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On 15/09/16 22:47, Martijn Grooten wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 08:45:35AM +0100, barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:Had anyone else come across this? Any comments would be welcome.It is increasingly common and there is a cat-and-mouse game going on between advertisers and adblock-developers. I certainly understand why sites would want to force people to view the ads. I do not block ads myself but I block both trackers and have set Flash as click-to-play by default. This, in practice, stops most ads. Blocking Flash by default is because Flash has lots of security issues, though on Linux the risk is -touch wood!- pretty theoretical. To block trackers, I use the EFF's Privacy Badget plugin, which can be fine tuned in a number of ways. For some reason, while it blocks almost all ads in practice, it does seem to do so in a way that doesn't stop sites (like Wired and Forbes) from showing me their content. Martijn.
I also use Privacy Badger on firefox. Unfortunately, although it can be installed on Palemoon, there is a problem with the icon on the task bar in that it does not appear.
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