Indian tech support "techneecians" trick you into thinking you have more "wiruses" on your "dextop" than you actually have in order to sell you unnecessary cleaning "serwices".
Sources: Each Thunder Tech; Lewis's Tech; Malcolm Merlyn
Holes in the user's general security intelligence.
None of those are solved by adding ANOTHER software suite.
Not even whitelist-based security tools that allow only vetted applications to run? I thought that was the point behind Apple's App Store, game consoles' app stores, and the PC Matic tool for Windows.
If the faucet has no articles, how can the ads on the faucet be relevant to the interests of its readers? The only way you can get relevant ads on a faucet is if you allow advertisers to track your viewing habits from one site to another. Otherwise, the relevant demographic is "people who visit faucet sites".
if the paywall blocked Google, it wouldn't pop up in the search in the first place.
When the publisher of a paywalled article provides an abstract of a few sentences to visitors and search engines, the abstract gets indexed. Journals in Google Scholar even get to "cloak", or send the full text to Googlebot but only the abstract to anonymous visitors. These sites sometimes pop up in general search without the cache option.
I'd find a search engine that heavily penalizes [anti-adblock]
Let me know once you do. I don't even run an ad blocker per se, but I still get dinged by sites that confuse tracking blocking with ad blocking, particularly WIRED, the INQUIRER, and The Atlantic. I've got four web browsers itching for a new default search engine that demotes this crap in favor of, say, sites that self-host what ads they do have.
In fact, that's how I know it's been ten years. The Red Bull ads seem to have stopped once people switched from making toilet jokes about the name of a game console that Nintendo released around then to making "Red Bull gives you Wii-ngs" jokes. Either that or Red Bull's maker thought viewers of the channels that members of my household watch had aged out of Red Bull's demographic.
Without a tracking blocker, I've seen inactive Slashdot tabs occasionally get redirected to a false "Urgent Firefox Update" page even on Xubuntu GNU/Linux. What malware cleaner tool do you recommend for that environment?
While basic essentials like food, water, etc. don't need to be advertised
You'd be surprised. Electric utilities run public safety ads, and natural gas companies run ads about how much quicker a gas range boils water than an electric one.
Sites that request to be white-listed in my ad blocker, or that won't let me see content without white-listing or disabling my ad blocker, never get visited again
Let's say you do a web search, and you open several relevant-appearing results in the first page only to discover that most have only a paragraph of text at most followed by "Whitelist us or buy a month's subscription". If this becomes the new normal for more and more web search queries, what do you plan to do? Do you instead buy a month's subscription to read one article?
And I "cut the cord" years ago, dropping ad-infested cable TV for streaming services that not only cost literally 1/10th of what cable TV costs today, but have no ads.
Let me guess: no sports fans in your household, and the cable company serving your city is one of the few that doesn't toss in basic TV at no additional charge.
If there are new, innovative, worthwhile products out there, I will find out about them eventually.
From whom will you "find out about them eventually"? And as for the product or service whose sales pay the wages that keep a roof over your head and pay for the streaming services to which you subscribe, how do people who bought that product or service "find out about them eventually"?
The only way I knew about Hatchimals is because I collect Weebles. Recently, after I bought some Weebles figures online, the retargeting algorithm thought there was someone in my household who would like Hatchimals as well, and Hatchimals ads stalked me around the web.
I've had so much trouble with CloudFlare caching that I've started putting version numbers in every JS and CSS filename
Such a versioned URL scheme has in fact been the best practice for several years now, as it lets you use far-future Expires: dates to reduce bandwidth use by return visitors.
I agree that some web applications can work without script, particularly comment sections, forums, and the like, where the primary interaction is following links and submitting forms.
But others can't. Say you have a web-based drawing program. With JavaScript, a web application can represent your image as an SVG or a canvas, with both click and drag gestures doing what the user expects in a reasonable response time. Without JavaScript, it'd have to do all the rendering server-side, with each click activating a client-side image map and reloading the entire document. Drags wouldn't work at all, as the browser would instead attempt to drag-and-drop your image to another program running on the local computer.
"Just use a native application instead." That works only if you use the same operating system that the developer uses.
A sensible alternative is for the default action for source code files such as these to be "edit". Running scripts could be accomplished by right-clicking on the file and selecting "Execute". Far more convenient, and far less dangerous at the same time.
Applied consistently across the board, your "sensible alternative" would have the following effect: "I just installed Calibre to put my e-books on my reader. But now when I open Calibre, instead of showing the Calibre window, Windows keeps trying to open Calibre's source code in Notepad, and it's all on one line." How would the least astonishing behavior be restored under your "sensible alternative"?
Satellite TV competes with cable TV, but satellite Internet doesn't compete with cable Internet because satellite Internet's monthly usage quotas are closer to those of cellular Internet than to those of cable Internet.
Charter, Cox, and Comcast have an agreement not to attempt to compete in the same region. (As far as I'm aware, only people under NDA with one or more of these companies know to what extent this agreement is written.) Thus each cable company is effectively a monopoly for Internet faster than DSL in its geographic area unless there's a company offering fiber Internet.
The browser is re-inventing preemptive scheduling algorithms.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Not all web applications would work better as native applications, especially because most users don't want every web app to become (say) Mac-exclusive.
So now we need adblockers that detect pages that detect adblockers.
Some already do. But this may violate anti-circumvention law, be it a country's WIPO Copyright Treaty implementation (such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) or laws defining trespass upon a networked computer (such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act).
But if website operators try to assert the DMCA or CFAA against ad blocker developers, the latter will probably end up building plausible deniability into their products. Instead of blocking ads per se, they'll block third-party tracking (such as Disconnect), block content-types, and pause page loads that exceed 1 MB. This CPU throttling appears to have a similar intent.
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Indian tech support "techneecians" trick you into thinking you have more "wiruses" on your "dextop" than you actually have in order to sell you unnecessary cleaning "serwices".
Sources: Each Thunder Tech; Lewis's Tech; Malcolm Merlyn
Holes in the user's general security intelligence.
None of those are solved by adding ANOTHER software suite.
Not even whitelist-based security tools that allow only vetted applications to run? I thought that was the point behind Apple's App Store, game consoles' app stores, and the PC Matic tool for Windows.
If the faucet has no articles, how can the ads on the faucet be relevant to the interests of its readers? The only way you can get relevant ads on a faucet is if you allow advertisers to track your viewing habits from one site to another. Otherwise, the relevant demographic is "people who visit faucet sites".
It is always wrong (ok, 99.9% of the time wrong) to have more than one context/page/plug-in instance in the browser play audio at a time
Are you sure about that? I count on my mail tab to ding when I get mail, my voice tab to ring when a call is incoming
If you get more than an average of 3.6 seconds of notification sounds per hour, then "99.9% of the time" they're not being played.
Then see Google's cache
Google doesn't publicly cache noarchive articles.
if the paywall blocked Google, it wouldn't pop up in the search in the first place.
When the publisher of a paywalled article provides an abstract of a few sentences to visitors and search engines, the abstract gets indexed. Journals in Google Scholar even get to "cloak", or send the full text to Googlebot but only the abstract to anonymous visitors. These sites sometimes pop up in general search without the cache option.
I'd find a search engine that heavily penalizes [anti-adblock]
Let me know once you do. I don't even run an ad blocker per se, but I still get dinged by sites that confuse tracking blocking with ad blocking, particularly WIRED, the INQUIRER, and The Atlantic. I've got four web browsers itching for a new default search engine that demotes this crap in favor of, say, sites that self-host what ads they do have.
But then you're back to looking at ads on the faucet sites, and they can't even be relevant to the article because there is no article.
*wiiings
In fact, that's how I know it's been ten years. The Red Bull ads seem to have stopped once people switched from making toilet jokes about the name of a game console that Nintendo released around then to making "Red Bull gives you Wii-ngs" jokes. Either that or Red Bull's maker thought viewers of the channels that members of my household watch had aged out of Red Bull's demographic.
Without a tracking blocker, I've seen inactive Slashdot tabs occasionally get redirected to a false "Urgent Firefox Update" page even on Xubuntu GNU/Linux. What malware cleaner tool do you recommend for that environment?
most of their popular titles have been released on every popular consumer format.
That's a big "most". Find me a lawfully made copy of Song of the South in any home video format that was ever popular in the North American market.
While basic essentials like food, water, etc. don't need to be advertised
You'd be surprised. Electric utilities run public safety ads, and natural gas companies run ads about how much quicker a gas range boils water than an electric one.
Sites that request to be white-listed in my ad blocker, or that won't let me see content without white-listing or disabling my ad blocker, never get visited again
Let's say you do a web search, and you open several relevant-appearing results in the first page only to discover that most have only a paragraph of text at most followed by "Whitelist us or buy a month's subscription". If this becomes the new normal for more and more web search queries, what do you plan to do? Do you instead buy a month's subscription to read one article?
And I "cut the cord" years ago, dropping ad-infested cable TV for streaming services that not only cost literally 1/10th of what cable TV costs today, but have no ads.
Let me guess: no sports fans in your household, and the cable company serving your city is one of the few that doesn't toss in basic TV at no additional charge.
If there are new, innovative, worthwhile products out there, I will find out about them eventually.
From whom will you "find out about them eventually"? And as for the product or service whose sales pay the wages that keep a roof over your head and pay for the streaming services to which you subscribe, how do people who bought that product or service "find out about them eventually"?
The only way I knew about Hatchimals is because I collect Weebles. Recently, after I bought some Weebles figures online, the retargeting algorithm thought there was someone in my household who would like Hatchimals as well, and Hatchimals ads stalked me around the web.
the only good ad is one that takes 0x0 on the screen and no network requests.
Not everybody agrees with this claim. Imagine doing a web search, but when you visit each of the top several results, you
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I've had so much trouble with CloudFlare caching that I've started putting version numbers in every JS and CSS filename
Such a versioned URL scheme has in fact been the best practice for several years now, as it lets you use far-future Expires: dates to reduce bandwidth use by return visitors.
HTTP has supported keep-alive and pipelining since 1.1, the first to make support for name-based virtual hosts mandatory.
I agree that some web applications can work without script, particularly comment sections, forums, and the like, where the primary interaction is following links and submitting forms.
But others can't. Say you have a web-based drawing program. With JavaScript, a web application can represent your image as an SVG or a canvas, with both click and drag gestures doing what the user expects in a reasonable response time. Without JavaScript, it'd have to do all the rendering server-side, with each click activating a client-side image map and reloading the entire document. Drags wouldn't work at all, as the browser would instead attempt to drag-and-drop your image to another program running on the local computer.
"Just use a native application instead." That works only if you use the same operating system that the developer uses.
A sensible alternative is for the default action for source code files such as these to be "edit". Running scripts could be accomplished by right-clicking on the file and selecting "Execute". Far more convenient, and far less dangerous at the same time.
Applied consistently across the board, your "sensible alternative" would have the following effect: "I just installed Calibre to put my e-books on my reader. But now when I open Calibre, instead of showing the Calibre window, Windows keeps trying to open Calibre's source code in Notepad, and it's all on one line." How would the least astonishing behavior be restored under your "sensible alternative"?
Satellite TV competes with cable TV, but satellite Internet doesn't compete with cable Internet because satellite Internet's monthly usage quotas are closer to those of cellular Internet than to those of cable Internet.
Charter, Cox, and Comcast have an agreement not to attempt to compete in the same region. (As far as I'm aware, only people under NDA with one or more of these companies know to what extent this agreement is written.) Thus each cable company is effectively a monopoly for Internet faster than DSL in its geographic area unless there's a company offering fiber Internet.
Slashdot is a U.S.-based site, and the U.S. is not the only party to the WIPO Copyright Treaty.
yes Windows 10 is good, the Furface family works for me
Has Microsoft been advertising its tablets to fans of fictional talking animals or something?
That and software developers who have received requests to port their applications to macOS and iOS.
when do you think it's useful to run games in background tabs?
When they're streamlined simulations of an RTS's tech tree. Click the cookie a few times and I'll explain.
The browser is re-inventing preemptive scheduling algorithms.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Not all web applications would work better as native applications, especially because most users don't want every web app to become (say) Mac-exclusive.
So now we need adblockers that detect pages that detect adblockers.
Some already do. But this may violate anti-circumvention law, be it a country's WIPO Copyright Treaty implementation (such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) or laws defining trespass upon a networked computer (such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act).
But if website operators try to assert the DMCA or CFAA against ad blocker developers, the latter will probably end up building plausible deniability into their products. Instead of blocking ads per se, they'll block third-party tracking (such as Disconnect), block content-types, and pause page loads that exceed 1 MB. This CPU throttling appears to have a similar intent.