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Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by Barbing »

Anthony-G wrote: post #25
Barbing wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Best iOS strategy that comes to mind is Safari: -iCloud Private Relay (native VPN-like thing) -uBlock Origin Lite -AdGuard DNS (Using fresh private tabs for small privacy gain?) Better than third-party skinned browsers right? Always happy to be informed otherwise. (AdGuard does have an option to supplant uBlock in this stack btw, does “advanced” blocking https://adguard.com/kb/adguard-for-ios/web-extension/ which is…

This sounds like good advice so upvoted. I’m a big fan of Raymond Hill¹’s products so I am curious about how much benefit Adguard provides if uBlock Origin is already blocking online trackers, ads and other annoyances. ¹ In this case, the developer – not the musician. I really liked the user interface of uMatrix.

It’s really nice to have ad and tracker domains blocked systemwide though I think you need to be more careful and set your device up as supervised to have more robust blocking (real always-on VPN functionality vs. best effort?).

And even then when I read about defects in Apple software that means a firewall like Little Snitch isn’t perfect (macOS) I think an external device (mobile VPN router?) is going to be essential for some threat models.

(& uMatrix looks great!)

Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by gpm »

2ndorderthought wrote: post #7

Cool project but I have to ask. Why not use brave?

I care a good deal that I trust the people who developed my browser. It's about the most critical piece of software in my life. From banking to professionally to personal life.

The people who developed brave used brave to impersonate people and defraud their users out of money by asking for donations using other peoples names [1]. I don't trust them at all. Thus I don't use their browser.

And, unsurprisingly, this is part of a pattern of bad behavior, not a one off criminal act by otherwise trustworthy people, for some examples [2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181221180137/https://twitter.c... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

[2] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45#issue... and https://lobste.rs/s/iopw1d/what_s_up_with_lobste_rs_blocking...

Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by thesuitonym »

RandomGerm4n wrote: post #9

Can this extension effectively block ads on YouTube? When I manually enabled the Rust ad blocker in about:config and added filter lists there, ads still appeared on YouTube and some porn sites. While uBlock Origin blocks everything.

If it can't, plain old ublock Origin can.

Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by avazhi »

ndisn wrote: post #20
avazhi wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you use Brave when for many years it wouid surreptitiously install a VPN service on your Windows machine. The Brave devs took more than a year to even address it, let alone remove it. More ideologically, Google and Chromium are awful for the internet as monopolistic tech.

What’s wrong with a VPN service as long as it doesn’t route your traffic or anything.

Are you wanting me to explain to you why secretly and without notifying the user that your browser is installing a new program + network service he didn’t ask for is a bad thing, or why having an extra Windows service one doesn’t use running 24/7 on top of the network stack and built into the browser is a bad thing?
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