Wayback Machine is now dropping right wing sites - the book burning is well underway. Hail your new fascist information overlords.

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[–]FreedomUltd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I see, makes sense. I guess the browser would have to have extensions installed to block that stuff. A lot of normal web pages content stays on your hd for quicker loading next time you visit. Clearing your cache deletes it.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, but cached content ain't active in the back-ground, and only includes very specific things like headers.

And you can't block the files with extensions, because it would break the website. You could try to single-out the bad stuff, but it wouldn't get everything, and could get a lot of false positives.

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

Aren't there already ways to block crypto miners? Epic privacy browser by default blocks all kinds of stuff, and tells you what it's blocked. I can't think of a time when it didn't display a site properly.

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

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Brave blocks them, as well as ads and trackers, but it also breaks a lot of websites. You'd need to be able to block the download of such files before they ever touch your computer. I ain't sure if that's possible, maybe it is. I know you can just block all .exe files and it would be fine, but other stuff ain't so cut n dry.