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NietTim • today at 8:16 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

With the amount of times ad networks like googles have spread malware etc it's a basic internet security practice these days.


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rstat1 • today at 9:38 AM

Also a great practice if you do any amount of browsing on mobile as it’s practically impossible to read any mobile website through all the stupid ads. Just today I was trying to read an article on my phone in a browser without ubo and was basically blocked from doing so by a full screen video ad that kept popping up on its own even after dismissing it