Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
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Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
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Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
#2uBlock Origin has a few lists that disable annoyances. They are disabled by default, but they're arguably the most important lists.
It's weird to borrow someone's laptop, and see a barrage of ads, notices, bars and other visual spam.
Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
#3uBlock Origin has a few lists that disable annoyances. They are disabled by default, but they're arguably the most important lists. It's weird to borrow someone's laptop, and see a barrage of ads, notices, bars and other visual spam.
It’s strange that even today, people are still not aware they should be using ad blockers with as many lists as they could live with. It’s no longer just about sanity and protecting attention, but now also about security, as we’ve heard more and more about malware running rampart from ad distribution servers.
Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
#4I get the name makes sense for what it does but I long for the days that products weren’t simple English words - searching “Hush” on the App Store found many results - none of which looked like this.
Which brings me to the annoyance of “go here search this”: a regressing to AOL keywords when URLs exist is madness.
Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
#5uBlock Origin has a few lists that disable annoyances. They are disabled by default, but they're arguably the most important lists. It's weird to borrow someone's laptop, and see a barrage of ads, notices, bars and other visual spam.
It’s strange that even today, people are still not aware they should be using ad blockers with as many lists as they could live with. It’s no longer just about sanity and protecting attention, but now also about security, as we’ve heard more and more about malware running rampart from ad distribution servers.
The really crazy thing about using ad networks to distribute malware, which I think is very much still unrecognized, is how targeted you can make it.
You can, for example, target people over the age of 70 that live in high net worth areas, or people that live geographically close to some organization you're targeting specifically, in hopes of hitting an employee, or someone in their family.
Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
#6uBlock Origin has a few lists that disable annoyances. They are disabled by default, but they're arguably the most important lists. It's weird to borrow someone's laptop, and see a barrage of ads, notices, bars and other visual spam.
It’s strange that even today, people are still not aware they should be using ad blockers with as many lists as they could live with. It’s no longer just about sanity and protecting attention, but now also about security, as we’ve heard more and more about malware running rampart from ad distribution servers.
Really strange is the anti-ad-blocking campaign saying they make browsing slow and are privacy unfriendly
Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
#7uBlock Origin has a few lists that disable annoyances. They are disabled by default, but they're arguably the most important lists. It's weird to borrow someone's laptop, and see a barrage of ads, notices, bars and other visual spam.
The Ad Blocker situation on Safari is pretty poor. I've ended up with Ghostery, but really miss uBlock Origin.
Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
#8uBlock Origin has a few lists that disable annoyances. They are disabled by default, but they're arguably the most important lists. It's weird to borrow someone's laptop, and see a barrage of ads, notices, bars and other visual spam.
It’s strange that even today, people are still not aware they should be using ad blockers with as many lists as they could live with. It’s no longer just about sanity and protecting attention, but now also about security, as we’ve heard more and more about malware running rampart from ad distribution servers.
I can't remember a single instance of people being infected by ads after the end of the IE era. And in 20 years on the internet, often without ad-blocking, I've never been a victim of anything like that (as far as I can tell, yes. But I'm somewhat certain and don't much care about symptomless problems).
As far as I can tell, the security argument is advanced mostly as justification for blocking even unobtrusive ads by people who love to both complain about the terrible state of "mainstream media" and to read what they publish.
Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
#9uBlock Origin has a few lists that disable annoyances. They are disabled by default, but they're arguably the most important lists. It's weird to borrow someone's laptop, and see a barrage of ads, notices, bars and other visual spam.
The Ad Blocker situation on Safari is pretty poor. I've ended up with Ghostery, but really miss uBlock Origin.
I use KaBlock! Despite its silly name its great. Open Source and thanks to Safari content blocker security model I can trust it.
Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s strange that even today, people are still not aware they should be using ad blockers with as many lists as they could live with. It’s no longer just about sanity and protecting attention, but now also about security, as we’ve heard more and more about malware running rampart from ad distribution servers.
Really strange is the anti-ad-blocking campaign saying they make browsing slow and are privacy unfriendly
Makes perfect sense when you consider how much money is at stake.