In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
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Re: In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
#2Great news though I do think adblocking should be built into the browser, rather than left to extensions and 3rd party services. The internet should be taken back from AdTech agencies (Google, AdBuddy AKA Brave). Maybe add to the rumored premium version something like Nextdns?
Re: In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
#3Switched to Firefox a few months back. Havn’t missed Chrome at all
Re: In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
#4Great news though I do think adblocking should be built into the browser, rather than left to extensions and 3rd party services. The internet should be taken back from AdTech agencies (Google, AdBuddy AKA Brave). Maybe add to the rumored premium version something like Nextdns?
If adblocking is left up to the browser than companies who own the browser have a financial incentive to let certian ads from paying companies through, as has been seen by adblock plus, and the proposed built in chrome ad blocking (which would obviously never block Google's own ads for any reason). Conflicts of interest should be separated into different independent organizations.
Chrome mobile not allowing extensions and therefore adblockers is a crime. There are different revenue sources other than ads (patreon or crypto micropayments for instance) which might evolve as the next means of payment for the internet and search engines. Google purposefully stopping the growth of new technology in order to grasp at an increasingly shrinking past is hurting the end user and is evil.
Re: In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
#5This is good for those who often install OS and have to install a browser and the adblockers and privacy extensions which gets annoying.
MS Edge should do the same. Screw ads.
Re: In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
#6Switched to Firefox a few months back. Havn’t missed Chrome at all
What about Chrome's F12 debugging? I miss that when I use Firefox.
Re: In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
#7Re: In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
#8these tracking scripts are essentially malware, maybe browser vendors could store hashes of these scripts in the same way an antivirus stores hashes of viruses.
Then block the scripts, do a daily update of the latest hashes as they appear. Include an option for expert users to report new scripts.
Re: In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
#9Switched to Firefox a few months back. Havn’t missed Chrome at all
I did that a year back though I do miss a few things. One major one is task manager. Being able to identify rogue tabs is useful. Also, in general Firefox uses a lot more resources compared to Chrome. Another is the ability to smoothly zoom in/out of pages. But overall, the privacy benefits are easily worth it.
Re: In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
#10these tracking scripts are essentially malware, maybe browser vendors could store hashes of these scripts in the same way an antivirus stores hashes of viruses. Then block the scripts, do a daily update of the latest hashes as they appear. Include an option for expert users to report new scripts.
Last I saw the Firefox blocker had a domain block list for removing the ad scripts. It's not as effective as other tracker blockers which heuristics but it's less likely to break the page for users.