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The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web

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Re: The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web

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Post by saklash »

Over the years, marketing networks have been infiltrated by hackers who manipulate ads to spread malware. Since the ads were served through a host of web pages, the attackers could do damage to a victim’s computers in minutes. With an ad blocker, though, you can prevent this situation from happening to you.

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Post by bogwog »

westcort wrote: post #3

Any recommendations for a good ad blocker and other precautions to take?

I use adnauseam (https://adnauseam.io/), which is built on top of ublock origin, and it works pretty well.

The generic nuclear option to hide terrible web design, bypass (some) paywalls, and improve performance 1000x is to disable javascript. ublock and adnauseam both have a button to disable all javascript on a page, which is handy when reading articles on sites filled with garbage.

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Post by _rs »

westcort wrote: post #3

Any recommendations for a good ad blocker and other precautions to take?

On Mac and iOS I use and recommend AdGuard which has native content blocker extensions and lets you use Easylist block lists (as well as their own).

On Chrome/Firefox I use uBlock Origin which works well. I’m not sure if the community recommends something else at this point.

I also use various other extensions like StopTheMadness to disable right click hijacking and other bad behavior and Banish on iOS to prevent certain banners from appearing.

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Post by jjkmk »

westcort wrote: post #3

Any recommendations for a good ad blocker and other precautions to take?

UBlock Orgin works for most browsers, and has been the industry standard for some time. You can even deploy it as part of group policy in an organization: https://deployhappiness.com/deploying-ublock-origin-for-chro...

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Post by nathanaldensr »

westcort wrote: post #3

Any recommendations for a good ad blocker and other precautions to take?

uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Pi-hole, and a mobile browser like Firefox that allows for extensions for those times when one is not browsing on the same network that the Pi-hole runs on. One may also use a VPN on all devices that connect to a network with DNS-level ad-blocking.
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