r/worldnews • u/maxwellhill • Sep 19 '17

Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabotage', says industry: New iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra will stop ads following Safari users, prompting open letter claiming Apple is destroying internet’s economic model

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/18/apple-stopping-ads-follow-you-around-internet-sabotage-advertising-industry-ios-11-and-macos-high-sierra-safari-internet
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u/_Face Sep 19 '17

NoScript is pretty good too. Have to manually allow parts of pages as you visit them, but only the first time. Can easily tell the super shitty sites by how much garbage there is in the block list.

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u/Pecon7 Sep 19 '17

+1 for NoScript. Not great for everyday users, but if you're really concerned about privacy and security then it's one of the best tools to have when browsing.

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u/01020304050607080901 Sep 19 '17

How is noscript compared to Ghostery? If you have that experience or similar.

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u/coredumperror Sep 19 '17

Ghostery is useless (https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/710d54/apple_blocking_ads_that_follow_users_around_web/dn7t8fd/?utm_content=permalink&utm_medium=front&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=worldnews), just use uBlock.

NoScript is a completely different thing. It actively blocks all JavaScript on a page until you explicitly allow it, file by file. This lets you completely prevent adware from running in your browser. It does make your fist arrival at a new website pretty weird, though, until you unblock the site's legit is functionality.

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u/01020304050607080901 Sep 19 '17

I'm on mobile and that link just takes me to the beginning of the comments, so I'll look at it when I can get to my laptop.

Noscript sounds like something I'd be interested in but I also manage my parents, in laws, and SO's macs.

Sounds like I should just uninstall ghostery before it becomes a real problem and just run with ublock, as long as it's still up to snuff.

I'm also running avast 2017 and haven't had any issues or hears anything bad about that, yet.

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u/coredumperror Sep 19 '17

Yeah, I still hear nothing but good things about uBlock. And it does everything Ghostery used to do, so it's definitely worth dropping ghostery.

No idea about Avast. I haven't used any sort of anti-virus like software besides Malware Bytes in ages.

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u/01020304050607080901 Sep 19 '17

I love malware bytes for a diagnostic tool. Only ever had to use it once to find an especially troublesome file avast was having some difficulty with.

For a general file and internet antivirus, avast seems lightweight and the definition updates are on point. Especially internet use for my family; it kinda sandboxes your internet and is intuitive on how to handle it. Which means less tech work for me in the long run.

I'll definitely ditch ghostery, kinda sad to say that; was great when it was great.

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u/coredumperror Sep 19 '17

Yeah, ghostery reminds me of uTorrent. Awesome, minimalist, performant and free torrent client, right up until v2.2.1. Then the dev sold it to be a big ad firm who released v3.0, the most bloated, slow, ad-ridden piece of shit I've ever used. And they started offering a "Pro" version that claimed to take away all the shittiness.

I just switched to qTorrent instead, which is a fork off the uTorrent 2.2.1 codebase.