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Ad blockers insert code into your browser to block ads, which can negatively impact website performance, break functionality, and even hide messages in AOL Mail. We recommend unblocking AOL Mail websites to avoid facing these issues. Doing this will also unblock ads. Adjust Other settings
Since there are multiple certificate authorities, some sites might face compatibility issues if your browser or app doesn’t support a particular certificate. When Let’s Encrypt was born in ...
Occasionally this caching scheme goes awry (e.g. the browser insists on showing out-of-date content) making it necessary to bypass the cache, thus forcing your browser to re-download a web page's complete, up-to-date content. This is sometimes referred to as a "hard refresh", "cache refresh", or "uncached reload".
If malicious code has been inserted into the website's content, or in a worst-case scenario, if that website has been specifically designed to host malicious code, then vulnerabilities specific to a particular browser can allow this malicious code to run processes within the browser application in unintended ways (and remember, one of the bits ...
Video DownloadHelper is an extension for Firefox and Chrome web browsers. It allows the user to download videos from sites that stream videos through HTTP . The extension was developed by Michel Gutierrez.
On the Internet, a block or ban is a technical measure intended to restrict access to information or resources. Blocking and its inverse, unblocking, may be implemented by the owners of computers using software. [1] Blocking may also refer to denying access to a web server based on the IP address of the client machine. [2]
Every website and download is checked against a local list of popular legitimate websites; if the site is not listed, the entire address is sent to Microsoft for further checks. [2] If it has been labeled as an impostor or harmful, Internet Explorer 8 will show a screen prompting that the site is reported harmful and shouldn't be visited.
Companies that make products that selectively block Web sites do not refer to these products as censorware, and prefer terms such as "Internet filter" or "URL Filter"; in the specialized case of software specifically designed to allow parents to monitor and restrict the access of their children, "parental control software" is also used.