Re: BEWARE PDF!!!
Author: Wow
Date: 07-08-2024 - 18:07
Thanks for educating me, FUD.
FUD Wrote:
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> Govt sites are as bad as news"papers" these days.
> Packed with trackers, and their PDFs should be
> opened only in a virtual machine that can be
> immediately trashed after reading. Most of them
> have zero if not negative budget for IT and
> security.
>
> In addition to traditional anti-virus/malware, I
> use these extensions (and have to tune them
> regularly) for web sites: NoScript, Privacy
> Badger, DuckDuckGo, and uBlock Origin. I regularly
> see 20-50 trackers and other bad boys on govt
> sites, and 50-100 or more on "news" sites. The web
> sites will *usually* work for basic information
> (do you Really Need those random stock images?)
> with most of that blocked, but occasionally
> there's one that's just obnoxious about it (think
> WSJ & NYT & WaPo).