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Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent
Mickeycaskill writes: A report from Adobe and anti-ad blocking startup PageFair says the number of ad block users worldwide has increased by 41 percent in the past 12 months to 198 million monthly active users. The study suggests the growing popularity of ad blocking software is set to cost online publishers $21.8 billion in 2015 and could reach $41.4 billion by 2016. "About 45 million of them are in the United States, with almost 15 percent of people in states like New York and California relying on these services. The figures are even higher in Europe, where 77 million people use versions of the software. In Poland, more than a third of people regularly block online ads."
even put an ad up!
In this day and age of malware being delivered even by supposedly reputable third-party providers, using an ad blocker is just plain responsible browsing. I'm sorry that web site owners are out some revenue for it, but if you want to make money off of me, you're going to figure out some way to do it other than leaving myself open to attack from malicious users.
There are a handful of web sites that I actually support financially specifically for this reason.
Mute the TV. Fast-forward recorded TV. Screen the calls. Block the ads.
Fuck'em if they cant take a joke.
I have no objection of watching ads. After all, it's the bread and butter to support a lot of sites. However, some of the ad scripts are so badly written that they basically bring my PC to a halt. This is particularly serious for flash scripts. I block them for my PC health actually.
I love how they quote figures for "losses to online publishers" with a confidence interval of 100%, while completely failing to address how GDMF ANNOYING the modern web is if you don't block ads. If I couldn't block ads on sites I otherwise like that choose to run super annoying ads, then I would simply block the entire site and not visit any of the "content" there. Hey online advertisers: Here's How To Keep People From Blocking Your Stuff With This One Weird, Old Trick! All you have to do is stop being so annoying. Really, that's it.
Nope. Not how it works. Not getting revenue from someone who wouldn't have clicked on your link if it were full of adware (for them) is not a "cost." The actual cost is in bandwidth, etc. and is much less than beelions of dollars.
Lets make ads even _more_ invasive! Surely that will work this time!
it's because ads are pollution of the mind, advertizing agencies (not just on the internet) commoditize people's brain runtime without asking their permission, and people generally FUCKING HATE IT.
Gee, what a surprise...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
It's going to be an arms race now.
I was testing out some stuff with privacy badger and I noticed that it does block at least some ads (all the ones I tested with).
But it seems to be based on the domain serving the ad. Maybe next we will see companies using random domain names to serve their ads in an attempt to bypass this?
I think it's funny that they think I'm somehow obligated to download and render every little bit of their website.
Revenue you fail to generate is not a cost. If that were the case, then we'd all be losing an *infinite* amount of money every day.
You mean "deny". This is like saying a fence "cost" a wolf some chickens. I understand paying for content by watching ads... but the popups, the tracking, and the auto-play videos are getting out of hand.
The industry loses money because they don't understand their mistakes.
I don't mind seeing ads in their little corner, not flashing, clearly labeled as such. Hell, I even welcome targeted ads!
But when an auto-loading, auto-playing full page Flash add with sound suddenly pops over my screen and scares me to death while I'm trying to read an article... well then fuck you, I'm gonna block the shit out of it and everything that comes from that website until the end of time.
Many games I found and play were initially found by me through ads. So ads do help. They're just, for most part, intruding and badly designed.
The ad industry doesn't understand that AdBlock is an effect, caused by their shitty race to make ads "more visible". I guess they're a victim of their own "success".
I've seen websites that don't let me view any content on them if I have AdBlock, I blacklisted them entirely.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
And now all of these companies will try to claim we're "stealing" revenue from them by not viewing ads.
Sorry, but we're under no obligation to watch your damned ads. We don't owe you the ability to display stuff on our screens, nor do we owe you the revenue associated with this.
Boo fucking hoo, the mean old internets are stopping allowing you to make money for embedding crap in our web pages and providing a vector for malware.
That's simply tragic.
But you can bet the lobbyists are hard at work telling the politicians this is a vital part of the economy and if people are allowed to block ads world will end.
Bloody parasites.
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They aren't losing. It isn't costing them. The public chooses not to participate. The web companies can make pages not load at all if the ads are gone but they don't cause they know the public will leave them like rats leaving a sinking ship.
Business needs to change its methods. Bombarding people with advertising is unreasonable and it doesn't matter whether it is by the net, the phone, or junk mail. I can not believe that we do not at least have a common phone system that prevents advertising, sales, and charity calls from ringing my phone without my explicit and very direct, written consent. At the very least auto dialers could be sensed and blocked as could robo calls. We may have an opportunity to stop 100% of all phone sales and so-called telemarketing dead in its tracks.
Global economic system is ready to die and be replaced with something better.
We cannot use this prehistoric way anymore.
I have no objection of watching ads.
Really? Because I do. I particularly object to pop-up ads, interstitial ads, large banner ads, and ANY ad that tries to track my behavior or browsing activity. Ads waste my time, intrude on my privacy and sometimes are malware vectors. I never have any interest in whatever crap they are trying to sell me so pretty much all the ads are nothing more than a waste of my time. My attention is valuable to me and I don't give it out for free. I don't buy shirts with large brands on them because I'm not being paid to promote them. If an ad company wants to pay me directly for my opinion on a product we can talk but it's going to be a direct negotiation most of the time.
I'm willing to pay for content which I think I have a reasonable chance of finding valuable or enjoyable. I occasionally purchase/rent/go-see movies. I subscribe to some journals. I subscribe to a few websites I find valuable. But if a company wants to use ads as their primary revenue source then chances are good I'm going to block or otherwise circumvent their attempt to hijack my time and attention.
After all, it's the bread and butter to support a lot of sites.
Their shitty business model is not my problem. If your business depends on pushing obnoxious ads and tracking my activity then you deserve to be blocked.
I blame the increasing prevalence of ads that automatically play sounds. I thought that died in the 90s but it has suddenly came back. There is nothing more annoying that one of your tabs suddenly blaring a lame ad in the middle of the night or during a presentation. Slashdot its self has been a large offender of this. I have always refused to use ad blockers because I want sites to be able to monetize, but as a result of these sounds I have began using ad blockers this year.
It was the autoplaying video-adverts that flipped me over (about 6 months ago). I tolerated them when they first appeared, but once they defaulted to having the sound switched on, it was clear that the situation had gone beyond reasonable bounds.
The advertising industry should do whatever it can to make life unpleasant for those companies that rolled out those noisy monsters. I was prepared to tolerate ads up to that point, so that particular development has cost the industry a good few ad-views (and I doubt I'm alone in having found the game of "which browser tab is making the noise" to be my breaking point).
I'd avoided using ad blockers until recently, and I think they've been around for a few decades now.
But you know what? These "hidden, audio-only flash ads" that interrupt my music for a car ad? Yeah, those prompted me to start blocking them. I may unblock them when I go car shopping, so I know who to avoid.
I wish they would focus on shifting ads away from the current "be as annoying and in your face as possible" trend, and over to more non-intrusive forms of ads. I'm sure the reason ads have become so obnoxious is that it leads to more clicks, but that so many now choose to block them might be a good indication it's time to reevaluate.
My adblocker accepts non-intrusive ads by default. Get your ads on that whitelist and the problem is solved. Personally, I don't care about a static image or text box. I do care about blinking pop-overs with audio. Whenever I get a "we see you are running an ad-blocker, would you mind telling us why?" questionnaire from a website, I tell them the same thing.
That's why we don't use adblock plus or adblock edge or whatever the fuck it's called now.
We use ublock origin, umatrix, betterprivacy, https everywhere and privacy badger.
Just as downloading music screwed those of us that didn't.
At work we block ad's company wide. Allowing online Adverts is a giant security flaw.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
While most americans may be content with things like the 'welcome back we'll be right back' nature of television and radio, its actually a pretty glaring annoyance for the rest of us. turning everything into a commodity is a very recent notion, and not one I might add that many people care for.
I block routes to known advertising servers, and i use the firefox microblock plugin for anything else. what advertisers often completely neglect is that theyre on my bandwidth. I pay the bill, i decide the content, end of discussion. the ads are often just another vector for exploits in the browser. The product almost never pertains to me, and i dont want it to. I dont want advertisers dickriding me into the sunset trying to exploit my personal interests. Instead when and if i need a product i want advertisers to focus on what the product does, and how well it does it. Do not pander endlessly about how good or noble a person im to become if i dole out cash for the product.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Uh...that post doesn't make any sense. Time for some English class brosky!
They asked us to punch the monkey... and we did. What do they expect with dropper-infested, bandwidth-hogging, slow-loading, auto-play with sound enabled "advertising" they keep showing on us?
They turned cable into never-ending commercials, people responded by record-and-skip and cable-cutting. They turned media sites into never-ending commercials, people responded by blacklisting and blocking advertising. I think the advertising industry shows clear pattern of shitting the bed, as such this is of their own making.
Yeah, why don't people talk about how much snake oil salesmen have lost ever since "snake oil" started being associated with worthless crap marketed fraudulently.
Using the word "loss" ignores the fact that the earlier revenue was ill-gotten in the first place. It's not a loss: it's a savings. The economy is going to save $21.8 billion in 2015 by ceasing to waste money on crap that would otherwise just make people unhappier.
This finding is a big, blinking, sound-enabled, GIF-filled page full of caution signs webpage for advertisers that their operational model is NOT WANTED.
They don't seem to be seeing it.
Maybe they have a common sense blocker?
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They put in AUTO PLAY AUDIO which is really annoying. Glitchy ads that crash my browser. Regular targeted banner ads I don't mind, but they have to
make really annoying.
A lot of the ads reduce page load time. The most annoying ones are the flash ones. I installed an adblocker specifically because of the flash ads on Slashdot. The tracking is especially creepy.
You're projecting your issues with illiteracy. I read and understood it perfectly.
Well, I'm of two minds on this subject. I have never installed adblock and its ilk, because I know that "free" content comes at a cost. So as much as possible I sit through commercials from network TV's streamed shows, I allow sidebar ads to populate some screen real estate on websites, etc.
But I have my limits.
I suppose in the end that makes me no better than folks who aggressively block every single advertisement in any form -- "We already established what kind of woman you are; now we're just negotiating on the price". But it helps me sleep better at night knowing I'm at least willing to try to give them some of my attention in return for free content.
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Let's see. In most sites I visit, I noticed that most of the content is tied to ads functions or unknow "affiliate sites". Usually I count more than ten scripts whose function is unclear at least and the overwhelming majority of ads shown is in the style of "Clean My PC" shit. And still they have the courage to complain when I block mercilessly this malware vector?
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Your English was much better this time, brosky. Keep working on it.
Rise in insect repellent use costs malarial mosquitos millions of gallons of blood and new disease victims.
Advertising is necessary, to be sure - up to a point. As a business, you have to attract customers, no doubt, and to do that, you have to advertise. But there a huge difference between putting a small, factual advert in a few, strategic places, and spurting out a deluge of mindless shite over everybody. That sort of advertising is simply immoral in so many ways - and I use the word 'immoral' very deliberately, because I think it is also a moral issue.
The enormous amounts of adverts tend to drown out any coherent message there might be, not to mention the actual content of many websites. Most adverts are at best irrelevant noise, at worst blatant lies and in any case unproductive, and therefore worthless to the companies paying for them.
This is also a moral issue, IMO, for many reasons; one thing is the large part of advertising that is shamelessly fraudulent, but there are also issues like encouraging (or even bullying) people into wasting their money and sometimes health on unnecessary comsumption, as well as luring businesses into wasting their money on worthless advertising. Advertising agencies are for a very large part nothing more than parasites, and the sooner we get rid of them, the better.
And just to have it said - I do know the arguments about 'nobody forces people to ...'; not true, simply. It is very easy to see the direct connection from massive advertising campaigns that encourage drinking amoungst young people, to the increasing trend towards young people binge drinking every weekend. Producers of things like alcohol and sugary or fatty consumables, and companies like loan sharks and betting shops, deliberately target the most vulnerable, contributing to a culture of mindless consumption and indirectly to peer-pressure; after all, who wants to be seen as un-cool - a lentil eating outsider?
For those who think ad are ok:
âoePeople are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
âoeYou, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
âoeFuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Itâ(TM)s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
âoeYou owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially donâ(TM)t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, donâ(TM)t even start asking for theirs.â
â" banksy
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
No need to copy/paste your shit and change the product name, you lunatic dipshit.
Hosts works but it doesn't block all ads. It only blocks by using hosts. AB blocks URLs and works over HTTPS. Advertisers are getting smarter...
I use host blocks on my router but still use AB on my browser for maximum effect.
Sadly this study docent tell how much all those unwanted advertisement bandwidth would have cost to internet users..
probably that *one* little host IP that is left unblocked .....
At least that's what I think of when I read that nonsense of a post advocating APK, it just reads like a scam email.
They somehow believe that our screens are yet another billboard on the e-road. Just like those big blinking street banners in America. Flashing right into your windows days and night. Equally unrelated content that someone thinks is better for us. I really do not need enlarging any parts of my body. They are already big enough :3
But beware! A new sales person has recently joined the hood. His name is Windows 10.
This sounds like the complaints from the Thieves Guild, remember?
Back when people first started carrying credit cards and the Thieves could no longer make money just by grabbing people by the ankles, holding them up, and shaking them until the money fell out of their pockets.
Not happy about this. Now that "normals" have slouched onto the blocker band wagon the ad pushers will develop more aggressive techniques plus deny content to blocker users (more than they do already.) Blockers only worked because they weren't popular; there are a LOT more ad-mongers than there are blocker makers.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
I only use it for 2 reasons. One is because the ads have become so intrusive and annoying. No longer is it good enough to put a banner ad on the page. But now it has to take over my entire browser window and run 100 scripts that slow my browsing experience down (especially since I use older computers) but they also can't seen to get control of the malware issue. Again, if they wouldn't allow all of the scripts then malware wouldn't even be an issue.
Does your hosts file magic automatically block your constant shitposting?
Shouldn't kill the goose that laid the golden egg, but it's always killed. So be it.
Good. And I hope ad blocker use continues to go up. The day you stop trying to bombard me with fake anti-malware scans and loud ass pop-up adds (seriously this is 2015) is the day I stop using it. Also, nobody likes commercials and never have. People have always wanted a way to skip commercials and now we have a way. Advertising is an archaic practice and it needs to evolve with the rest of us. As far as I'm concerned it's all just spam and it needs to go away, forever.
They could have woken up and realized that part of the reason Google's services did so well was that they presented a certain amount of advertising in a non-disruptive way.
Instead, they decided that blinking, audio, video, flash, javascript, animations, interstitials, anything that could be made as annoying as a six year old who wants attention was the right model.
Then they didn't mind their content and made it too easy for malware to get injected into their highly automated processes to boot.
And now they complain about ad blockers? Do they even realize how obnoxious their ads are?
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The next frontier of blocking is unwanted contents. Ex. Kardashians.
When there was no Google, opening a search also opened numerous giant blinking banner ads.
Google invented (or was the first to use on grand scale) targeted advertising. The advertisers get audience who actually followed the links and the viewers were interested.
That is why they became the leading search engine,
But most publishers still don't get it. They think more blinking, disturbing read flow, video, voice or showing remarketing ads (when I look at a website, see that I don't like product, don't spoil me with it again) will gain them anything.
But the only thing the get is another install of an ad blocker.
An ad blocker "costs" an advertiser NOTHING. The whole narrative is wrong.
Is ad revenue reduced? Yes. But that is not a cost. It's a reduction in income or a reduction in gross receipts. A "cost" is when your expenses increase, not when your revenue decreases.
Given how the population of the US is ~319 million, 45 million is almost 15% of the total US population. Therefore, I'm not sure what the summary (or the article itself, which doesn't provide any further detail) is trying to achieve by stating that almost 15% of people "in states like NY and California" use ad blockers -- saying they are statistically average compared to the other 48 states seems to add no value. To me, it would be more interested to know how much variation there is between states.
But no OSX support?
Why not just put the generated hosts file on the web?
It will be interesting to see what happens when ios9 is released. It includes the capability to block ads cuz you can install an ad blocker in mobile safari. I'm sure that android has had options for a while, but iOS is a large market share and valuable cuz demographics. Also, I imagine it's a techie process to install on android, while maybe they can make it one-tap easy to install on iOS. Don't worry, I'm sure iAds won't be blocked...
Adverts are little different than the email spam that used to clog many an inbox. Adblockers are no different than spam filters.
These advertisers have simply overwhelmed and saturated the user experience of so many web properties to the point where they aren't tolerable. Try to going to any wikia.com site without adblock and see how slowly it loads and how impossible it is use the site. Frankly, slashdot is among the worst offenders. I just visited halo.wikia.com and ABP reported 25 blocked adverts. It's pretty much out of control. I mean fuck, shit, cock, ass, titties, boner, bitch, muff, pussy, cunt, butthole, Barbra Streisand!
Ad block software will not cost publishers publishers $21.8 billion in 2015. Those numbers are invalid because (1) many ad block users would avoid some sites they normally visit if they had to suffer through ads, (2) the incremental traffic from ad block users will not likely generate a proportional amount of sales for advertisers, and (3) advertisers will not like pay a proportionally higher amount if ad block software was not used.
The irony of unblockable spam posts being used to push adblocking software.
Nobody ever said it is your right to make money on the internet. If you want to post information, pay for hosting, that is your business. You are not guaranteed to make a profit doing so. The internet is there for sharing information, not for making money.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
We decided, a long time ago, that the web would be supported by advertising. Other business models are possible, and were explored, but subsequently abandoned. So be it.
OK, so show me good ads. Cut the "weird trick" ads. Lose the pop-ups, lose the auto-play videos, lose the bad HTML that makes web pages fidget and bounce around while the browser figures out what size your image really is. Lose the web pages that never finish loading. And please lose the Flash ads that freeze the entire browser.
When I loaded this page I got a BMW ad, an ad for a camera store and an ad for shoes. I can deal with that.
...laura
And they will increase even further if the anti-adblock crowd keeps giving adblock techniques free publicity.
waaaaiiiitttt... I thought we solved this problem with a tax on blank cassette tapes. Sounds like you're proposing allowing double-dipping here, mate.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pot calling a kettle black. You're off topic. You can't prove apk wrong.
Stop making your ads so fucking annoying and we will stop blocking them.
You're an off topic troll that can't prove apk wrong.
I wonder why.
My latest ad hate: Play some Android game on silent in bed, level ends, game blasts video ad on full volume. Not sure who to hatemail.
I see ads; text ads. Google itself inserts text ads in some places. They work, I sometimes read them, sometimes follow a link. But pop-up ads, videos, slide shows, obstructive banners and any visual or audible noise are banned. Tracking web bugs and many scripts are banned. Often sites don't work for me because of this, so I just leave. Other than my bank and very few other businesses, all sites are disposable.
Advertisers are hurting themselves as well as those of us who have to suffer them. Sensible text ads can work, and they are very hard to block.
Does anyone here remember Burma Shave ads along rural highways?
http://theshaveden.com/forums/...
Everyone loved them, cute little rhymes that concluded with a reminder to buy their product. Creativity in advertising today seems to be a matter of producing bigger, more obnoxious noise. There is much that can still be done with a whisper.
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I avoid companies that use advertising and marketing that I find offensive to my intellect. I don't mean using sex to sell beer, I mean stuff like an endless barrage of cartoons and character actresses selling me something as important as insurance.
Or selling me drugs with a disclaimer for side affects that sounds like a death certificate, and all for a made up illness.
Blocking the ads also blocks me from knowing how shitty your company is.
I didn't use any ad blockers until I encountered a page with information I needed and the page had an ad on it... That after about a minute would start playing a video AND shift the browser focus to that video. I would have to then stop the video and then scroll down the page to where I was before I was so rudely interrupted. And since that process took close to a minute (it was a very large page with a lot of dense information), I would only get 10 to 20 seconds or reading before the damn ad once again restarted and shifted focus. So ad blocker was installed and since I'm a lazy son of a bitch, I don't bother to turn it off on other pages that act responsibly. So In a nutshell, one asshole advertiser resulted in the blocking of every advertiser on my computer.
I don't have a problem with websites trying to "monitize" page views to pay for upkeep.
I don't even have a problem with websites trying to "monitize" page views to make some money.
The reason I use ad-blocking software is that I do not wish my web-browsing activities to be used to "profile" me (for what ever reason), and I do not give permission to third-party web-pages to make money off of my web-browsing patterns. (dobuleclick, google, scorecard, et. al, this means you).
Most advertisements are served up by third-parties, who pay websites for my referral, and acquire their "saleable assets" directly from me. I prefer not to participate in this sort of hidden, voluntary invasion of my privacy. That means I don't visit advertisers directly, and I don't permit my web-browser to visit them as directed by the web sites I visit.
Can APK block APK spam posts about APK?
Your idea of marketing is incredible. Or retarded... Or incredibly retarded.
Considering the fact that ads are paid for when shown, and that companies have a limited amount of money to spend on advertising, showing more ads would only mean that the price per ad would be lower. In the same way, if it's harder to show ads for people, they can cost more.
It makes no sense to claim that people who live from showing ads on their websites (here called publishers) would make more money, or have increased costs, because of ad-blocking. The only difference on costs are bandwidth, that isn't that expensive anyway (and can be passed from the publishers to the advertisers).
Your off topic trollery isn't proving apk wrong on hosts. It's helping him.
So, your idea is to spam and anyone that doesn't like it or criticize your spam is a sock-puppet???
You sir are a special kind of stupid. Honestly, I could care less about technical validity if you present yourself like a warthog in heat.
Why would anyone choose an anti-spam/maleware/phish solution that markets itself by spam/maleware/phish?
Can ab+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
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Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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Can ab+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
> A report from Adobe and anti-ad blocking startup PageFair says the numbers of surface dwellers who have caught on about ad blockers has increased
You're welcome, normals.
Strictly speaking, I guess it's a positive? That your facetweets and ledditblrgrams and tubeclogging streams are a better experience. I might need to consult game theory or something.
Indy, synapse or rolled your own winsock?
Can ab+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
No, trust us, this is a good ad.
Those ads that hack your monitor, by taking up all the space? No, we promise this one won't do that. Oh no, we won't sign our name to it, or a sign a document saying so. But trust us, this ad won't hack your monitor. It uses up only some of the space, not all of it.
Those ads that hack your browser, by popping up or popping under? No, we promise this one won't do that. Oh no, we won't promise or be accountable, but this one doesn't ignore browser settings like that.
Those ads that hack your inputs, by spoofing a close icon, or tying events to it? Or by looking like a system message? No, we promise this one won't do that. Of course, it could, at any moment, if our jobs depend on it or we are paid off, but we promise it's a good ad.
No, this is a good advertisement.
It's designed to hack just YOU. You should allow this to happen. You believe that only gullible or weakminded humans are affected by advertisements. We believe otherwise, and we spend millions of dollars on this topic, but you're probably right. It probably won't hack you. It's just designed that way, crafted by decades of doctorates, trial and errorred in a multibillion dollar industry. That model of a homunculus in your head is probably correct. You aren't even gonna be affected by this advertisement. After all, if you could be affected by the advertisment, then it would mean you are a human. And humans clearly aren't affected by those, just as long as they are strong willed and intelligent. No, no study has ever shown that correlation, but trust us.
This advertisement will just hack you. It will create a sense of fear, and offer to calm you. It will create a sense of dissatisfaction, and attempt to satisfy it. Were you hungry? Did you have a need to eat? Here's a picture of some food. And people enjoying food. I'm sure that has no affect on you. Here's a picture of a willing mate, a happy family, some offspring. Certainly you aren't some emotional wet robot that is subject to this.
I'll just put all this ball of mind poison right here. It won't pop up, pop under, be boring, be annoying, ring bells, have a fake close key, stutter, install a toolbar, or anything else.
No, this is a good ad.
It just hacks *you*.
Especially if you don't think that's possible. Please don't think that's possible, or you might question this whole thing.
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
+
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
+
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's better?
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...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ghostery do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (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 by a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (e.g. stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu + memory use vs. addons
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on Ghostery doing all that let alone as well as hosts do!
APK
P.S.=> Addons do 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):
Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Addons add complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
ClarityRay DETECTS browser addons like Ghostery & blocks them (not hosts) via native browser methods.
What's better than ghostery by FAR?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
If you spend any applicable amount of time online, you just get tired of every web page looking like times square. The more shocking thing here is that advertisers are surprised that people don't want to be sold to.
If everyone installed an ad blocker google would die :)
I can't wait!
I think the question you need to ask yourself is when you're on your death-bed will you think, "boy, I sure do feel guilty for viewing all those corporate websites and blocking the ads and thus, their potential revenue", or "boy, I sure do wish I had all that time back I spent watching ads, being distracted by ads, closing pop-ups."
For me, the only valuable resource in the entire universe is my time. And I will fight very hard to protect it.
Surprised it has not taken companies longer to deny content to the user if ad-block is detected.
I have seen several sites that have a paragraph where the ads have been blocked stating that they won't get money if you block their ads.
It is awesome to see the awareness and number of users utilizing ad blockers, however there will be a point when the sites will have to figure it out to force to you see advertisements.
*On another note - Black Mirror had a great episode on advertisements and making people pay to not watch them.
I've self targeted by avoiding ads as much as possible, meaning the fools complaining are the companies running the advertising campaigns. So they don't make as much money - Yea. Means the cost of a product I actually use should be cheaper as the company doesn't need to spend money on marketing that doesn't work.
Captcha's have been appropriate for the last week - today's was : Against
I tear the ads out of the magazines I read and go to the bathroom during commercials.
You must be new on the internet.
There was an age when people generated the content. Wrote articles, stories, guides etc and put them online at their own cost. Not for profit, but because they wanted to share their knowledge. That was when the hardware and bandwidth were incredibly expensive.
How have things changed in the past 15 years? Those people still do the same, and some might actually make some profit, but then we have the other 98% of the websites which shamelessly copy the content not just from the original users, but from each other and force feed it to people praising it for it's uniqueness and prompt delivery.
Look at news websites to see the future. Problem is ... everyone sees the internet as an easy way to make money and I think Futurama had the best take on it's far future.
P.S.=> I love it when you fools (doubtless adblock sockpuppets paid to do so) vainly try these effete off topic ad hominem attacks + unjustifiable downmods that never ever prove my points validly technically wrong (impossible to do to the truth & verifiable facts I post from reputable sources)... YOU'RE MAKING MY CASE & PROVING MY POINTS FOR ME IN YOUR DOING SO, LOL... apk
Delusionally paranoid schizophrenic much? Take your meds, dude. Nobody cares what your points are because you are incessantly posting the same copy/paste, off-topic rant. You are a screaming idiot who, regardless of the merits of your statements, is grating to listen to.
I started ad-blocking back when ads became animated or when pop-ups/pop-unders appeared. Whichever came first. The blocking was to take out both eventually.
Now it's Taboola and other "Promoted Content" garbage. I'd be willing to bet a large sum that the surge in ad blocking can trace to "promoted content" now. The net is infected with the disgusting pictures and beyond idiotic click-bait headlines that are linked from this crap. I see these links everywhere now, no matter how big the site.
Not to mention alot of people are on mobile devices... When my bandwidth is metered, as it is on my mobile, I consider it bandwidth theft to shove ads over my connection without my permission. I will go out of my way to block those. Maybe other people feel the same way.
I agree completely. I'm OK with seeing a few ads if they support the free content I want to access. If that's the business model we're going with, then so be it. Slashdot itself broke my own camel's back, though, with the amount of crap I saw even after I clicked "Ads Disabled" (because of the amount of crap I was seeing). My decision was reinforced after the most recent monthly session of Dad Cleans Up The Kids' Gaming PC from all the junkware they'd installed (my youngest is 7; sometimes he doesn't make the best choices).
Sorry, ad industry. I was willing to work with you but you made it too hard to accept. This is your own fault.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
It is also a troll. Why would you choose any software solution when the only interaction you have with it spam?
Lets say I have a website about cats. lets say it gets 1m views a day
I put a banner ad up at the top that gives people seizures that should pay 1k/mo for 1m views
The addition of advertising to my website causes my daily view count to drop to about 800k
So now it only pays 800/mo. this still pays for server maintenance and bandwidth.
But I want a new Dice bobble head doll so I add a bunch of pop under,pop up,redirects and sponsored content.
This makes the view count drop down to 500k but now 97% of users use adblock so I only make $15/mo on the 15k users that don't know how or are unable to use adblock.
So to compensate I add even more offensive advertising (and some malware redirects for good measure) to my website that pays better.
But the stats don't change much and I make much less than when I started out.
Now 490K People use adblock that didn't use adblock before.
Thus I have irreparably damaged my user base as even if I go back to just the one banner ad I will never be able to get as much as I did with that single banner ad when I started out.
Plus those adblock users now block ads everywhere not just my site which increases the percentage of adblock users on other websites even those without obtrusive advertising which in turn causes their ad revenue to go down.
Oh woe is me those thieving ablock users should have just put up with cryptowall, malware, popups, pop unders, redirects,sponsored cats, nasty and annoying advertising.
Its all the adblocking users fault its certainly not anything that I have done.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Of course it's completely ridiculous to claim that someone is costing you money because they modified their software (THEIR SOFTWARE THAT YOU DON'T MAKE) to skip connections to a list of hosts.
But it's also ridiculous to claim that someone has hacked you because they noticed your URL pattern and pulled all of your records with it.
Am finding these p3rvy autoloud vids to be way too much.
Might have to install Ad-Blocker
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
You should know that posting these kinds of stories is like screaming, "beetlejuice! beetlejuice! beetlejuice!" in a crowded forum.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
See subject: "Hand-rolled" resolved already. Working changing drive letters vs. mounted devices (FAR easier to do).
APK
P.S.=> I'm also adding in more filters vs. false postives (vs. falsely blocking say, antivirus companies or VS. hostfiles being 'bushwhacked' also, which IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR MALWARE TO DO WHILE MY PROGRAM RUNS since it protects hosts while its resident, OR if important sites like search engines get messed with OR if windows update sites get blocked maliciously by malware, etc. - et al)... apk
Nobody's ever proved apk wrong, good enough for me http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
because they cant milk every last dollar they believe they are entitled to!
'Nuff said
I signed up for a free one week subscription on Hulu to try and catch up on some old South Park. Even with the premium service, Hulu forces you to sit through constant ads. For one episode of South Park, I counted at least six ad slots running between 80 to 160 seconds a piece. They show an ad before the show, they show an ad after the intro to the show, and then repeated others during what I assume were the on-air commercial breaks. I do have uBlock running, so while I don't actually see the ads it is still really annoying to have to repeatedly see a black screen telling me how ads help Hulu provide their streaming service for a low subscription fee. $8 a month is hardly a low enough fee to continuously bombard me with ads throughout something I'm paying to watch. Hulu is a joint venture between Comcast, Fox, and Disney so the idea that they need to use ads while charging a subscription is a blatant money grab. I'm definitely going to be canceling my subscription before the trial is over. Why they don't just increase the price to say $10 a month and remove all the ads is beyond me. Knowing the groups involved, they probably will increase the price and continue to show just as many ads.
We love autoplaying videos... in new browser windows... not
We love the possibility that a benign advertizer has been compromised and is now slinging malware (Looking at you, yahoo)... not.
We love being tracked... not
And that is just when staying on legit sites like, say, slashdot.
Go to more dubious places, like a page in austria about tuning sofas or places hosting photograpic documentaries on the human form, you'd be mad to go there without adblock and noscript. And once you do have your protections on you'll even notice that sites load up faster. Even legit sites. So why would anyone go back to using the web raw ?
Adblock makes the web a better, nicer, safer place for the consumer. Advertizers feeling miffed about this are invited to surf the web without adblock for day, then do a scan for malware - if their PC still let's 'em.
Someone should explain to the folks paying for the advertisements that when you have visually intrusive ads, ads that start playing sound, or ads that obscure the content, there's only two options available to the person viewing the page: close the tab right away, or use an ad blocker. The more intrusive and annoying the ad, the more likely I am to harbor bad feelings about product being advertised, stop buying their crap, and will bad-mouth their products all over social media. Likewise, someone should explain to the sites that hosting the ads that allowing keyword ads and things that bring up popups while browsing the site may pay you more per visitor, but it also assures that I'll not be visiting your site to see those ads. Would you prefer $.02 per visitor for 200 visitors, or %.01 per visitor for 10,000 visitors? As far as the people that create the ad software itself, they really don't give a fuck if it harms your experience with the site you are visiting, or how their tactics harm the perception of the advertisers - they only care about getting their number of ads served as high as possible so their paycheck is bigger, even if it is actual malware they are serving. That many folks would take great joy in working them over with a baseball bat isn't a deterrent. The only way to really get them to change is to attack their pocketbook.
Don't you think it's ironic you have, on this article alone, plastered at least a half-dozen spam posts that are essentially ads. Do you have anything that would let us block you?
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
Men come with a built in ability to tune out nagging. It was only a matter of time before we learned how to tune out ads as well.
Nice try, APK.
Really, anyone who is de facto tech support for anyone on the PC platform has had to remove the best of crapware, so once that redirect is finally found and removed, adblock goes on the machine.
It is only partly about ads....the malicious nonsense with them requires defense.
> doubtless adblock sockpuppets paid to do so
Give me a fucking break. You're a classic example of a paranoid schizophrenic, please take your meds for your sake and ours.
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
+
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
+
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's better?
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...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ghostery do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (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 by a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (e.g. stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu + memory use vs. addons
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on Ghostery doing all that let alone as well as hosts do!
APK
P.S.=> Addons do 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):
Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Addons add complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
ClarityRay DETECTS browser addons like Ghostery & blocks them (not hosts) via native browser methods.
What's better than ghostery by FAR?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can PrivacyBadger do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on PrivacyBadger doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> PrivacyBadger does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
PrivacyBadger's Adblock+ codebase 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
PrivacyBadger adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Well, I'm of two minds on this subject. I have never installed adblock and its ilk, because I know that "free" content comes at a cost.
I feel the same. Recently I changed my opinion, and you should too. Here is why:
Malware gets served in ads. All the major ad networks serve malware, because they don't properly monitor ad buyers. If you browse without ad-blocker, you are putting your computer at risk of being hacked. It is irresponsible.
(As an aside, I can tell you that ad networks have very low motivation to clean up or monitor ad buyers, because that is their source of revenue.)
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
bigfinger76 nice FAIL! You're can't prove apk wrong on hosts http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
After seeing this spammed all over this page, I know what adblock software I'll *never* use
I just ignored ads. Until I went to sites that had ads jiggle to catch my attention (tip via paypal!!!), autoplay videos (even without sound - the movement is annoying when I am trying to read an article), pop ups, pop unders, and of course delayed load ads and modal ad dialogs. SO FRUSTRATING! So I installed an ad blocker (uBlock) that not only doesn't slow down my browsing - it speeds it up! I doubt I can go back to the way it was before seeing how much better the web is without awful ads.
What can publishers do to reverse this trend? Ads that load quickly and aren't obnoxious. That simple. Throw in privacy as well for bonus points.
The one worry I have is that people don't want to pay for news anymore, and that is hurting the industry. We need *old school* investigative journalism that understands you can have a position without having bias - and I don't see a way to fund that.
Ad-Blockers are nice and all, but I've pretty much abandoned the web except for a few sites I read daily... if the company I want doesn't have an app at this point, they may as well be dead to me. It's just way too frustrating having to deal with clicking on something never doing at all what I was expecting.
More work for the company to produce an app? Yes, sucks to be you. But this is the world we are moving to rapidly.
On a side note, I'd like to thank Slashdot for not having any crappy click hijacking that opens new windows or frames.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
This is the reason I proudly browse with Ad Block Edge.
Content paid for by ads is not produced in my interest, but in the interest of the purchasers of the ads. In most cases it would be better if whatever is paid for by ads were not produced at all. That would make the voices of those speaking to share their thoughts, relatively louder in the marketplace of ideas, compared with the voices of those speaking to attract eyeballs in a way that won't reflect badly on a brand.
To an extent, content in the service of ads BECOMES an ad. I crave what is left when nobody can make money off the internet.
The rest can fsck off and die.
If something only exists in a form paid for by ads it is either 1) not necessary for anyone to create without the ads given the easy availability of ad blockers, but would be available if the existing sources went away or 2) is garbage or at best empty calories.
If a site wants to require ad-blockers be disabled to view the content, let them. I won't view their site if it's too hard to get around their ads. I won't link to their site because I won't view it and so won't know what's published on it. And neither will any of the people who use ad-blockers. And since people clever enought to know what an ad-blocker is, ( a low bar, but a bar nonetheless ) these tend to be the most savvy, interestin, and the most apt to generate traffic by their actions. The site that enforces no-adblockers soon gets forgotten.
Unless the site serves up tripe appealing to the lowest common denominator. But then it needn't bother blocking ad-blockers because its audience is literally brain-dead, and won't install them. But if they DID force viewing of ads, then well, nothing of value was lost.
...
You shouldn't respond to APK guy with your actual account. Now he is going to stalk you. On a related note, his hosts program is actually pretty good, however his methods of forum hijacking are a little eh.
The fight against the invasion of the minds has not started yesterday.
Ads utter to you in not always subtle ways the same message. To try to fix your miserable existence and be happy you need to spend more, own more, bigger, shinier. It's an aggression, an unrelenting crime against humanity.
A while ago, when I only disliked advertising, there is a nice game I used to play:
If I saw or heard an ad more than a couple of time on a single day (radio/TV), I used to ban the product for a few months/years. I was kind of happy to know that in retaliation to their indelicacy towards myself, they would at least lose the few tens or thousands I may well have given them otherwise.
Later I ended up stopping watching TV altogether (how about that, it was roughly 20 years ago), and started buying tapes, then DVDs then Blu-rays. It was a bit more expensive but so much better than TV, and no ads.
Then with the year more and more of the discs started to display hard-to-skip ads even before the menu, so I stopped buying.
I'm now on a popular (legal, paid, ad-free) streamer for TV and another for music (They shall remain nameless of course).
I guess I'm still vulnerable to product placement, but that's usually subtle enough ... so far.
Today the rule of the game with advertisers is simple : if I notice an ad, I cut the medium.
Irrelevant news and morons using moderation to mod down what they disagree on. 2018 resolution: so long.
Does APK block the obnoxious advertisements for APK on forum posts?
I wonder what advertising agencies spend every year on IT services. I wonder if they are aware that they could severely drop that cost by installing some ad-blocking utilities/hosts files.
Can ab+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
ABP doesn't spam on forums...
- Raynet --> .
Really, dude. Once is enough. More than once is a reiteration and tiresome, but 3+ is batshit krazy. You would have been affectionately referred to as a "kook" as you spammed Usenet with your snot. You'll never read this, though, because you're another self-aggrandizing delusional coward. God bless you and take you soon to keep.
Can ab+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Yeah, you're enabling the websites to make more money.
Do you deliberately drive recklessly in order to maximize the profits of your life insurance vendor, or do you drive carefully? just curious
Can PrivacyBadger do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on PrivacyBadger doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> PrivacyBadger does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
PrivacyBadger's Adblock+ codebase 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
PrivacyBadger adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
+
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
+
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's better?
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...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ghostery do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (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 by a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (e.g. stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu + memory use vs. addons
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on Ghostery doing all that let alone as well as hosts do!
APK
P.S.=> Addons do 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):
Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Addons add complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
ClarityRay DETECTS browser addons like Ghostery & blocks them (not hosts) via native browser methods.
What's better than ghostery by FAR?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
when will you write an application that actually works? Because you know, I gave yours a try, and after 50 minutes of being unresponsive I had to kill it. If you don't know how to merge sort lists of strings, then I question the rest of your application. And also I block all those sites on my firewall, no need to do that on the hosts file.
I pretty much only started blocking advertisements recently because of particular sites that over-do it. They're not exactly typical, but honestly, the other reason is because they're tracking every f'ing thing I do online. Stop it. If you want to advertise to me advertise on tech sites. You don't need to get so excessive as to track every little detail. Most of the directed advertisements were utterly pointless. I already bought whatever it was I was going to buy. Trying to sell me X when I bought Y already doesn't really work.
Can ab+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can PrivacyBadger do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on PrivacyBadger doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> PrivacyBadger does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
PrivacyBadger's Adblock+ codebase 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
PrivacyBadger adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
+
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
+
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's better?
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...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
it helps me sleep better at night knowing I'm at least willing to try to give them some of my attention in return for free content.
I feel better blocking all ads and knowing that I've contributed to pressuring websites to find an alternative model to stay afloat.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
Can ghostery do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (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 by a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (e.g. stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu + memory use vs. addons
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on Ghostery doing all that let alone as well as hosts do!
APK
P.S.=> Addons do 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):
Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Addons add complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
ClarityRay DETECTS browser addons like Ghostery & blocks them (not hosts) via native browser methods.
What's better than ghostery by FAR?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Adblockers may actually help some of the worst offenders.
For example, if I am browsing without an adblocker and I see a particularly obnoxious ad, I make a mental note of who NOT to buy from if I am ever int he market for their product.
However, with an adblocker I may never see the obnoxious ad, and still end up buying from that company. Did they figure those cases into their analysis?
It's going to 'cost' them? Here, let me give you my address, you'll need to send the check somewhere....
It's not going to 'cost' them anything. Losing projected revenue you guess you might earn based on current trends doesn't 'cost' you anything.
There was a time when ads just displayed a picture or some text, over a link, which left little for us to object to. Today, there serve up malware, steal our data, track us and spy on us, making ads a huge security and privacy risk that any sane person would object to. Until the ads companies show a bit of respect for Internet users, they will remain something that must be blocked at every opportunity.
I've been on the Internet for 20 years and have never clicked on an ad, including sponsored Google search results. I have wasted a lot of time removing malware from the computers of those less cautious. Ads do not have to be evil but they are.
I tolerate sensible adverts that aren't too intrusive. Banners are fine. In-page popups are not, vibrant ads are not, and so on. For sites that advertise sensibly, I quite happily switch off ad blocking. But advertisers need to also realise that bandwidth is not always a plentiful resource, and go easy on it. If I didn't have unlimited broadband at home (but a 10gig cap), I would certainly use ad-blocking quite aggressively there. The thing is, if a page needs more than, say, 200k of data when the written content is maybe 3 pages long and that is the only point of the page, this is just profligate, and if someone is restricted to mobile internet (and possibly a cap of 2gig per month, or even 0.5gig per month), then the amount of bandwidth wasted by adverts is, quite frankly, unacceptable. If advertisers suffer because of ad blocking, as a community they only have themselves to blame.
John_Chalisque
Your ineffectual downmods to try hide apk's posts don't prove apk wrong on hosts superiority to other methods. You're actually helping to prove apk's right about hosts.
Tasteful, Well, Placed Ads are not the norm. Instead, we have inappropriate ads, made for shock value, made to jar the senses, in your face, filling up your machine with cookies that wear your SSD. We have self-playing audio and video.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
Can ab+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
+
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
+
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's better?
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...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
I have an idea about this. I'm pretty sure APK doesn't own star64.com. If you visit the main page there's a contact link at the bottom. If enough of us contact the site and tell them what he's doing, they might stop hosting his application.
EDIT: the domain name is actually start64.com
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject: Firewall rule's needed so let it thru your firewall inbound @ least IF you are having an issue (it has network code in it is why to obtain data via downloads, & that *may* be your problem) - Windows version you use? If VISTA or more that is.
You also *may* have the issue MS introduced in "Windows Defender" in VISTA where you have to make a rule in it to ALLOW hosts alteration - that is ANOTHER KNOWN ISSUE MS introduced regarding hosts most everyone KNOWS about too!
* I've had that happen with games like IDSoftware stuff, that MIGHT be your problem...
OR
You didn't set your local dnscache clientside slower usermode service off as the program & it's installation directions recommend is all!
(Windows has an issue with larger hosts files in that service & this program creates large hosts files for more speed, security, reliability + anonymity online...)
Lastly: Windows VISTA onward = SERIOUS JUNK (which is why nobody bought it or 8.x).
It's that, or YOU HAVE A REALLY SLOW SYSTEM (takes only 10-15 minutes tops here on an Intel Core I7 4790x).
APK
P.S.=> I hope you're not being a troll & only didn't realize that much is all... apk
Can the HOSTS file block these incessant ads about the glory of the HOSTS file? Is it truly the final solution that will forevermore remove the blight that is APK Hosts File Engine spam? If so, sign me up!
You are correct. Adblock failed miserably to block your ad. It got through to my browser.
You shouldn't respond to APK guy with your actual account. Now he is going to stalk you.
Shouldn't that be a Slashdot achievement by now?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You might be right but.....we fucking hate you. It's one thing to be right but it's another one to be a fucking annoying shitstain as well. Die already.
Same here, and I work in advertising.
Well - not directly - but my industry is funded by the advertising industry, and I will be very glad when the advertising industry has finally collapsed and my colleagues & I are forced to find new clients or starve.
I will continue to do my part in my own downfall by blocking all the ads I can block, and wherever possible buying products from companies whose advertisements I've never noticed. If their products are decent, they'll stand on their own merits.
My purchasing strategy is now to look for products that have favourable consumer reviews (eg: four stars or more on Newegg or Amazon), then go straight to the most angrily dissatisfied reviews (because one-star reviews won't be coming from paid shills), and see if the product's worst flaws are something I can live with.
Trolling? I thought he'd be upmodded for being funny.
The cool thing about HOSTS is it could never block 1st party ads.
If sites would host the ads themselves then you'd have to use a plugin. But we know no self respecting site would host something so dangerous. This is why they let 3rd parties handle ads, to stay away from liability when they infect you.
I was wondering if it was one of his competitors doing all this spam posting.
I never needed your program. What's so hard about copy/paste? It's a text file for crying out loud. I've been using this method since the 90's. Also there's a lot of things I need to not be blocked. Like streaming tv ads, they won't let the video continue of they don't play. So if I used your program I'd have to edit manually anyways.
Wasn't it just like just last week that Yahoo fessed up to having malware delivered through their advertising? In their zeal to reduce costs they apparently do little to review adverts placed via their own ad networks. I can't imagine browsing the web without an ad blocker these days.
ha!
I knew APK spam would tag the fuck outta this article
I used to be a "no ad block" supporter, I believed websites operators deserved to be paid for the websites, but too many websites have begun to abuse it.
It becomes almost impossible to browse some sites, so now i religiously use ad block, and make sure everyone i know is also using it.
You can't prove my points wrong on hosts & abuse modpoints to try to "hide" my posts
It's not up to anyone to disprove your "points", it is up to YOU to prove them. Ball's in your court and always has been. PROVE that your program works.
And the reason your posts are being modded down is because they are spam.
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ghostery do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (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 by a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (e.g. stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu + memory use vs. addons
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on Ghostery doing all that let alone as well as hosts do!
APK
P.S.=> Addons do 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):
Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Addons add complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
ClarityRay DETECTS browser addons like Ghostery & blocks them (not hosts) via native browser methods.
What's better than ghostery by FAR?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can PrivacyBadger do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on PrivacyBadger doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> PrivacyBadger does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
PrivacyBadger's Adblock+ codebase 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
PrivacyBadger adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
I'm surprised I didn't see Privoxy mentioned in the comments. It may not be as effective or updated as regularly as many browser plugins, but it's the only way to block ads across your entire network, on ANY device. This is one of the reasons I never encounter ads in iOS apps/games with iAds. I've been using it since the days of Internet Junkbuster, before ad-blocking plugins even existed. Aside from blocking ads, Privoxy has some other privacy enhancing features as well.
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
as much as possible I sit through commercials from network TV's streamed shows, I allow sidebar ads to populate some screen real estate on websites, etc.
How often do you find these useful?
They can't prove you wrong apk. Bad downmods twice only http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... and http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... proving you outfox and outsmart them getting them to blow all their abused modpoints they get from their multiple sockpuppet fake registered luser accounts until you run them dry of them. A credit to your genius apk.
Can PrivacyBadger do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on PrivacyBadger doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> PrivacyBadger does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
PrivacyBadger's Adblock+ codebase 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
PrivacyBadger adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can PrivacyBadger do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on PrivacyBadger doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> PrivacyBadger does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
PrivacyBadger's Adblock+ codebase 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
PrivacyBadger adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
I plan to port to OS X & Linux in the future (as Delphi re-releases).
Delphi already does ANDROID, OS X, Windows (32 & 64-bit for all of them).
* Delphi USED to do Linux, via Kylix, & that is the ONLY 1 LEFT it doesn't do (currently)!
HOWEVER:
There's FreePascal + Lazarus IDE for it, & that port would be "short work" too (almost an EXACT clone of Delphi's commandset in FreePascal + Lazarus' IDE is damn close to Delphi's too).
(The only REAL things to change would be drive letters for Windows vs. *NIX mounted devices - my sockets layer access is ALREADY CLEAN vs. differences there, abstracted away (that's the latest on the porting I plan))
APK
P.S.=> And, there ya go!... apk
See subject: For ads served by IP address, I use firewall rules with hosts...
APK
P.S.=> I don't miss a THING, + Hosts do FAR MORE than UBlock, AdBlock variants, Ghostery etc. (w/ their many orders of magnitude memory + CPU consumption vs. hosts PLUS added overheads in messagepassing ontop of browsers & SLOWER USERMODE OPERATION vs. hosts in kernelmode)
I just use what you already have that's massively refined & FAR MORE EFFICIENT + FAR MORE CAPABLE too!
I use the IP stack via hosts + firewall rules tables vs. "PILING ON MOAR", & especially an INEFFICIENT "MOAR" in browser addons (as well as locally run dns & all its problems in redirect poisoning + excessive power usage)... apk
See subject: Hard to miss many IF any & it's not my data for blocking ads, trackers, botnets, & more threats comes from 10 reputable sources in the security community.
ADBLOCK VARIANTS ARE ONES THAT MISS THE "1 LITTLE IP" since they're paid off NOT to do the 1 JOB THEY HAD!
PROOFS:
Adblock+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
(ORIGINAL ADBLOCK WAS ALSO)
Considering the EFF's new "PrivacyBadger" is just AdBlock Plus code, & SPONSORED BY GOOGLE (or in cahoots working with them), you CAN BET IT'S PAID OFF TO NOT DO THE 1 JOB IT HAD TOO, since Microsoft, Amazon, & Google BRIBED THEM NOT TO!
APK
P.S.=> Besides - IF I was a 'scam', would the likes of MalwareBytes' OWN people host & RECOMMEND my program? No!
Plus, it's clean & VERIFIED SO by 57++ antivirus vendors as was shown & YOU CAN EASILY VERIFY THAT FROM MY POSTS EARLIER TOO!
(As well as having its sourcecode be verified by the folks @ MalwareBytes also)... apk
Advertisers don't trust webmasters alleged click counts is why. It's why you rarely, if ever, see one done that way.
See subject: From reputable sources - Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject: AdBlock+ can't do as much as hosts + uses more http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
(Seems all you have is abused moderation misusing your modpoints to try hide that post & others like it - you're only HELPING ME PROVE MY POINTS since that's "the best ya got" & clue: IT AIN'T WORTH SQUAT!)
APK
P.S.=> LASTLY, since you downmodded the last time I posted this completely fair challenge to you:
AHEM:
You're MORE THAN WELCOME to prove what's in that link above wrong INSTEAD OF ABUSING MODPOINTS to try to "hide it"!
You can't, lol, THAT is obvious by now!
So - I'll burn you out of those modpoints eventually + easily, & then I'll just post again... & then, you'll be JUST LIKE "AlmostALLAdsBlocked" - useless, lol... apk
Clue: They don't host my app. They feature it. You've tried it with those who DO host it, and they STILL HOST IT... why?
They KNOW you're trolls, & full of shit (especially since you can't prove my points on hosts superiority to browser addons on resource use AND abilities - hosts blow them ALL away there, easily, on MANY GROUNDS) - & guess what??
THEY STILL HOST IT & LAUGH @ FOOLS LIKE YOU!
APK
P.S.=> You're all (& I've gotta say it since it's truth + YOU MAKE IT OBVIOUSLY SO) FOOLS... lol!
Fools that can *NEVER*, ever, get the best of me on ANY account - & you know it (anyone else reading with 1/2 a brain does).
Thanks, actually!
You make ME, look GREAT - & yourselves, by way of comparison? Like stupid snivelling WORMS... lol!
...apk
I do my ad-blocking at the network level, for all the reasons people have posted here.
There's a podcast I listen to regularly. Runs about 2 hours an episode, typically the host will interrupt and endorse a product every 15 - 20 minutes. As a result of his recommendations, I've purchased several books, a mattress, and life insurance.
Want to know his secret? He actually bothers to check up on the products that he endorses, and is careful to make sure that they are things that his listeners will benefit from hearing about. His ads don't feel like intrusive, obnoxious hustling from a bargain basement 'marketing' company because - get this - they aren't intrusive, obnoxious hustling from a bargain basement 'marketing' company.
Everything I've purchased based on his ads turned out to be a good deal that I'd gladly recommend to friends or family.
The vast majority of advertisers on the Internet approach the market like bad prostitutes, trying to get your attention with noisy, sleazy demands on your attention and nothing of importance or value to offer. On a street like that, you'd be crazy not to do everything in your power to get the scumbags off your street. Shame the idea of simply trying to provide useful information and recommendations for your fan-base is such a hard concept for most of the 'net.
Judging by how nobody proves apk wrong I'd say he has no competition.
you don't talk about adblockers. I agree it was nice while it lasted.
Does nothing against side loaded ads. They don't have to use DNS to put up an ad.
Seeing you all use bad downmods failing to prove apk wrong http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7821695&cid=50285983 I know what adblocking ware I will use instead of whoever it is you work for (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, the companies that paid adblock to not do the 1 job it had, blocking ALL ads, or Adblock itself).
Your offtopic troll fails to prove apk technically wrong http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... and you're making him right all the more in your failing to do so on every point apk makes on hosts files superiority to other inferior so-called methods in adblocking, let alone the fact hosts do far more with far less resource consumption. Your idea of convincing users he's wrong fails when all you have is unjustifiable downmods and off topic troll rants in your frustration at being inferior obviously. All you seem to think you have is your downmods, misusing modpoints. Apk beats that easily as he apparently has NO LIMITS on how often he can post, unlike most ac users, and he runs you dry of those and you're stuck with off topic trolling of him or useless illogical ad hominem attacks. They're not effective and are helping prove his points on hosts superiority to browser addons.
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Better question: Why can't you validly prove apk wrong? Answer is apk's right. Hosts do more with less than browser addons.
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Once is enough? You haven't validly proved apk wrong even once!
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Projecting your fail in proving apk wrong on hosts superiority http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... when you're reduced to such illogical off topic trollishness. That's good enough for me to convince me apk's dead on right. You're doing apk a favor with your off topic troll rants that can't prove him wrong on how much better hosts are on all fronts.
Most of my surfing is done without javascript, flash, java applets, or just about anything else enabled. I do occasionally click on one of the advertisements that I can see. But if it's something that doesn't display properly, I don't click it. I don't click on lego icons either. I also don't click on things full page ads, because the javascript wont run anyway to fix the page display. If a page doesn't display correctly or function at all with my settings, I try disabling css for the purpose of reading what I went to that site to read. Only a few keystrokes in firefox, alt+v, y, n. Clicking the X to close the ad doesn't work without javascript, I used to hit f12 and tweak the css to make it go away, but it's just so much faster to disable the css entirely. And I often stop using that site. My line isn't videos or sound, it's code from a source that I don't explicitly trust in advance being run on my computer. So I'm really not blocking anything for being an ad, I'm just blocking based on content type, whether it's an ad or not. And I've been pretty content with that for the past 2 years. And there are lots of sites that don't function as a result, which means there are lots of sites I don't have to bother going to anymore. More free time for me.
See subject: Does your off topic bs prove this wrong http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... ?
NO...
APK
P.S.=> I love it when you fools (doubtless adblock sockpuppets paid to do so) vainly try these effete off topic ad hominem attacks + unjustifiable downmods that never ever prove my points validly technically wrong (impossible to do to the truth & verifiable facts I post from reputable sources)... YOU'RE MAKING MY CASE & PROVING MY POINTS FOR ME IN YOUR DOING SO, LOL... apk
Any idea I'd had about using your product was put out of my head by your mad spamming of Slashdot and abuse of anyone who disagrees with you. Why would I use anything promoted by someone who behaves like that?
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
You're a delusional offtopic troll failing to prove apk wrong http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... and since you can't prove him wrong, you post your off topic foaming at the mouth illogical ad hominem attacks instead, that's good enough for me to realize you're failing badly and that apk's right about hosts superiority to all other methods on most all grounds if not all possible.
See subject (IF you can read that is) & see the 'p.s.' section of my posts...
APK
P.S. => Write a paper? WTF is this, academia?? I'm LONG done with that (2 degrees worth around the computer sciences in fact) - that's for NOOBZ, like you (hell, YOU DON'T EVEN QUALIFY for Pete's sake - you're illiterate!)
CLUE: I actually WRITE USEFUL PROGRAMS like my hosts file engine that demonstrably do MORE than shitty "Open SORES" browser addons do by a mile & with less (beat THAT with a stick, chump)... apk
I wonder why. I get tired of having ads pop up in the middle of an article and either slowing my system down or blasting the fuck outta my ears.
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
See subject: However - it's not just "pretty good", it's the BEST OF ITS KIND, no questions asked, & does FAR MORE for added speed, security, reliability, + anonymity than ANY single other "so-called 'solution'" out there in browser addons AND it even overcomes DNS' shortcomings (excess power use if setup locally, tons of security flaws like Kaminsky redirect poisoning which 99.999% of ISP DNS are NOT PATCHED FOR) & yet it compliments DNS too (remote filtering GOOD ones like OpenDNS), even lightening its loads (which admins of them should love). :)
* xenotransplant: In closing - "It's not EASY being 'world-class'" (like me)... lol!
APK
P.S.=> Once more, lastly - thank you, for telling the truth of my program's quality @ least...
The ONLY reason I post as much as I do?
The little pricks around here DOWNMOD MY POSTS with NO VALID TECHNICAL JUSTIFICATIONS WHY, as in mistakes or falsehoods I post in them - that, is bullshit!
In response?
Well... so, I just post AGAIN since I have NO LIMITS on how often I can post as an ac (unlike MOST of them here), overriding their EFFETE little 'weapon', in the bogus downmod!
(Yes - I truly DO suspect them to be paid off by AdBlock, Google, MS, or AMAZON since they stand to lose vs. myself, AND ARE, badly @ every single turn - I outthought them by miles, long ago is why - has to be them, it doesn't take a "big brain" to realize it - only a NUTJOB would downmod posts with undeniable facts that ONLY DO USERS RIGHT with a BETTER method, hosts)... apk
He got my program to work & says it's GOOD http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7821695&cid=50291081 :)
* You lose/fail, & you're obviously stupid... lol!
APK
P.S.=> Get a faster machine, or a BRAIN (lmao) - or use what I wrote in my other reply to you, dumbass... apk
See subject: Why? All they have is effete downmods, totally unjustified, since they don't prove me wrong on hosts superiority to these "Open SORES" browser addons that're SOLD-OUT + don't even DO THE SINGLE JOB THEY HAD, blocking ads (paid off by Microsoft, Amazon, & GOOGLE not to by default in the case of AdBlock, & AdBlock+ which OUGHT TO BE CALLED "AlmostALLAdsBlocked" actually... lol!).
APK
P.S.=> In fact, I welcome ANY of my doltish weak "naysayers" to prove me wrong on my points on hosts - funniest part is, they JUST CAN'T... which pretty much says it all - I win, as always & write up wares that ROCK THE PLANET vs. shitheads like malware makers, botnet herders, ADVERTISERS (infecting us, stealing our bandwidth etc.) & YES inferior 'souled-out' so-called 'competitors' whose crap doesn't EVEN WORK RIGHT BY DEFAULT ANYMORE, + doesn't do a FRACTION of what hosts files do for users in added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity online AND FOR LESS RESOURCES CONSUMED too - beat THAT with a stick... apk
See subject: Seeing YOU use hosts files too, quoting you in response to myself:
"you're right about hosts files" - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26, @01:21PM (#36252958)
Yes, I am... always was, always WILL be! :)
* An actual ACHIEVEMENT for my 'naysayer trolls' here who have nothing but downmods they can't justify by proving points I put out in favor of hosts would be to ACTUALLY FULLY PROVE ME WRONG - they never ONCE have. Not once...
(lol, can't be done - I'm just TOO damned intelligent for those cretins).
APK
P.S.=> Take a read here too, be enlightened -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... since that's a man who tells the truth... apk
See subject & my p.s. below - I've dusted you on this before http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
APK
P.S.=> Once more - xenotransplant has a "little something" to tell you here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... ... apk
Even put an ad up? I didn't see any ads.
.
Please do not reply to APK. The more you reply the more he posts.
Please do not reply to APK. The more you reply the more he posts. 2
Please do not reply to APK. The more you reply the more he posts. 3
I can never tell if you're serious, apk, or if you just do this because you find it amusing. Do you actually believe that your responses pretending to be a different person are fooling people? And yes, I know what a sock monkey is, but that phrase usually sets you off, so I'm not going to use it. (Hint: my prior sentence contained humor in the form of a contradiction).
See subject: There's no doubt of them being bad mods, they haven't proved me wrong on anything validly yet downmod me. That's bs. So I repost and people like YOU have to use your "last resort" of calling me a 'spammer' FALSELY - so, don't try to "play me" or anybody else - we see you for EXACTLY what you are & why you do it, idiot.
* NO LIMITS ac poster HERE - your SINGLE effete 'weapon' in the bogus downmod? Useless vs. myself, fools... I just repost when you pull that outright CRAP.
APK
P.S.=> Makes me laugh - the OPEN SORES "big brains" of /. can't outsmart (or outcode) me & resort to such puny machinations, like some 'beyotch' would (which of course, makes you MY beyotches, lol)... apk
See subject: Along with 9 other hosts files from reputable security community sources.
* That's a good one, by the way... updates quite frequently!
APK
P.S.=> Lastly/Additionally - Using my program, You can either import ALL of them, or selectively choose which of them you wish to utilize as you wish only - including someonewhocares' data also... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
+
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
+
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ghostery do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (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 by a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (e.g. stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu + memory use vs. addons
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on Ghostery doing all that let alone as well as hosts do!
APK
P.S.=> Addons do 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):
Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Addons add complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
ClarityRay DETECTS browser addons like Ghostery & blocks them (not hosts) via native browser methods.
What's better than ghostery by FAR?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
+
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
+
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's better?
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...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
...speaking of ads.
-- sudon't
Air-ride Equipped
Apk reposts after bad downmods get applied that abuse moderation. Prove him wrong and those downmods wouldn't be bad ones. You guys can't manage that, can you? Nope.
Apk reposts after downmods that aren't valid abusing moderation. Prove him wrong instead to make those downmods valid. You boys can't manage that, can you? No sir.
You goofs can't prove apk wrong and abuse moderation minusmodding him for no valid reason. Apk then reposts making those doing that look like the weak fools they are.
Apk reposts after bad downmods get applied that abuse moderation. Prove him wrong and those downmods wouldn't be bad ones. You guys can't manage that, can you? Nope!
"the advertising industry shows clear pattern of shitting the bed" ... couldn't have said it better myself.
Thanks for your entertaining and apt analysis.
And focus on OTHER alpha-bets, passing on search etc. to their new CEO.
Hmm. Coincidence or far strategy....
I started using an ad blocker regularly when the ads started to regularly be video ads. I whitelist sites I use regularly - until they use auto-playing video ads. In general I just use a different site at that point also (though slashdot I sometimes clearly use still though it gets adblocked now due to video ads. Who thought it was a good idea to make auto-playing video ads? It's just stupid to actively try to annoy your customers.
As soon as we are able to hold sites accountable for letting ad networks use their site for distributing malware, and scams then we can discuss not blocking. Until then your ad better be hosted by the site itself, and non-intrusive, and legitimate.
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
See subject: One you can't validly technically prove wrong...
APK
P.S.=> Truer words (one I just wrote now) have never been spoken on /. ... apk
See p.s. here (documented facts & reputable sources) http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
* You clearly illiterate ignoramus & you flung insults first here fool as well as proving you can't read...
APK
P.S.=> You should consider getting remedial reading lessons as well as a license to practice psychiatric sciences + a degree in them rather than being the "SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of /." libeling me in your off topic illogical invalid ad hominem attack (since you can't prove my points in favor of hosts doing far more yet with far less vs. inferior browser addons which you can't validly technically prove wrong)... apk
See subject & you get duplicates (inefficient), no filters vs. false positives, + NOT GETTING THE FULLEST POSSIBLE PROTECTION since my ware gets its data for hosts vs. trackers, ads, botnets, malscripted sites,+ FAR MORE - from 10 reputable reliable sites in the security community... & you're not protecting your hosts file (my app does) vs. corruption AND you're not reverse-dns pinging your fav. sites where you spend MOST OF YOUR TIME ONLINE @ the top of your hosts file (which aids speed beyond adblocking & reliability vs. DNS downage or redirect poisoning too).
* Get it now? Good... despite your downmodding the last time I pointed this out, I will repost it again to show your fails.
(Don't like what my program produces? Like you said, & THIS IS AN ADVANTAGE OVER regex using "Open SORES" crippled by default CRAP in adblock variants - edit it manually yourself - as hosts have a FAR EASIER TO UNDERSTAND INTERNAL FORMAT vs. "almostALLadsblocked" (lol) variants & their regex which MOST FOLKS WILL NOT UNDERSTAND, period...)
APK
P.S.=> Drink that in, & digest it - it's for YOUR OWN GOOD... apk
See subject: You idiots unfairly downmod me + can't validly technically prove my points in favor of hosts files (doing far more yet with far less in resources consumed vs. inferior browser addons) incorrect & that I'm smart enough to be able to post again as much as I like!
Thus, doing your "1 weapon", the unjustifiable downmod right the hell in since it's USELESS vs. myself... NO LIMITS HERE (& that includes posting as much as I like as an ac, CHUMP). :)
* Face facts: YOU WISH YOU WERE ME!
APK
P.S.=> Might as well admit that last line above to yourself - you KNOW it's true! apk
See subject: The downmods are bogus & don't validly technically prove me wrong on a SINGLE THING I wrote.
So, thus - I repost - nullifying you dimwit cretins who abuse moderation that way, nullifying your single effete 'weapon', making it useless... lol!
* It's not MY fault you bogus downmodders can't outthink, outprogram, OR OUTFOX me... it's yours.
(After all - you downmodded this reply of mine too last time I posted it - guess what? NO LIMITS HERE & I repost it again for ALL to see, & to see how weak you are too, lol!)
APK
P.S.=> Got that? Good... The "big OPEN SORES brains" of /. can't outsmart "lil' ole' me" & I prove it every time & it makes me laugh @ you bogus downmodding weasels (doubtless the developers of AdBlock variants OR their advertiser sponsors) - guess what boys? YOU FAIL vs. me... always! apk
See subject: You can't prove my points wrong on hosts & abuse modpoints to try to "hide" my posts (weak) & then I JUST REPOST THEM AGAIN until you little whimps & weasels RUN DRY OF YOUR MODPOINTS...
* Yes, it's THAT SIMPLE to outwit those downmodding my posts yet NEVER ONCE PROVING ME WRONG on the points in them I post...
R O T F L M A O!
(I can't help it - I'm dealing with EFFETE, LIMITED simpletons is why... too easy to outwit!)
After all - you downmodded the last time I posted this set of truths to try to "hide it" but it's to no avail - I just reposted it for ALL to see & to see how WEAK you are!
APK
P.S.=> You can keep up your downmods - I'll just post again, DOUBLY making you look like the FOOLS you all are... lol, no joke - Your 1 'weapon' is useless in bogus downmods, and YOU ARE USELESS since you all can't prove my points validly technically wrong on hosts files' superiority to CLEARLY INFERIOR "browser addons", that stupidly eat MORE RESOURCES YET DO LESS THAN HOSTS DO... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
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. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
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ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
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Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com...
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk