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Minnov8 Gang 328 – uBlock Your Content

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When advertisements become more than 50% of the bandwidth you’re using on your mobile phone and tracking where you go, that’s a privacy, and potentially costly, problem.

When you’re using your web browser on your desktop or laptop computer and are tracked, that’s an issue too. But when the ad networks delivering those ads enable javascripts to be used by advertisers and those ads sometimes deliver malware, someone with some clout has to do something about it! Apple has done so by announcing “content blocking” in the upcoming iOS 9 for iPhone and iPad.

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week will give you one tool that will help. Listen to learn more about it and what it means for you.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: BoogieLive by Miles Nottage under a Creative Commons License.

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When advertisements become more than 50% of the bandwidth you’re using on your mobile phone as well as sometimes delivering malware too, someone with some clout has to do something about it. Apple has by announcing “content blocking” in the upcoming iOS 9 for iPhone and iPad.

That move has created enormous hand-wringing and outcries from any website or app that makes money from advertising…and that’s a pretty sizeable portion of the web. Former Apple executive, Jean Louis Gassée, wrote his weekly ‘Monday Note’ on Apple’s strategy controversy called, “Life After Content Blocking” and it’s well worth a read. In addition, to truly understand this issue, make certain you read a post by Doc Searls called, Apple’s content blocking is chemo for the cancer of adtech.

TIP: Install uBlock Origin in your browser

uBlock Origin’s supported platforms include: Google Chrome; Opera; Firefox; SeaMonkey; Pale Moon) is a fork of uBlock (make sure you add the “Origin” one to your browser). uBlock Origin allows you to control access to your computer from ads, potentially malicious ads with javascripts, trackers and the accelerating volume of cruft coming from ad networks.

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