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A team of four researchers found [PDF] that 22 to 43 percent of their test subjects would download and run an unknown executable file for payments ranging from as low as $0.01 to $1.
The researchers used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to conduct the experiment. Participants were asked to download a program onto their systems and run it for an hour. They did not know what the program actually did. As the amount offered to run the program was increased from $0.01 to $10 over five weeks, the percentage of users who ran the program grew steadily and topped out at 43 percent.
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Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 21 2014, @06:20AM
Custom hosts files are better, by FAR, on multiple levels in efficiency + added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than ANY single browser addon + fix DNS security redirect issues:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74 [start64.com]
(Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)
Summary:
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A.) Hosts do more than:
1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default)
2.) Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse"
3.) Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4127345&cid=44701775 [slashdot.org]
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B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed DNS servers.
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C.) Hosts add reliability vs. redirected DNS (or site redirects on websites)
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D.) Hosts secure vs. known malicious domains -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 [slashdot.org]
(w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown)
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E.) Hosts files yield more:
1.) Speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS)
2.) Security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish & trackers)
3.) Reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets)
4.) Anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
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F.) Hosts do MORE with less (1 file)
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G.) Hosts operate @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization).
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H.) Addons are more complex & that adds breakdown potential.
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I.) Addons ARE EASILY DETECTABLE BY NATIVE BROWSER METHODS - hosts are not!
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J.) Addons slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently - you'll see)
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K.) Addons slowdown SLOWER usermode browserslayering on MORE - & bloating memory consumption too + hugely excessive CPU usage (4++gb extra in FireFox https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/ [mozilla.org])
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* So - Instead?
I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts (A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"...apk (blocks ads (A tightly integrated /b itself)... apkmessage passing