Adblock Plus Exploit Allows Threat Actors to Read Gmail and Other Google Services | SC Media

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[–]Yhvr 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

ublock origin gang

[–]PM-HENTAI 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Brave Shields gang

[–]Yhvr 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Brave Shield, UBlock Origin, Ghostery, & DuckDuckGo Privacy Tools gang

[–]useless_aether 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

to everyone still using google services: you asked for it

[–]PM-HENTAI 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You would also deserve it for using adblock plus, which is much weaker than ublock or brave shields (popups mainly) and allows some ads through. Google at least has some useful services (which I need for school) but using adblock plus over actual blockers is asking for trouble

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Adblock Plus Hackkey

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Didn't use Adblock plus since it allows a part of ads by default.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ublock origin, nano defender, inline install blocker, no coin and disable html 5 autoplay works 4 me. Adblock has been dodgy for a long time

[–]fred_red_beans 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have been using adblock plus and have found it to be effective. I have not tried the other options mentioned in this post though.

Adblock Plus says the threat was minimal in the first place, and has removed the rewrite option:

Vulnerability? Fixed!

Potential vulnerability through the URL rewrite filter option

[–]BackwardsCompatible[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I used to use ABP a lot. I didn't switch personally due to any security issues overall, but I started to notice some sites getting around their ad block. I've had ublock since.