It garbles advertisers’ data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can’t work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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    Im too scared to trust it works out fine in the end to use it, been raised on the idea that interacting with an ad in any way other than task managering the pop up is dangerous. Wheres the part of the code that makes it safe and a write up of how it functions, otherwise im fine just blocking ads with regular ublock.

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      the part that’s safe is in the browser. it’s a basic fact of how http requests work that you can just request data and then not read it.

      also, “task managering the popups”? unless i’ve missed some very weird development that has literally never worked, because popup windows are part of the parent process.

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        Back on Windows 95 through XP, each individual window was a process that could be killed in Task Manager, and popups opened in a new window.