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nashashmitoday at 5:06 PM3 repliesview on HN

Websites being hacked does not necessitate ad block. It necessitates better browser security. The title here is fallacious. I say this in all fairness as someone who uses adblock extensively, where I don't even like cookies being held by ad companies.


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helterskeltertoday at 5:57 PM

A secure browser that loads an ad doesn't prevent you from being surveilled. Tor mitigates this to a large degree but doesn't entirely eliminate it. The only real solution is to block ads altogether.

This is a silly distinction anyway. Blocking ads is an obvious first step to improving browser security.

voxleonetoday at 5:30 PM

>>Websites being hacked does not necessitate ad block

Their users do.

worldthruwordtoday at 5:33 PM

CrowdStrike Outage means we need better Windows.