Now even YouTube isn't safe from cryptocurrency miners

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

3 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Personally speaking I even disable hardware acceleration for my Firefox, getting paranoid already to a degree

 

Not enough scripts to keep us all safe and ad free lately.

What would disabling hardware acceleration do?

[Princess Luna]

12 minutes ago, bob51zhang said:

What would disabling hardware acceleration do?

Would prevent Firefox as a software having control over my GPU to use it's CUDA Acceleration, say by any chance I run across these mining shading thingy it won't be able to use my GPU's power only the CPU... but truth be told only reason I disable it is because bothered me the GPU clock speeds ramping up whenever I opened my browser

[Deli]

20 minutes ago, bob51zhang said:

Multiple ad-blockers is actually pretty bad for performance all around. They'll try to compete with each other. Best to get 1 blocker with a ton of filter lists (still slows it down a bit, but not nearly as much)

After install uBlock, I have adblock plus diabled. Seems to work fine at this moment.

[Zodiark1593]

18 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Would prevent Firefox as a software having control over my GPU to use it's CUDA Acceleration, say by any chance I run across these mining shading thingy it won't be able to use my GPU's power only the CPU... but truth be told only reason I disable it is because bothered me the GPU clock speeds ramping up whenever I opened my browser

I can agree with this. No need to have my GPU clock to 1000 MHz when having my browser open.

[TVwazhere]

16 hours ago, Deli said:

After install uBlock, I have adblock plus diabled. Seems to work fine at this moment.

I was also running adblocker and adblocker plus. Gonna see how switching to just ublock does. (Technically Ublock origin, not sure if there's a difference)

[Eduard the weeb]

god damm it 

and its not like I want to quit using YouTube but wall technically a view from me isn't a lot of profit at all

I would personally like to have adblock off on youtube.

[PCMasterDebater]

On ‎1‎/‎27‎/‎2018 at 2:55 PM, potoooooooo said:

You're a dumbass if you're not using some sort of ad blocker or script blocker at this point

Well color me a dumbass.... On one of my computers, I have no adblocker, scriptblocker, or mineblocker. I surf the web on it, watch youtube, check news sites, etc. I haven't had a single problem and I'm not just saying that.

 

Not to say it wont happen. Its not happening often enough to necessarily warrant additional software when someone is doing mundane things.

[jagdtigger]

3 minutes ago, PCMasterDebater said:

Well color me a dumbass.... On one of my computers, I have no adblocker, scriptblocker, or mineblocker. I surf the web on it, watch youtube, check news sites, etc. I haven't had a single problem and I'm not just saying that.

 

Not to say it wont happen. Its not happening often enough to necessarily warrant additional software when someone is doing mundane things.

You dont get it do you? You dont have to visit any sketchy sites, these malicious ads can appear literally on any site, IMO this is big enough of a threat to take measures against them. So yes, you are in fact a dumbass....

[PCMasterDebater]

Just now, jagdtigger said:

You dont get it do you? You dont have to visit any sketchy sites, these malicious ads can appear literally on any site, IMO this is big enough of a threat to take measures against them. So yes, you are in fact a dumbass....

 

Oh please. Assuming this computer was important I would agree with you.  Personally I enough computers if this one was taken over by viruses, malware, ransomware, miners, ads or anything else you can think of. I'll simply wipe the drive and reinstall windows. Have you forgotten how easy it is to start from scratch when you have nothing on a SSD?

 

Lets not assume it always matters   

[mynameisjuan]

1 minute ago, PCMasterDebater said:

 

Oh please. Assuming this computer was important I would agree with you.  Personally I enough computers if this one was taken over by viruses, malware, ransomware, miners, ads or anything else you can think of. I'll simply wipe the drive and reinstall windows. Have you forgotten how easy it is to start from scratch when you have nothing on a SSD?

 

Lets not assume it always matters   

Well do you login to sites? Enter personal info? Credit cards? If so and that PC is a throw away with no protection, then you are just asking for your identity to be stolen or accounts hacked. 

 

Malicious software nowadays is not mean to be resource heavy to lower risk of the user knowing (except crypto of course)  so you think your PC might be fine but is loaded with malware and keyloggers. 

[jagdtigger]

2 minutes ago, PCMasterDebater said:

 

Oh please. Assuming this computer was important I would agree with you.  Personally I enough computers if this one was taken over by viruses, malware, ransomware, miners, ads or anything else you can think of. I'll simply wipe the drive and reinstall windows. Have you forgotten how easy it is to start from scratch when you have nothing on a SSD?

 

Lets not assume it always matters   

So you wont be upset if you get a ransom ware and loose all your stuff? And what if your infection spreads to the entire LAN, or it will e-mail itself through you logged in e-mail account to anyone in you address book? Guess how lightly they will take it...

 

Your retarded thinking is part of the reason why big botnets exist...

[PCMasterDebater]

On 1/29/2018 at 11:35 AM, mynameisjuan said:

Well do you login to sites? Enter personal info? Credit cards? If so and that PC is a throw away with no protection, then you are just asking for your identity to be stolen or accounts hacked. 

 

Malicious software nowadays is not mean to be resource heavy to lower risk of the user knowing (except crypto of course)  so you think your PC might be fine but is loaded with malware and keyloggers. 

 

Sure do. Amazon, Facebook, and so much more. What do you think they will get if they get my CC? What max it out and drain my accounts? Its all protected by my bank and federally insured... Drain away Sir. I'll have my money back in 15 minutes or less. 

 

Keylog the shit out of it if you want.

 

On 1/29/2018 at 11:43 AM, jagdtigger said:

So you wont be upset if you get a ransom ware and loose all your stuff? And what if your infection spreads to the entire LAN, or it will e-mail itself through you logged in e-mail account to anyone in you address book? Guess how lightly they will take it...

 

Your retarded thinking is part of the reason why big botnets exist...

 

You're still assuming....  

 

What are they going to get?

My email account? nothing on it

Address book? nothing saved to it

CC? Go for it

Bank account? federally protected

My taxes? Good luck

Facebook? Nothing is accurate

Find where I live? That's public information

My phone number? I have 10's of thousands of business cards with my name, address, phone number already out there 

Social Security? That's why I have lawyers

 

 

GG

 

I place my fears where they need to be:

Will I get re-ended by a passed out person whom recently ingested heroin?

Will the grocery store run out of ribeyes?

Will I have enough beer when I get home tonight?

 

[mynameisjuan]

28 minutes ago, PCMasterDebater said:

 

Sure do. Amazon, Facebook, and so much more. What do you think they will get if they get my CC? What max it out and drain my accounts? Its all protected by my bank and federally insured... Drain away Sir. I'll have my money back in 15 minutes or less. 

 

Keylog the shit out of it if you want.

You're so oblivious to what people can do with accounts I am literally speechless....This is ignorance at its max

[jagdtigger]

35 minutes ago, PCMasterDebater said:

 

 

 

[PCMasterDebater]

22 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

 

 

11 minutes ago, jagdtigger said:

 

 

I'm baffled that you guys think adblockers, script blockers, mineblockers are going to save you from malicious acts. Guess what? They are not infallible.

 

A Malicious person can get more from a trash can then you can get from a computer.

 

Thanks for being concerned for my accounts though!  

 

 

[mynameisjuan]

18 minutes ago, PCMasterDebater said:

I'm baffled that you guys think adblockers, script blockers, mineblockers are going to save you from malicious acts. Guess what? They are not infallible.

We are not saying they block them completely but they stop it at the main point of attack nowadays. 

 

Its you blatant ignorance of "go a head steal it" that blows my mind. I hope they login your FB and post illegal things or harass someone, I hope they use your CC locking it making you miss a important payment, or login to your email and either spread something malicous or if its your android email, login, grab contact, google photos....etc. 

 

It can be all avoided with AV and ublock. Its not like we are saying be paranoid about it, 2 fucking simple steps to save time and money. 

[CostcoSamples]

Lol this is hilarious and so clever!  

[JupiteL]

I was just removing youtube from my adblock list the past month, guess I have a reason to add it again then.

[Kamina]

uBlock Origin.