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When I see a tracker hit ublock origin does it mean that it bypassed firefox anti-tracker blocking, or is it the reverse?
Having three anti-trackers installed is also a bit inconvenient when this breaks a site, I have to disable each one successively to try to make it work again...
It would be nice to know the priority of blocking elements between firefox default anti-tracker list, ublock origin, and privacy badger. When I see a tracker hit ublock origin does it mean that it bypassed firefox anti-tracker blocking, or is it the reverse? Having three anti-trackers installed is also a bit inconvenient when this breaks a site, I have to disable each one successively to try to make it work again...
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Or just actively punishing Firefox because blocking tracking is also blocking ads, which is their revenue model. Why spend money optimizing for a browser that doesn't generate revenue? If Firefox becomes the bastion of privacy sensitive people it will become more and more like Tor users, all tainted with the same labels. I mean it's already the case that recaptcha will more likely trigger on Firefox than Chrome, aski…
As far as I remember, when websites were doing window pop-ups and Google toolbar removed them, they didn't block the toolbar users. So, the risk is low... unless Firefox does something stupid like full ad-blocking. But if something like this happens, I will be happy to build/use an extension for the other browsers that makes such websites invisible in all major social networks.
He never said anything about blocking, here his exact quote about the retaliation:
> Why spend money optimizing for a browser that doesn't generate revenue?
Nobody ever optimized for a browser that had the Google toolbar installed. It's hard to stop doing something you never did.
As the other parent comment said, it will happens naturally by the mere fact that theses users won't appears on statistics. For sure it will depends on the developers, and many of them will either use Firefox directly, or simply care enough about their craft to optimize for most of the browsers even though they don't appear on stats.
must be a joke since this link gets eaten by privacy badger. Full of trackers. edit: originally referred to blog.mozilla.com
Privacy Badger gave me one hit, netdna-ssl, at the "Blocked Cookies" level. No hits on uBlock or the new enhanced tracking protection thing. What trackers are you seeing?
Honestly its getting out of hand. I have everything blocked I can think of [1], and even browsing in private mode, I still sometimes get the "recommended for you" on YouTube. Stop invading my privacy. [1] https://cup.github.io/rosso/youtube
I looked up some DevOps stuff on reddit through a proxy with adblockers in private mode and all of a sudden my front page was filled with posts about depression, men asking advice about how to talk to women, and advice about getting a job and moving out of your parents house. These were based on sessions cookies, but I was still kinda offended it pegged me as a sad loser just because I wanted to know more about NGINX…
The recs are poor enough that I don't mind blanket-banning an entire channel from my feed. Youtubers so frequently "compete" by using clickbait titles and thumbnails, I'm glad I at least have this method to punish that kind of behaviour.
The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked. I used to be able to use Firefox Focus (which has tracking protection built-in) to pay most of my bills. This was convenient because I would just open up the one site in FFF, pay the bill, and then close it, with all browsing history automatically deleted. In the past month about 3 of…
The more I protect my personal data (hi, GDPR!), the more websites are adding recaptacha to all their pages. Blocking trackers makes Google suspicious, so they're adding more and more recaptcha challenges to let me pass their tests, sometimes 5 to 10 in a row. I'm now working for Google's IA for free just to be able to make purchases online, access some services that I already paid for, or filling in support request…
Honestly its getting out of hand. I have everything blocked I can think of [1], and even browsing in private mode, I still sometimes get the "recommended for you" on YouTube. Stop invading my privacy. [1] https://cup.github.io/rosso/youtube
It's probably just using your IP address.
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The more I protect my personal data (hi, GDPR!), the more websites are adding recaptacha to all their pages. Blocking trackers makes Google suspicious, so they're adding more and more recaptcha challenges to let me pass their tests, sometimes 5 to 10 in a row. I'm now working for Google's IA for free just to be able to make purchases online, access some services that I already paid for, or filling in support request…
You could try Buster. It's an addon that solved Captchas when you tell it to.
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What are those technical reasons?
JavaScript engine optimization Devtools Every benchmark: https://arewefastyet.com/linux64/overview?numDays=365 Anecdotally, Firefox uses a lot more CPU, memory, and battery. Makes sense since the JS engine is so much worse. In this era the browser is just a VM for JavaScript.