On 07/16 07:35, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 20:08:03 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > PS: > > > > Found here: > > https://gigaom.com/2014/05/11/not-all-ad-blockers-are-the-same-heres-why-the > > -effs-privacy-badger-is-different/ > > > > "Ghostery makes money by tracking the trackers while blocking them and > > selling data about third party trackers, which it calls Ghostrank. > > Disconnect takes a pay-what-you-want approach, but it is still > > developed by a for-profit company founded by a former Google engineer. > > Adblock is donation-supported, but many users confuse it with ***>Adblock > > Plus, which has generated controversy for having advertisers pay to > > land on a whitelist <*** . While Adblock and Adblock plus allow users to add > > upload their own blacklists and whitelists, Ghostery and Disconnect do not > > even allow users to add new filters." > > (marks be me are not part of the citiation) > > > > Cheers > > Meino > > I tried to configure Chromium to stop loading adverts on a particular > website. > After half an hour of fighting with embedded frames/JavaScript/etc. > eventually > I managed to block half a dozen CDNs and add servers. A week later to my > surprise I saw adverts loading again when I visited the same website! What > the ... ? They are rotating CDN addresses and domain names, probably to make > user attempts to block their payload futile. > > What annoys me most is websites which download GB of advertising videos and > won't stop whatever you try. Some will continue to download c*ap on your PC > even after you leave the page! Chromium has a setting to block this, but I > have not tested it to see whether it works as ... advertised. :-) > > -- > Regards, > Mick
Hi Rick, "Chromium" is based on Googles "Chrome", isn't it? Is Chromium 100% Google-free? Or does is only changed big brothers name? Sorry for being so pessimistic... Cheers Meino
