Wednesday, June 3, 2020

(off topic) The Hypocrisy of adblocker whining

By Now you should have known about adblocker whining - the practice of locking you out of sites that hate adblockers by the website builders.  These sites Piss me off.  Many of them exist, forbes.com does this and so do many "news" sites. If it's a news site, you can be guaranteed, they will whine about you using an adblocker, and bitch about it till you whitelist them in your adblocker and let their fucking ads through.

But don't fall for that crap, for there is a GOOD reason to use an adblocker these days - malvertising. Malvertising, the practice of putting scripts in ads that download malware onto people's computers. This malware is something you want to avoid, so never ever run without an adblocker installed.

But what really pisses me off is these websites that let ads into their website, and they get around web blockers, and when malware ends up in their ads, they do NOTHING, to stop it.  They don't even scan for malware in their ads, and they force their ads through so your adblocker can't block them.  They simply don't care about the security of their users.

Sites like fieplanet fall into this category. They ran an ad that had ransomware downloading through it last night and I got hit.  I wish these people would actually test their shit for malware, because It's getting fucking stupid when adblockers can't block their shit and their shit becomes infested with bad malware. 

People, if you ever go to the internet, DON'T go to fileplanet or similar sites that allow ads to go through despite you using adblockplus.  Don't let these sites determine how secure your computer will be, just avoid the following sites

forbes.com
(many other news sites)
yahoo mail
fileplanet

just stay safe and don't go to sites that demand you whitelist their ads, it isn't safe to do that and you could end up with ransomware.