I appreciate the above piece. You're right; ad-blocking is a must. What with malware vectoring, tracking, bandwidth robbing, and other issues, I block all ads, tracking, Web beacons for the sake of my own sanity and safety whilst online. I'm always mildly shocked at friend's places if I need to use a computer or am asked to "fix" something. Their PCs are awash with the flotsam and jetsam of the WWW, sometimes so badly only a re-install will correct it.
I'm toying with the idea of creating a non-browser-based piece of software that blocks all this junk whilst not letting on to the websites it's been blocked. Something similar was done under Linux/*nix boxes whereby we simply created a symlink to /dev/null for Flash Player to avoid the LSOs (Super cookies). We could watch Flash content, but nothing was ever written to disk. I need to look into doing something like this using a method like the current ad blocking subscriptions.
I appreciate the above piece. You're right; ad-blocking is a must. What with malware vectoring, tracking, bandwidth robbing, and other issues, I block all ads, tracking, Web beacons for the sake of my own sanity and safety whilst online. I'm always mildly shocked at friend's places if I need to use a computer or am asked to "fix" something. Their PCs are awash with the flotsam and jetsam of the WWW, sometimes so badly only a re-install will correct it.
I'm toying with the idea of creating a non-browser-based piece of software that blocks all this junk whilst not letting on to the websites it's been blocked. Something similar was done under Linux/*nix boxes whereby we simply created a symlink to /dev/null for Flash Player to avoid the LSOs (Super cookies). We could watch Flash content, but nothing was ever written to disk. I need to look into doing something like this using a method like the current ad blocking subscriptions.