If you look at the list, clearly they are garbage extensions, all using the same spammy title.
Ghostery works great and is more selective (scalpel, not shotgun) about dealing with ads. uBlock/Adblock+ are rubbish in their own ways as well. The main key problem in blocking ads is that they tend to completely blow apart websites "responsive" designs and sometimes that results in collapsing html elements making the site unreadable. OR, sometimes, like with news sites, it's the only way to make them readable at
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:02AM (#60371641)
blowing apart "responsive" designs is the entire point.
If more people would refuse to use maliciously designed web sites, then there would be less maliciously designed web sites, because all of those of that ilk would go bankrupt and disappear from the face of the Internet.
bad practices on the Chrome Web Store (Score:1)
This sounds more intentional than "accidental"
uBlock and NoScript... What else do you need?
Re: (Score:4, Informative)
If you look at the list, clearly they are garbage extensions, all using the same spammy title.
Ghostery works great and is more selective (scalpel, not shotgun) about dealing with ads. uBlock/Adblock+ are rubbish in their own ways as well. The main key problem in blocking ads is that they tend to completely blow apart websites "responsive" designs and sometimes that results in collapsing html elements making the site unreadable. OR, sometimes, like with news sites, it's the only way to make them readable at
Re:bad practices on the Chrome Web Store (Score:3, Insightful)
blowing apart "responsive" designs is the entire point.
If more people would refuse to use maliciously designed web sites, then there would be less maliciously designed web sites, because all of those of that ilk would go bankrupt and disappear from the face of the Internet.