Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BGB Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Article: Why you can't dump Java (even though you want to) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 19:05:05 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net EHjRIjOEYEDqKU4BoDqREe0xz9p0EjMUFw3hMCNqdI4ti7eMg48qjTgjVsbjyj2rpkADFgW+sey/RxW1pbvFyA== NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 02:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="f5DdIJ4c90nw1iGkd+niLTwMEsexPQ2e/P1jtta+TOyTjBQGmFPU5Daw07Fhm7cjCLlbz0wVd61kQ3GL6HmlfSmQn/TRzg2GhqW6/sryX6UcSumHaunpR3QsgV4wSCx+"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:XaTY4ydWdYi97y3GZh6KS/IiTek= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14472 On 5/8/2012 3:12 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > On 12-05-08 05:51 PM, markspace wrote: >> On 5/8/2012 1:36 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: >>> On 5/8/2012 3:14 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> The main problem is the human being, whether coder or user. >>>> >>>> AHS >>> >>> There are now Trojans and viruses that attack the PC >>> using JavaScript. >>> >>> One can't really shut down JavaScript in the browser like they can >>> with the Java plugin to prevent applets from running. >> >> >> Yes you can. I run Firefox with NoScript, an add-on that blocks >> JavaScript. Most sites work OK without JavaScript. If I really need >> to, NoScript makes it easy for me to temporarily enable a single website. >> >> In some cases, the problem is the platform. I.e., JavaScript, or >> ActiveX. But there's work-arounds too. >> > > I do the same thing: as much as possible I use various combos of Adblock > Plus/Opera Adblock, Do Not Track Plus, Ghostery, Priv3, NotScripts etc > in all of my browsers on all OS's. Not to mention cranking up the > browsers' own mechanisms as much as possible. I also find that most > sites work when imposed with severe restrictions - the ones that don't I > just dismiss, unless they are among a handful that I need and I > temporarily enable the minimum just like you. > I had used AdBlock and similar, but ironically, it was not for sake of either security or dislike of banner ads, but rather, to reduce the often severe browser lag caused occasionally by typically Flash-based banner ads.