Better Trump than Clinton. Donald may not be eminently qualified, but his counterpart is a crook, a liar, and is planning to continue the failed policies of the sitting president.
America needs a non-establishment man in office who is not beholden to anyone but the people. Not K street, not Planned Murder, not the homosexuals. Donald is refreshing precisely because he's a loose cannon. He reminds me of a somewhat slightly more crass President Roosevelt based on my historical knowledge of the man.
Like I told someone this very morning, I'd vote for Josef Stalin before Clinton.
I'm another uBlock Origin user because I don't like the compromise that ABP has become.
What I'm thinking about doing is writing a bit of software external to the browser that does something akin to what alot of us *nix users did before HTML5, which was to symlink Flash, in particular .macromedia and .adobe to /dev/null. This allowed the viewing of Flash content without the site being allowed to "write" LSOs to your HDD. Worked beautifully. I'm thinking the same sort of thing can be done with ads, tracking, etc., using a subscription model similar to what most ad blockers use. To whit, you surf a given site, yet see no ads and tracking, etc, is disallowed but the site doesn't notice. What say you, HN?
I appreciate the above piece. You're right; ad-blocking is a must. What with malware vectoring, tracking, bandwidth robbing, and other issues, I block all ads, tracking, Web beacons for the sake of my own sanity and safety whilst online. I'm always mildly shocked at friend's places if I need to use a computer or am asked to "fix" something. Their PCs are awash with the flotsam and jetsam of the WWW, sometimes so badly only a re-install will correct it.
I'm toying with the idea of creating a non-browser-based piece of software that blocks all this junk whilst not letting on to the websites it's been blocked. Something similar was done under Linux/*nix boxes whereby we simply created a symlink to /dev/null for Flash Player to avoid the LSOs (Super cookies). We could watch Flash content, but nothing was ever written to disk. I need to look into doing something like this using a method like the current ad blocking subscriptions.
America needs a non-establishment man in office who is not beholden to anyone but the people. Not K street, not Planned Murder, not the homosexuals. Donald is refreshing precisely because he's a loose cannon. He reminds me of a somewhat slightly more crass President Roosevelt based on my historical knowledge of the man.
Like I told someone this very morning, I'd vote for Josef Stalin before Clinton.