TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use the app

Re:TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use t... by chaxor on Saturday October 01, 2022 @05:37PM (#33050368)

What do you mean umatrix is dead?

I'm using it now, and it's IMO hands down *the absolute best extension I have ever used*.

I use all of them along with vimium-ff and midnightlizard, but uMatrix is by far the best idea for managing what is run for better privacy and performance of browsing.

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Re:TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use t... by jszymborski on Saturday October 01, 2022 @05:42PM (#33050405)

I use it daily too and it's on my list of essential plugins, but gorhill archived the repo and development has halted as best as I can tell [0] which leads to complications [1].

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/20/umatrix-development-has-en...

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2021/07/15/umatrix-has-an-unfixed-vul...

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Re:TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use t... by d110af5ccf on Saturday October 01, 2022 @06:36PM (#33050801)

I am also still using it and haven't run into any issues so far. But it is unmaintained for quite some time now last I checked so I assume that eventually it will just stop working.

It's quite nice though. I have it set to disable any and all third party resources by default and from there it's generally fairly easy to permit the necessary things the first time I visit a site. And if it proves to be difficult I generally just decline to use that website at all.

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Re:TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use t... by stjohnswarts on Saturday October 01, 2022 @06:42PM (#33050859)

As long as firefox maintains the API it should work just fine. But the day the don't a lot of people will be unhappy. I always figured some bored javascript wizard would eventually pick it up since gorhill archived it, but I don't think anyone has

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Re:TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use t... by jjav on Sunday October 02, 2022 @01:36AM (#33053168)

I so wish umatrix maintenance was restarted. Hopefully someone capable will. I'd donate money to that effort. While ublock origin is nice, umatrix is so much better.

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Re:TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use t... by aembleton on Sunday October 02, 2022 @06:09AM (#33054581)

What improvements do you think should be made to it?

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Re:TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use t... by b1ue64 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @10:36PM (#33052293)

The github repository is archived, last update was June 20, 2021 https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

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Re:TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use t... by kuratkull on Saturday October 01, 2022 @06:34PM (#33050791)

AFAIK uMatrix creator made uBlock origin. He hasn't worked on uMatrix for a while now. That's just something for you to look into.

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