 ke4pymPremium
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC | Thank you browser add-ons Special thanks to Adblock and Ghostery for keeping this mess off my workstations. | |
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 | openbox9Premium
join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | Re: Thank you browser add-ons And simply not trusting Facebook to access other content. | |
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| | | Adblock filters are getting sloppy. I notice some ADS getting through now surfing websites :/ | |
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| | | | Re: Thank you browser add-ons Do 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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|  PacketeersPremium
join:2005-06-18
Forest Hills, NY
kudos:1 | i 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
kudos:1 | I like Adblock except that it is bloated. It causes Firefox to use an additional 60 MB of memory. | |
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| | |  FBGuyPremium
join:2005-03-19
Evanston, IL | Re: Thank you browser add-ons is there a way to do something like this on my router? | |
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| | |  n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY | 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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| | | | PacketeersPremium
join:2005-06-18
Forest Hills, NY
kudos:1 Reviews:
 ·Time Warner Cable
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: Thank you browser add-ons 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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| | | | in a world where the average new pc has 8 gigs of ram. 60 is an issue? | |
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·DSL EXTREME
·RoadRunner Cable
| Re: Thank you browser add-ons said 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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| | Noscript Yet another reason that proves Noscript is practical. | |
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| | Apparenty this only affected people logged into Facebook So things are a bit over stated here, as often happens. Makes me glad I don't use Facebook, though.
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Jay: What the @#$% is the internet??? | |
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| | Don't worry guys. It's just Facenet becoming self aware. | |
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 MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | Resume I'd put that on my resume if I wrote that line.
"Temporarily brought down teh Internets ... like a boss" | |
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| me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | Re: Resume Everyone would fear you. that would be awesome. | |
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| | 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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| | Untangle + AdBlock Run 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 | Re: Untangle + AdBlock "Facebook working as usual"....har-de-har-har  | |
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| | hate social media logins Just 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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| | | Re: hate social media logins 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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| | what problem facebook.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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