want another reason to keep ADBlock active? how about ransomware .. yep!

MblaZe7run · March 16, 2016

37 minutes ago, AnnoyedShelf said:

Here is one, but I didn't look very hard for the one that I initially read. https://www.reddit.com/comments/3n7q5z

Ah, all good. I've never used that adblocker, I stick to AdBlock Plus. Don't think there's any relation

Murdoch · March 16, 2016

3 hours ago, CTR640 said:

Good, another reason to never disable ABP and NoScript. Ads are the electric aids, cancer and ebola all at once.

The greed has taken over the brainwashed idiots devs developing ads. Hopefully one day those complete morons will be legitally responsible and the website owners too since they also add a shit ton of ads on their shitty websites.

I switched to using NoScript a while back (instead of Ghostery). It's great, I've got a strict "only allow scripts from the domain of the website I'm visiting" policy.

So much fucking trash embedded in websites nowadays.

EChondo · March 16, 2016

1 hour ago, lubblig said:

I haven't played myself in a long time but since you said so I had to go download it again just to try it out. I don't have Java installed but it worked anyway. It did crash for some reason and I got some java error so what you're saying seems correct that you do not need java installed but it uses certain java files with the minecraft exe itself.

Although, do I have something to worry about regarding Java sort of being installed along with Minecraft? I don't really play it anymore so if there is a potential security risk having "java" (minecraft) installed I'd like to avoid having it installed. I cannot find it in the control panels list of installed programs so is there anything to worry about? Or is it really only Minecraft that can use certain java files it depends on but that's it?

It seems to be run in its own sandbox, personally I'm not worried about it at all. I haven't had any issues so far these past couple of months. So I'm hoping it's 100% fine. *fingerscrossed*