re:Hola by JackieBrown · · Score: 1

      Same here. I'd check is their website has the download but my job blocks all sites related to proxies.

    5. Re:Hola by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do you have a TV License? if not then stop leeching off those that do.

  4. Adblock by master_kaos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Adblock is the 2nd thing I install on a fresh install (right after Chrome)
    I had the misfortune of having to use a computer that did not have it installed. The internet pretty much seemed unusable.

    1. Re:Adblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I had the same experience. I actually tried to give no ad blocker a chance but so many of the websites I tried to go to would not load in a reasonable amount of time. At first I just stopped following links, but eventually a case came up where really wanted to know what was said on the other side... so installed the ad blocker. It is very strange behavior to make your page unreadable due to advertisements.

    2. Re:Adblock by Hadlock · · Score: 4, Informative

      Adblock, Flashblock, uBlock, Ghostery all pick up slightly different items to block which combined do a pretty good job of breaking things like Facebook (whitelisted) and news sites with embedded non-youtube videos. I just don't watch embedded videos anymore, the article is typically better anyways.
       
      Now that Youtube is HTML5 by default for 99.99% of their videos you can safely enable flashblock for 100% of all sites, the only one I have whitelisted anymore is Pandora because they're stuck in 2007.

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    3. Re:Adblock by KiloByte · · Score: 4, Informative

      Adblock and Ghostery work on an opt-out basis, which is semi-adequate for ads and totally inadequate for tracking. Request Policy is my #1 mandatory extension.

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    4. Re:Adblock by NotDrWho · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      When you hear "The Internet" in 2015, do you seriously still think of telnet, gopher, and ftp?

      Because almost no one else does.

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    5. Re:Adblock by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Informative

      Adblock and uBlock use the same rules and subscriptions. They pick up exactly the same stuff, you don't need both. Ghostery is worth having, or Privacy Badger. Flashblock seems kind of redundant, since you can just enable click-to-play on plug-ins.

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    6. Re:Adblock by Dins · · Score: 0

      Lighten up, Francis...

      Yes, we all know there's a difference between the internet and the world wide web, but sometimes for the sake of convenient reference, the world wide web is just "the internet"...

    7. Re:Adblock by aaaaaaargh! · · Score: 2

      I'd go a little farther and suggest that AdBlock Edge is the most useful plugin. I highly recommend it.

    8. Re:Adblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yeah. noscript goes in first.

    9. Re:Adblock by Hadlock · · Score: 1

      That's interesting you say they pick up the same stuff, I have both running and Adblock picks up 2 items on this slashdot comment page, while uBlock picks up 3. I made sure I'm blocking everything on both with no whitelisted items.
       
      I am using the Adblock chrome extension from getadblock.com, there are several extensions marketed as "Adblock", maybe we are using different extensions.

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    10. Re:Adblock by Fencepost · · Score: 2

      Heh, I reinstalled Windows recently along with switching to a SSD, and apparently didn't install Flash. I didn't miss it until I saw mention of one of the Flash 0-day exploits and a new update, so I went looking to confirm that it had updated.

      Of course, I run with NoScript and RequestPolicy, so I wouldn't have been seeing much Flash content anyway.

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    11. Re:Adblock by Anubis+IV · · Score: 4, Informative

      uBlock and AdBlock do indeed block the same stuff, but if you're going to pick one, go with uBlock, since it's significantly more efficient.

    12. Re:Adblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Dammit you sound like my mum. It's the www, not the Internet, that seemed unusable.

      Wait, you think saying World Wide Web is more modern than saying Internet?
      It would be more correct to say that HTML doesn't work anymore, but not even that is correct.

    13. Re:Adblock by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 3, Funny

      Adblock, Flashblock, uBlock, Ghostery all pick up slightly different items to block which combined do a pretty good job of breaking things like Facebook

      Breaking Facebook is a feature, not a bug, right?

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    14. Re:Adblock by fisted · · Score: 1, Troll
      I'm not AC, but kind of agree with them, so..

      When you hear "The Internet" in 2015, do you seriously still think of telnet, gopher, and ftp?

      Telnet? Occasionally used to play nethack, or as a replacement for netcat missing on Windows machines
      Gopher? Not really.
      FTP? Erm, yes? Although I don't like the fact, it is still very relevant.

      Because almost no one else does.

      Since you decided to hand-pick examples which suit your argument, let me do the same.
      When you hear "The Internet" in 2015, do you seriously still think of email, XMPP, bittorrent?

      Because almost noone else does.(*)

      (*) Oh, wait.

    15. Re:Adblock by pr0fessor · · Score: 1

      I use telnet and SFTP, FTPS [not ftp] all the time, but when you say internet I think of a jerk facebooking and playing games on his smart phone constantly, while having a conversation, in the line at the grocery store, while driving, while on the pot... and I think we really screwed that up.

    16. Re:Adblock by firewrought · · Score: 3, Informative

      Request Policy is my #1 mandatory extension.

      For those who are unfamiliar with it, Request Policy works a lot like NoScript... it lists the domains that the page is trying to load *any* content from (not just scripts), and you whitelist which cross-domain loads you want to allow. On slashdot, for instance, I'm allowing requests to fsdn.com, but disallowing them to gstatic.com and scorecardreasearch.com.

      I use it myself, but I can't recommend it. Too much of the web breaks. Credit card payments that bounce to a payment processor's website are especially problematic (I've gotten double-billed at least once). And using it in front of other people is especially awkward when I have to fiddle with a new site for a few minutes to get it to work. Also, I don't know that this provides that much better privacy than AdBlock+EasyPrivacy or some of the host-file blacklists.

      Maybe with some extra development Request Policy could be a lot easier. Integration with (or incorporation into) NoScript and/or a community of well-maintained whitelists would make a big difference.

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    17. Re:Adblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've found that 10-15 minutes after using a computer without some form of adblocking in the browser, the machine usually is compromised via some 0-day.

      Ad blocking extensions have done far more for system security than any AV utility out there. I stated this ten years ago, and it still holds true now.

    18. Re:Adblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Adblock, Flashblock, uBlock, Ghostery all pick up slightly different items to block

      Well, that might be, but since Ghostery was bought by an ad/tracking firm it is definitely off my list.

    19. Re:Adblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now imagine a computer with Firefox, with extensions that aren't crippled by design like Chrome's.

    20. Re:Adblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When I hear "the Internet" in 2015, I think about a giant network of computers, all using various protocols as needed to communicate various data structures to each other. Telnet and FTP are most certainly part of that. Gopher, not so much.

      The "world wide web" isn't even a blip in my thoughts anymore. It's just HTTP traffic on the Internet. And there's so much of it that isn't meant for human visibility anymore that the "WWW" is barely even worth thinking about.

      So in a way, you're both (parent and GP) wrong.

    21. Re:Adblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      APKBlock is also good. Especially for slashdot. It lets you block that arsehole, and unlike HostsBlock, you can still read the rest of slashdot.

    22. Re:Adblock by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      The only way they could be different is if you have different subscriptions or if you have the AdBlock whitelist enabled.... Just checking, you didn't have both running at the same time, right?

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    23. Re:Adblock by Hadlock · · Score: 1

      Yes, both at the same time, perhaps uBlock is intercepting one before it has a chance to run on Adblock? This is consistent behavior.

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    24. Re:Adblock by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Seeing all of these comments about adblock, I will now do a test to see what happens.

      Adblock
      Adblock Edge
      Ghostery

      I wonder if my thoughts are correct on an automated search engine posting certain responses.

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    25. Re:Adblock by Jack+Griffin · · Score: 1

      I bought a new PC recently, plugged it and go. Fuck me I couldn't believe what an abomination the Internet has become without adblock. I listen to commercial free radio, record all my TV shows so I can fast forward ads, and download movies to avoid ads at theatres. When you live in a relatively ad-free existence, then get dropped into the world everyone else is exposed to, it's truly an assault on your brain.

    26. Re:Adblock by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      If you are running both then they are competing for the same stuff to block. Try disabling one and then the other, and re-check your counts. Also make sure you have the same subscriptions in each, and the whitelist turned off in ABP.

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    27. Re:Adblock by Espectr0 · · Score: 1

      if you like adblock you will hate it after you try ublock. it's adblock without the bloat.

  5. DNSSEC validation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Why of course a TLS validator: https://www.dnssec-validator.cz/
    Death to the CA cartels! Support self-signed TLS certificates with a DNSSEC/TLSA Validator

  6. Copy Link Name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Copy Link Name is the first and most important extension I install each time I install FF.

  7. Requestpolicy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you're using adblock and noscript also check out requestpolicy. Whitelist for cross-site requests.

  8. Blur and Ghostery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ads don't bother me as much any more. What does bother me is being followed across the web based on what I searched for on an unrelated site.

    My local news paper doesn't need my facebook account.

  9. Re:My favorites by aahpandasrun · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm so bored I reply sarcastically on Slashdot! So random!

  10. Welcome to the post-OS computer world! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Extensions to the browser? This used to be called "programs you install on your computer". Weird.

    1. Re:Welcome to the post-OS computer world! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 1

      Extensions to the browser? This used to be called "programs you install on your computer". Weird.

      I'm pretty sure that 'extensions' 'plugins' and the like have been recognized as distinct from full 'programs'(even if, in practice, the line is architecturally somewhat blurry, depending on how elegant the extension mechanism provided by the main program is).

      I know that I was using Winamp plugins well before I had a remotely reliable internet connection, and most sufficiently sprawling programs tend to spawn a plugin or extension mechanism sooner or later. In fact, some are barely more than a default set of plugins lodged in a labyrinthine mechanism for adding more(looking at you, Lotus Notes...)

  11. addons by aahpandasrun · · Score: 2

    Definitely Adblock, Lastpass, Chrome Remote Desktop, and Tampermonkey. There's a great gmail pop3 mail checker for my pop3 only work email that works with gmail: http://www.danielslaughter.com...

  12. Clearly AdBlock by GroeFaZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I do regret the real financial consequences for creators whose content I consume and appreciate, the annoyance factor and sometimes security risks of online advertising far outstrip my capacity for caring. Pure text ads would be fine by me, but as soon as ads start screaming at me audio-visually, I turn them the fuck off, no matter how much I like the content they surround.

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    1. Re:Clearly AdBlock by gfxguy · · Score: 1

      And the response from the advertisers, like with the advent of DVRs, is more ads, more annoying, and louder... which only drives more people to avoid them. They don't understand the circular hell they are putting themselves in, or why they are failing.

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    2. Re:Clearly AdBlock by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 1

      Google seems to get it just about right. The only complaint I have with Google is that they will whore out just about any AD, regardless of utility.

      Do a search for MalwareBytes and take a look at the the ADs. Useful?

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    3. Re:Clearly AdBlock by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2

      Honestly, the security is the real slam dunk for me.

      If ads were served through the same channels as the rest of the page, and from the same sources, with the same basic level of trustworthiness, I'd be inclined to be at least slightly conflicted about the poor starving site operator; but that's not how it works anymore. Even relatively 'respectable' ad networks are an architectural nightmare; practically designed to make malicious injection easy. The less respectable ones are no better and don't even bother to try to restrain bad actors.

      Whatever arguments there are to be made about some 'implicit contract' to put up with ads as part of the ad-supported-model there may be, there is nothing that justifies the security clusterfuck that is ad distribution. You might as well just scavenge for used needles and shove them into your neck hoping for some left-over drugs as accept ads injected into a page.

    4. Re:Clearly AdBlock by asimons04 · · Score: 2

      Mod this up. If advertisers didn't look at Times Square and think, "Yes! This! But...like, everywhere! And louder! And spammier! Maybe throw in 3 autoplaying videos and a few infectious diseases (malvertising)", I wouldn't be so inclined to block ads. As it stands, they can fuck right off.

      And content creators aren't off the hook, either. They should vet their ads instead of just allowing whatever scumbag ad-network to throw whatever onto the page (looking at you, Taboola). I think Hack-a-Day does a good job with that; their ads are simple, static images and are relevant to the target audience. Site owners/operators also need to give visitors the option of actually paying them. Case in point is Ars Technica which allows users to subscribe for an ad-free experience or use the site for free with ads. If more sites would adopt similar models, we might stand a chance of taking the internet back from the sensory-raping advertising cartels. I subscribe to Ars and whitelist Hack-a-Day in AdBlock because they make a genuine effort to improve the situation for their audiences. Slashdot allows me to disable advertising, so there is no need to block ads here. I like that these sites are setting an example, but the rest of the internet (or world-wide-web for you pedantic fuckers) needs to pay attention.

    5. Re:Clearly AdBlock by Lorens · · Score: 1

      I've run without AdBlock since forever, because hey the guys running the content get money that way, and sometimes the ads are useful, sometimes I click, and sometimes I've even bought... but just this week I encountered an ad by Essilor that just wouldn't shut up, with the useless AdChoices button but without the X to get rid of it. I closed the page, installed Adblock, went back to finish the page. Three days later I am definitely not missing all those ads!

    6. Re:Clearly AdBlock by Trogre · · Score: 1

      This. A thousand times this.

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    7. Re:Clearly AdBlock by s.t.a.l.k.e.r._loner · · Score: 1

      The static ads stopped working. Don't you remember the good old days when static banners were all there was? And do you remember how you'd completely tune out that top section of every website?

  13. The ones you use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The most useful ones are the ones you actually use--frequently.

    Except Flash, Flash needs to just die and make everyone's browsing experience happier.

  14. My lists by Nexion · · Score: 5, Interesting

    FireFox:

    noscript
    ghostery
    noredirect
    firebug
    flash video downloader

    Chrome:
    scriptno
    ghostery

    1. Re:My lists by Jahta · · Score: 3, Interesting

      A couple more for Firefox:

      BetterPrivacy - Deals with "super cookies"
      HTTPS-Everywhere - Transparently turns HTTP requests into HTTPS requests for sites that support it

      TableTools2 - Sort, filter, copy, etc. table data, even if the web site doesn't support it
      Vimperator - Not for everybody, but if you use vi as your editor this adds a lot of keyboard goodness to your browsing experience.

    2. Re:My lists by RandCraw · · Score: 1

      A good list. For Firefox I'd add:

      Ant Video Downloader
      Cookies Manager+
      Flashblock
      Web Of Trust
      Zoom Page

      On Windows 7 where gadgets are broken, I also like Weather Forecast.

    3. Re:My lists by joelgrimes · · Score: 1

      It's a sad commentary that all the most useful plugins fall into the category of "protect me from bad guys" rather than "help me do something awesome".

    4. Re:My lists by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 1

      At least now you could protect yourself from the bad guys if you want to or if you care to. In the bad old days of IE domination, you could not even if you wanted to.

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    5. Re:My lists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      waterfox
      noscript
      adblock+
      tabmix+
      session manager
      greasemonkey w/youtube center
      reddit enhancement suite
      enhanced steam

      chrome(I don't really care much for chrome, but use it more since I have a chromebook)
      adblock+ (tried ublock but didn't like it for some reason that I can't remember ATM)
      ghostery
      tampermonkey w/youtube center
      session buddy
      general script blocking is a work in progress as I don't really care for any of the chrome options

    6. Re:My lists by coop247 · · Score: 1

      Firebug is amazing in every way, if it didn't exist I wouldn't be a web developer. When there is a chrome specific issue and I have to use their debugger it is so very painful.

      Abduction is another good one, lets you save any part of your browser to an image, quality is always better than screencapture.

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    7. Re:My lists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      https everywhere silently breaks MANY sites, or at least it has been since sometime last summer, so I gave up on it and uninstalled it.

    8. Re:My lists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      pentadactyl >> vimperator

    9. Re:My lists by meta-monkey · · Score: 1

      Knights carry more armor than swords...

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  15. Tab outliner. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I installed this recently after the story posted here about Chrome sidebar issues in the development tracker getting heated and someone mentioned it as a good emulation of a sidebar for tabs.

    Literally just that. A pop-up window that sits beside your browser windows (they can be aligned beside them too!) that let you see your tabs in a vertical layout instead of the atrocious horizontal tabs that only work if you are a casual browser that maybe has 5 tabs open at the most. (so, their target market, idiots that only Facebook)
    You can even enable tree-style tabs within it as well.
    I leave it off because you can manually re-arrange tabs quite well, leave notes, prevent tabs from leaving the tab deck, only go "inactive", you can deactivate tabs manually as well, or close them permanently.
    You can put separators in there, or create groups of windows. So one for study, social crap, videos, your zoophilia fetish, tech blogs, news, whatever.

    The major downside is lack of hotkeys (or they certainly were not mentioned anywhere in the help)
    There is a slight desync issue as well. A timer that runs for at least a few seconds after any tab related changed would fix that, then one every 10 seconds to recheck the stack since the events for it rarely fire correctly. Great API Chromium devs. 10/10 would slit my wrists with it again.
    With hotkeys, import and export, it would be immensely better.
    Also no way to close the shit horizontal tab strip so you have 2 tab layouts at the same time because muh google chrome familiar layout. (it already isn't familiar everywhere! Lamest excuse Ben, lamest excuse ever. )
    I'm thinking of just manually adding these in myself, probably send it to the developer too if I remember.

  16. Bare minimum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    NoScript
    Adblock Edge
    Ghostery
    RefControl
    RequestPolicy
    Google Search Link Fix
    Classic Theme Restorer
    Self-Destructing Cookies
    BetterPrivacy

    I also enjoy the benefits of Linkification and I know people who swear by Tree Style Tabs.

    1. Re:Bare minimum by fisted · · Score: 1

      [...] and I know people who swear by Tree Style Tabs

      Reporting in.

  17. web designers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not the browsers fault, it's the web designers. when I have my add-ons on full privacy mode, I cannot use any of my financial sites. Web designers are under the impression that input checking always has to be done on the client side.

    And Yahoo!'s web pages are so crappy they don't even render correctly when I have all my add-ons running.

    Google does it right - their pages don't require all the bells and whistles to be turned on in order to view the page.

    But anyway, non of these add-ons would be required if web designers weren't so inept.

    1. Re:web designers by whopub · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It's not the web designers' fault! I'm a small time self employed web designer. When it comes to designing a website, we don't do what we want! We don't even do what the customer needs. We end up doing what he asks. Most of the time what they ask for sucks, and that's what they/you get.

    2. Re:web designers by TWX · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So you're saying that the customer demands cross-site scripting hell, where to look at a simple article I have to have fifteen different sites' javascript enabled, including probably half a dozen ad/tracking sites that have nothing to do with reading text on a screen?

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    3. Re:web designers by gauauu · · Score: 4, Informative

      So you're saying that the customer demands cross-site scripting hell, where to look at a simple article I have to have fifteen different sites' javascript enabled, including probably half a dozen ad/tracking sites that have nothing to do with reading text on a screen?

      Yes.

    4. Re:web designers by pspahn · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yes, that's exactly what they're saying. Was there something you weren't clear about?

      Do you think developers just sit around all day looking for tracking scripts to start installing on client's sites?

      Since the advent of saving markup in the DB, clients have become empowered on what code runs on their site. They google something, find a script snippet that they don't understand, copy and paste it into their CMS' "additional header scripts" field and save. They don't understand the concept of optimizing image files, let alone be concerned with the number HTTP requests on each load.

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    5. Re:web designers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      So you're saying that the customer demands cross-site scripting hell, where to look at a simple article I have to have fifteen different sites' javascript enabled, including probably half a dozen ad/tracking sites that have nothing to do with reading text on a screen?

      How do you think that "text on a screen" got arranged in just the right way to make it valuable? If you want an ad-free, script-free browsing experience with words on a screen, go get a fucking lorem ipsum generator. If you want valuable content, you are going to have to pay for it somehow (i.e. looking at ads and/or running scripts).

    6. Re:web designers by Jason+Levine · · Score: 4, Funny
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    7. Re:web designers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      With all third-party resources blocked, that is an almost empty page. If you allow access only to s3.amazonaws.com, you get all the content you'd expect on that page. The page still wants to load from 8 more domains though. I find that amusingly self-referential, but I sincerely doubt it is intentional.

    8. Re:web designers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or you could install NoScript (ScriptSafe for Chrome-based browsers) and just deny all the crap you don't want loaded.

    9. Re:web designers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In a properly designed application that is both reasonably secure and reasonably usable, input checking must be done both on the server AND on the client. There is nothing worse for usability in a data driven system than to only be told your input is wrong after you try to save it (and potentially lose it).

      That's a lot of redundancy of course, but you can cut down the redundancy with things like asynchronous calls to the server, but of course that requires javascript.

    10. Re:web designers by Darinbob · · Score: 2

      You're making a flimsy assumption that there is valuable content on the web.

    11. Re:web designers by RabidReindeer · · Score: 1, Insightful

      It's not the web designers' fault! I'm a small time self employed web designer. When it comes to designing a website, we don't do what we want! We don't even do what the customer needs. We end up doing what he asks. Most of the time what they ask for sucks, and that's what they/you get.

      If you have so little input into the process as that, you're not a technical professional, you're a prostitute.

    12. Re:web designers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Some of us remember the web before it turned into an advalanche. Bill Hicks tells the truth.

    13. Re:web designers by Rakarra · · Score: 1

      You're making a flimsy assumption that there is valuable content on the web.

      Given the number of people who do it over other activities, that's a pretty easy assumption to make.

    14. Re:web designers by TWX · · Score: 1

      How the hell do you think I know how many sites it's trying to cross-site-script to load?

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    15. Re: web designers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's real easy... Don't visit sites that have advertising.

      Publishers put places on their sites for ads because they want the revenue. Advertisers don't hijack anything. Publishers have full control over the types of ads that can be placed on their sites. Advertisers have to obey those rules. If you don't like it stop visiting the site

    16. Re:web designers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So you're saying that the customer demands cross-site scripting hell, where to look at a simple article I have to have fifteen different sites' javascript enabled, including probably half a dozen ad/tracking sites that have nothing to do with reading text on a screen?

      Yes.

      How does this explain the advent of autoplaying video ads on slashdot?

    17. Re:web designers by penguinoid · · Score: 1

      Web designers are under the impression that input checking always has to be done on the client side.

      I don't know much about this sort of thing, but doesn't that mean that anyone who edits the client program to eliminate those checks can hack your site?

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    18. Re:web designers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Matrix beats noscript and scriptsafe

    19. Re:web designers by OffTheWallSoccer · · Score: 1

      It's not the web designers' fault! I'm a small time self employed web designer. When it comes to designing a website, we don't do what we want! We don't even do what the customer needs. We end up doing what he asks. Most of the time what they ask for sucks, and that's what they/you get.

      If you have so little input into the process as that, you're not a technical professional, you're a prostitute.

      Have you ever worked directly with customers? Not all customers are savvy or intelligent, and your advice to change their foolish request will fall on deaf ears. It is a genuine pleasure to work with smart customers, because they will generally listen to design advice and understand the concepts.

    20. Re:web designers by RabidReindeer · · Score: 1

      Actually, the smart customers can be the worst. There's a reason that they say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

      Engineers work with customers. But if the customer want something unrealistic, the engineers push back. If what the customer wants is too far out of line, they don't merely advise, they refuse. Same with architects and physicians.

      One of the hallmarks of being a professional is that the professional is expected to have experience and understanding and the autonomy to say "no". If you don't have that, you can't count yourself as a professional.

    21. Re:web designers by OffTheWallSoccer · · Score: 1

      Actually, the smart customers can be the worst. There's a reason that they say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

      Engineers work with customers. But if the customer want something unrealistic, the engineers push back. If what the customer wants is too far out of line, they don't merely advise, they refuse. Same with architects and physicians.

      One of the hallmarks of being a professional is that the professional is expected to have experience and understanding and the autonomy to say "no". If you don't have that, you can't count yourself as a professional.

      Agree 100%. My team and I have said no to some pretty big/important customers. However, the customer will occasionally escalate the issue, sometimes to 2 or 3 levels above me. At that point it's a coin flip as to whether upper management listens to engineering reason or to the customer.

  18. My small list to add by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    HTTPS Everywhere, in case I don't know the site I a visiting supports secure connections.
    FlashBlock or Click-to-Play to prevent Adobe Flash from auto-loading.
    Youtube Center is useful if you watch videos regularly and the default site behaviour gets on your nerves.
    NoScript is recommended for those who want Control, with the capital c.

    1. Re:My small list to add by anarcobra · · Score: 1

      I also use https everywhere and I use privacy badger.

  19. Web of Trust by Saysys · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Web of Trust rates pages before you click on them and when you hit a pop-up it blocks the page if it's not trustworthy until you explicitly give the pop-up permission.

    1. Re:Web of Trust by Tink2000 · · Score: 2

      I came in to recommend WOT as well. I install it on all of my clients computers and it really helps cut down on those malicious links because it puts a big red circle beside untrustworthy links.

    2. Re:Web of Trust by toygeek · · Score: 1

      I do the same thing. Every clients computer gets AdBlockPlus and WOT. HUGE helper.

  20. FYI - Chrome's Task Manager by RevWaldo · · Score: 2

    Chrome has its own task manager under More Tools Task Manager, so you can see which extensions are gumming up the works.

    .

  21. Remove Google tracking by ctrl-alt-canc · · Score: 2

    This nice plugin will ease your life while searching for information on google by removing URL tracking.
    Adblock is also a plugin I use almost always, but I had to disable it on some ecommerce sites, since it causes the merchant goods to disappear!

    1. Re:Remove Google tracking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      gPrivacy or Google Privacy does same plus handles yahoo, bing, youtube and facebook.

  22. Re:My favorites by leftistconservative · · Score: 0

    mauve

  23. Not sure if this is an "extension" by msobkow · · Score: 1

    Flash.

    :P :P :P

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    1. Re:Not sure if this is an "extension" by msobkow · · Score: 1

      Closely followed by Java.

      I mean, seriously -- how *else* are you supposed to transfer control of your browser to a nefarious third party?

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    2. Re:Not sure if this is an "extension" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chrome?

  24. Re:My favorites by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Blue! No! Yelloooooooooooooooooooooooow!

  25. IE tab by slorge · · Score: 1

    IE Tab, for when you absolutely have to...

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  26. Implicit assumption by OzPeter · · Score: 1

    There is a huge assumption implicit in this question - the browser that you use.

    Not all of those plugins are available for all browsers. And any recommended plugin really needs to identify the ecosystem that it works in.

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  27. Chrome Apps/Extensions by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 1
    • Authy App - Two-factor auth for Android and Desktop... syncs your auth stuff across devices so you don't have one point of failure. I don't like the companion extension, I just use the app.
    • PushBullet - Notification sync between Android and Desktop. Quick Reply to SMS and IMs from desktop. Push links from one device to another.
    • Google Keep - There is also a purely web version available so an app isn't totally necessary but i find it useful as a synced todo list between my Android and desktop.
    • HTTP Switchboard - Like NoScript (plus partial AdBlock) for Firefox, but a bit cleaner, and it starts out with a good whitelist. microBlock is an alternative based off of this project that simplifies things if HTTP Switchboard is too complex.
    • HTTPS Everywhere - Use HTTPS whenever it's available.
    • iChrome New Tab - Styled roughly like the now-dead iGoogle, it brings a bunch of services together on your new tab page. I can see my e-mail and RSS feed new items in one spot, which is nice.
    • Reddit Enhancement Suite - If you use Reddit this is a must.
    • Enhanced Steam - If you use Steam this is a must.
    • Chrome Remote Desktop - Access your desktop from another device. Punches through firewalls and routers automatically.
    1. Re:Chrome Apps/Extensions by technomom · · Score: 1

      Pushbullet is also surprisingly handy when you're using Chromecast. It pops up Play, Pause, Stop buttons on your desktop. Handy for when you might have walked away from your phone and are at your desk. Also, the shared clipboard feature is absolutely wonderful if you can get over the creepiness of it.

    2. Re:Chrome Apps/Extensions by oneeyed2 · · Score: 0

      The real successor to HTTP Swictboard isn't really uBlock but uMatrix.

      It still features the option of blacklisting via Host files, but is mainly focused on content blocking via the matrix UI. Honestly I don't even bother with any ad blocking extension anymore, it's just that powerful. And I always prefer the whitelist approach (block everything, allow a few), it makes much better sense on the long run.

      My extensions on Chrome comes down to only two :
      * uMatrix (only using custom rules, not hosts files)
      * custom Speed Dial-like extension to replace the useless default new tab

    3. Re:Chrome Apps/Extensions by ezelkow1 · · Score: 1

      big +1 to enhanced steam, adds so many useful features and allows you to remove the cruft

      Its a shame steam shafted the dev, they invited him to come talk with them about features, enhancements, etc, and then basically jacked all his ideas and implemented his features 2 years after he did it and refused to offer him a job even when he was struggling to make ends meet

    4. Re:Chrome Apps/Extensions by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 1

      Chrome Remote Desktop - Access your desktop from another device. Punches through firewalls and routers automatically.

      Unfortunately, it does that by making Google a 3rd party(I think that they even handle the authentication) in every connection you make between two of your own computers. They aren't privy to the actual content of the interaction, to the best of my knowledge; but that still creeps me the hell out.

      It's unfortunate, really. An architecturally-modern successor to VNC(ie. same platform-agnostic low level approach; but taking advantage of the fact that most devices can, often with dedicated coprocessors, pump out a very nice H.264 stream or similar as easily or more easily than retro JPEG tiling stuff, along with a dose of some sort of remotely modern authentication) would be fantastic; but CRD doesn't even offer a 'the host is right on the same damn subnet, no, I don't need Google looking over my shoulder to connect to it!' mode.

  28. Vimperator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Keyboard control for Firefox. Reduces RSI and speeds up navigation (in the hands of an experienced operator).

  29. Tree Style Tabs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Tree Style Tabs for Firefox is a must for anyone who multitasks.

  30. Self-Destructing Cookies by KlomDark · · Score: 2

    Doesn't cure all the ways they try to track you, but definitely puts a major dent in their efforts:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

    1. Re: Self-Destructing Cookies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Second. I just want to mention a hidden option (see last question in FAQ), that handles session cookies in a sane way, ending "session" with tab close.

  31. CloudToButt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Randomly cheers me up. It's invaluable.

  32. geolocation requirements for media streaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I have never encountered such requirements when I am on Youtube or Hulu. Then again, I am in a big city in the United States of America.

  33. No Script by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No Script, No Script, No Script, Ghostery, and Remove Cookies From this Page.

  34. Adblock/Flashblock/Noscript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It makes browsing as useful as it was in the 90s. Much easier on your Internet connection, faster rendering, no drive-by downloads, generally beautiful.

  35. Scrapbook in Firefox by BrendaEM · · Score: 2

    I have over 3,000 webpages and over 2000 links saved and organized in Scrapbook. Scrapbook can recursively safe entire websites. Searching for good information is tedious with search engines. Webpages come and go. Scrapbook lets you build a library, your own personal knowledgeable over years. You can highlight text and save the results, too. All the webpages can be be organized in a tree-like hierarchal manner.

    The only issue with it has to do with synchronization and differential backups. It should be rewritten to save Mozilla Archive Format files MAFF's so that synchronization would be quicker from machine to machine.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

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    1. Re:Scrapbook in Firefox by markh100 · · Score: 1

      I have over 3,000 webpages and over 2000 links saved and organized in Scrapbook. Scrapbook can recursively safe entire websites. Searching for good information is tedious with search engines. Webpages come and go. Scrapbook lets you build a library, your own personal knowledgeable over years. You can highlight text and save the results, too. All the webpages can be be organized in a tree-like hierarchal manner.

      The only issue with it has to do with synchronization and differential backups. It should be rewritten to save Mozilla Archive Format files MAFF's so that synchronization would be quicker from machine to machine.

      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

      Just don't use Scrapbook on Slashdot. I got banned from Slashdot several times, because I wanted to save a single article to read while taking transit home. I once got my entire office banned from Slashdot.

  36. adblock, flashblock, ghostery and noscript by schleprock63 · · Score: 1

    i very much agree with GroeFaz, when the ads completely drown out everything else on my machine (whether it's a pc, tablet or phone) they have to be blocked. this is especially true of ads with annoying audio. on my pc if it's just a visual ad i can switch to another desktop and not be bothered, but when the ad contains audio, game over. someday enough people will be using ad blocking technology to where the the people paying for the ads will not see any return on their money. at that point, advertisers will begin to go away (or at least in my dreams they'll go away!)

  37. Poochera by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    One of the most useful extensions I have installed is Poochera which is designed to help you identify the awful opinions from a certain gaming 'journalist' (and has a bonus feature for visiting a certain pretentious game "news" site)

  38. Save As by jodido · · Score: 1

    (or print to) pdf. Most useful after AdBlock.

  39. Tab Tree especially for work by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 1

    All the tabs as a tree on the left. Very useful. All links opened from a tab nest under it. Trees can collapsed at any node. Most important feature is that I can collapse the tree to keep the logos and first website names from prying eyes at work. When I use WebEx or Google+ to share a desktop, I don't want sites like DailyKos, Mother Jones or Salon to show up in the tab line. Now it gets conveniently collapsed under "C++ STL Reference" ;-)

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    1. Re:Tab Tree especially for work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree completely. I haven't yet found another browser/add-on combo that offers vertically aligned tabs along the side of the page. Not only is vertical space more valuable than horizontal, but when the tabs are along the top and you have more than a few, the tab label is abbreviated beyond use. With the tabs vertically arranged I can stretch the tabs horizonally so I can read the labels.

      Unfortunately you have to run version 25.0 of Firefox to use this extension.

    2. Re:Tab Tree especially for work by oneeyed2 · · Score: 0

      The old Opera (based on Presto) had vertical tabs without the need for any extension. It was one of the things that kept me using it for years even after it was dropped by its company.

      In my mind it still is the best and simplest implementation of vertical tabs in any browser I've tried. I've since switched to Chrome. I use bookmarks in a temporary folder instead of vertical tabs with the Bookmark All tabs feature. It's not as efficient but is enough most of the time. One of the benefits is that this system is less resource intensive (having a lot of tabs opened can be a serious memory hog).

      With widescreen monitors becoming the norm I have difficulties understanding why vertical tabs aren't becoming at least a standard option of modern browsers. You shouldn't need an extension for something so basic.

    3. Re:Tab Tree especially for work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I still use old Opera and will continue to. All of the features this discussion mentions are built in. I would expect most slashdotters to use Opera but over the years I find very few who do. I don't get it. Either I'm a nut, or way smarter than most here. To be fair, I found and started using Opera in the late 90s (really) and got hooked on the per-site settings: cookies, javascript, plugins, content blocking, etc. ctl-shift-click to open a link in a background tab, so many customizations, the list goes on.

      New Chrome Opera doesn't seem to have anything I can use without addons. Why deal with all that crap when it's all built-in to old Opera. Maybe it doesn't render as fast as it could, and maybe it's a problem for a very few websites which use some tricky new constructs, but I don't care and when I have to I fire up FireFox, IE, or Chrome (reluctantly and very rarely).

      Built-in page/code validation! I use it all the time. I wish there were www police and pages would be taken down if they have w3c validator errors.

  40. A few of my favs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Greasemonkey - Scripting
    Adblock Plus - Goomba Stomping
    LastPass - Universal Password
    Custom Buttons - More Scripting
    No Script - Less Scripting
    Menu Wizard - OCD
    Referrer Control - Bypassing 3rd party blocks.
    Firebug + Firebug Extensions - Scripting & Styling
    OmniSidebar - Ease of access!
    Stylish + Stylish Editor Mod - Styling Websites

  41. RequestPolicy and NoScript by FeatherBoa · · Score: 1

    I use many plugins and my go-to ones are CookieMonster, Ghostery, FlashBlock, NoScript and RefControl. CookieMonster, Ghostery and Flashblock are easy to get used to, but NoScript and RefControl make an interesting pair.

    Using these at first is incredibly painful. It is a true education how fragile the construction of some web sites is, with scripts and components coming from all over the place. Because you have to approve every cross site reference, separately to load and to execute scripts, you really get a feel for how cobbled-together some sites really are -- random CSSs loading from who knows where, scripts from google, trackers, CDNs, web design houses, software vendors -- a real dogs breakfast. It can be a challenge to work out how much actually has to run in order for the site to work, versus how much is analytics and advertising overheads.

    As I type this, scripts from three different google tracking systems, as well as rpxnow and ooyala, whoever they are, are NOT running in my browser. But for some reason slashdot won't work without loading some junk from fsdn.com.

  42. Extensions? by mrbene · · Score: 1

    Not really sure that any extensions that I install are particularly "useful". However, here's a list of tools that I find especially useful that have to do with web browsing.

    • Fiddler (now Fiddler4). Still a solid debugging proxy.
    • PrivateInternetAccess or any other system-level VPN. Running it as a browser extension seems risky, even given the WebRTC issue with VPNs.
    • On Chrome, the browser extension "Cookies", which enables reasonable cookie management when debugging.
    • WGET and cURL

    OK, I snuck an actual browser extension in there. But it really only enables what should be core functionality.

  43. Firefox - Tree Style Tab by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is what keeps me on Firefox, I love the tree view of tabs and the grouping it provides. Matches my workflow of search->open candidates->cull duds->preserve good links, maybe bookmark.
    http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en

  44. Tab Mix Plus by CityZen · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't understand why "focus last selected tab" isn't default on all browsers. Essentially, I need ctrl-tab to work as well as alt-tab does with applications. I have to have Tab Mix Plus in order to get this as well as other features that let me control how/where tabs pop up.

    1. Re:Tab Mix Plus by wile_e8 · · Score: 2

      Does anyone know if there is a good equivalent to this on Chrome? I've switched primarily from Firefox to Chrome for multiple other reasons, but the one thing I really miss about Firefox is Tab Mix Plus and customizing ctrl+tab most recently used, tab opening at the end, most recent when closing a tab, etc. Everything I've tried works extremely unreliably, and nothing overrides ctrl+tab behavior (I think this is a Chrome limitation, not an extension problem).

    2. Re:Tab Mix Plus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Tab Mix Plus is also a necessity for me to get things behaving in a way that feels "right" to me.

    3. Re:Tab Mix Plus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, there isn't. Nor is there a replacement for DownThemAll, unless you use an external downloader.

    4. Re:Tab Mix Plus by jenningsthecat · · Score: 2

      Yes, Tab Mix Plus is essential for me. I use it extensively to do things like manage saving and restoring of sessions, change the font and text colour of tabs for instant identification of state, undoing a Close Tab command, closing a tab by double-clicking the tab, and opening a new tab by double clicking the tab bar. When I'm forced to use a browser that doesn't have it I go a little bit crazy and my efficiency drops enormously.

      Aside from the usual security and privacy addons, another one I find indispensable is Flashblock. I tend to have many YouTube tabs open at once, and Flashblock calms my urge to strangle and dismember whatever fuckwit decided that videos should play automatically as soon as the page loads.

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  45. No Script, of course. by lowen · · Score: 1

    The only absolutely essential addon for me is NoScript. Everything else is gravy; tasty gravy perhaps, but gravy. HTTPSEverywhere is really high on the gravy list.

    1. Re:No Script, of course. by meta-monkey · · Score: 1

      I love noscript, but it's practically impossible for a non-techy to use. It's second nature to me, but very obvious when my wife tries to look something up on one of my computers. "Oh right, I forgot, yeah, you'll need to decipher and selectively enable 8 different domains to view that recipe for chocolate cookies."

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  46. all-in-one gestures by 91degrees · · Score: 1

    Am a great fan of gesture based navigation. Right click + up for new tab, L-shape for close tab left/right for back and forward.

  47. SSL and HSTS by jukk · · Score: 1

    From the ones already listed, and in addition, I would like to point out HTTPS-everywhere, Calomel SSL Validation and Strict Transport Security (HSTS is important!). FlagFox for fun.

  48. Quality by QuietLagoon · · Score: 1

    ...my question: what are your most useful (and safe) browser extensions?...

    The ones that have a level of quality that is on par with the browser. I've found too many extensions that are so buggy that they are useless.

  49. My favorite Firefox Extensions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    If you're a collector, there are 3 must-have extensions for Firefox.

    DownThemAll: Lets you download embedded and linked files on a page, with pretty good filtering options.
    VideoDownloadHelper: Lets you download streaming videos.
    Save Images: Download multiple images at once.

    Others:

    Right To Click: If pages disable right-clicking, this extension allows you to re-enable it.
    Print Edit: Remove elements from a page before printing or turning it into a PDF.
    Classic Theme Restorer: Get rid of the Australis interface and re-enable options Firefox took away in recent versions.

    I have several other extensions as well, but they're just tweaks for my own personal preferences. The ones above, along with the usual Adblock, Ghostery, and Flashblock, are the ones I recommend to everyone.

  50. Here's my list by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Chrome: ProxySwitchy

    Firefox: Firebug, Typography, Dust-me Selectors

    If anyone knows of a good gesture plugin that doesn't do ads or sell your soul I'd be interested.

  51. Vimperator by Damnshock · · Score: 1

    It's the main reason why I am sticking to Firefox and not use any other browser (chromium, rekonq, arora, konqueror...)

  52. Some unmentioned FF's by Falos · · Score: 1

    Here's a couple of little QoL perks I haven't seen (I skimmed) mentioned:

    * Text-to-link (or something like that) or any other equivalent that will grab URLs and hyperlink them. You should (as always) double-check the actual destination of a weird link/post/message.

    * Text-to-image (or something like that) is a toss-up. Any direct IMG link will be displayed in-page (handy on forums), but sometimes it makes layouts look a little awkward. You can blacklist sites (use wildcard) or pages from triggering it.

    * Used to have one that would try to capture text fields (like the post I'm writing) and would allow for some historical fetching, like if your browser crashes or a Next Page load fails. L*S did one gag dedicated to just this. Might want to check the fine boilerplate (I didn't) or just skip it if you're super-tinfoil, seeing captures of yourself can feel uncanny. Some of you may already be in the habit of clipboard/notepad dumping for safety, but consider that automation is consistent.

    Echoing on NoScript and RequestPolicy, they're privacy tweaks but also improve safety. After whitelists are done, page layout and even load times can improve. Take control of what your machines accesses.

  53. Don't use adblock, use adblock edge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    normal adblock plus has paid whitelists, adblock edge is a fork without that

  54. We'd like your feedback... by SoCalChris · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is there an extension that blocks these "We'd like your feedback" messages that seem to be popping up on every single site lately? Or a way to block them easily with AdBlock?

    1. Re:We'd like your feedback... by firewrought · · Score: 1

      I've heard that "element hiding helper" can assist with this. However, it's also easy to right-click on an item in FireFox, select "Inspect Element" and then figure out a rule to hide the content (though you'll have to consult the documentation). For instance, Slashdot has a "Site Notice" that will appear at the top of every page (unless you accept the cookies/whatever to suppress showing it). I added the rule "slashdot.org##div#sitenotice" to suppress it (though it has since been added to EasyList).

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    2. Re:We'd like your feedback... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is there an extension that blocks these "We'd like your feedback" messages that seem to be popping up on every single site lately? Or a way to block them easily with AdBlock?

      Or "you haven't bought anything in the 15 seconds since you loaded our site, do you need assistance?"

    3. Re:We'd like your feedback... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is a fantastic add-on to ad-block called Element Hiding Helper.

      It lets you graphically select an element of a webpage and add it to the list of things adblock stops. I use it all the time to remove crap from webpages. You can probably use it to teach adblock about those feedback popups because they probably all come from just a handful of feedback-services.

    4. Re:We'd like your feedback... by thegarbz · · Score: 2

      To expand on this is there any plugin which can stop all canvas pop-ups?

      It seems we spent years getting to a point where we blocked pop-ups only to now have the damn things re-appear using HTML5.

    5. Re:We'd like your feedback... by cavebison · · Score: 1

      > Is there an extension that blocks these "We'd like your feedback" messages that seem to be popping up on every single site lately?

      Not that I've seen, but if it's a site you frequent then try using the Element Hiding Helper for AdBlock Plus. Once you learn a little about HTML, enough to understand how the hiding works, I find it *very* effective at removing the popups, and anything else on a site that I want to remove for one reason or another (usually distracting sidebar stuff).

    6. Re:We'd like your feedback... by cavebison · · Score: 1

      > To expand on this is there any plugin which can stop all canvas pop-ups?

      Not that I've seen, but if it's a site you frequent then try using the Element Hiding Helper for AdBlock Plus. Once you learn a little about HTML, enough to understand how the hiding works, I find it *very* effective at removing the popups, and anything else on a site that I want to remove for one reason or another (usually distracting sidebar stuff).

    7. Re:We'd like your feedback... by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Thanks, I was hoping for something more automatic.

      Also based on the other comments in on this story I just removed Adblock Plus in favour of uBlock. I run a lot of tabs in a session at once and it appears to work much faster and use considerably less memory when I have something like 30+ tabs open.

  55. Classic Theme Restorer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Without it Firefox is totally unusable.

  56. My list by technomom · · Score: 1

    - Pushbullet for all the reasons given by others here.

    - uBlock - ad blocking that is not opted out of by the highest bidder

    - Airdroid - okay, technically not an extension/app but still a good app for extending your phone's reach to your desktop.

    - Sunrise - nicely done Chrome app that looks and plays just like the mobile version.

    - Chrome Remote Desktop - Very handy for making my iMac usable from anywhere and also for doing remote help for mom and dad when they call with computer problems.

  57. Ask Slashdot: What Virus Should I Install? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just because.

  58. most useful browser extensions by jjbenz · · Score: 1

    noscript, that is all.

  59. Imgur/TinyURL by Guy+From+V · · Score: 1

    I love the Imgur Uploader and TinyURL Generator addons. Imgur is my fave pichost, the addon doesn't even make you save the pic to the HDD. A right & left click auto-copies the right code and pastes it...everything's in the pipe 5 x 5, Spunkmeyer.

  60. My (Chrome) List by drkvogel · · Score: 1

    Chrome to Phone (send a link from your desk/laptop to your phone to view later)
    Snipe (search and locate tabs)
    Diigo bookmark (best alternative to Delicious after Delicious went downhill - save links to cloud with tags etc)
    Tabs Outliner (manage windows and tabs, recover sessions, hibernate windows and tabs - absolutely awesome!)
    AdBlock (of course)

  61. ColorToggle, Hostname in Titlebar, FocyOverride by paulrrogers · · Score: 1

    ColorToggle has made the web so much easier on the eyes, stopping all the bleach white backgrounds. Hostname in Titlebar also makes auto-typing with KeePass less spoof-able and more reliable. My own FocyOverride has also helped make KeePass a bit easier to use. Having used some blocking add-on's like RequestPolicy I don't feel comfortable with the shady practice of consuming content without paying the price of seeing the ads.

    1. Re:ColorToggle, Hostname in Titlebar, FocyOverride by Culture20 · · Score: 1

      Having used some blocking add-on's like RequestPolicy I don't feel comfortable with the shady practice of consuming content without paying the price of seeing the ads.

      I don't feel comfortable with the risky practice of consuming content and paying the price of exploit attempts via ad networks. It used to only happen on "sketchy" websites. Now big name news sites and the like are using sketchy ad networks that occasionally try to push malware. I've reached the point where I don't mind spending ten minutes figuring out which domains I can temporarily unblock safely for a site. It's rare that I go to "new" sites anyway. And ad domains are always blocked without question. If the site wants to host ads, they can do it the old fashioned way and host them on their own servers (and accept responsibility for the exploit attempts).

  62. EHH by nospam007 · · Score: 1

    I recommend the 'element hiding helper' for adblock plus.
    Additionally to the local ads, it allowed me to easily remove sports, games, promotions, donation reminders, religious stuff and other unwanted things from my usual sources.

  63. For Chrome by CosaNostra+Pizza+Inc · · Score: 1

    Chrome: Adblock Plus, Web Of Trust, (WOT), Xmarks, Context Menu Search (allows you to highlight text as a search parameter and open results in a new tab. ex: Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, Google, etc)

  64. Evernote clipper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Either that or *some* extension that allows you to save bookmarks for later reference. The Vivaldi browser has a notes function built in.

  65. Depends on your needs or profession... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As a web developer I have certain extensions which help a lot..

    Firefox:
    - FireBug: I find it better than the out-of-the-box dev-tools
    - Adbock Edge (AdBlock Plus alternative with no accepted adds)
    - FlagFox: shows a location flag of the server (and a tooltip with server info)
    - Image Zoom: let's you zoom images by holding the right click button and scrolling on the mouse wheel
    - REST Client: let's you send GET/POST requests with specific headers and parameters to a server
    - SearchPreview: shows a small preview image in fron of Google search results
    - Pixlr Grabber (not available anymore): let's you screen grab and measure areas on a web page and store them in your OS clipboard or edit them in the Pixlr online editor
    - Tamper Data: logs requests and allows you to change request headers and parameters before sending them to a server
    - Toggle Proxy: a faster way to switch between 2 proxy settings

    Chrome:
    - PerfectPixel by WellDoneCode: allows you to display an image and change the transparency over a web page, good for web design
    - Chrome Flags: same as FlagFox, displays server flag and information in a tooltip
    - ImageZoom
    - Pixlr Grabber (not available anymore)
    - Proxy SwitchySharp

  66. Mine by arielCo · · Score: 2

    Open in Browser: Because some sites insist that I should save that PDF to open it.
    Session Manager: a.k.a. "task freezer". Save and restore any or all of your open windows and tabs along with their histories.
    Google and TinEye Reverse Image search. TinEye's matching engine is more powerful; Google has a much bigger database.
    Offline QR code Generator: the easiest way to send page/image/link URLs and arbitrary text to my phone: [highlight text if applicable,] right click on page/image/link, "Show QR", aim phone.
    Restartless Restart: Because it's Firefox and Control-Alt-R is much faster than killing the process.
    Context Search X: highlight, right click, "Search with", pick any of my engines. Very flexible; allows custom accelerator keys.
    Context Highlight: highlight multiple words or phrases all over the current page. Not perfect but really useful.
    Live HTTP headers: Disabled since Fx ships with devtools.
    It's All Text!: Edit those pesky textareas in your preferred editor. Perfect for HTML boards and wikis.

    And obviously Adblock Plus.

    Not shown: custom search engines for Google Images, Wiktionary, Google Translate, Gmail...

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  67. Lazarus saves the day, FoxClocks, Netcraft by Guy+Smiley · · Score: 1

    I work with a lot of web-based tools (bugzilla, Jira, wikis, etc.) that include a lot of writing. Being able to autosave and recover web form input has saved me many hours of effort after the browser crashed, laptop ran out of battery, accidentally closing a tab, etc.

    I also work with people all around the world, so Fox Clocks is very helpful by adding clocks for various cities to the Firefox status bar and/or a mouseover popup.

    Haven't seen Netcraft Anti-Phishing bar mentioned yet either. It is helpful to detect malicious sites, and always interesting to see a bit of info on websites I visit (Slashdot currently ranks 8806 and has been around since March 2002 it tells me).

    Also using NoScript, Tabmix Plus, WOT, Cookie Controller.

  68. Re:My favorites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So irony. Wow.

  69. Is there an extension that...? by cjellibebi · · Score: 1

    ...when you visit a clickbait site such as Cracked.com, blocks all the "you may also be interested in" stuff so that you just see what you came to see and don't get distracted into visiting millions of other "10 signs you are a serial procrastinator, number 5 will turn your underwear into a war-zone" links?

    So far, after Googling, I have only been able to find "Anti-Upworthy" which de-sensationalises the language of clickbait headlines, but ideally, I'd like to block the display of "you may also be interested in" stuff. And no, using a .hosts file to block the offending site is not an answer because I don't get to see the original article I came to see.

    1. Re:Is there an extension that...? by henni16 · · Score: 1

      You might want to have a look at deslide.clusterfake.net.
      It's not a browser extension, but there's a bookmarklet.
      If your particular clickbait slideshow/listicle site happens to be supported, it'll reformat the clickbait into a single page and discard everything but the actual content.

    2. Re:Is there an extension that...? by O-Deka-K · · Score: 1

      Sometimes "Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus" can help with that. It can block an HTML element based on its name, id, size, etc. When you use it, it selects the element under your mouse pointer and outlines it in red. Then you can use the hotkeys (there's a handy popup that displays them) to select the exact element you want and block it.

      It's also useful for blocking certain ad boxes. As long as the element has some kind of identifying feature, you should be able to block it. Some sites get around it by randomizing the name/id or not having any identifying features.

    3. Re:Is there an extension that...? by Jason+Levine · · Score: 1

      One of my recent pet peeves are the "similar article" links that 1) actually go to other sites, 2) don't seem to be tied to the article I'm reading, and 3) straddle the NSFW line. Specifically, I might be at work looking at an article about some technology-related issue and one of the "similar articles" at the end suddenly has a thumbnail image that I wouldn't want my boss to see if he suddenly appeared behind me. Nothing X-rated, mind you, but nothing I'd purposefully look at at work. I'd love to just block these outright and not have to worry about them coming up.

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  70. pentadactyl by countach44 · · Score: 1

    The main reason I still use firefox.

  71. Exactly! by dfm3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.

    First, having a platform onto which developers can build plugins that users can choose from and enable as needed is far superior to being stuck with the single half-baked implementation that is built in to the browser.

    Second, building features directly into browsers eliminates any chance of security-through-obscurity that comes with an ecosystem of security and ad blocking plugins. Two examples: popup blockers (everything is done in javascript now), and the do not track header (arguably, useless even before major browsers implemented it, but even more useless now...)

    1. Re:Exactly! by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 2

      The sole reason Do Not Track was useless was that it was voluntary, and too many interests simply didn't want to honor it. I was really amused by all the cries of "But... but... our ad revenue will dry up and the internet will die!" Hahaha. Script blockers do the same thing, better, without any volunteerism, and the internet hasn't died. "I told you so" comes to mind.

      I would add a couple of add-ons to the list above:

      * Disconnect, and Disconnect Search, respectively, block 3rd-party requests and do anonymous search.

      * Bloody Vikings! lets you create temporary email addresses for those sites that insist on an email address before you can move forward. (Name comes from Monty Python "Spam!" skit.)

      * Privacy Badger, from EFF intelligently blocks 3rd-party cookies and tracking. (They tried to make an add-on for Chrome too but announced that it was too difficult and they had given up.)

      * User Agent Switcher, mainly for developers, lets you change your browser user agent.

      * YSlow, cleverly named add-on from Yahoo, shows developers why web pages are slow.

      * Lightbeam from Mozilla shows a good view third parties that have tried to track your browsing over time.

  72. NukeAnything by hwk_br · · Score: 1

    Remove any section of the loaded HTML... Perfect if you want to copy/paste content when event the print version of a site has tons of ads/logo/etc... (no Chrome support, unfortunately)

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  73. adblock* by steak · · Score: 1

    adblock or adblock plus (for now) or adblock edge.

  74. A comment in which I gush over uMatrix by Mobius+Evalon · · Score: 1

    Until approximately a month ago, I used Firefox. The extensions I made the most use of were all privacy related:
    NoScript (duh)
    Ghostery (allowed me to block the little niggling crap scripts allowed through from the first party domain with NoScript)
    Self destructing cookies (whitelisting cookies, brilliant idea)
    BetterPrivacy (dealt with flash cookies, though I think Firefox handles those itself now)
    Scriptish (which is 99% scripts I make for my own use, like removing the sitenotice node here on Slashdot)

    Then I switched to Chrome and got uMatrix, and felt like a complete pleb. It never quite dawns on you the kind of content amalgamation a simple webpage actually is until you have a comprehensive breakdown by subdomain of where every cookie, script, XML HTTP request, plugin, CSS file, image, etc. is all coming from. It even has built-in options to spoof your useragent and clear the browser cache on regular intervals, spoof referers, block hyperlink auditing, etc. Switch that bad-boy into what I call "hostile mode" (block everything that the user does not explicitly whitelist) and you feel like Gandalf.

    uMatrix covers the function of Noscript and Ghostery very well, and I found an extension called Tab Cookie which covers the function of Self Destructing Cookies. Tampermonkey replaced Scriptish, though I've yet to find something with a similar function to BetterPrivacy. Hulu is one of the sites I frequent with a flash cookie whose existence is obvious (the volume level) and I've noticed it is not resetting between logins, so it must not be handled by TabCookie.

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  75. Flagfox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I've been using FlagFox for years now. Puts a flag of the country hosting the website in the address bar.

  76. an extension to neuter Chrome auto-updates? by jlv · · Score: 1

    Is there an extension to prevent Chrome from automatically updating extensions?

    (I'm tired of finding something I was depending upon no longer working because I got an "update")

  77. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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

  78. Run Links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Running Links in graphics mode isn't a browser extension, but emulates a lot of these functions with no overhead. No javascript, no flash, no endless fetch quests for your browser, prompted redirects, etc. Web pages are ugly with it, they look like you're browsing in print preview mode, but from my perspective that's just sloppy web design. You'd be surprised just how fast the web actually is. Using Links it feels like you're browsing offline sites.

  79. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * "?"

    APK

    P.S.=> ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  80. Jasper's List by muffbagmuffbagmuffba · · Score: 1

    Lazarus Form Recovery - keeps a continuous history of all forms. Essential if your job consists of manipulating web interfaces all day.
    Saved Password Editor - Clue's in the name.
    Check4Changes - Reloads a page and alerts you [sound or email] when a specific element has changed.
    reallyremember - saves passwords on forms with autocomplete="off" set .
    Tree Style Tab - move the tabs to the side of the browser instead of the top.

  81. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  82. uBlock by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 2

    uBlock is great because it's a good ad blocker with minimal overhead. it works on firefox and chrome.
    https://github.com/gorhill/uBl...

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    1. Re:uBlock by Velocifero · · Score: 1

      Safari, also.

  83. Text free browsing by HairyNevus · · Score: 1

    Text free browsing for when reading people's stupid comments becomes just too much.

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  84. CNN I.Q. Raiser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My favorite plugin is the CNN I.Q. Raiser:
    http://www.mikekohn.net/stuff/cnn_iq_raiser_firefox_extension.php

    I heard all the cool people are using it now.

  85. LastPass and RetroGmail by Press2ToContinue · · Score: 1

    retro removes the nasty compose window

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  86. aardvark / hack the web by swell · · Score: 1

    These allow you to edit a web page. Remove the ads, the fluff, anything you don't like. Or simply select the text that interests you and poke CMD-i to isolate it. Print, copy the text, or make a PDF if you want to keep it. Aardvark is legacy, may not work on your newer Firefox. Hack seems to work well.

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    1. Re:aardvark / hack the web by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't have a CMD key. :)

  87. Give me less. by AnotherBlackHat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By far the most useful extensions are the ones that reduce my "browsing experience"
    Things which prevent things from being pushed at me (NoScript, AdBlock)
    Things which allow me watch videos at my pace and choice of quality instead of "streaming". (youtube downloader)
    And in general things which reduce the number of features I'm forced to contend with.

  88. Nuke Anything by ortholattice · · Score: 1

    For Firefox, I use Nuke Anything Enhanced 1.1 when overlays, ads, etc. on broken or poorly designed pages obscure the text I'm trying to read. Basically you right-click over the object and select "Remove this object" (and there is an undo). At first I installed it out of curiosity, but I'm surprised how often it is useful.

  89. Ghostery? Really? Check who owns it now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Who here still don't know that Ghostery was bought by an ad/tracking-firm?

  90. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  91. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  92. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  93. Here is what I use in my SeaMonkeys in Windows... by antdude · · Score: 1

    Last updated: Wed Feb 18 2015 11:28:06 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
    User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32.1

    Extensions (enabled: 7)
    * Adblock Plus 2.6.7 (http://adblockplus.org/en/)
    * British English Dictionary 1.19.1 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/british-english-dictionary/?src=api)
    * ColorfulTabs 18.1 (http://www.binaryturf.com/free-software/colorfultabs-for-firefox/)
    * DOM Inspector 2.0.15 (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/)
    * IE View 1.5.6 (http://ieview.roub.net/)
    * PrefBar 6.5.0 (http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/)
    * WOT 20131030 (http://www.mywot.com/)

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  94. In Academia - Zotero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It can do so much and saves you so much time with it's citation plug in for word and auto bibliography generation. I collect my bib as I browse. It's free up to a few GB. I pay for it out of principle. It has literally saved me dozens of hours.

  95. Bonjour browser by davecotter · · Score: 1

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... I'm surprised this isn't built in to the browser itself.

  96. Cloud to Butt Plus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cloud to Butt Plus, nuff said

  97. Er.... by plcurechax · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you could ask the browser extension sites themselves....

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

    https://chrome.google.com/webs...

    Most have highlighted the most common for slashdot users are:

    • obnoxious advertisement mitigation (aka "ad blocking")
    • privacy & security e.g. Do-Not-Track Plus, various (super-)cookie deleters,, cross-site scripting managements/restriction (NoScript, Request-Policy), HTTPS-Everywhere,
    • some advanced users / web developers e.g. Firebug, vimperator, TableTools2
    • content access / VPN tools (Hola)
  98. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  99. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  100. Re:My favorites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nice reference :-)

  101. Cloud to Butt by rokstar · · Score: 2

    I find cloud to butt very useful in terms of maintaining my sanity, YMMV. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

    1. Re:Cloud to Butt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My butts look rather stratocumulus castellanus today.

  102. My best Firefox extensions by bblakeny · · Score: 1

    Lastpass - probably the biggest thing most users can do to improve security, use a secure password manager.
    NoScript - another critical security tool
    Adblock Plus
    BetterPrivacy
    WOT - web of trust, gives quick security info on any website
    Lazarus - really useful ability to recover input, prevent losing a post
    CompactMenu - add menu to the navigation toolbar, hide menu bar
    TooManyTabs - great for saving lots of tabs
    Places Context Menu - allows bookmarks to be sorted by visit count

  103. Greaseonkey and NoBennett script by Iarwain+Ben-adar · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone already posted this, but I can't see it! https://gist.github.com/Mini-G...

  104. Re:Ask yourselves these questions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ahh, all is right with the world. I never feel right reading comments regarding adblock until I see your nutty timecube-inspired screeds. Thank you, stranger. I feel better now.

  105. Scripting hosts! My must-have by EdZep · · Score: 1

    Greasemonkey for Firefox
    Tampermonkey for Chrome

    I've spent a lot of time writing and maintaining scripts to add beauty and functionality to the Hollywood Stock Exchange, http://hsx.com/. Check 'em out if you play, or start to play: http://ez-edzep.tripod.com/

  106. Can't live without these by rxtc · · Score: 1

    Firefox: LastPass, NoScript, Better Privacy, uBlock, Disconnect, Pocket, HTTPS Everywhere, RES, Free Memory, Configuration Mania, DownThemAll, Extended Statusbar, Fire Gestures, MEGA, OmniBar

  107. Special request by operagost · · Score: 1

    I'd like whatever plugin it is that keeps Firefox from ballooning to 1+ GB of RAM if I have a few tabs open.

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  108. It's all text by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Itsalltext allows the use of your beloved editor to edit any forms. It saves me a lot of time of painful edition.

  109. Here's a few by Trogre · · Score: 2

    Here's what I use at present. I consider all of the highly useful.

    Status-4-evar because no desktop browser should be without a status bar
    Tab Mix Plus for its excellent session handling and handling of unread tabs.
    Tree Style Tab for its correct placement of tabs on widescreen monitors (on the left, not at the top) and its absolutely wonderful hierarchical tree of tabs.
    One of the many YouTube video downloaders
    Flashblock for obvious reasons
    Adblock, for when ads get to invasive.
    Disable CTRL-Q Shortcut because 'q' is too close to 'w' on my keyboard.

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  110. Fix a senseless waste of screen real estate by GPS+Pilot · · Score: 1

    About 2 years ago Mozilla decided to always use some of your precious screen real estate to show a row of tabs, even when that's a total waste because you only have one tab open. The fix:
    "Hide Tab Bar With One Tab"
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

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  111. "Pearls & Swine, bereft of me..." AudioSlave by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I've merely cast an undeniable pearl before YOU http://ask.slashdot.org/commen... & you can't deny or get the better of the facts there...

    * To quote Chris Cornell of AudioSlave/SoundGarden? "I am NOT your rolling wheels, I am the HIGHWAY..." & See subject!

    "If you cast pearls before swine. They will think you are giving them food, since they do not have jewelry. When they eat it and discover it is not food they will get angry and attack you." - from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques...

    APK

    P.S.=> A little music to go with that https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (from a great band)... apk

  112. Safari Extensions by mattack2 · · Score: 1

    My favorite Safari extensions..
    OpenAtEnd -- makes new tabs go to the far right
    Right Exit -- closing a tab moves you to the next tab on the right, not the left
    ClickToPlugin -- the superset of ClickToFlash

  113. How about none? by chaoskitty · · Score: 1

    How about no extra browser extensions? Or even an extension or two which limits the other browser extensions?

    Browser plugins have the WORST security surface. If you want to do something, do it outside of a browser so that you're not giving every and any site you visit the opportunity to exploit something you only run once in a great while.

    Netflix no longer requires Silverlight, so we can remove that. Once Hulu moves away from the crapstorm which is Adobe Flash, it'll be more realistic to completely trash that forever (I will have a party when that happens!) Don't get me started on Adobe Acrobat and PDFs in browsers... Java - shit - what a MESS! Who the hell wants to run Java in a browser anyway? There has to be a better way. Keep around an old Windows machine if you want to feel dirty by trolling around for the latest disease and let Java die.

    It'd be nice if something like ClickToPlugin were available for all the browsers (it's for Safari), but I learned from The Register how to make plugins click-to-play on Firefox and Chrome. See the bottom of this article:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

  114. Re:Ask yourselves these questions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What's even better is that circletimessquare is back at it! Feels just like home...

    If/when Slashdot decides to crack down on trolling, I'm out of here. I'd rather take the trolls over any chilling effects.

  115. Firefox is important, partly because of add-ons. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Firefox is extraordinarily important to all of humanity. Without the open-source Firefox, our communication with each other with web pages would be severely limited by abusive managers of huge companies. For example, Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 6 had an enormous number of quirks; web designers wasted huge amounts of time dealing with that.

    Mozilla Foundation has exhibited a combination of excellent and poor management, in my opinion.

    Add-ons are very useful. One of the most important aspects of Firefox is the huge number of Add-ons available. Here are some I've found necessary:

    Adblock Edge, ads were yesterday! Attacks sometimes pose as ads. Stop tracking. Advertisers of run annoying ads.

    BetterPrivacy, "Super-Cookie Safeguard", eliminate sneaky tracking.

    Classic Theme Restorer, required because of Mozilla Foundation's bad management of GUIs.

    Close tabs to the left, title says it all. What? Why is that necessary? Why does Firefox have only "Close tabs to the right"?

    Cookies Manager+, needed because of poor management of Slashdot by the parent company, Dice Holdings.

    FEBE, backup your Firefox data. Restores only to the same profile. Use MozBackup to restore to a different profile, such as when you move to the Pale Moon 64-bit version of Firefox to get away from Mozilla Foundation bad management.

    Ghostery, protect your privacy.

    iMacros for Firefox, help jump through log-on hoops.

    Mozilla Archive Format, save everything you see displayed on a web page.

    NoScript, protect against attacks, stop tracking.

    Nuke Anything, Enhanced, remove areas of a web page.

    Restart-less Restart, Firefox frequently crashes when there are many windows and tabs, because of the memory-hogging bug that Mozilla Foundation hasn't fixed in 9 years.

    Session Manager, when Firefox crashes, go back to the Windows and tabs you had before the crash.

    Session Manager Export Tool, export windows and tabs of a Firefox session to HTML.

    Snap Links Plus, opens multiple links inside a selected area.

    SQLite Manager, manage any SQLite database.

    Tab Mix Plus, fix Firefox's insufficient GUI design.

  116. Google has become an abusive company. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 1

    In a Windows command-line window, type:
    services.msc

    Right-click on Google services, choose "Properties", then choose "Disable" as the "Startup type".

    Google installs at least 3 system services:

    Google Update Service (gupdate), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /svc

    Google Update Service (gupdatem), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /medsvc

    Google Updater Service (gusvc), "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe"

  117. For privacy and efficiency by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I actually don’t mind ads too much; some sites do need them to exist. However, I do mind the excess of ads from ad servers, as well as the privacy breach coming from having external servers serve content across many sites (ads, facebook, twitter).

    Thus, instead of AdBlockPlus, I prefer:
    — “RequestPolicy”, which prevents contents from 3rd-party servers to be read.
    I add rules when I see fit to allow 3rd party requests (often cdn content). The nice thing with RequestPolicy is the existence of:
    — “RequestPolicySync”, which syncs my rules for all my browsers to use.
    For relatives with less patience, or less technical knowledge, I usually replace RequestPolicy with both AdBlockPlus and Ghostery, although I’m keeping an eye on EFF’s PrivacyBadger, which could come to replace Ghostery.

    To further avoid tracking, I use:
    — “Self-Destructing Cookies”, which is really excellent, and so much better than carefully handling the list of sites allowed to send cookies (I did that before).

    Sometimes, I must deal with a low-bandwidth connection, so I keep another extension available:
    — “ImageBlock”, which switches images on/off for faster browsing.

    And to deal with pages which misbehave with their Javascript (slow/long execution, annoying pop-ins), I use:
    — “YesScript”, much lighter and easier to use than the better-known NoScript.

    I also like to keep a to-read list. But just like I sync Firefox on my own server, I don’t want to have my reading list stored on someone else’s server. So I use:
    — “Save-To-Read”, which stores my reading list within the bookmarks, which in turn get sync’ed on my own server ;-)

    Sometimes, RequestPolicy is not enough to remove the clutter/distractions in the page I’m reading. In such cases:
    — “Nuke Anything Enhanced” allows me to remove anything from the page I’m viewing (nice before printing, too).

    Finally, I’ve had some use for:
    — “Saved Password Editor”, which allows me to add, change, and remove stored passwords easily.

    As a side-note, in case you are learning Japanese:
    — “Rikaichan” is a nice tool to have.

    _theYinYeti_

  118. Titi username by fgouget · · Score: 1
    The report says "Titi is a French diminutive for Thiery, or a colloquial term for a small person".

    Well first it's Thierry with two 'r's, but I've never seen titi being used as a diminutive for it, though that's because nobody would stand to it being used in public. Then there's the titi parisien but I've never seen titi refering to a small person.

    But all this misses the point. Just like an uninspired English-speaking programmer will call his variable 'foo' and then 'bar' if he needs a second one, a French programmer will call his variable 'toto' (from the classic Toto jokes) and then 'titi' if he needs a second one (and then 'tata' but normally by the time he reaches tutu he realizes he really needs to straighten up ;-) ).

    So what this really tells us is that this developer has a collegue whose username is 'toto'.

    1. Re:Titi username by fgouget · · Score: 1

      Sorry, wrong story.

  119. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  120. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on adBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  121. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  122. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  123. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  124. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  125. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  126. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  127. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  128. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  129. Ask yourselves these questions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  130. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  131. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  132. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  133. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  134. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  135. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  136. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  137. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  138. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  139. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  140. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  141. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  142. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  143. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  144. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  145. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  146. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  147. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  148. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  149. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  150. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  151. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  152. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  153. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  154. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  155. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  156. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  157. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  158. Hosts = the most efficient & capable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  159. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  160. Adblock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  161. Ask yourselves these questions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  162. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  163. AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    FREE & adds speed, security, + reliability, doing more with less, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:

    ---

    A.) Hosts do more than:

    1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/... )
    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, Kaminsky redirected (99% ISP DNS' = unpatched vs. it), 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 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

  164. Ask yourselves these questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
    2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    7.) Protect vs. trackers
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    9.) Protect vs. phishing
    10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
    11.) Get you past a dnsbl
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs
    13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
    14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
    15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
    16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage

    * ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!

    APK

    P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):

    AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).

    For the BEST hosts file?

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...

    ... apk

  165. I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Result? W. Palant RAN after he 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 & Others Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

    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

  166. Re:I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... ap by Anubis+IV · · Score: 1

    Uhh...

    A) You look like a crazy spammer with your insane formatting, massive hyperbole, and numerous comments that seem to be frothing at the mouth. It's no wonder Palant stopped responding to you.

    B) I never suggested people should use AdBlock. Quite the contrary, in fact, since I already pointed out that it wasn't particularly efficient and suggested that people should use an alternative to it. I know that reading my single sentence is asking a lot of you, but you might be advised to read it a bit more carefully next time before you make multiple comments, each of which has dozens of lines of inapplicable text that look to have been written by a madman.

    C) Custom hosts files complement browser addons, rather than replacing them. I use both uBlock and a custom hosts file, and I'd encourage others to do so as well, since each handles various things better or differently than the other. For instance, hosts are more efficient and can prevent the ad server from ever getting my request, which addons sometimes can't do, but it can't remove the element from the page where the ad would have showed, whereas an addon can. Hosts files are also a bit more hands-on in keeping up-to-date than addons, but they have the benefit of working across any browser or Internet service on your computer, whereas addons are easier to keep up-to-date, but only work in the browser where they are installed.

    TL;DR: Read more carefully, use both, and stop posting tirades. We'll all be happier, you included.

  167. Quickdrag by TheOneFreeman · · Score: 1

    Firefox has this add-on called Quickdrag (there are some clones around but this one is clean, small and simple) with a very basic premise but it's one of the greatest speed boosters I've ever had the pleasure of using: drag and drop any piece of text and it automatically launches a search on the search engine enabled in the search bar. If it's a link, it'll open a new tab with the link as URL. It's so simple to use but is a huge time saver. A few things to bear in mind however: since it hasn't been updated in quite a long time one of its functions which saves a dragged and dropped image (not being captured by javascript that is) doesn't work and you must manually disable adware using the last option in its option menu.

  168. Auto Text Expander by IsoQuantic · · Score: 1

    If you use Chrome, the Auto Text Expander extension will become a must have. Create some text trigger shortcut, enter it, and it expands to any sort of text you want to enter into a textual field that you find yourself entering often.

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    -- I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
  169. My faves by BSDchik · · Score: 1

    Def. HTTPS Everywhere. getcocoon, Firebug, Live HTTP Headers, and Better Privacy. I generally do not use more than 5 extensions.

  170. Re:I asked AdBlock's creator those questions... ap by OffTheWallSoccer · · Score: 1

    TL;DR: Read more carefully, use both, and stop posting tirades. We'll all be happier, you included.

    Nicely measured response! Usually such responses fall on deaf ears and only invite further flame from that guy, but it looks like you (to use that guy's lingo) destroyed him. :-)

  171. FB Purity for Facebook - its the bees knees by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    it cleans all the junk off facebook, and adds lots of other useful functionality that facebook doesnt provide, such as alerting you when your "friends" delete or block you : http://fbpurity.com

  172. Some I haven't seen mentioned yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    UAControl - spoofs a useragent to allow for things like using an html5 version of a site that is otherwise only served to mobile browsers. You might be surprised how many sites have html5 versions; I use flash roughly on a monthly basis these days.

    RefControl - Spoofs http-referer field, which helps defeat some tracking methods.

    TrackMeNot - Sends randomized searches to obfuscate search pattern tracking. The searches are generally drawn from major news RSS feeds.

    Certificate Patrol - Alerts you to changes in a site's SSL certificate, as well as how concerning it is. Given how broken SSL authentication is, it's worth keeping an eye out.

    GoogleSharing - Proxies all traffic between your browser and google servers. Coded by Moxie Marlinspike.