I don't think adblocking has gone far enough.
Adblocking for real life: http://noad-app.com/
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Just be sure NOT to install "U Block For Origin", by www.z1z2z3z4.com, which is currently the top hit if you search the Chrome extensions store for 'ublock'. I don't know what it does, but I bet it's not good.
It even steals the real uBlock Origin's icon. That's incredibly sketchy.
This is what happens when you have an "app store" with no approval or review process. Google should be cracking down on this, just like those ads they were displaying[1] which would serve up malware-infected versions of Firefox whenever someone searched for "Firefox".
[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/IFl...
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Microsoft Word" is the trademark, not "Word". Or is it? If Microsoft has trademarked just "Word", it is very strange that they don't enforce it against these folks: http://www.abiword.org/ especially in the light of how, some years ago, their lawyers swooped down like hawks on a Canadian named Mike Rowe who put up a "Mike Rowe Soft" consulting business and web site.
"AbiWord" is a single word, which may be a factor. They might have trouble if it were "Abi Word" or "Word by Abi" or even "Word". It's implausible that another entity could market a competitor of Word (or Windows) by naming it e.g. "Apple Word" or "Apple Windows". I'm going to bet that all the common permutations are trademarked by MSFT. Also, I'm guessing Abi's limited reach is a factor. If Abi was suddenly taking a…
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
It even steals the real uBlock Origin's icon. That's incredibly sketchy.
This is what happens when you have an "app store" with no approval or review process. Google should be cracking down on this, just like those ads they were displaying[1] which would serve up malware-infected versions of Firefox whenever someone searched for "Firefox". [1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/IFl...
A lot of people lost bitcoins because of the malicious ad problem. Somebody spoofed blockchain.info and stole a bunch of credentials... The entire bitcoin subreddit reported it, yet 2 months later it was back up.
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#136Curious why I can't offload this task to a DNS server? If such a solution truly doesn't exist (and I don't mean OpenDNS), would anyone like to talk about building something like that?
actually, just update your hosts file with something like this:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
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#137To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
Just be sure NOT to install "U Block For Origin", by www.z1z2z3z4.com, which is currently the top hit if you search the Chrome extensions store for 'ublock'. I don't know what it does, but I bet it's not good.
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#138The next ad blocker will need to have a strong mission statement that excludes this type of behavior.
Nah, people just need to go back to treating their adblocking software and their ruleset provider as separate things.
Either your adblocker blocks what you tell it to, or it doesn't. There's not a lot of room for fishy behavior.
The rulesets are where things are open to opinion and there are grey areas and they need a lot more maintenance and there's a lot of opportunity for abuse.
EasyList and AdBlock shouldn't be synonymous, and users should be aware that they can opt to use something other than EasyList, and that they can make their own rules.
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#139To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
Just be sure NOT to install "U Block For Origin", by www.z1z2z3z4.com, which is currently the top hit if you search the Chrome extensions store for 'ublock'. I don't know what it does, but I bet it's not good.
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#140To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
or just stay with Adblock Plus which isn't affected by this change...
Because it was already sold to a dubious company with relations to the Ad industry several years ago, and extorted 30 million US$ out of advertisers like Google.