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Hackaday reports:
In an interesting turn of events last week in a German court, evidence has materialized that engineers were ordered to cheat emissions testing when developing automotive parts.
[February 21], Ulrich Weiß brought forward a document[1] that alleges Audi Board of Director members were involved in ordering a cheat for diesel emissions. Weiß was the head of engine development for Audi, suspended in November of 2015 but continued to draw more than half a million dollars in salary before being fired
afterprior to last week's court testimony.Volkswagen Group is the parent company of Audi and this all seems to have happened while the VW diesel emissions testing scandal we've covered since 2015 was beginning to come to light. Weiß testified that he was asked to design a method of getting around strict emissions standards in Hong Kong even though Audi knew their diesel engines weren't capable of doing so legitimately.
According to Weiß, he asked for a signed order. When he received that order he instructed his team to resist following it. We have not seen a copy of the letter, but the German tabloid newspaper Bild reports [Deutsch] that the letter claims approval by four Audi board members and was signed by the head of powertrain development at the company.
[1] Forbes has all content behind scripts and is AdBlocker-phobic. archive.li's copy
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 01 2017, @03:40AM (5 children)
[1] Forbes has all content behind scripts and is AdBlocker-phobic.
Odd - Forbes loads for me. The German site doesn't load, due to adblocking. Strange.
This is one reason I use different browsers, and different ad/script blocking addons. They don't all do the same thing in the same way. Anyway - here's one guide on defeating adbocker-blockers. YMMV
http://www.guidingtech.com/60376/bypass-ad-block-detection-sites/ [guidingtech.com]
Specifically, Forbes loads on Firefox 50, using request policy and ublock, and I've never whitelisted Forbes. Note, I run Linux, so again, YMMV on other OS's.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by vux984 on Wednesday March 01 2017, @03:57AM (1 child)
I don't want to 'win' a rat race against ad-blocker -blockers. I just leave the site. Every time. They can have the "win". I don't need the site.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Wednesday March 01 2017, @06:36AM
Usually, the people who run this kind of thing are control-freaks anyway. Every time I have dealt with this kind of people, I get bamboozled, tricked, and otherwise given a dog and pony show in exchange for my assets.
Just as good they show their hand, first, and let me know before I do much browsing on their site. The greed and control-freak screams so loud at many of these business sites that its kinda like a clear show of business leprosy, and ones aware of the dangers of promiscuous browsing habits would be advised to best let them be.
Those sites are for people with lots of disposable money and no "street smarts".
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @04:27AM
I noticed that it started working after I switched from AdBlockPlus to uBlock. Only very recently have sites starting detecting uBlock.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @05:38AM (1 child)
Works for me too, then again, I do block a lot of the adslinging sites in the boundary firewall, dnsmasq, hosts, caching web proxy server and hosts file before the browser gets to play with the content, anyhoo, I worked my way through all the stuff listed on their site via http Switchboard, disabling everything I could, but still didn't trip any anti-adblocker stuff.
(I suffer major culture shock when I have to browse@work, and all the BS I don't see at home fills the screen..yech!, why the hell do people put up with it?...need to have a serious talk with our IT bods...)
(Score: 1) by Sourcery42 on Wednesday March 01 2017, @05:53PM
Couldn't agree more about the work thing. I don't know if it just something IT has done to it or if ads are just that shitty, but Chrome just completely locks up all the time. It is a totally different experience than chromium with ads blocked on all my personal devices.
Side note, has anyone been on the green site lately. Giant floating ads that cover 1/3 of the screen! You can't even read the comments!