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Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

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Post by bhouston »

username223 wrote: post #18
bhouston wrote: post #13

Does ublock still block crash reporters like newrelic and self hosted party statistics like piwik? PS, I had major issues on two mainstream travel sites with ublock. It made then unusable with ublocksl's default settings.

Do you want it to block first-party trackers? I am much more tolerant of trackers (and ads) if they are per-site rather than being run by a few huge data-gatherers, as there's much less privacy impact that way.

I don't but last time I checked ublock blocks all instances of piwik no matter where.

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

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Post by gorhill »

username223 wrote: post #14

Denying 3rd-party resources by default is nice, but definitely experts-only. Pages will break in weird ways when half their rat's nests of JavaScript are missing, and it will take some coding knowledge to figure out which parts are necessary. I may switch to this myself, but I think I'll keep telling friends and family to use Ghostery

The feature is available only to those enabling "I am an advanced user".

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

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Post by kmfrk »

username223 wrote: post #14

Denying 3rd-party resources by default is nice, but definitely experts-only. Pages will break in weird ways when half their rat's nests of JavaScript are missing, and it will take some coding knowledge to figure out which parts are necessary. I may switch to this myself, but I think I'll keep telling friends and family to use Ghostery

Ghostery breaks so much stuff, I don't know how people can bother. I've found that Privacy Badger does a great job of blocking third-party tools in a way that rarely breaks anything - in which case it's easy to turn off.

That and Ad Muncher for Windows.

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

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Post by [deleted] »

gorhill wrote: post #23
username223 wrote: post #14

Denying 3rd-party resources by default is nice, but definitely experts-only. Pages will break in weird ways when half their rat's nests of JavaScript are missing, and it will take some coding knowledge to figure out which parts are necessary. I may switch to this myself, but I think I'll keep telling friends and family to use Ghostery

The feature is available only to those enabling "I am an advanced user".

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Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

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Post by gorhill »

bhouston wrote: post #13

Does ublock still block crash reporters like newrelic and self hosted party statistics like piwik? PS, I had major issues on two mainstream travel sites with ublock. It made then unusable with ublocksl's default settings.

Using EasyPrivacy results in piwik being blocked, yes, regardless whether EasyPrivacy is used in uBlock, ABP, or whatever other blocker. I suggested you to bring the issue to EasyPrivacy maintainers if you think it's wrong[1], but by all appearances your grudge is solely aimed at uBlock.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/564#issuecomment-70...

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

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Post by maxerickson »

lawl wrote: post #16

Okay, I'm probably stupid. This would allow me to throw away NoScript, Disconnect and Adblock. But I can't figure out how to enable deny by default mode?! (Yes I have advanced mode enabled)

There's a tiny little + by the "Requests Blocked" label on the Button panel. Click that.

Then red the left side of the top five boxes (images and scripts and the like).

If I understand correctly, it's not really a mode, it's just several broad filters. 0.8.5.7 on Firefox doesn't have an 'all' that I can see.

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

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Post by bhouston »

gorhill wrote: post #26
bhouston wrote: post #13

Does ublock still block crash reporters like newrelic and self hosted party statistics like piwik? PS, I had major issues on two mainstream travel sites with ublock. It made then unusable with ublocksl's default settings.

Using EasyPrivacy results in piwik being blocked, yes, regardless whether EasyPrivacy is used in uBlock, ABP, or whatever other blocker. I suggested you to bring the issue to EasyPrivacy maintainers if you think it's wrong[1], but by all appearances your grudge is solely aimed at uBlock. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/564#issuecomment-70...

Easy privacy is not included as the defaults in other tools like abp. Thus ublock does differ here in a big way.

By default ublock blocks piwik and abp doesn't. That is a major difference.

Edit: why is a factual response down voted?

Re: µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

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Post by artlogic »

kmfrk wrote: post #24
username223 wrote: post #14

Denying 3rd-party resources by default is nice, but definitely experts-only. Pages will break in weird ways when half their rat's nests of JavaScript are missing, and it will take some coding knowledge to figure out which parts are necessary. I may switch to this myself, but I think I'll keep telling friends and family to use Ghostery

Ghostery breaks so much stuff, I don't know how people can bother. I've found that Privacy Badger does a great job of blocking third-party tools in a way that rarely breaks anything - in which case it's easy to turn off. That and Ad Muncher for Windows.

I've been using Privacy Badger for 6 months and I can't recommend it enough for non-technical people (or technical people that don't want to debug websites all day long).

The one problem I've found is that certain services that use a bookmark/iframe combo (instapaper, for instance), create problems because you want to whitelist instapaper, but aren't given a chance. For that, I recently found: https://tsibley.net/provoke-the-privacy-badger/

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