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Topic: Does using Adblock Plus make you more secure? (Read 825 times)

legendary
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I use noscript (for javascript) it is annoying at first, but you soon get the hang of clicking temporarily allow site.
and I use donottrack to stop the tracking crap that so many sites have. It gives you an email which forwards onto your real email (if you want), so you don't have to sign up to sites using your real email.
Last thing I use is HTTPS everywhere - it forces you to try https automatically instead of http where applicable.

I never had much luck with adblock. Maybe it was a firefox thing, allthough it seemed to work for others.

Just don't open any wierd emails or go to porn sites Smiley
legendary
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amarha
You could do web-surfing trough a virtual machine. none of the scripts would then have access to your machine 

Ghostery allows to block ads, trackers and scripts if I'm not mistaken



What about using Sandboxie? Would that achieve the same result, or no?
sr. member
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You could do web-surfing trough a virtual machine. none of the scripts would then have access to your machine 

Ghostery allows to block ads, trackers and scripts if I'm not mistaken

legendary
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amarha
I use adblock plus to block ads and ghostery to block scripts. Both of them are fairly user friendly and work in Chrome and Firefox.

If you're trying to log into a site that you know is kosher, such as online banking, you can temporarily allow scripts by clicking on the ghostery icon in your browser toolbar.



Checking out ghostery now.

Thanks.
legendary
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amarha

Nope, what you want is "NoScript"

Also use Adblock Edge, they dont have "allowed ads"



Ok I just removed Adblock Plus from Chrome. But it seems there's no such thing as NoScript for Chrome.

ScriptSafe is coming up as the first result on a google for "noscript for chrome" good enough or no?

Ah though you used FireFox, let me see... for chrome is no plugin needed because there is a build in setting:

go to chrome://settings

and search for "click-to-play" it will disable all sorts of plugins. You can just click on a Chrome message to active it for that specific page. Best way to test and see is youtube

I do use click to play already, but that only really comes up for videos mostly. Like flash or whatever. I don't think it affects JS at all. Although I'm not sure. If this is a fairly safe way to browse, then I'm happy to just have that setting on. But I'm just taking some precautions with all the malware that's out there.
sr. member
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I use adblock plus to block ads and ghostery to block scripts. Both of them are fairly user friendly and work in Chrome and Firefox.

If you're trying to log into a site that you know is kosher, such as online banking, you can temporarily allow scripts by clicking on the ghostery icon in your browser toolbar.

copper member
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No I dont escrow anymore.

Nope, what you want is "NoScript"

Also use Adblock Edge, they dont have "allowed ads"



Ok I just removed Adblock Plus from Chrome. But it seems there's no such thing as NoScript for Chrome.

ScriptSafe is coming up as the first result on a google for "noscript for chrome" good enough or no?

Ah though you used FireFox, let me see... for chrome is no plugin needed because there is a build in setting:

go to chrome://settings

and search for "click-to-play" it will disable all sorts of plugins. You can just click on a Chrome message to active it for that specific page. Best way to test and see is youtube
legendary
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amarha

Nope, what you want is "NoScript"

Also use Adblock Edge, they dont have "allowed ads"



Ok I just removed Adblock Plus from Chrome. But it seems there's no such thing as NoScript for Chrome.

ScriptSafe is coming up as the first result on a google for "noscript for chrome" good enough or no?
copper member
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No I dont escrow anymore.
Does Adblock Plus block scripts and phishing attempts from 3rd parties on websites that might target your wallets/exchange accounts?

Nope, what you want is "NoScript"

Also use Adblock Edge, they dont have "allowed ads"

I know the most secure thing would be to disable JS altogether. But is this a middle ground that still lets you use the functionality of most sites?

Thats what NoScript does. You can enable each JavaScript individually either just for the running session or in general by domain.


I hear that a lot of people are getting their blockchain.info and BTC-e accounts hacked and it makes be suspisious of third party attacks being inserted on sites via an ad campaign.

Good idea or useless?

Possible. I read somewhere that drive by infections (via ads or other online sources) ist the most common way to get infected nowadays. Not sure if thats true or not.
legendary
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amarha
Does Adblock Plus block scripts and phishing attempts from 3rd parties on websites that might target your wallets/exchange accounts?

I know the most secure thing would be to disable JS altogether. But is this a middle ground that still lets you use the functionality of most sites?

I hear that a lot of people are getting their blockchain.info and BTC-e accounts hacked and it makes be suspisious of third party attacks being inserted on sites via an ad campaign.

Good idea or useless?
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