Ad Muncher Dev claims palemoon has defect

[critter]

Ad Muncher's developer claims Palemoon and Firefox has a defect
I think it is more like he does not want to address the real problem
and want's to put the blame somewhere else
you can read about it here http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=338308

[Moonchild]

Thread linked to doesn't seem to mention anything?

[lyceus]

Critter: Please check your links, I was about to put the spam hammer on you for the "happy 50% off discount links". But yes, in page 2, post 45 & 48; page 3 post 64 & 66 there are a comment about this.

[critter]

Spam was not intended, I knew there were several post and didn't want
to post a bunch of links and thought it would be better to read the complete
posting to get the whole idea what was going on, there is more there than the places you mentioned

critter

[Moonchild]

Reading into the thread filtering out the crap about 32-bit and 64-bit and the fact that the people there seem to think that "Pale Moon is an unpatched Firefox 15" (which I must clearly state here it is not - check the release notes for the list of critical security patches implemented!!) the issue seems to be that the status bar in Pale Moon displays a connection to the admuncher server. This is not a bug in Pale Moon or the status bar code, since the "background network traffic" is properly displayed and will switch to "done" if the connection is actually closed.

It is a defect in ad muncher that one of their http connections remains open and as such Pale Moon will display it in the status bar. If their software would properly close all connections to their checking server, Pale Moon would display "done" in the status bar.

[critter]

Thank you for conforming this, by a process of elimination I knew this
not to be a problem in Palemoon but in Ad Muncher itself, I am a long time
user of both of them, well now I'm a long time user of just one of them
unless he actually decides to fix the problem

[Blacklab]

Just curious - since Ad Muncher is a "paid for" app, and I seem to achieve the same using Adblock Plus, etc, I wondered what the particular attraction/USP of Ad Muncher is/was anyway?

EDIT: @critter: Glad to see you put Moonchild's reply up on that Wilder's Security Forum thread: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthre ... 308&page=4 (Critter2's post #98 is right at bottom of page 4). That ill-informed "Pale Moon is an unpatched Firefox 15" comment needed to be scotched for a start!
Also "BZ" to lobocursor for persevering with reading that thread to find the relevant post #45. I had nearly reported it as Spam earlier on - I'm afraid I lost the will to live + tl;dr had set in about halfway down page 1.

[Rohugh]

It is heck expensive as well, seems to me a lot to pay for the few ads that AdBlock plus may miss.

[Apollo702]

Another trend is many sites are merging their functionality and ad scripts. Plentyofcolddeadfish.com is one of the worst for that. Not only do they sneak the ads back on but most of them are for outright fraudulent sites. One option is to quit going to sites that engage in that behavior but a fun option is to run the combination of add-ons is HackTheWeb and Stylish. With that you can essentially custom edit pages and any annoying ads that make it through can easily be edited out.

I no longer run any direct ad-blocker and instead use add-ons like NoScript, Ghostery, Request Policy to squelch the ads- unless for some reason I want to allow some. For the few that sneak in using the merged scripts you can have a jolly good time removing whatever you don't like from the page using HTW and saving the changes to Stylish.

[lyceus]

Spam was not intended, I knew there were several post and didn't want
to post a bunch of links..

In the past I did just shoot and later ask. So I checked the site first for check your version, just next time quote some text of the other forum here so no one can miss your posts as spam. As I was not the only that had that idea.

[lyceus]

Also "BZ" to lobocursor for persevering with reading that thread to find the relevant post #45. I had nearly reported it as Spam earlier on - I'm afraid I lost the will to live + tl;dr had set in about halfway down page 1.

Hehe I just want to remove the "Rüde Admin" name that I had in the past. New Year Resolution I guess.

[tuxman]

Just curious - since Ad Muncher is a "paid for" app, and I seem to achieve the same using Adblock Plus, etc, I wondered what the particular attraction/USP of Ad Muncher is/was anyway?

It also blocks banners from ad-ware and so on.

[Moonchild]

Just curious - since Ad Muncher is a "paid for" app, and I seem to achieve the same using Adblock Plus, etc, I wondered what the particular attraction/USP of Ad Muncher is/was anyway?

It also blocks banners from ad-ware and so on.

So it makes a lot of hosts file entries, most likely

[tuxman]

No, it works as a transparent proxy.

[Moonchild]

No, it works as a transparent proxy.

Ah, like the old AtGuard blocker then. Nice. Tricky to get right, though, and may not work for all software.

[tuxman]

AtGuard?

[Moonchild]

http://lotstoread.tripod.com/faqs/atguard.html
http://www.cryogenius.com/atguard/

Originally made by WRQ, subsequently absorbed by Symantec - Norton Firewall used to be based on this engine (not sure if it still is, I doubt it, since it wasn't written by them and wasn't Vista+ compatible).

[tuxman]

Never heard, never used. Thanks.