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As the most technical person in my network of friends and family I'm often the one they go to for computer help. For years one of the first things I do if I touch their computers is install uBlock. Lately a couple of them have gotten new computers and mentioned that they think it came with a virus because there ads everywhere on the internet.
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I don't have any moral problem with ads and companies need to make money so I don't have an adblocker and I just don't visit sites with obnoxious ads. 90% of the sites I visit (i.e. google, facebook, stackoverflow, reddit, hackernews, xkcd, netflix, etc...) don't have annoying ads. Oddly enough the only times I have really regretted turning off my ad blocker is when I'm watching videos where an unskippable ad longer…
> I don't have any moral problem with ads and companies need to make money so I don't have an adblocker and I just don't visit sites with obnoxious ads. How do you keep track? What about drive-by exploits that could infect your computer on first visit? Or mobile ads that redirect to the app store?
As the most technical person in my network of friends and family I'm often the one they go to for computer help. For years one of the first things I do if I touch their computers is install uBlock. Lately a couple of them have gotten new computers and mentioned that they think it came with a virus because there ads everywhere on the internet.
Do they ever ask what's going on when a page complains about running an ad blocker?
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Skip the anti-virus. It's not that there aren't viruses, it's just that anti-viruses don't protect against them and increase the attack surface.
That is only valid advice for an advanced user and even than is still debatable...
A normal people get a message "Virus win32.badthingy detected: -delete- -quarantine- -ignore-". He clicks on the little "x" in the corner of the window.
-- true story
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The typical article I spend The donate 5 cent thing might work for some but I'd never want to tie a payment method to my browser.
Agree on short reading articles. How about longer size content? And have a direct correlation / Math formula between how much time you need to "invest" consuming the content vs how much time you need to "spend" up-front in unlocking the content: micro-payments vs ads. Would that work for you? And, regarding the payment, would you connect with Apple Pay or Amazon Payments or PayPal instead of providing publishers your…
What I would do is pay for a subscription if it included all the major news outfits and was cheap, say $10 a year unlimited access.
As the most technical person in my network of friends and family I'm often the one they go to for computer help. For years one of the first things I do if I touch their computers is install uBlock. Lately a couple of them have gotten new computers and mentioned that they think it came with a virus because there ads everywhere on the internet.
Do they ever ask what's going on when a page complains about running an ad blocker?
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I'd say this, but recently I cleaned a few family members of root kits. They had virus scanners, they just didn't pick them up. I'd love to know a decent one I can put on thats cheap/free that catches these fuckers. Would save me a ton of time lol.
Clean install from scratch and mandatory automatic updates from the OS vendor.
(half is probably an overstatement ;) Nevertheless, I was resolutely trying to be 'moral' and not use and ad blocker until my browser began to regularly crash and I traced the crashes to ads. That issue may be fixed now for all I know, but I can't really go back, though I still try to whitelist sites that I want to have a bit of support, and pay for others somehow, here or there. :) )
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> The difference is that they expect more, because they spent their childhoods getting participation trophies and being waited on hand and foot by adults concerned for their comfort and 'safety.' Bullshit. If millennials expect more, it's because they see the standard of living their parents and grandparents have and have had their entire life. They own homes that have gone up in value 5 fold. They owned homes at an…
> politics are a disaster If things go the way of the old white people we'll probably get one last gift of a trump presidency.
HRC wins and we continue to kill civilians by the tens of thousands overseas, destabilizing entire regions in the Middle East. All the problems of our current status quo get worse. People in power continue to cement their position there. I don't think HRC is going to be any different from Obama and I can't imagine she's going to do anything positive he hasn't already done.
Trump wins and we get a likely ineffective commander in chief and congress becomes a useless sack of potatoes, getting upset that their bullshit has been called out and going home with their toys. Definitely hope for withdrawing from our perpetual war, fixing our election and campaigning systems, and making future elections much better at representing what most people want.
Between the two, I go with Trump, if nothing else because it means more hope for a future of better elections and putting an end to blowing up women and children every day with drone strikes. Yeah there are some bad characters in his supporter base and some of what Trump says is equally as stupid as what HRC says. At least I can believe Trump sometimes, which isn't the case with HRC.
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Skip the anti-virus. It's not that there aren't viruses, it's just that anti-viruses don't protect against them and increase the attack surface.
I'd say this, but recently I cleaned a few family members of root kits. They had virus scanners, they just didn't pick them up. I'd love to know a decent one I can put on thats cheap/free that catches these fuckers. Would save me a ton of time lol.
I secretly install Linux onto family member's computers.
It's been two years and nobody has noticed.