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We Asked Doc Searls: Do Ad Blockers Cause Cancer? (Video)
A whimsical headline, but not much more of a shark-jumper than some of the talk we've heard lately from ad agencies, online publishers, and others who earn their living from online advertising. Doc Searls recently wrote a piece on his personal blog titled Beyond ad blocking — the biggest boycott in human history. Naturally, we wanted to ask Doc to expand a bit on what he's been writing about ad blocking and advertising in general. So we had a fine conversation about online advertising -- ending with a challenge to the advertising industry, which Doc says should be looking for ways to produce better, more effective, and less annoying ways to sell to us online.
Seriously, what a waste of time for what could easily be written down. Doubly funny because its an article about ad blockers, and the only reason anyone does video is that it's easier to monetize.
Do Ad Blockers Cause Cancer?
No. But videos on Slashdot do.
Did your ad-blocker block the Hide/Show Transcript link ?
The bad apples are ruining it for the good apples. The good apples should get together the define good ad standards and enforcement procedures, otherwise nobody will get apples.
Table-ized A.I.
I followed the link to his blog and he managed to be patronizing inside the first three sentences. That's certainly efficient I guess.
I use Ad-Block's element-hiding add-on to get rid of not merely ads, but various other elements I dislike — including the incessant newsletter sign-up invitations, footers full of legalese, persistent "navigation" menus, "share-bars" and "article-tools" (thank you, I can increase the font without your little icon), weather-widgets, "related articles", "back-to-top" (seriously, who needs these on a desktop??), "next" and "previous" arrows — all of that crap...
In fact, I'm addicted. Upon coming to a new (or recently redesigned) site, I must clean it up before reading. Web-browsing without AdBlocker is just scary nowadays. And revolting...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
... AdBlockPlus
Ghostery
Greasemonkey
HTTPS Everywhere
NoScript
Privacy Badger
Because running code on somebody else's computer without consent is trespass to chattels.
NO TRESPASSING!
Just who are all these people???
I have *never* clicked on one on purpose. (Only the accidental--it scrolled under my mouse while still rendering and I was trying to click on what it covered--clicks).
I'm betting the typical /. crowd user isn't the type to click on them. But who really are? Do people just think "shiny, flashy thing--must click!" ??
I just think "annoying, go away, ignore, brain must filter out better, update adblockplus filter list".
What the actual fuck?
Intelligent, reasonable people are now considered extremists?
Dumbass
Yup, I'm sure Ad Blockers can cause cancer. Just the other day I saw an ad "beat cancer with one weird trick" and followed it and paid and now I won't get cancer, but all those people who blocked the ad will!
One day, I had a Slashdot page still opened in my browser, locked my screen, went to lunch. Came back to complaints that my computer was annoying everyone in the office -- delayed auto-playing video ads were the culprit. So thanks to Slashdot (and me wanting to keep my job), I now have adblock installed.
Oh, not to mention the 3 times in the past I got a nasty computer virus due to an infected ad network. These are now no longer a worry.
Slashdot has always interviewed, reported-on, and catered-to extremists. Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, Eric Levenez, Linus Torvalds, even people on the opposite side like those associated with the MPAA and RIAA have been interviewed.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
On 3 different computers, 85% of the time on a non-computer related video there was an ad for a Windows 10 driver update tool aka complete and utter malware. Google allows and completely supports this. If you type "HP support" or "Sony support" or "Samsung support" or "dell support" into Google, you get paid ads for scam services in India who are pretending to be the company and then ripping people off. So fuck internet advertising. It's useless, abused garbage and nobody is ever going to do anything to clear it up. I'm going to keep blocking ads until the end of time. You ruined it for your industry.
http://interviews.slashdot.org...
http://interviews.slashdot.org...
http://slashdot.org/tag/interv...
I would say many that are interviewed could be said to be extremists of one kind or another.
Here's one heck of an extremist:
http://slashdot.org/story/07/1...
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
See subject: He demands proof of me yet says he needs to show none per his blowhard windbag hotair http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
APK
P.S.=> Hey, blowhard wannabe bullshitter - how come you REFUSE to provide proof of your bs here http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & from me in the parent post to that link above? You demand it of me, I produce it - you DON'T... "inquiring minds want to know", lol... apk
Before we get the whining from the ad peddlers: YOU killed your golden goose. Not us. YOU killed it off yourself with the proverbial greed that the story about the original goose conveys.
There were ads and we accepted them as part of the deal. They were non-intrusive and they didn't bother us too much. We thought "fair vs. fair" and didn't block them. Yes, there were always the ones that block anything and everything "on principle" but the majority of those that knew how to block didn't. And the others didn't block because, well, they had no idea how to.
Then ads got more obnoxious. Maybe because too few clicked them and you wanted more, more, MORE! They started to flash and cause seizures, they started to play loud music, they started to pop up, pop under, pop your eyes out. And people who knew how to block them got fed up enough to do so.
But it took even more effort on your part to be obnoxious invaders of our space to actually drive those that didn't know anything about blocking to find out about it. And that's something, you know? The average Joe Randomsurfer puts up with a lot. A LOT. Before the average computer illiterate starts asking his friend about his computer "being weird", it usually means that there are SO many browser addon bars installed that you can't even SEE the actual webpage anymore, and starting it means clicking away like a dozen or two windows popping up from some crapware he managed to step in. THAT is what he WILLINGLY puts up with! That does NOT bother him.
Do you have a FAINT idea just HOW MUCH you have to piss someone like this off for him to bother trying to find out how to block it???
And you did that. You managed to piss people off enough who put up with obnoxious browser plugins and on-start popups. That's a feat and a half.
And there is nothing, literally NOTHING you could possibly do to make them uninstall it. You can promise what you want, you can threaten how much you want, they don't give a shit. It takes a herculian effort to move them and get them to do anything, you will not get them to remove their blockers.
And you most certainly won't get anyone who at least has a remote idea of computers to do so either.
You cannot provide your content without ads? Ok. Shut down, the next one offering it is around the corner.
We don't need you. You needed us. You pissed us off. Now be a good little ad asshole and die already!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
He's an old man sliding into dementia.
Double Dumbass on you!
That will cut down on the need to advertise. That products nobody sane really wants get heavily advertised for is no surprise, and the advertising is the lesser unethical thing there.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Could not agree more. I started looking into blocking only when the flashing and animation insanity started. Blocking was not a lot of effort, but suddenly I could find the web again under all that trash. Will keep blocking, unless they make all ads non-intrusive and they get the problem of malicious ads fixed effectively and permanently. As neither will be happening...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Whoever's minus modding you isn't proving you wrong. They clearly can't. They prove you right all the more.
Look, I get it. You're Coren22 and you want everyone to read about you. You you you. Masochist. Now get the F off my lawn and into my hosts file.
Is this ironic because it's an ad? Does your ad blocker block your comments?
+1 Greed.
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Please publish Gaby's test again. thx
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
See subject: ... to VALIDLY technically disprove my points on hosts adding speed, security, reliability, & anonymity http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
* :)
I'm not SELLING anything, thus it's no ad. I don't slow you down OR infect you - I do ANYTHING BUT THAT & protect you as well as get you back speed you paid for... & you're giving me shit?
Please... lol!
I find it IRONIC you & those "like you", in "ne'er-do-well" trolls (lowest of the LOW online save advertisers & malware makers/botnet herders) never EVER can... lol!
APK
P.S.=> Is that "the best you got"? It ain't much as the saying goes - & being a troll? It's no way to live your life fool... grow up! Why don't you learn to code & create something GOOD & useful as I have that does the job of not only blocking ads but TONS of other threats online, that speeds you up 2-3 ways too (unlike other "so-called 'security solutions'")? Oh, that's right - you're a troll loser with NO SKILLS in the art & science of computing, lol... how forgetful of me! apk
Somebody has really, really not understood what the problem with ads is...
Ad blocking is not boycott, it is free-riding: using the service (getting the benefits) and refusing to pay (accepting the costs). I'm surprised there is no browser plugin to implement proper boycott.
Boycott (properly understood) means that instead of blocking the ads and still displaying the content, the browser would block the content from loading as soon as an undesirable ad or tracker is detected.
It could even annotate links to sites with such "bad" advertising reputation so the user wouldn't click on them.
Search engines would soon learn to penalize such sites in search engine results, to improve customer satisfaction.
With such a reputation system to implement proper boycott, no consumer is coerced, no consumer sees unwanted ads, and no site owner is or feels cheated.
Of course, in reality, consumers like to get more for less (as normal human beings do) and ad blockers offer a convenient way of having the content and not pay for it. Let's just not pretend that ad blocking is honorable, or that it is analogous to boycott.
These comments are mine; I do not speak for my employer.
Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...
http://www.itworld.com/securit...
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...
http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...
http://search.slashdot.org/sto...
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...
http://www.securityweek.com/ea...
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
APK
P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)
... apk
Thanks for reminding me that I wanted to ask for a feature: Could we make it so that we don't just browse at -/+ depending on poster but that we could also add keywords of posts we don't want to see? Like, just to pull a random example, I could set posts that contain "start64" at -5 so I would not have to see them?
That would really be awesome!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Here's yet another SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://it.slashdot.org/story/0...
http://it.slashdot.org/story/0...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://apple.slashdot.org/stor...
APK
P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too) & my previous post shows even more http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
... apk
You know it's for the best
This.
The thing about ad blockers is that they're fire-and-forget. You install them, and then... nothing. They're low-maintenance and basically transparent. People don't uninstall them because they'll forget they even have them installed within a few days.
And hoping for voluntary whitelisting is a pipe dream.
The best the ad industry can hope for is that they fix the problem before the remaining 80% of people not using ad blockers get around to installing one.
Log in or piss off.
Don't like what I have to say man? Don't read it or set yourself to NOT see ac posters... it's that simple & I'd think you were intelligent enough to know that! Guess not.
* :)
(LMAO! At this point, I'm almost sure you'll sockpuppet downmoderate me in effete "ReTaLiaTioN"... that's what you fools do, & especially after you read what's below, lol, since I have all of you here that've given me guff, CLOCKED, & I know you better than you know yourselves!)
APK
P.S.=> My bad on replying to you too, since I forgot I've annihilated you on hosts before too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... as well as business acumen -> http://news.slashdot.org/comme... as you were talking out your ass on things you had NO CLUE on never having earned that degree yourself obviously... 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 dns blocking
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).
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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...
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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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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 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
See subject: Since you fools can't prove me wrong & you KNOW it (hence your effete childish trolling crap).
* You're only helping me make that point above you know... & even IF you could get some "pro" to "try me"? I'd flatten his ass the same as I do you morons, easily!
(I love it!)
APK
P.S.=> It must *really* TRULY suck to be a "ne'er-do-well" do nothing troll online - I'd wager it's your life offline too, lol... apk
Seriously.
The only kinds of ads most people would look at as "acceptable" are the very types of ads most advertisers and indeed, most people looking to profit from ad revenue, would rather not serve. Why? Because there's a low return proposition on them, and they can't really mine for data (which is even more valuable than actual click-throughs) with them.
Most people, given a choice, don't WANT pop ups, pop unders, video ads, flash ads, tracking, etc. But ad networks and content providers have such a hard-on for The Quick Easy Buck, that they don't want to serve anything else.
So, what we get are ad delivery systems that, over time, grow more and more intrusive.
And, on the other end of the arms race, we have ad blockers that grow ever more elaborate.
Now, were that the extent of it, the end users would win, eventually. As a maximal number of people would eventually migrate to ad-blocking.
But now we're seeing this sort of tracking and ad crap BUILT RIGHT INTO THE OS AND APPS from the get-go. Sure "most" of it, you can opt out of (or just forego the use of). But the actions required for circumventing these hard-coded methods become ever more esoteric and obtuse. Shutting more and more people out, while stealing more screen real-estate, more time, more bandwidth, and more peace of mind from people.
The ad-driven, metrics/telemetry-driven consumer spying industry is a blight upon the Internet and needs to die. Unfortunately, it's like a hydra on steroids.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Worst case scenario you load all the ad wants , and confirm all advertising being loaded in the browser. Except it is not the browser but a VM browser which display nothing just do the actions without displaying or allowing any permanent file change, and is sanitized away from the OS. How are they to distinguish that ? Spend a lot of dollar ? ads blocker only have to stop their work around, and it is much easier than develop a way to bypass the blocker.
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
See subject & http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
My MAIN reason used to be for increasing speed (which that does 2 ways, really 3 vs. inferior slower usermode browser addons) since ads represent roughly 40-50% of webpage content on major sites nowadays which slow you bigtime...
HOWEVER:
The REAL REASON currently, & since around, oh, 2004 when the "malware explosion online" pretty much started (I say that since my known bad sites EXPLODED in counts vs. previous years & not from finding new sources of blocking data so much, but just a HUGE increase occurred)?
ADVERTISERS INFECTING US!
Proof #1 -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
Proof #2 -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
(... & I've got even MORE evidences of it than those lists, it's just that /. LIMITS how much I can post size-wise, as well as how many links to a post - & remember, what I DO LIST? It's FAR from an all-encompassing list of those times advertisers stupidity & NEGLIGENCE has infested us with malicious crap!)
In fact, on releasing the program shown below?
I held off until mid 2012 (& had it built in 3 diff. character mode/"DOS"/tty term (whatever) apps before consolidating it all into 1 GUI one since oh, late 2003?) out of respect for webmasters... not anymore. They're partially responsible also.
* So, anyone wondering WHY I created APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
?
APK
P.S.=> Don't... apk
See here Coren22 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
Still "STINGING" I blew you away every time on hosts Coren22? Yes, obviously (proofs in black & white below)
&
"TROLLING" behind my back like a gossipy old lady now, you "ne'er-do-well" little troll?
OK - fine:
I'll just show your MULTIPLE FAILS here vs. myself (you, the "by rote 'security wannabe' menial who merely uses tools that coders like myself create, & I do in security along with guides that in both cases MILLIONS use):
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Coren22 BLOWS IT on why admin privelege is used in SECURITY programs -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
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Coren22 "Opens MOUTH & INSERTS FOOT" plus "eats his words" on my 2 fixes for CIS Tool with proof he demanded of me (yet when I asked of it from him? He says he "needs none" - what a bullshitter) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
APK
P.S.=> You sure you want to keep this up? Everyone KNOWS you troll me on hosts which your post history also proves EASILY & you ALWAYS FAIL (see above) - so clearly?
You are the INSANE one who likes getting his ASS kicked constantly by "yours truly"...!
Well, as Matt Damon said to Teddy KGB @ the termination of the film "ROUNDERS"?
"You feelin' satisfied NOW, Teddy? Cuz I can go on 'BUSTIN' YOU UP' ALL NIGHT ... lol!
... 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 dns blocking
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...
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Addons add complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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ClarityRay DETECTS browser addons like Ghostery & blocks them (not hosts) via native browser methods.
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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/...
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In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Even if it did... how are people using ad-blockers even going to find out?
"Please, give us another chance!" banner ads?
That's where the "ad blocking is a boycott" theme kind of breaks down. A boycott is an intentional action which requires a certain amount of effort to maintain. Ad blocking, once you roll it out, requires no effort or even awareness that it exists. Ad blocking is more like getting out of a bad relationship by burning the photo albums, selling the house, moving to another country, and changing your name.
Log in or piss off.
Even if it did... how are people using ad-blockers even going to find out?
Good point. I will find out because I use several computers and not all have ad-blocking. The ones I use more rarely do not. But that is likely not the typical situation, so most people will not find out. Still a boycott. If you look at what it gave it its name, Mr. Boycott finally had to leave the country because nobody did any business with him anymore. An end to it is not necessary for a boycott. Incidentally, Mr. Boycott seems to have had business practices about as despicable and repulsive as the ad industry.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
WHO CARES? The whole world has turned into one gigantic ad. It's sickening! We've had enough! http://news.slashdot.org/story...
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (for reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dns blocks
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.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs. addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" 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).
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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 dumping addons in use in browsers via native browser methods!
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Ab+'s paid to not do its job by default http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought out adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
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Ab+ adds complexity in a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overhead vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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AdBlock's SLOWER vs. hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
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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 safe per 57 antivirus programs in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
FREE & not 'souled-out' to advertisers, + adds speed, security, & reliability, doing FAR more w/ FAR less, more efficiently vs. browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' redirect security issues!
It obtains its data vs. online threats & adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community!
It SPEEDS YOU UP 2 ways (adblocking + locally cached in RAM favorites placed @ the TOP of hosts for fastest resolution speed), whereas by way of comparison, other "so-called security 'solutions'" SLOW YOU DOWN!
It does all that using something you already have vs. "bolting on browser addons 'MOAR' in addons that's usermode slower & increases messagepassing, cpu + ram overuse overheads!
* :)
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all 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/...
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"The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend".
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
See subject: It's why I quote that film's character Alice Krippen from this clip on YouTube-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT from the termination of that clip: (ontop of the one I use @ the closing of my "std. post on hosts")
REPORTER: "So you have actually cured cancer?"
THE GOOD DOCTOR: "Yes... yes: Yes we have"
* :)
Makes me feel good - especially when a "notable" of sorts in this interview agrees with me saying:
Doc Searls: "my answer to that in fact not in fact metaphorically, they cure cancer"
GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME & "in keeping" w/ my 'theme' here...
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Sure - SOME may say "You're turning us into VAMPIRE LEECHES!!!" as Dr. Krippin's cure did (advertisers & webmasters would)
HOWEVER:
Advertisers steal our speed loading ads & scripts, our bandwidth, & OUR SYSTEMS' HEALTH -> http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... AND http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
Who's the VAMPIRES?
Not I, or anyone blocking ads!
Me??
Hell - lol, "I AM LEGEND!!!"
(... & the troll naysayers I have that can't ever validly technically prove me wrong know it & PROVE IT for me...)
As one of my FILM heroes in Will Smith as Dr. Robert Neville said:
"They're not gonna stop..."
Neither will I - especially when I get them to "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" from validly technically proving my points wrong that show hosts do the job BETTER with less by far vs. other methods!
APK
P.S.=> I'm not only doing the RIGHT thing, doing right by others, but also DOING IT BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE doing more with FAR less -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
... apk
See subject: He wishes he was me & trolls like you? "They're not gonna stop" - Dr. Robert Neville from https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Your trolling now evidences it for me.
* I'm out here HELPING people, wtf is WRONG with you?
(Yes, even trolls like you & yes, even advertisers (who DO use hosts files themselves no less during dev cycles of pages - & yes, probably FULLY since they know their own stuff is shit that creates MORE SHIT online, slowing us up, stealing both bandwidth & speed WE pay for, & infecting + tracking us!).
Going to downmod this again? -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... AND http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
?
APK
P.S.=> There's only 4 basic types that'd really give me guff out there over my program, & they are:
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1.) Advertiser (losing bigtime nowadays since roughly 45% of internet users are blocking them out now so they're buying up #3 below to control them with "the HOLY dollar", all THEY understand...)
2.) Malware maker &/or Botnet Herder
3.) An INFERIOR competitor (e.g. - AdBlock/AdBlock+/Ghostery/UBlock)
4.) Webmaster (losing adviews money)
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Which are you?
I ask as it's SO damn obvious you must be!
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"First they ignore you. Then they laugh @ you. Then they FIGHT you, & then you WIN..." - Mahatma Ghandi
FACE FACTS:
YOU CAN'T WIN - you can't even validly technically disprove my points on hosts giving users more speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity for LESS yet doing FAR MORE than browser addons do!
All you can manage is to downmod my posts to TRY to effetely & vainly "hide them" but being my LIMITLESS self (unlike acs with 10 post a day limits)? I just repost again, nullifying your 1 'weapon' whimps.
Yes, it's that easy.
(Nobody SANE would give me crap over giving free added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity online as I do w/ something you already have natively that does the job BETTER on adblocking + FAR MORE for far less resources consumed)... apk
See subject & this link (have you done something about it? No, troll, you haven't) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
A something that gives you more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity for FAR LESS RESOURCE CONSUMPTION & you already have it natively built in to your OS & IP stack which is smart - good engineering isn't complexity, it's doing MORE with LESS & with what you already have natively built-in as I did in my program.
* :)
(That's because you're a TROLLING "ne'er-do-well" who I've no doubt publicly destroyed under your "registered 'luser'" account here, hence your ac posts trolling me... truth hurt? It must - look @ your juvenile antics!)
Clue: FOOLS like yourself actually have HELPED me (downloads of both my app & the data for it have gotten SO HUGE that Malwarebytes' hpHosts whose admin hosts & recommends my app no less had to move to :UnDDoS'able" AMAZON servers - that tell you anything? Did me - "It's working, Neville - It's WORKING!!!" per I am Legend which I quote in my posts for it!)
APK
P.S.=> Being a troll is NO WAY to live a life, so grow up, & do something like I have instead... oh, that's right - you "ne'er-do-well" trolls just don't have what it takes in determination or balls (you evidence this via your unidentifiable ac trolling me now in fact), let alone skills in computer programming to do so... apk