German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking software is legal

Post by pacala » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:06 PM UTC

briandear wrote: post #60

JorgeGT wrote: post #50

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The currently implicit trade of personal and behavioral data for services such as Facebook, Google, etc. is IMHO a domain in urgent need of some regulation.

Why? Those are voluntary services; the free market can regulate this just fine. It would be different if the government were requiring the use of those services.

Post by username223 » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:07 PM UTC

ZoeZoeBee wrote: post #78

username223 wrote: post #73

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As others mentioned on another thread here recently: * lower power/memory use and greater battery life vs. Chrome or Mozilla * being written by a hardware company vs. a surveillance company

Yes, lower power/memory usage equals better battery life at the cost of performance, Safari is not nearly as perfomant as Chrome or Firefox, and to be honest if you're developing the browser is not your main energy drain. Naive to put trust in either companies use of your details

Post by lstamour » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

ClassyJacket wrote: post #61

ryuuchin wrote: post #27

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The only reason for still using ABP is because you haven't heard of uBlock.

Or because you use Safari.

Post by ryuuchin » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:20 PM UTC

morgante wrote: post #84

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #15

Since this submission relates to blocking ads and trackers, I think it's worth bringing up that uBlock Origin [0] is better than Adblock Plus in (all?) ways (see the README for more details). I migrated to it a few years ago and overall I've been very happy with the outcome. I'm opposed to all tracking that isn't opt-in by default. I haven't thought about the topic at great lengths, so there may be cases which I'm fa…

> is better than Adblock Plus in (all?) ways (see the README for more details) That's only if people agree with your ideology. Instead of making blanket statements which are inherently subjective, just explain why you prefer Adblock Plus. Personally, I vastly prefer Adblock Plus. I have no ideological objection to advertising or tracking in general, I just don't want intrusive ads. ABP does an excellent job of filter…

Post by ZoeZoeBee » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:22 PM UTC

username223 wrote: post #103

ZoeZoeBee wrote: post #78

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Yes, lower power/memory usage equals better battery life at the cost of performance, Safari is not nearly as perfomant as Chrome or Firefox, and to be honest if you're developing the browser is not your main energy drain. Naive to put trust in either companies use of your details

> ...if you're developing the browser is not your main energy drain. This has not been my experience, but maybe that's just because I use an ancient text editor (Emacs). If my several-year-old computer with 8GB of RAM goes into a paging frenzy, the browser is usually at fault. Emacs may be using a few hundred megabytes at most. As for privacy concerns, it's your call. Apple sells expensive hardware; Google sells surv…