alt Hacker NewsWebsites 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.
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voxleone • today at 5:30 PM
>>Websites being hacked does not necessitate ad block
Their users do.
worldthruword • today at 5:33 PM
CrowdStrike Outage means we need better Windows.
jiveturkey • today at 7:43 PM
indeed. the post may as well be, javascript must be disabled.
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.