Can anyone explain why, when I go to Rumble to watch the videos I get the following message? “This page has been blocked by an extension”. What does it mean? When I watch through billwhittle.com there’s no problem but this is what I get when going to Rumble. Honestly, the only reason I go to watch on Rumble is so I can provide “Rumbles”.
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John, an extension is an add-on to your browser software that usually creates new capabilities. You may have installed it in the past, or it may have come bundled with the browser.
If you go to the browser settings and look for something that says “extensions” or “add-ons” you may find one that’s there to protect you from something. You can disable or delete it.
Let us know how it goes.
David and Jack both offer excellent suggestions in these comments.
Try opening the link in a private/incognito window and see if that helps, as many extensions don’t run in private windows
Well, more information is needed:
To answer your questions,
Duck Duck Go
I think so but don’t know.
Not that I know of, not intentionally.
Side note. My excuse is that I’m old and too lazy to really understand the intricate details of computers and the internet. I just want it to work.
Then use Firefox or Google Chrome at the default settings. If you “just want it to work” and you have neither time nor inclination to learn how to make it do that, those browsers will serve your needs just fine.
Past that point, you can make FireFox and Chrome as secure and private with added extensions as DuckDuckGo is. I use two ad blockers (named AdBlock and AdBlockPlus), one antimalware extension (MalwareBytes for browsers) and one active script blocker (No-Script) to accomplish that on both FireFox and Chrome and I use both browsers simultaneously and constantly. I have to diddle with and tweak those extensions to get correct functionality on any given web page but I know what I’m doing and how to use them.
I.E. — On this website I have all of those turned off and inoperable. There’s nothing here that you can block which significantly and unavoidably compromises your privacy.
There are other extensions that do the same things, those just happen to be the ones I use.
Those extensions just do what DuckDuckGo’s browser does by default and they’re fairly easy to learn how to use. If you’re “too lazy and slow to understand the details of computers and the internet” then you should avoid DuckDuckGo like the plague. It’s a technical browser made for people who understand technical applications and will just mysteriously break webpages until you learn enough technical things to make it work for you. It’s not a panacea for privacy. Browsers have to do certain things to “just work” and DuckDuckGo turns off those things assuming that you know enough to turn them back on to make things “just work”.