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Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

#2

Post by dleslie »

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years.

I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness.

One common response regarding performance woes on Firefox is that common addons, particularly uBlock, process a large amount of data through complex rules during page load. What I haven't heard is any plans on the part of Mozilla to support that level of ad-blocking and privacy protection at the product level, rather than the extension level, which may provide much needed performance enhancements.

uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everwhere, Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger, au-revoir-utm et al should be native features at this point.

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

#5

Post by pixxel »

dleslie wrote: post #2

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years. I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. One common response regarding performance woes on…

For those of us that haven’t heard of au-revoir-utm:

> How annoying are those "utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss" in URLs ? Right!

> So this extension removes them and prevents you from being tracked.

> Source code at https://github.com/Rik/au-revoir-utm

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

#6

Post by KozmoNau7 »

pixxel wrote: post #5
dleslie wrote: post #2

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years. I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. One common response regarding performance woes on…

For those of us that haven’t heard of au-revoir-utm: > How annoying are those "utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss" in URLs ? Right! > So this extension removes them and prevents you from being tracked. > Source code at https://github.com/Rik/au-revoir-utm

I prefer CleaURLs, it also removes UTM parameters plus a number of other tracking parameters: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

#7

Post by Funes- »

dleslie wrote: post #2

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years. I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. One common response regarding performance woes on…

>It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness.

You can block ads just by editing your hosts file. There's no need to depend on any browser's particular functionality in order to get rid of them. Nor on extra hardware (Pi-hole), for that matter. I have a cron job download a prefilled copy from a popular github repository [1] daily.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

#8

Post by dleslie »

Funes- wrote: post #7
dleslie wrote: post #2

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years. I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. One common response regarding performance woes on…

>It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. You can block ads just by editing your hosts file. There's no need to depend on any browser's particular functionality in order to get rid of them. Nor on extra hardware (Pi-hole), for that matter. I have a cron job download a prefilled copy from a pop…

That doesn't scrub all advertisements without also going full-nuclear on certain social media sites and video services.

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

#9

Post by dleslie »

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #6
pixxel wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those of us that haven’t heard of au-revoir-utm: > How annoying are those "utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss" in URLs ? Right! > So this extension removes them and prevents you from being tracked. > Source code at https://github.com/Rik/au-revoir-utm

I prefer CleaURLs, it also removes UTM parameters plus a number of other tracking parameters: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

That's a good one, thank-you.

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

#10

Post by pea »

dleslie wrote: post #2

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years. I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. One common response regarding performance woes on…

Out of interest, why not use uBlock on brave? That's my setup.
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