Am I only the only one who worries what the repercussions of an ad-blocking-by-default browser getting market share might be?
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Introducing WhiteHat Aviator – A Safer Web Browser
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#33Am I only the only one who worries what the repercussions of an ad-blocking-by-default browser getting market share might be? "Facebook, sign up now for only $4 a month..." "You have 12 tweets left. Why not top up now?"
I personally would love to see both of those changes, as they'd force people to place some value on such distractions.
- a confessed twitter addict
Re: Introducing WhiteHat Aviator – A Safer Web Browser
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am doing a double-take as well. It seems like closed-source is antithesis to "designed for the every day person who really values their online security and privacy."
I think the key word there is 'every day person', which for most non-technical people means that they trust someone has looked after the problem, and may actually feel safer by paying someone to do so.
Oh there's no problem paying somebody to do a job. But somehow you'll need to be able to check that the job is done. Or at least read the opinion of somebody who has no stake in the matter to attest to the job being done.
So "the job" here involving making a browser not do things, which you can't see. How often pray tell do you pay somebody to perform a job you can't verify the outcome of, but take him by his word that he did it?
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#35"And yet not a single browser vendor offers ad blocking, instead relying on optional third-party plugins, because this breaks their business model and how they make money.". I'm actually happy when browsers keep their core features as lean as possible and instead do the work that enable plugin creators to create functionality. More true for ad-blocking, where you want the plugin to be updated more often than the brow…
It could still make sense to ship an ad blocking plugin with the browser distribution.
Re: Introducing WhiteHat Aviator – A Safer Web Browser
#36Something actually interesting in the space of a safer web browser: http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/
Do you use this?
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#37"We strip out referring URLs across domains to protect your privacy"
Which makes it even more interesting that they're using Google Analytics to track visitors and sources on their site.
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#39Am I only the only one who worries what the repercussions of an ad-blocking-by-default browser getting market share might be? "Facebook, sign up now for only $4 a month..." "You have 12 tweets left. Why not top up now?"
I personally would love to see both of those changes, as they'd force people to place some value on such distractions. - a confessed twitter addict
Give me your twitter password and I'll lock you out, then write you an app that only lets you tweet after solving a soduku.
Re: Introducing WhiteHat Aviator – A Safer Web Browser
#40What’s the Difference between Aviator and Chromium / Google Chrome? https://blog.whitehatsec.com/whats-the-difference-between-av...