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Report: Internet Users Feel Powerless To Protect Their Privacy From Corporations
Mark Wilson writes: A paper produced by a team at the University of Pennsylvania confirms something many people have probably thought true for some time: the notion that internet users are unhappy with the way their privacy is undermined by advertisers and online companies, yet feel there is nothing they can do about it. While marketing companies like to present an image of customers who are happy to hand over personal information in return for certain benefits, the truth is rather different. Rather than dedicating time and energy to trying to stop personal data from being exploited, people are instead taking it on the chin and accepting it as part and parcel of modern, online life. It's just the way things are.
Is the article implying that there IS a way to protect our privacy? How?
and those Facebook pictures.
Herman Munster at 1313 Mockingbird Lane is probably less than pleased with me though.
Everybody expect free services. Nobody want to pay for anything, and they all expect privacy. Maybe it's time to wake up. Facebook, Google, Amazon or Apple are not charities, they are for-profit companies. They must find way to monetize their users' data. At the same time, Facebook probably wouldn't have been if it had been paywall'ed.
Makes a huge difference.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I use Firefox with the following add-ons: AdBlock (no whitelist), Better Privacy, Google Analytics Opt Out, HTTPS-Everywhere, Noscript, Privacy Badger and Self-Destructing Cookies.
Sourceforge, property of slashdot media, delivers ad-ware/spyware with Gimp download.... (No mention on /., of course)
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/
If you want to preserve your privacy, then DON'T PUT PICTURES OF YOUR COCK ONLINE!
Why would they feel powerless... When they are already essentially willingly giving out their personal information on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media services...
Internet users by the hundreds of millions give all their personal communications to online ad companies, including Google and Facebook. They have cheerfully gone from running their own mail programs to using Gmail or Ymail for everything. They gladly blab the private details of their lives, with photos, to Facebook and Twitter. They kept visiting signs once banner ads started... and then ran javascript from ad companies. They fall all over themselves every time there's a new service that vacuums up all their data, when there's no reason for that data to leave their own computer.
Sorry, internet users, but fuck you. The internet didn't used to be like this. You are the ones who supported turning the fucking thing from a true peer to peer network into a centralized, data-mined clusterfuck of overcommercialization and profiling. I don't want to hear how you don't like it. You made all the choices that led here.
OK, to be fair: not every last one of you. But enough that those who didn't were a rounding error and could be ignored.
Certainly people are just being lazy. The EFF has a tool called Privacy Badger that works pretty well. You can easily install AddBlocker too. It's not a total solution and for anonymity in more critical cases there is the Tor Browser Bundle. Now none of this protects against certain types of attack on privacy. However the Free Software Foundation has an excellent guide on installing and using GPG at http://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ if you need more protection. Then there is Tails if your in a very very serious situation that warrants "total" protection. Another good idiot-resistant educational video on free software you get watch here: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/user-liberation-watch-and-share-our-new-video#info There is also a company that focuses on free software friendly hardware so you can reduce the difficulty in adopting GNU/Linux- a generally more privacy friendly operating system to almost null: ThinkPenguin.com
And.. if that's not enough you can choose not to use Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and the like. DuckDuckGo, Riseup, and similar search/email/storage replacements exist. Nobody needs to be dependent on these privacy invasive companies or products. You don't have to buy everything off Amazon, Ebay, or Newegg either. There are plenty of BitCoin friendly vendors for products and service (like storage and hosting) of which will not demand your personal details. Heck- my company ships to people who enter "John Doe", "Human Being", and similar all the time.
And while you can't totally avoid government spying on you in the realm of cell phones you can get less privacy unfriendly phones (phone manufacturers/cellular providers). Just go check out Replicant. However that said I know people without cell phones. They're still "getting by" just fine. You can still get GPS-only devices too so you don't even need to skip out on all the benefits of the modern world (though I'd advise against the ones with built-in cellular modems).
For laptops you can remove the webcam/mic (ThinkPenguin above will do it even if you ask above) or at a minimium just sticker over the webcam. Doesn't work on phones- but you can turn them off too for a bit of privacy!
The government has it covered.
They're powerless and there's nothing they can do. And that's valid for everything, not just the death of privacy.
So the Facebook generation that demands every online service be priced at how-fucking-dare-you-charge-me-for-this is now claiming there's nothing that can be done about the privacy they blindly signed away 473 EULAs ago.
Oh, that's rich.
Don't worry though. If you thought this was bad, I'm certain IoT will make these privacy concerns look like a 12-year old boy with a telescope.
This can actually be fixed. We can have privacy. Technology can help.
All we need is the people with the vision, who understand what needs to be done. So far all we got is straight-up corporate "identity" models that really don't scale even to the national government level but get deployed there anyway. See NSTIC and like crap. See various "SSO" "solutions" like facebook's and google's. If we'd actually care we could have something better. Hit me up if you need someone with the vision, when you decide to do something about it, and get some help with architecting something better.
It's one thing that your supermarket knows what food stuffs you bought recently. And a local sports store knows what socks & running shoes you bought recently. And a local electronics store knows what multimeter you bought the other day. But all these stores normally don't have that data from each other. They can't connect the dots, unless they are all part of the same company AND you used your frequent shopper card.
So each store only gets a limited 'view' of your habits. Only the place(s) where you buy food, might suspect your eating habits. Only that sports store might suspect your sports habits. Etc, etc. Okay, your bank may get a list of transactions at several places, but not get all details about what you bought or did at each place. This is how it is expected in the 'offline world'.
Online tracking might feed the data into a bigger mother company, advertisers that aggregate data, companies that 'voluntary share' some operational data, etc. Sure, there might be laws against some of that sharing. Sure, privacy policies may lead you to believe such things are out of the question. But can you rely on that? Are you sure?
If not, this allow painting a much more detailed picture about one's life. Would you want such a detailed picture to be painted? Would you even want the records to be kept that allows this to happen? For me personally it's "NO" for the most part, perhaps on the fence for a few aspects, and the word "creepy" comes to mind. Not exactly matching with what's already technically possible, and what some companies are known to be doing these days (yep FB comes to mind. But they're far from alone).
Of course you have to give up your privacy to use Facebook, for example. But you don't have to use Facebook. There are other ways to stay in touch, but those "helpless" people don't even try to find them, or won't accept the littlest of inconveniences to sidestep the data collectors. Email a picture? OMG I'd have to learn how to do that. No no, give me Whatsapp. I'm so powerless.
Yeah, but Google told the world that a good webmaster loads static content from a separate domain, because cookies make those requests slow, and slow web sites get demoted. Bull-fucking-shit, but effective: Using RequestPolicy now means you see mostly broken web sites and end up having to guess which one of two dozen domains serves the stylesheets and images. That concept, no third party content unless explicitly allowed, was killed before it could become big enough to make webmasters care.
To be fair, it IS true that nobody could talk to anyone else on the internet before Facebook came along. I remember those dark days so well. You'd ring a dial-up ISP with your 300 baud modem... get connected to the real live internet.... and nothing. Just a black screen, every time. You'd compose emails to your friends, and they'd just disappear into the aether. You'd log onto IRC to chat, and there'd be nobody else there but you.
Then the World Wide Web started up, but it was all just black pages of nothing. Eventually everyone had broadband to their houses, and the black pages loaded instantly, but there was no one to talk to, and no way to communicate with your friends.
But FINALLY, in 2004, Facebook started up, and suddenly it was like a light turned on in the darkness. Suddenly, there were other people on the net! Suddenly, you could plan things with your friends, talk to your family, and see all kinds of things.
So they have a point: there was never really any choice about all this. I remember those dark pre-Facebook and pre-Google days well. May we never again go back there /shudder.
I haven't forgotten request policy, but it forgot to work with newer versions of Firefox. By request policy. Now I'm on to using other cross-site request whitelist tools.
Cry me a fucking river. All that "free" shit you've been using? Yeah, no. You are the product buddy!
If you want to preserve your privacy, then DON'T PUT PICTURES OF YOUR COCK ONLINE!
As we discovered in the John Oliver interview with Edward Snowden, it's the NSA's job to put pictures of your cock online, not yours!
You post your whole life online under your real name... yet worry about being an anonymous number in the bowels of Google (machine processed and occasionally lost track of). You have total faith in your government spying on you, seeing you naked with X-rays at the airport, and knowing everything about you, when your government is known to kill and torture innocent people and/or to turn them over to other countries that do... and you worry about Google that can't do anything to you except annoy you. And this is true of almost all governments since almost all will happily render you to the US. Then you cry to these governments to save you from Google and Facebook?? You've burdened the internet with the cost of your foolishness - a multitude of lives worth of man-years now wasted to jump through the privacy-theater hoops that your governments now ply you with, for privacy policies that you won't read, for cookie disclosures that you will always accept... all costing your economy money for no benefit at all.
I think this must affect younger users more, having been around when there were no cell phones or computers I don't feel as trapped.
This powerlessness I don't understand though, all you have to do is not use the stuff.
Just how brainwashed are we?
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
It seems to me that the problem is that the user does not want put in the effort to learn about the tools and services they are using. It's conceived as overly complex, probably because of a combination of factors like zealots, technical jargon, corporate bullshit, etc. Even when it is not it's conceived as intrusive. The fact of the matter is that humans are stubborn creatures, and many humans think that when they graduate they don't have to learn anything new, ever. Most people don't have advanced degrees in economics and related fields to advertising, so they simply cannot comprehend how data mined they are being and why it is bad, often because off short-sightedness, "if you have nothing to hide .." comes to mind. Narcissism takes precedence to security with a lot of people, evidently, just look at facebook membership rates and the amount of facade-building (fake/phony/w/e) profiles with all kinds of information others with different frames of mind can use and abuse.
The only reasonably safe software is software you can and _do_ audit, where you can access source code to see what programmers have done. No closed source ecosystem can ever provide this. Stop putting everything in services, cloud, whatever and learn about the tools you are using, computers are good at numbers, so you can assume they can be useful to encrypt your stuff to keep it safe, too. RTFM.
You can do something. You can do many things. Turn on, tune in, drop out: Would you leave your laptop with a total stranger? No? Why would you leave your data with total strangers then?
$0.02
"To err is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the Operating System"
Company spends millions on advertisement to get us to buy more of their stuff. The entire cost of their attempt to manipulate people into buying more of their stuff, wanted or otherwise, is being footed by the very people they're [b]trying[/b] to manipulate (YMMV).
So basically we're paying for this crap to be shoved into our face, without much of a choice.
And even with all the addons to block unwanted crap, so many sites just don't work without allowing javascript, ... not just allowing a potential attack vector into your system, but spreading your personal information god knows where under god knows what legal terms.
Pretty much all websites now require statistics and ads to be displayed 'for the monniez' and 'them demographics' so they can shuffle more relevant crap into your face next time.
Combined with the fact every website now not just links to 1-2-3 other domains (lets say one CDN, one stats, one ads), no, it links to 19 other domains requiring time to sort out what domains should be 'temporarily' allow to view content.
Allowing javascript anywhere anytime ... is just asking for trouble.
The interwebs were better when they were BY dedicated people, and FOR interested people, not just the next popularity race where pretty much anything goes to get them few more pennies from ads.
As with much in life, the second money is to be earned, it turns into a cesspool with no consciousness whatsoever.
Combine that with relative anonymity online, and it's become the biggest turd dump on the planet.
Yes willingly, nobody has a fucking gun to your head to use this stuff, lack of willpower in a toy store is not "oppression".There's no trickery in any of this, you voluntarily (and often eagerly) sign up for a service and pay for what you use in either dollars, eyeballs, rabbit skins, whatever. Bitching about the privacy costs of of a FB account is like bitching about the electricity bill while sitting in an air-conditioned room, it will always be modded up because people hate paying bills.
Of course government spying is a whole different ball of wax, nobody signed up for that!
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Step 1: Don't use a so-called "smart" so-called "phone." Step 2: There is no step 2.
>How are we supposed to know what add-ons you use?
He was asking any corporations that are listening.
Why is Acxiom never mention in privacy? They collect data on people independent of social media and independent of any consent or even knowledge they are being tracked. They have information on you even if you've never joined any social media site. They track your credit card purchases, everything you buy, and who knows what else, and they are selling the data to who knows who. They sound way more dangerous than FB and google combined.
And the dynamic is the same. People have yielded control over their lives in exchange for perceived benefits, and now they've got buyers' remorse.
Not everyone does that. I don't and im concerned. The problem is that it's not really an option as they are always inventing new ways of spying on people that are trying to opt out.
I'd pay money for a Facebook or GMail that didn't sell/give my info to others. I can probably solve the second by running my own mail server, but I don't have the knowledge yet.
But, of course, if someone were to try to make Cashbook, they'd end up having the community split between themselves and Facebook. And who knows, Facebook might sue over a patent.
Too late...you gave that up when you hooked into the internet, "friended" 3,495 people on facebook, twitter, instagram, said yes to every EULA, turned on tracking for your phone etc...you think government, corporations are just going to give that up?
This is utter rubbish. If you don't give personal information, then they have none. I post this as (AC). I'm not on FB or Twit or Pin or any of the others. I don't own a cell phone. I have worked for a 3 letter government agency (so it stands to reason, I know better). I do own equipment to do signal acquisition and analysis. It might sound anti-social, but the corporations haven't started blackmailing people (yet). If anything bad happens to a social networking company with a lot of data, there are a lot of really bad actors that will offer a lot to bail them out (or supply cash demanded by shareholders or creditors). Companies are required (by law) to maximize profits. They could obey laws to protect privacy, or they could obey laws to maximize profit (or just pay off creditors). Companies have always screwed customers/users over creditors. This is how they operate. Its the way. Don't worry about Facebook or Google or Twitter or Pintrest, worry about the NYSE, Bankers, the Russian Mafia, the Italian Mafia, the PLA (China), and dozens of others who never ever worry about your personal privacy, non-disclosure agreements, or whether you are an 80 year old grannie living on a $600 monthly pension, they will try to bleed you dry either way. Companies aren't the government. You can pressure the government (this is what voting is for). Corporations know you by dollar bills, and your picture isn't on them. You worry about government security (again, people protest), but corporations will not pay the slightest attention to you. Decisions about your information will go on in a back room somewhere, and you have 0 say. If laws are broken the company can be dissolved before charges are laid, big players 'leave the company' before the deal goes, so they 'were not privy to the transaction', and since the company doesn't exist anymore, no one can be charged. The zeroed bank accounts are your problem.
Keep feeding an ever changing pile of garbage into the databases.
Never give any accurate data.
And saying this, I know that the data breach in Washington DC the other day has info from up to 30 years ago.
They had all my information and I am surprised it was in a system that had network access to the internet !
I need a new tinfoil hat !
This is my opinion based on what little I know and understand of the rumors and lies Thanks, Randal
And after all the abuse of privacy, the outcomes aren't even that good.
I searched for one item, went to a store and bought it the same day, and for months I'm being shown adverts for an item I am no longer searching for. It doesn't 'know' something about me, it's taking a guess and it's wrong.
It is not primarily an ad blocker, but as most ads are served via JavaScript, not allowing domains like ad.doubleclick.something will greatly reduce the flood of unwanted ads and scripts.
The RequestPolicy website also recommends NoScript as additional measure BTW.
C - the footgun of programming languages
Don't do business on the Internet. I live in Rural SC, and despite that fact, for whatever product or service I am looking to buy, there is a local provider from whom I can obtain it, usually without handing over anything more than a pile of cash.
Cheaper, too, by the way. All you are accomplishing in buying things on the Internet is adding several middlemen between you and the real seller.
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 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).
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
For the BEST hosts file?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 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
Unless your intent is fraud, it is not illegal to make up an identity. Unless you're talking to law enforcement (etc), it is not illegal to lie about almost anything.
Yeah, I have a facebook (among others) account -- mostly to keep anyone else from claiming one in my name. No, the birthday on it is not accurate. Nor are many of the other details (and many are just missing). Sure, probably violates facebook's ToS, like I give a fuck. (On the other hand, when some idiot who knows me well enough to know the real date sends me birthday greetings via facebook, that kinda blows that. Like being tagged in somebody else's photo. You can't control what other idiots are doing to your privacy -- they don't care about theirs, they care even less about yours.)
Make shit up. Google stuff you have no interest in. Raise the noise level. (Better yet, somebody write a plugin that periodically googles some random sequence of dictionary words. Someone doing statistical analysis of group data will not be misled, the higher noise level is easily dealt with through known methods, but it introduces some plausible deniabilty to any individual's data.)
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
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 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).
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
For the BEST hosts file?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 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
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 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).
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
For the BEST hosts file?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 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
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
Sorry, they don't really care about you. You can do everything under a pseudonym (Fred Flintstone) but they just want to know your interests and what you spend money on ... doesn't matter who you are. Person 48326591753 likes heavy metal music and indoor sports. Groups like NSA only track it back to the person if you stand out, with words like "airplane" and "bomb" in the same sentence. I actually don't mind them tracking me, and register all my software under my proper name; you can contact me directly at mickey.mouse@disney.com.
Anybody who wants info on you as a person doesn't need the internet to get it.
the notion that internet users are unhappy with the way their privacy is undermined by advertisers and online companies
You people are STEALING the Internet!
See subject: There's 10 reputable hosts file sources via APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit SR-2 http://start64.com/index.php?o... that you can use vs. more ads & exploits online.
It uses all 10 reputable sites for said data (including MVPS that you suggest) + allows you to select ONLY the ones you see fit to use should you elect to not use all of them.
It also succeeds in shearing out ANY & ALL useless "bulk" in said hosts files it imports + it makes a host file more efficient by making the blocking address the most efficient one possible making hosts files BETTER THAN THEY ARE by default!
Thus gaining you MORE speed & reliability + security by "hardcoding" your favorite websites you spend most of your time online at placing them @ the TOP of a custom hosts file for fastest possible access, especially once hosts are cached into RAM!
(Exceeding remote DNS lookup slowness + indexing speed & their redirect security faults since most are NOT PATCHED vs. the Kaminsky redirect flaw + gaining you reliable connections if DNS goes "down" & they do, quite a lot).
That's done simply by decreasing the hosts file's size & line-by-line internal parse speed during the file open/read-write/flush/close I/O cycle (changing said blocking IP address from the larger slower 127.0.0.1 loopback adapter address) & smaller files load into memory faster...
Even Microsoft's VP of their Client Performance Division conceded that to me-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... back in 2009 since it's undeniable fact.
APK
P.S.=> MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts + recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
PLUS she's guaranteed SAFE & CLEAN -> https://www.virustotal.com/en/... + https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject: Remember this http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
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Of course you do, lol... VERY DUMB MISTAKE ON YOUR PART & weak.
* :)
(Keep replying with your off-topic WEAK b.s., & I'll toss out another dozen++ of the SAME NATURE, in your outright fuckups regarding hosts...)
NOW, you just KNOW that I've just GOTTA say it, now don't you? Ah, but of COURSE you do, so "here 'tis" in my own "inimitable style" vs. trolls such as yourself:
THIS?
This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" as it always is vs. technically incompetent off-topic weak trolls like Ash-Fox... lol!
APK
P.S.=> Thanks for making ME look GOOD, & yourself, by way of comparison? Well, lol - "not so good"... apk
No dissing going up mountains, you unbeliever, you.
But not forgetting to log in would've helped, I guess.
Those of us who care about privacy and are helping, feel the same way when you say "the Facebook generation" that you felt when elders said "the Television generation". Maybe you didn't spend your years glued to the TV screen?
See subject: Advertisers steal bandwidth I pay out for monthly & infest us w/ malicious script rampantly due to negligence + their "open auction" systems that MALWARE MAKERS ABUSE massively... so please:
* Don't PISS DOWN MY NECK & TELL ME IT'S RAINING... ok? Thanks!
(Whatever comes into my router INTO MY HOME is *absolutely* within MY DISCRETION as to what passes, or doesn't for that matter... get it? Good!)
APK
P.S.=> How I protect myself + speed myself up & secure myself online (making connections safer + more reliable too)? THIS -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7517371&cid=49865585
... apk
This post sounds plausible. However the combination of boldface, ALL CAPS, unnecessary exclamation points (!), and absolutisms ("...it's an undeniable fact") has my B.S. meter pegged.
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
If you want to protect your data from corporations, don't type it in. This is like being afraid of green sweaters. Don't buy one!!!
This being /. there are always loads of windows-related fixes to various solutions, but always a pitiably poor showing of OSX-related fixes.
And that being said, I'd like to ask what blockers/etc. are savvy Macintosh OSX users using?
Under data treaties that were signed, the basic Consitutional Right to Privacy is enforceable for all Canadian citizens, not just in Canada, but also in the US (US/Canada Data Treaty) and the EU (including the UK btw).
Period.
You can sue.
I know it's unusual for Canadians to sue, but sometimes we have to do it to stop Evil.
This is one of those times.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
As long as our politicians have to suck from the corporate tit to get campaign money, this will never ever change.
Jack of all trades,master of none
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 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).
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
For the BEST hosts file?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 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
See subject: Millions 4 sockpuppets by AdBlock paid by Google is exactly what it is obviously - why else downmod me & yet NOT be able to validly disprove my points in favor of hosts? Doesn't take a brain to figure it out, lol!
(AdBlock's using those millions for underhanded sockpuppetry having been paid off for crippling "almost ALL ads blocked" making it not do the SINGLE ONLY JOB IT HAD, no less)
* Everytime the dolts mod my posts down I truly do NOT think they realize MOST HERE BROWSE WELL BELOW THE EASILY SOCKPUPPET-CHEATED SO-CALLED "moderation threshold" of 0, seeing all of my posts anyhow, lol...
APK
P.S.=> The fact they're reduced to such effete stupidity boggles the mind - it ONLY MAKES ME LOOK SO GOOD THEY CAN'T VALIDLY PROVE ME WRONG on hosts adding more speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity (to a lesser extent on the latter though only) WITH LESS RESOURCES CONSUMED by blatantly INFERIOR & far less efficient slower browser addons... apk
Seriously, just say no. No one is holding a gun to users' heads. They are choosing to expose themselves.
See subject: There's 9 more reputable hosts file sources via APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit SR-2 http://start64.com/index.php?o... that you can use vs. more ads & exploits online.
It uses all 10 reputable sites for said data (including MVPS that you suggest) + allows you to select ONLY the ones you see fit to use should you elect to not use all of them.
It also succeeds in shearing out ANY & ALL useless "bulk" in said hosts files it imports + it makes a host file more efficient by making the blocking address the most efficient one possible making hosts files BETTER THAN THEY ARE by default!
Thus gaining you MORE speed & reliability + security by "hardcoding" your favorite websites you spend most of your time online at placing them @ the TOP of a custom hosts file for fastest possible access, especially once hosts are cached into RAM!
(Exceeding remote DNS lookup slowness + indexing speed & their redirect security faults since most are NOT PATCHED vs. the Kaminsky redirect flaw + gaining you reliable connections if DNS goes "down" & they do, quite a lot).
That's done simply by decreasing the hosts file's size & line-by-line internal parse speed during the file open/read-write/flush/close I/O cycle (changing said blocking IP address from the larger slower 127.0.0.1 loopback adapter address) & smaller files load into memory faster...
Even Microsoft's VP of their Client Performance Division conceded that to me-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... back in 2009 since it's undeniable fact.
APK
P.S.=> MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts + recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
PLUS she's guaranteed SAFE & CLEAN -> https://www.virustotal.com/en/... + https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Adblock paid sockpuppets are scared! Minusmod n' not proving apk wrong says all.
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 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).
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
For the BEST hosts file?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 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
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
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well.
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well.
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well.
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well.
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well.
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well.
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well.
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well.
Adblock paid shill sockpuppets = scared shitless of apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... as all they can manage is trying to hide apk's posts with unjustifiable minusmods but never proving apk wrong on a single thing his lists point out in favor of custom hosts files over all other inferior browser addons based so called solutions that don't do a fraction of what hosts can for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity online and not nearly as efficiently as hosts do as well.
Corporations are DIRTY and care for nothing but profit, so even reading the fine print doesn't always work (if they even offer it): http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.newser.com/story/19... http://www.newser.com/story/17...
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 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).
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
For the BEST hosts file?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 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
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 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).
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
For the BEST hosts file?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 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
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