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Originally Posted by SmartAleq
AdBlock Plus has gone to the dark side and has agreements to allow SOME ads through--go with uBlock Origin, it's much closer to the real original thing and allows nothing.
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True; I use uBlock Origin myself ... along with Ghostery, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, real-time (paid) Malwarebytes, and HTTPS Everywhere. Overkill? Maybe. But I sometimes investigate some sketchy side alleys of the Intertubez. (I
do keep a less-heavily-armored browser on hand for trusted sites with lots of third-party content, and/or sites that I actually want to support by clicking on a few of their ads; think Daily Beast or Alternet or Digby's Hullabaloo.) But anyway, I digress ... the philosophical choice AdBlock Plus has made, to allow vetted, "non-intrusive" ads through, in order to support content creators and promote the use of non-intrusive ads, isn't an unreasonable one
per se, and if all online advertising went away, every site would become paywalled, and nobody wants that. And IIRC, there's a one-click setting in AdBlock's options to go back to blocking everything again, if that's what ya want. But this is a tangent better suited for its own thread, and
Jackie should feel free to ignore it.
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Originally Posted by SmartAleq
I've never used Avast, I use AVG and it's been quite good at keeping things clean. Wants you to buy stuff but that's easily avoided, stick with the free version. Keeps putting a shortcut on the desktop but that's easily deleted.
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ICYDK, Avast bought AVG a little while back (18 months, maybe? I forget [ETA: Jeez, back in 2016, now that I've researched. Time flies!]) and both brand names now use
exactly the same AV engine and database under the hood. Avast offers more whistles and bells and utilities and freebie addons than AVG, for their respective free versions, though. So if you [ETA: anyone, not
Smartie specifically] like AVG, be advised that it became a rebadged Avast but the Avast version has some other stuff you might find worth switching for. Again, this is a tangent ... and I should really drink more coffee before I do any more typing.
