Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Unlike the simple on-off switch built into some browsers, NoScript & ScriptSafe are selective & granular JavaScript blockers. That means, with either of them, you can allow JavaScript from a website's domains while blocking & distrusting JavaScript from ad network domains. And that distrust of an ad network's JavaScript (or any domain's JS) follows you across the World Wide Web to every website attempting to use it on you, not just the one site you distrusted it on.

For anti-adblock pop-ups, I usually recommend the more extreme action of blocking JavaScript on that website, either through "Site Settings" behind the info icon in the Chrome address bar, or through an extension such as NoScript for Firefox & ScriptSafe for Chrome/Chromium.

If the page content is completely inaccessible with both ads & JS blocked, then there's nothing for it; I recommend abandoning the site. Like a game of Three-Card Monte in an alley, the only winning move is not to play.

@Tathar For that, I usually recommend the more extreme action of blocking JavaScript on that website, either through "Site Settings" behind the info icon in the Chrome address bar, or through an extension such as NoScript for Firefox & ScriptSafe for Chrome/Chromium.

If the page content is completely inaccessible with both ads & JS blocked, then there's nothing for it; I recommend abandoning the site. Like a game of Three-Card Monte in an alley, the only winning move is not to play.

@Sir_Boops Take a look at her wake. That giant airport can just about turn and drift on a dime. :3

@Saxxon And you would be right. The majority of Web-borne malware gets its foot in the door via ad networks.

Cleaning up a customer's PC, I made the mistake of leaving a tab open on Yahoo's home page. Only 1 minute later: malvertized. Sunuva...

I did it again to pin down the cause, & indeed it's Yahoo's ads breaking out, taking over the page, & loading scary messages that make it difficult to leave.

I can't stress enough, folks, that an ad blocker is Internet SECURITY software.

current status: "This shouldn't take long. Thanks for being patient."

They're out of fresh strawberries. Guess I'll have to get the recycled strawberries instead.

@monorail Ah. Still weird you'd have to memorize any 3-digit number to the 4th power, tho.

@monorail I'm kind of mystified why you'd need to memorize that for networking, & I'm worried for test accuracy if it said 255^4 and not the correct 256^4.

@pawcelot rice is shot at the newlyweds from tanks :V

It's been an age since I installed Microsoft Office. I've been sitting at Office 365's "We'll be done in just a moment" prompt for the last half hour plus. It's on-site for a customer, so it's billed time I've been waiting, but staring at the progress bar & experiencing Microsoft's idea of "just a moment" is boring.

@IrimeZane Whether it's mark-up code or program code, that's good & essential advice.

@ersatzmaus best response so far

When you're writing code, don't forget that one of the people who might end up using it, one of the people you need to write docs for, is you. Specifically, a version of you 3-5 years from now who has no memory or idea of what you were thinking when you wrote it.

I just found out how to easily test every single byte of swap space I have: All I have to do is leave Firefox alone but running for most of a week.