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Re:Quantifying the Effects of Firefox’s Tracking Protection ... by userbinator on Saturday May 23, 2015 @07:46PM (#9594812)
If all it's doing is blocking "predefined domains", I wonder how it compares to doing that with a HOSTS file. The latter is non-browser-specific and works for all applications on the system.
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Re:Quantifying the Effects of Firefox’s Tracking Protection ... by johnny22 on Saturday May 23, 2015 @10:25PM (#9595102)
editing the hosts file requires admin privileges doesn't it? Doing it in the browser means it works for everybody that can launch arbitrary executables.
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Re:Quantifying the Effects of Firefox’s Tracking Protection ... by killwhitey on Saturday May 23, 2015 @11:40PM (#9595240)
Worth mentioning that this setting is in Firefox for Android, which makes it much easier compared to rooting the phone.
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