“Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
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“Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
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Re: “Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
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Hmm. Site blacklists me from using site till I turn off adblocker.
I view that as "Program that refuses to run until I turn off Antivirus". Both avenues are ways for a machine to become infected.
Adblockers prevent a known avenue of attack: js based 0-days and drive-by attacks.
Re: “Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
#3[ObOfftopic] Hmm. Site blacklists me from using site till I turn off adblocker. I view that as "Program that refuses to run until I turn off Antivirus". Both avenues are ways for a machine to become infected. Adblockers prevent a known avenue of attack: js based 0-days and drive-by attacks.
I agree, sites that enforce disabling add block should not be allowed to be posted here.
Re: “Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
#4[ObOfftopic] Hmm. Site blacklists me from using site till I turn off adblocker. I view that as "Program that refuses to run until I turn off Antivirus". Both avenues are ways for a machine to become infected. Adblockers prevent a known avenue of attack: js based 0-days and drive-by attacks.
I am really hoping that companies are measuring the bounce rate for these types of tactics.
When I see one of these I could become a subscriber and log in, I could whitelist the site's advertisements, or I could open Web Inspector and disable the popup layer manually, but I don't do anything of these things. I acknowledge its existence and hit the back button.
Re: “Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
#5[ObOfftopic] Hmm. Site blacklists me from using site till I turn off adblocker. I view that as "Program that refuses to run until I turn off Antivirus". Both avenues are ways for a machine to become infected. Adblockers prevent a known avenue of attack: js based 0-days and drive-by attacks.
Try uBlock Origin
Re: “Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
#6[ObOfftopic] Hmm. Site blacklists me from using site till I turn off adblocker. I view that as "Program that refuses to run until I turn off Antivirus". Both avenues are ways for a machine to become infected. Adblockers prevent a known avenue of attack: js based 0-days and drive-by attacks.
I am really hoping that companies are measuring the bounce rate for these types of tactics. When I see one of these I could become a subscriber and log in, I could whitelist the site's advertisements, or I could open Web Inspector and disable the popup layer manually, but I don't do anything of these things. I acknowledge its existence and hit the back button.
I just sent a LinkedIn email (yeah, spammy horrendous-ness all of its own, but I digress) to Malcolm CasSelle, the CTO of Tronc, the owner of the Chicago Tribune. This is the contents.
_________________
I'm [kefka], a systems engineer. I regularly read Hacker News, https://news.ycombinator.com . A user linked to a story on your property, ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13206294 ) which goes to ( http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-ghost-shar... ).
It's the response that your website gives me when I try to go to said link: " Advertising revenue helps support our journalism To read today's stories, please turn off your ad blocker or subscribe"
I get that your company needs to make money, which I greatly understand and get. However, asking me to quit my adblocker or otherwise disable it is unconscionable. Advertisement servers have been one of root ways drive-by attacks are dome on users, combined with Javascript attack ads that end up with millions hacked. Forbes themselves, with a day of implementing the same Adblock-shaming techniques ended up being the site that infected 3 million with DDOS clients.
I am not against subscriptions, or static advertisements. You have to make money as well. But there's ways to run effective advertisements without alienating users.
But, if a program demanded you to disable your antivirus, would you? (That's the kind of situation I'm at).
Sincerely, [Kefka]
Re: “Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
#7[ObOfftopic] Hmm. Site blacklists me from using site till I turn off adblocker. I view that as "Program that refuses to run until I turn off Antivirus". Both avenues are ways for a machine to become infected. Adblockers prevent a known avenue of attack: js based 0-days and drive-by attacks.
I am really hoping that companies are measuring the bounce rate for these types of tactics. When I see one of these I could become a subscriber and log in, I could whitelist the site's advertisements, or I could open Web Inspector and disable the popup layer manually, but I don't do anything of these things. I acknowledge its existence and hit the back button.
This one also sets the body to `overflow: hidden` and has a scroll event listener that tries to prevent scrolling the document. At which point I bounced.
Re: “Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
#8[ObOfftopic] Hmm. Site blacklists me from using site till I turn off adblocker. I view that as "Program that refuses to run until I turn off Antivirus". Both avenues are ways for a machine to become infected. Adblockers prevent a known avenue of attack: js based 0-days and drive-by attacks.
Try uBlock Origin
yep, uBlock Origin works for me too in this site
Re: “Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
#9[ObOfftopic] Hmm. Site blacklists me from using site till I turn off adblocker. I view that as "Program that refuses to run until I turn off Antivirus". Both avenues are ways for a machine to become infected. Adblockers prevent a known avenue of attack: js based 0-days and drive-by attacks.
I think this is the source article: http://www.mbari.org/the-pointy-nosed-blue-chimaera-really-g...
Re: “Ghost shark” captured on camera for the first time
#10the link provided by thefalcon: http://www.mbari.org/the-pointy-nosed-blue-chimaera-really-g...
has a really well done and informative video at the bottom!