ke4pym Premium Member join:2004-07-24 Charlotte, NC
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ke4pym
Premium Member
2013-Feb-8 8:38 am
Thank you browser add-onsSpecial thanks to Adblock and Ghostery for keeping this mess off my workstations. |
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openbox9 Premium Member join:2004-01-26 71144
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openbox9
Premium Member
2013-Feb-8 8:43 am
And simply not trusting Facebook to access other content. |
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NoscriptYet another reason that proves Noscript is practical. |
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to ke4pym
Re: Thank you browser add-onsAdblock filters are getting sloppy. I notice some ADS getting through now surfing websites :/ |
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Facebork'dDuh. |
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Packeteers Premium Member join:2005-06-18 Forest Hills, NY |
to ke4pym
Re: Thank you browser add-onsi use Ghostery & WOT (i see no reason why you need to use adblock too) - and noticed a sluggishness when visiting various media sights recently - i wonder if it's tied too all those unresolvable facebook links. |
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MoracCat god join:2001-08-30 Riverside, NJ |
to ke4pym
I like Adblock except that it is bloated. It causes Firefox to use an additional 60 MB of memory. |
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Apparenty this only affected people logged into FacebookSo things are a bit over stated here, as often happens. Makes me glad I don't use Facebook, though. |
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Packeteers Premium Member join:2005-06-18 Forest Hills, NY Asus RT-AC3100 (Software) Asuswrt-Merlin
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to Morac
Re: Thank you browser add-onsunload adblock and see if this helps instead; » www.abelhadigital.com/hostsmanit blocks all the ad IPs using no resources well before you even open your browser and you don't even have to keep it loaded unless you need to enable ads on the fly. |
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Metatron2008You're it Premium Member join:2008-09-02 united state
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Don't worry guys.It's just Facenet becoming self aware. |
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to brianiscool
Re: Thank you browser add-onsDo you have the "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" unchecked? It's checked by default and I haven't noticed any ads getting through lately. |
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BF69 Fan to Morac
Anon
2013-Feb-8 10:59 am
to Morac
in a world where the average new pc has 8 gigs of ram. 60 is an issue? |
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ArrayListDevOps Premium Member join:2005-03-19 Mullica Hill, NJ |
to Packeteers
is there a way to do something like this on my router? |
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n2jtx join:2001-01-13 Glen Head, NY
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to Packeteers
said by Packeteers:unload adblock and see if this helps instead;
»www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman
it blocks all the ad IPs using no resources well before you even open your browser and you don't even have to keep it loaded unless you need to enable ads on the fly. I used to do that but some ad server IP's also host legitimate content. I started getting to many broken links and found that AdBlock was really the only solution for me. Add in Ghostery to prevent tracking and everything works pretty well. |
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Packeteers Premium Member join:2005-06-18 Forest Hills, NY Asus RT-AC3100 (Software) Asuswrt-Merlin
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yes, i do concede hostsman can occasionally block something commercial you may want - here is a case in point; last summer i started playing a new mmo from a new publisher who freely admitted in their FAQ they were accumulating data for marketing research and university study programs, so naturally hostsman blocked one or both of these entities which in turn disabled part of the game launcher, so in order to play i had to disable hostsman. about 2 months later their blacklists were updated to allow this game to run unfettered. so desirable content may rarely get blocked, but eventually it does seems to sort itself out - and i have since returned to using hostsman without further incident. |
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work. Premium Member join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL |
Maxo
Premium Member
2013-Feb-8 11:23 am
ResumeI'd put that on my resume if I wrote that line. "Temporarily brought down teh Internets ... like a boss" |
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Rilly
Member
2013-Feb-8 11:23 am
Scope of Impact not totally accurate...It wasn't just affecting sites that you logged in via facebook account to a 3rd party site... one site I use was redirecting and I never login via facebook account |
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me1212 join:2008-11-20 Lees Summit, MO |
to Maxo
Re: ResumeEveryone would fear you. that would be awesome. |
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Untangle + AdBlockRun AdBlock off of an Untangle VM acting as router. Pure win. |
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TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus join:2001-06-20 Cheyenne, WY |
"Facebook working as usual"....har-de-har-har |
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hate social media loginsJust another reason to hate login in from an account like this. Definitely find how its becoming the norm for logging in |
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that and the fact you are giving Facebook permission and the site your on to hand your info back and forth to help see what your interests etc are... Never use these logins! |
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imanon
Anon
2013-Feb-11 7:02 pm
what problemfacebook.com is DNS sink-holed to a local webserver on my LAN ...so I never noticed this.
Forget about logging in and tracking, I just don't need to see that damn "like" button all over the place. |
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to BF69 Fan
Re: Thank you browser add-onssaid by BF69 Fan :in a world where the average new pc has 8 gigs of ram. 60 is an issue? 8GB? Mine has 16GB, but yeah 60MB isn't really a big issue, My browser does better than that, more like 1810MB at the moment.... |
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