uBlock 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 weird to borrow someone's laptop, and see a barrage of ads, notices, bars and other visual spam.
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.
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.
Luckily enough he never got pwned despite conducting basically his entire digital life through that browser.
Badware is still alive and well, but it's mostly tricking people into installing it. The days of ActiveX zero clicks are indeed (and thankfully!) long behind us.
Here are documented instances of malvertising I collated over the years, and which is by no mean comprehensive and which I haven't taken the time to update in a long while:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-Be...
Additionally, excerpt from CISA's "Securing Web Browsers and Defending Against Malvertising for Federal Agencies"[1]:
> Ad-blocking software prevents advertisements from displaying or removes different types of ads (e.g., pop-ups, banner ads) when a user visits a website or uses an application. This software reduces a user’s risk in receiving malicious ads or being redirected to malicious websites. One common ad-blocking technique is the use of web browser extensions that enable a user or agency to customize and control the appearance of online ads. CISA encourages agencies to evaluate solutions that would enable malicious ad blocking.
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[1] https://www.cisa.gov/publication/capacity-enhancement-guides...
I find it strange that "smart" people such as developers can't imagine people think differently than they do, and behave differently than they do.
No, it's strange (or rather, it's sad and shameful) that we've allowed the web to become an environment where this attitude even needs to be considered.
"Hey you should be using an ad blocker, it avoid ads and viruses, and makes websites faster. Do you mind if I install you one?"
10,000 queries a day sounds like a lot but our router (Orbi) isn't doing any caching so maybe it's not.
AdGuard DNS doesn't let you have any configuration. My college student had to change her DNS settings once because an app was being blocked as an ad blocker.