I made a thread asking about ad-blocks. Just came back here for the first time in 8 days (an unforeseen delay) and the bloody thread is completely gone due to retarded spammers.Even worse, that thread about that Digital Privacy Killer Bill is also gone

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Anonymous 03/19/26 (Thu) 12:59:35 No.69914

I made a thread asking about ad-blocks. Just came back here for the first time in 8 days (an unforeseen delay) and the bloody thread is completely gone due to retarded spammers.

Even worse, that thread about that Digital Privacy Killer Bill is also gone, even though it's importance greatly transcends the limitations of the internet and can effect everyone in unthinkable ways. Forced identity err I mean age verification (surveillance) to use an operating system* anyone? (That includes anything capable of connecting to the internet such as TVs and even CARS, pretty scary shit)

That second issue deserves it's own thread. But for now, let me try again on the subject of ad-blocks since I never got to ready any of the replies (if there ever were any):
>Get adblock, they say
>YouTube punishes people for using adblock
>Increasing number of online ads that can put malware on your computer just by even appearing on whatever page you're on (Kemono or not)

Give me a really good reason why I should or shouldn't have some form of ad-block. Do you know any that are safe and aren't fake or malicious ad-blocks that may or may not have appeared on the featured list of Google's extension page (and yes, some malicious extensions have appeared there)? Is it possible to simple switch them on/off or uninstall/reinstall anytime? It would REALLY help to know.

And please don't bury this thread.

Anonymous 03/19/26 (Thu) 13:20:00 No.69915

> Give me a really good reason why I should or shouldn't have some form of ad-block

Think of adblock as Internet's vaccine

In real life, should you be vaccinated? Of course you should, otherwise millennia of bacteria would kill you

Same thing goes for anything on the internet, it's your choice to use an adblock or not, just like how it's also up to you to be vaccinated or not, but remember the world isn't an ideal place

Anonymous 03/19/26 (Thu) 13:38:55 No.69917

That's your call but just like it's extremely unsafe to run a device without any kind of firewall (or at least traffic blocking), no adblocking at all makes you vulnerable to everything as >>69915 pointed out.

Should you whitelist SPECIFIC ads? Yes, if you want to! Ads that aren't intrusive and come from trusted sources (they'll still feed on you) can be run so they help monetize (usually it only counts if clicked/tapped though).

I personally recommend the hard-ass approach because the Internet is RIFE with intrusive and malicious ads. Block by default, noop what you trust so it doesn't break every single site.

Read more on it (you don't have to use uBlock, I'm not here to shill a specific adblocker and I'm not your adult tutor lol)
https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/dynamic-filtering:-quick-guide

>And please don't bury this thread.
Those happen when someone decides to spam 100 threads in one go because whoever created this board with deprecated as hell shit (vichan and tinyboard no less) didn't implement ANY protection (the flood detected shit will catch false positives but NOT actual raids so you can bury the entire board in seconds), but what else would you expect from kemononces?

Anonymous 03/19/26 (Thu) 14:49:49 No.69935

>>69915
No, i see AdBlockers as a door; The most basic perimeter countermeasure a common household has. And it stops salesmen, deliverymen, and uber eats.

Admittedly, the last two have more promise then not, but all three can be that computer virus, that can easily catch you dead in mere minutes time.

Vaccines are like McAfee and Norton Antivirus combined.
Sacrificing computer performance for a staple "wonder drug" that turns out to be bad 10, 15 years down the wire. Yes, some are good, some are integral to humanity.
But others are ones that haven't been approved by the FDA in only a month's time as opposed to 20 years.

Anonymous 03/19/26 (Thu) 19:55:23 No.69953

Is AVG and Malwarebytes good enough? Or would I really need some sort of adblock extension.

TBH even with those two programs, some ads still come up (such as on Kemono now and then) and those programs usually make detection notices. I'm worried about the shit sneaking past. After all, my PC is taking longer to start up for some reason. I don't have full memory though I did do some driver updates which helped, but it never completely went away…

Anonymous 03/19/26 (Thu) 22:16:01 No.69962

>>69953
Malwarebytes.
Also get uBlock Origin. If you know how to trudge a system's file browser, it should be easy to install for you.

I don't have a countermeasure for the dumb "uninstall dev mode extension for privacy" notification on Edge, so if anyone does other then the two week ignore, or uninstall, or reinstall from a verified app store, i'd like to know.

Anonymous 03/19/26 (Thu) 22:26:43 No.69963

>>69915
And in spite of the fact of starting a flame war over an adblock-vaccine parallel on a greentext site about a paywall piracy site…

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/12/myocarditis-vaccine-covid.html

I'm unvaccinated, and i have reason to be regarding Covid-19.
The last thing i would want is spontaneous cytokine storms caused by a pharmaceutical nightmare.

Anonymous 03/19/26 (Thu) 23:24:24 No.69964

>>69963
>and i have reason to be regarding Covid-19
and that reason is … ?

Anonymous 03/20/26 (Fri) 01:39:48 No.69971

>>69953
>After all, my PC is taking longer to start up for some reason. I don't have full memory though I did do some driver updates which helped, but it never completely went away…
While it is slightly possible that you might be suffering from some kind of malware that isn't picked up by a decent malware scanner/remover, far more likely if you are running any version of windows is that you are hitting the inevitable build up of crap in the operating system from its normal operation. This has been a known issue with windows from all the way back in version 3.1.

While there are ways of cleaning it up and mitigating the effect, long term the only solution on any version of windows in active use has been to do a clean reinstall & update & reinstall of only the software you actually use.

How often you might need to do it depends on just how you are using the computer and how much slowdown you are willing to tolerate.

You can also run into issues of hardware slowly degrading over time, but unless you keep your system heavily overclocked that only tends to be noticeable over the course of many years.

Anonymous 03/20/26 (Fri) 01:48:58 No.69972

>>69971
No, defragmenting hard drives, and running chkdsk allow the system to run better