Java: Hidden Ad Suppression

Hidden Information Interface Interference Preselection

Culprit

Oracle's Java

Found

6 years ago


Java hides the option to suppress sponsor ads deep in their menu under the advanced section at the very bottom. It seems that they were trying to hide this feature so that users wouldn’t be able to find it easily and disable it.

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