Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2015 15:54:16 GMT -6
I post this as a question, but it's a serious issue if it is true.
I loaded ABC to check a story a few moments ago, and of course their "Your computer belongs to US!!" attitude with videos autoloading. So, I reactivated my 100% total flash block and bye bye ABC videos...whew... (someone with low bandwidth and a cap should sue them into reality over those videos)
Then I noticed something else, as it struck me...My Flash killer was blocking ads too. Ads..?? Wha..?? I use Ad Block Plus with additions to basically kill everything even remotely LIKE an ad, everywhere I surf. Those flash videos are my only, last, concession to the "eye candy" junk designers stuff sites with, for what loads automatically.
....I don't turn ABS Off. EVER...(it can be turned off on a site-by-site basis) unless the site is one I work at (like here) or a site I have personal interest in to drop defensive stuff for. There will never, in this lifetime, be an MSM site I load without defensive stuff in place. Ever. Full Stop.
So..how did ABS get turned off? It wasn't off as an extension, but specifically disabled for abc.com, in particular?
I suppose, for lack of any other realistic possibility, I COULD have accidentally clicked something and totally forgotten the whole experience (Kinda weird..when ABS isn't something to open config for by accident or in error to the wrong site). The only other possibility I can come up with is that ABC's trolls in the design department trolled up a method to bypass a consumer's software. (I word it that way for a reason...and legal issues could very well exist here, if that is what occurred)
...anyone else noticed their Ad blocks turning themselves off?? Viruses are known for this, and its why I won't even have Norton or Macafee on my machine. They are the very first thing a well written virus blows into the ether for any threat to stopping what it does next. Could the site designers have found an http:// equivalent?
I loaded ABC to check a story a few moments ago, and of course their "Your computer belongs to US!!" attitude with videos autoloading. So, I reactivated my 100% total flash block and bye bye ABC videos...whew... (someone with low bandwidth and a cap should sue them into reality over those videos)
Then I noticed something else, as it struck me...My Flash killer was blocking ads too. Ads..?? Wha..?? I use Ad Block Plus with additions to basically kill everything even remotely LIKE an ad, everywhere I surf. Those flash videos are my only, last, concession to the "eye candy" junk designers stuff sites with, for what loads automatically.
....I don't turn ABS Off. EVER...(it can be turned off on a site-by-site basis) unless the site is one I work at (like here) or a site I have personal interest in to drop defensive stuff for. There will never, in this lifetime, be an MSM site I load without defensive stuff in place. Ever. Full Stop.
So..how did ABS get turned off? It wasn't off as an extension, but specifically disabled for abc.com, in particular?
I suppose, for lack of any other realistic possibility, I COULD have accidentally clicked something and totally forgotten the whole experience (Kinda weird..when ABS isn't something to open config for by accident or in error to the wrong site). The only other possibility I can come up with is that ABC's trolls in the design department trolled up a method to bypass a consumer's software. (I word it that way for a reason...and legal issues could very well exist here, if that is what occurred)
...anyone else noticed their Ad blocks turning themselves off?? Viruses are known for this, and its why I won't even have Norton or Macafee on my machine. They are the very first thing a well written virus blows into the ether for any threat to stopping what it does next. Could the site designers have found an http:// equivalent?
