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A very detailed analysis Bill. Ad blocking is something I've never really bothered with, so this is all double dutch to me. I'll continue letting CP show me ads.
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Hi Pete,
My guess is that if you installed the MVPS Hosts file [^], you'd appreciate the great reduction in "static" as you browsed sites on the webs; you would notice it. The February 25 update of the MVPS Hosts file contains, I estimate, over 15000 entries to block.
The MVPS' project is a non-profit public service, and I heartily support the effort made to keep it updated.
But, of course, I have no "agenda" that anyone else should be using it !
Because of my widely varied interests in literature, archaeology/evolution of iconography of "sacred" and "animist" art in South-East Asia, ancient trade routes between "east" and "west," and, also because I visit some sites specific to Thailand and Thai cultural studies, and haunt all kinds of psychology and science related sites, and geek sites, and so forth ... well ...
... perhaps because of the variety of my surfing, the MVPS Hosts file may be more useful, for me, than for someone whose surfing is in a "narrower topical range" ? Just a thought: wouldn't want to elevate that into a "hypothesis" 
yours, Bill
"Good people can be induced, seduced, and initiated into behaving in evil ways. They can also be led to act in irrational, stupid, antisocial, mindless, and self-destructive, ways when they are immersed in 'total situations' that impact human nature in ways that challenge our sense of the stability and consistency of individual personality, of character, and of morality."
Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo, in "The Lucifer Effect" 2008: ISBN-10: 08129744
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You're right. My surfing is very tightly aimed. I typically only visit half a dozen sites a week. As for ads, they tend to occupy that conscious blind spot - I mentally filter them out based on years and years of conditioning. I'm not saying that I would recommend this strategy for anyone else; it's just what works for me.
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The Point is not to blocks add but to prevent google and others from gathering information about my surfing. Yes I disbled blocking for CP, because this board and it's sources is important for me, but I don't like google to know if I like teas and coffee and black trousers.
So I block every information from other sides not only the ads.
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Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem
How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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Given that my surfing is pretty much confined to Code Project, Amazon, Intel, BBC, Daily Telegraph, nufcblog.org and The Daily Mash, it's not as though they are going to be too bad.
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No, of course not. And not everyone must be so overcautious. At home I have a dozen tools installed to protect me from any tracking. It's like a quirk.
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Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem
How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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Why don't you just use private/incognito browsing? Or just clear cookies on a weekly basis?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Why don't you just use private/incognito browsing? Or just clear cookies on a weekly basis?
Hi Chris, In my case I would not want to bother switching between incognito/cognito modes in Chrome.
Messing around with Cookies is a chore that I prefer to let CCleaner handle for me: once a week, or, so, I open it up to review any persistent Cookies that have been written, but blocked by whatever, which CCleaner displays in a very typical two-panel "out vs. in" user interface, with arrow-key buttons letting you shift any Cookie from one status to the other.
Whether the persistent Cookies that show up in CCleaner are flagged as "blocked" by the EmsiSoft anti-bad-thing software I use, Chrome settings, or Windows Defender, or AdBlock Plus: I don't know. CCleaner certainly does not run any always-on service, or process.
I may move some of the blocked persistent Cookies to the "allowed" status, depending on what site they came from. Once in a while I may shift a persistent Cookie to "blocked."
yours, Bill
"Good people can be induced, seduced, and initiated into behaving in evil ways. They can also be led to act in irrational, stupid, antisocial, mindless, and self-destructive, ways when they are immersed in 'total situations' that impact human nature in ways that challenge our sense of the stability and consistency of individual personality, of character, and of morality."
Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo, in "The Lucifer Effect" 2008: ISBN-10: 08129744
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Chris Maunder wrote: Why don't you just use private/incognito browsing? Or just clear cookies on a weekly basis?
Yes, I do this. But you still can be tracked and identified. So some other tools, showing all trackers, hiding IP, deleting cookies, identifying hidden addons.
At home I'm as safe I can be. In my company I didn't have the same extreme setting, I just catched a trojaner, while installing a firefox addon from Mozilla (they removed it afterwards). Because I wanted to install the same at home I got messages of unusual operations from my extratools. Then I recognized what this addon was doing, didn't complete the installprocess and removed it at work, too.
I once got a virus from university, since then I installed so many different tools, that I never got an infect and I'm hard to track.
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Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem
How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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My kids clear cookies as soon as they are put in the cupboard.
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I do that too 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I see what you did there.
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... edit ... broken link fixed ...
I have had one response to my post on the ADBlock Plus' user-forum about this issue: [^].
And, the person responding is also, evidently, the author of the kind of default block-site list for ADBP, named "EasyList." So that's given me an opportunity to ask him about exact effects of entry in the "EasyList" for CodeProject.com:
||codeproject.com^*/adm/
yours, Bill
"Good people can be induced, seduced, and initiated into behaving in evil ways. They can also be led to act in irrational, stupid, antisocial, mindless, and self-destructive, ways when they are immersed in 'total situations' that impact human nature in ways that challenge our sense of the stability and consistency of individual personality, of character, and of morality."
Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo, in "The Lucifer Effect" 2008: ISBN-10: 08129744
modified 7-Mar-13 4:37am.
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BillWoodruff wrote: ||codeproject.com^*/adm/
This won't do anything.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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BillWoodruff wrote: MEDIA MAFIOSOS: IS ADBLOCK PLUS SHAKING DOWN WEBSITES FOR CASH TO LET ADS THROUGH
This epitomises my desire to have people think about the choices they make. That's a fascinating read and if the allegations are true opens them up to lawsuits.
The actual number of people who block ads on CodeProject is low, and I don't know whether that's because people don't see the need, or because there's genuine interest in the ads, or because devs truly want to help out in whatever way they can. I hope the last two.
I totally get the rationale for blocking both ads and tracking tags, but my next question to those who block for tracking purposes is: do you have a credit card or are you part of a rewards progam? Online tracking is essentially anonymous unless you opt-in with more info. The pre-digital marketing programs we've grown up with for decades are very, very personal and detailed in what they know about you and what they track.
I personally don't care who tracks me online - they can build up the most detailed profile they want, and then I'll clear cookies and disable flash. No more profile. My Air Miles program and my AmEx? They know details about me not even my loved ones know!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: My Air Miles program and my AmEx? They know details about me not even my loved ones know!
Hey, JSOP, based on Chris's comment above, what time is it?
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Is there a maintenance going on right now? Because for a brief period I started to view the lounge posts all expanded then after I couldnt even see the comments at all. Nothing but the first posts and then it switched visa-a-versa
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Orcun Iyigun wrote: Is there a maintenance going on right now
There was.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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While typing a new message, the footer doesn't update in the preview until I start typing in the message (i.e., if I click "Click to edit signature", edit it, then click out of it, the preview doesn't update until I type into the main message area).
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I'll throw that onto the TODO list.
cheers,
Chris Maunderdfgsdfghj
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I had to set up a new account over at RootAdmin, as the CP/RA login thing wouldn't let me log in with my old account. I tried to change the 'friendly url' here at CP to what I used over there, but couldn't. Are you able to override that and change it? I would like to try and link both accounts.
I have the same display name on both sites.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Someone, or more than one, seems to be policing Q&A with the sole purpose of downvoting every question that's a bit vague or not worded correctly. I'm not sure what purpose it is serving; maybe a word in the ear, or a poke in the eye with a burnt stick, is called for.
Use the best guess
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For example:
I'm not sure this was a bug or not, but someone idiot might post inappropriate images, so it should be blocked.
Logi.
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Some backdoors may have been left ajar.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Block the 'background-image' CSS property? That is how it's done (from what I can see).
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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