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All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

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1318 points xvector | 4 comments | 04 May 19 01:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.622s | source
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Chirael ◴[04 May 19 03:19 UTC] No.19824201[source]▶
Just discovered the same message in the Tor browser, and it seems that NoScript got disabled. So people running Tor are a lot more vulnerable right now.

Also, wow, the web has a ton of ads. I've been running uBlock origin so long I forgot how bad it had gotten :(

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1. ApolloFortyNine ◴[04 May 19 12:47 UTC] No.19826085[source]▶
The more people who use adblocker, the more ads websites need to make the same amount of money. It's been brought up that many twitch streamers don't receive ad revenue from more than half their viewers.

I can only find a source right now for YouTube, but they're out there for twitch too.

[1] https://www.vg247.com/2015/10/30/around-40-of-pewdiepies-aud...

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2. antt ◴[04 May 19 13:32 UTC] No.19826328[source]▶
And? If ads were ads and not malware trackers I wouldn't care. Calling these franken-programs ads stretches the word past its breaking point.

No one can stop actual ads - this comment was brought to you by Pepsi, Pepsi for the love of it. See? Everyone had to read the last sentence even if they had adblock on.

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3. mAritz ◴[04 May 19 19:55 UTC] No.19828893[source]▶
To add to the specific example of twitch, their ads are broken and annoying as hell.

The broken:

- they still don't have the volume of ads under control

- the android app regularly freezes during ad display

- sometimes it disrupts and buffers the stream without then displaying the actual ad

And possibly more, I wouldn't know since all these are enough to make me either not watch twitch or block ads. I disable it once every few months to see if it got better though.

The annoying:

- the same ad every time often (when The Grand Tour started again this year, it was the only ad that ever played for me)

- most ads seem to be trailers for TV shows or movies. Most of those spoil half the story

- if you just want to see what some streamer is doing you have to watch an ad first

Twitch Prime was the only reason I still had Amazon Prime when it removed ads officially. Not anymore.

Twitch turbo was great before Twitch Prime and I had it. But now it's 9,99€ per month which I find outrageous, especially because the streamers will see very little of this money anyways, afaik.

4. ApolloFortyNine ◴[06 May 19 19:02 UTC] No.19842621[source]▶
Requiring ads like that will only kill small businesses. Big companies can get custom ads like that. Small ones have to rely on Adsense.

You can justify it however you want, the fact is if you remove automated ads from the internet, the internet would be a lot smaller than it is today.