Yeah, you’re right. I guess a better way to put it would have been “don’t load 3rd party shit that I didn’t tell you to load”.

Adblockers aren’t total security, nothing is, but it’s no doubt they are a massive improvement.

There may be genuine use cases to run a script, or whatever the attacker used. The problem is the browsers will auto-run stuff, the user isn’t aware and there’s no way to stop it. All ublock (and others) do is provide the missing security layer called “don’t auto run shit from the web”.

Another example why Unlock Origin should be considered essential security software, not just an “ad-block”.

Did he quit? I don’t see any concrete references online, just vague form conversations about it.