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turb

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Ultimate Geek

#197899 17-Jun-2016 07:09

A non PC-savvy mate of mine was hit by a ransomware attack the other day. Asking about his browsing & email habits, the most likely vector was clicking on a YouTube side advert.

YouTube are probably pretty careful, but I'm sure things slip through now and again.

I was thinking of putting an Adblocker on his machine to help remove some temptations.

Any recommendations for ad blockers?

Interests: HTPC, Web App authoring.

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muppet

2568 posts

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#1575506 17-Jun-2016 09:33

uBlock Origin!

Don't install Adblock Plus!

There's two reasons for this:

1) Their business model is basically "Allow ads from a list of people who have paid us (unless you untick the setting for this, which is of course ticked by default)

2) uBlock Origin has much better performance. That is, it's faster and it uses less memory. (That comparison is written and updated by the person who writes uBlock Origin, so keep that in mind, but the numbers speak pretty clearly for themselves)

Things like Ghostery/Privacy badger etc are all pointless - they just do the same thing an Adblock does. In uBlock Origin you can select from a large list of blocks. That is adblocking, privacy blocking, malware blocking etc. I don't understand why (at least, technical) people install these "extra" blockers when a single one does the same thing, faster and with less memory.

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