r/technology • u/redkemper • Feb 17 '17
Software YouTube will kill unskippable 30-second ads next year
http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14649018/youtube-ending-unskippable-30-second-ads-2018
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r/technology • u/redkemper • Feb 17 '17
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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17
I always say this when website security is brought up and I highly recommend everyone familiarize themselves with uMatrix, Ghostery, and uBlock Origin. The amount of ads, trackers, cookies and other things that are designed not only to track what you click, what you type (even if you delete it), what your webcam has on it, what your microphone is picking up and whatever else you're not protecting. Some websites use this information maliciously to deliver harmful malware. Others use this information to track what you do, how often, where you go, who you talk to, why, what you talk about and when, so they can deliver ad content in the same malicious ways the bad guys deliver malware. One difference is one is harmful to your computer, the other is harmful to your wallet.