Ask HN: What's the best ad-blocking, privacy-enhancing extension set up?

Post by hobs » Sat, Aug 29, 2015, 2:52 AM UTC

the_zeroth_law wrote: post #47

smackfu wrote: post #42

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I'm not clear that it blocks anything by default.

That's correct; Privacy Badger doesn't block anything by default because it doesn't use a blacklist. Instead, it observes the behavior of third-party domains and blocks them based on their behavior. (So it may take a bit of normal browsing before it starts blocking things.) Also, Privacy Badger recently transitioned from beta to 1.0, so if you last tried it more than a month or so ago, I recommend giving it another s…

Post by mrmondo » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 2:59 AM UTC

perlgeek wrote: post #25

mlissner wrote: post #13

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You mean to RSS feeds instead of going to actual websites?

I think mrmondo refers to the "lists" that the ABP-family of extensions support. They are lists of domains and regexes to block, and maintained generally by third parties (not the addon developer). Some of these lists are specific to geographic regions.