Comment by nashashmi
17 days ago
Websites being hacked does not necessitate ad block. It necessitates better browser security. The title here is fallacious. I say this in all fairness as someone who uses adblock extensively, where I don't even like cookies being held by ad companies.
A secure browser that loads an ad doesn't prevent you from being surveilled. Tor mitigates this to a large degree but doesn't entirely eliminate it. The only real solution is to block ads altogether.
This is a silly distinction anyway. Blocking ads is an obvious first step to improving browser security.
Recommended by more than one US Federal three letter agency.
The greatest rec of all was seeing the NSA crying about tor in the Snowden docs. Doesn't get any better than that.
>>Websites being hacked does not necessitate ad block
Their users do.
You are right, adware comes through ad systems regardless. Block everything regardless as well.
CrowdStrike Outage means we need better Windows.
indeed. the post may as well be, javascript must be disabled.