Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies

Post by mstade » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

JKCalhoun wrote: post #168

warent wrote: post #83

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I run a network ad-block dns (pihole) and consistently 25-33% of all my network traffic is blocked as ads. It's much more than I ever imagined. Now I'm used to a different internet, when I'm using internet off the network it's like WTF is this?

25-33% of requests? Or is this a percentage of bytes? Because I wonder what percentage of bandwidth (in terms of bytes) trackers/banners/ads account for. Need to set up a pi-hole ... just too many other projects....

Post by pradn » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

tux1968 wrote: post #191

pradn wrote: post #152

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There aren't always alternatives - think shopping for certain items, government forms.

Why would a site that hopes you'll send them money in exchange for product, refuse your traffic if you have an ad blocker enabled? That just costs them money. Same for government forms, why would they refuse your traffic if you're blocking ads?

Post by mstade » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

warent wrote: post #83

ogre_codes wrote: post #48

These advertising networks are destroying web performance. Most of these "Supercookies" are optimizations to improve performance. By abusing them, advertisers have turned what should be a great performance tool into a liability. I know FF suggests this won't significantly affect most websites performance, but web advertising and trackers are already responsible for a huge chunk of performance issues already. Of cours…

I run a network ad-block dns (pihole) and consistently 25-33% of all my network traffic is blocked as ads. It's much more than I ever imagined. Now I'm used to a different internet, when I'm using internet off the network it's like WTF is this?

Post by ericholscher » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:40 PM UTC

ogre_codes wrote: post #194

ericholscher wrote: post #187

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We're trying to build an ad network that doesn't track users: https://www.ethicalads.io/ We talked a little bit about how these ads still work, even without tracking you. You might be losing 10-15% of revenue, but if you never had that revenue to start with, you don't miss it: https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2018/04/ethical-advertising-w... I think the real secret is just to not become dependent on the additive revenu…

Presumably if your adverts don't do tracking, they don't need to slow page loads down the way current advertising does either which should be a big plus. Fundamentally serving an advert should be a light process adding only a tiny amount of overhead to the site.

Post by cpeterso » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

WC3w6pXxgGd wrote: post #99

newscracker wrote: post #91

Use uBlock Origin, Multi Account Containers, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes and CookieAutoDelete with Firefox. Make sure you aggressively clear cache, cookies, etc., periodically (with CookieAutoDelete). You’ll probably load the web servers more and also add more traffic on your network, but it will help protect your privacy since most websites don’t care about that. When websites are user hostile, you have to take pr…

Why not use Brave? It has all of this, with Fingerprint protection turned on by default.