Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: "New to aliexpress" pop up - how to block it?

On 07/16 07:35, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 20:08:03 tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
>
> > PS:
> >
> > Found here:
> > https://gigaom.com/2014/05/11/not-all-ad-blockers-are-the-same-heres-why-the
> > -effs-privacy-badger-is-different/
> >
> > "Ghostery makes money by tracking the trackers while blocking them and
> > selling data about third party trackers, which it calls Ghostrank.
> > Disconnect takes a pay-what-you-want approach, but it is still
> > developed by a for-profit company founded by a former Google engineer.
> > Adblock is donation-supported, but many users confuse it with ***>Adblock
> > Plus, which has generated controversy for having advertisers pay to
> > land on a whitelist <*** . While Adblock and Adblock plus allow users to add
> > upload their own blacklists and whitelists, Ghostery and Disconnect do not
> > even allow users to add new filters."
> > (marks be me are not part of the citiation)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Meino
>
> I tried to configure Chromium to stop loading adverts on a particular website.
> After half an hour of fighting with embedded frames/JavaScript/etc. eventually
> I managed to block half a dozen CDNs and add servers.  A week later to my
> surprise I saw adverts loading again when I visited the same website!  What
> the ... ?  They are rotating CDN addresses and domain names, probably to make
> user attempts to block their payload futile.
>
> What annoys me most is websites which download GB of advertising videos and
> won't stop whatever you try.  Some will continue to download c*ap on your PC
> even after you leave the page!  Chromium has a setting to block this, but I
> have not tested it to see whether it works as ... advertised.  :-)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

Hi Rick,

"Chromium" is based on Googles "Chrome", isn't it?
Is Chromium 100% Google-free?
Or does is only changed big brothers name?

Sorry for being so pessimistic...

Cheers
Meino