[PLUG] websites that seem to take over the machine

Joe Shisei Niski joeniski at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 15:12:48 UTC 2015


On 10/09/2015 07:18 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 6, 2015, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
>
>> Twice today, websites I have visited have appeared to take over
> ...
>
>> The symptoms were much hard disk activity, very slow response to moving
>> the mouse, and very slow response to mouse button clicks.
>>
>> The first time I manually shut down the machine. The second time I
>> waited until the mouse click got through and shut down Firefox.
>>
>>
> To regain control over web surfing so that sites don't bog down your system:
>
> 1. turn off flash plugin. activate only when needed
> 2. disable scripts, or use extension such ad noscript to control which
> scripts you allow to run
> 3. use an ad blocker to help decide which afs get through and which don't
>
> -ed

all good advice, to which I add Ghostery, an Adblock analogue for 
tracking cookies and beacons.

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Joe Shisei Niski
Portland, Oregon, USA
至誠



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