On 10/09/2015 08:12 AM, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > > 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.
And if you are into blocking those trackers that Ghostery does not catch look at Privacy Badger. 73, Rod -- > > ________________________________________ > Joe Shisei Niski > Portland, Oregon, USA > 至誠 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
