Site Blocking - Blocking https - FINALLY!

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Hi all,
I just login to say: FINALLY avast! has produced this very useful option in Site Blocking.
Since a lot of web sites turned to https, it becomes hard to block their spams. One of the biggest spammer is, of course, google.
Now is easy to bloch their ****.
Thank You, Avast!
(Yes, I know that is not a fresh news, but I didn’t used avast! last 10 - 12 months, so for me it is new)

Now, with that being said, I expect two things:

  1. Avast will start to charge this option (will become non-free)
  2. Google will implement new protocol, some kind of “httpss”, so we will have to wait next 10 years for avast! to implement it in Site Blocking options
    :wink:
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I suspect your glass is always Half Empty ???
Mine has always been Half Full.
There are always two sides of a coin, I’ll bet on mine. :slight_smile:

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MMmm not sure why you accuse Google of spamming ??? But, then again because i have an Android phone i am very pro Google.

I have never felt the need to block ANY websites let alone those with https.

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Now, with that being said, I expect two things: 1. Avast will start to charge this option (will become non-free) 2. Google will implement new protocol, some kind of "httpss", so we will have to wait next 10 years for avast! to implement it in Site Blocking options
naaa .... it is called HSTS ;)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/16/http-strict-transport-security-comes-to-internet-explorer.aspx

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Hi Pondus,

Agree with you here and I see there is a lot of misinterpretation on such issues ventilated here (but not by you, my friend).
All this that now is coming as hard-coded into the browser is just a means to make it awfully hard for the average user to avoid this. Just as with the hard-coded ad-tiles that came to firefox. When we started to manage cookies in came the fingerprinting and the best brains in coding now work to turn the user in a better exploitable free product, better even still when you pay for it yourself.
See: https://hstspreload.appspot.com/
So it will be harder and harder to avoid that spoon that will feed you your ads and global surveillance monitoring.
On the other side advanced security is not what it brings, because it does not interfere with the monitoring and the fingerprinting.
And where it starts to protect your privacy too much government circles will demand a national debate,.
They will only accept that level of privacy where they have an exclusive surveillance backdoor.

polonus