Comment on Why is End of Life of an OS bad for an average user?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
Ransomware usually doesn’t care whether it’s hitting a corporation or a real user. Even a “safe” website might serve unsafe ads. I have seen that a thousand times. It was just harmless history stealing in my case. But depending on what bugs will be found in the future it could be desastrous. And nobody at the ad network would see it because they would be using updated software.
So, it is only theoretical until it is not. Then it is too late.
limerod@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Can you elaborate more about this “harmless history stealing” bit and how did you find it? Also, was the OS outdated in your case?
Like a sane person I use a system wide adblocker (Adguard) and unlock-origin in firefox. I also disable 3rd party iframes by default to reduce the crap being loaded by default on all my devices.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
I meant that thing where it redirects you to another site and makes it impossible to go back to the site you were on.
limerod@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Hmm, I thought modern day browsers had protection against redirect and history poisoning attacks. Guess not in all.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
Was a few years ago.