On 10/09/2015 07:18 AM, King Beowulf wrote: > On Tuesday, October 6, 2015, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Twice today, websites I have visited have appeared to take over > ... > >> The symptoms were much hard disk activity, very slow response to moving >> the mouse, and very slow response to mouse button clicks. >> >> The first time I manually shut down the machine. The second time I >> waited until the mouse click got through and shut down Firefox. >> >> > To regain control over web surfing so that sites don't bog down your system: > > 1. turn off flash plugin. activate only when needed > 2. disable scripts, or use extension such ad noscript to control which > scripts you allow to run > 3. use an ad blocker to help decide which afs get through and which don't > > -ed
all good advice, to which I add Ghostery, an Adblock analogue for tracking cookies and beacons. ________________________________________ Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
