If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web browser

Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by cmeacham98 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:29AM (#26681810)

Ghostery, at least in the past, has sold user data. ABP allows companies to pay to whitelist their ads[1], and is somewhat bloated in my experience.

I highly recommend uBlock Origin. Their manifesto[2] most closely aligns with my beliefs on how my browser should behave: "The user decides what web content is acceptable or not in their browser."

1: https://adblockplus.org/en/about#monetization

2: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/MANIFESTO.md

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by HWR_14 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:06PM (#26685859)

Does uBlock Origin have, like NoScript, an easy way to toggle whether scripts (and other resources) from various domains are loaded straight in the browser? Or is it "modify a config text file and reload".

I figured out how to block specific elements, but I do miss the ease of just turning off sources from a GUI of "everything that loaded".

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by cmeacham98 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:51PM (#26686058)

Yes, here's an image of the uBlock Origin UI: https://files.catbox.moe/upzo0c.png

You can see you can block by domain, host, and some pre-determined groups like "3rd-party".

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by HWR_14 on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:02PM (#26705245)

It was hidden behind the advanced user setting. Thank you.

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by nickthemagicman on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:31PM (#26685328)

Install whatever. You can check how good your set up is.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

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