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> I immediately found a few potential tracking issues with its default lists I am curious: what are these "few potential tracking issues" specifically? Whatev

by gorhill 11y ago

> I immediately found a few potential tracking issues with its default lists I am curious: what are these "few potential tracking issues" specifically? Whatever default lists uBO is using, unlike with ABE (which is essentially ABP filtering engine), users have the last words in what is blocked: - The `important` filter option can be used to override exception filters.[1] - Dynamic filtering override all static filters.[2] For example, you do not need a special filter list to block Facebook everywhere, it's a matter of a few point-and-click to block it everywhere without any way for any static filter to counter it.[3] * * * [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#network-filters-options https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#... [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Overview-of-uBlock's-network-filtering-engine https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Overview-of-uBlock's-... [3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-to-easily-reduce-privacy-exposure https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-to...

Silhouette 11y ago
Some specific examples I've noticed on the privacy side are pinging a Facebook server when a page uses Facebook Connect, and allowing the various web font services. It's certainly possible to customise uBlock Origin to prevent these things. However, I couldn't immediately see any of the other suggested lists that would have blocked some of these potential privacy/tracking issues either, which suggests that not only do I need to manually block them if I want to stop the tracking, I also need to manually update those lists. In contrast, with a couple of fire-and-forget plug-ins I've been installing as standard for years until recent FF updates broke them, I very rarely had to customise anything manually. They just worked as standard, and I trusted them to keep working and never noticed any significant problems, until now.
- gorhill 11y ago
  > I couldn't immediately see any of the other suggested lists Fanboy's Anti-ThirdpartySocial is right there in the list of lists, under the Social header. > In contrast, with a couple of fire-and-forget plug-ins I've been installing as standard for years until recent FF updates broke them Ok, my answer was meant to address your point that uBO was no replacement for ABE, as you stated "uBlock Origin is apparently now the blessed alternative [to ABE]".
  - Silhouette 11y ago
    Fanboy's Anti-ThirdpartySocial is right there in the list of lists, under the Social header. And it doesn't block any of the things I mentioned. The domain connect.facebook.com isn't in there, for example, and I ran into a page running a script from there within five minutes of switching to the new plug-ins. Ok, my answer was meant to address your point that uBO was no replacement for ABE Sorry, I'm not sure where I said anything like that. I explicitly noted that uBO was apparently being promoted as the successor to ABE, as you seem to have noticed. I just also noted that the plug-ins I've got running now aren't as good in some respects as the ones that worked just fine for a long time until recent FF changes.
    - gorhill 11y ago
      > I'm not sure where I said anything like that Here (my emphasis): > Adblock Edge was discontinued a little while back [...] uBlock Origin is apparently now the blessed alternative [...] but I immediately found a few potential tracking issues with its default lists [...] "but", implying Adblock Edge somehow did not have the "few potential tracking issues" you said you found in uBO. Hope it's clear.
      - Silhouette 11y ago
        You're reading things into my posts that aren't there. Please note that the context for my original comment that you selectively quoted was the add-ons (plural) I had used before. My full comment on uBO was that it was OK for blocking most ads but didn't block some of the trackers. The next part of the comment was about Ghostery, which was what did previously block (but no longer appears to block) those trackers.
    - brymaster 11y ago
      > The domain connect.facebook.com isn't in there, for example "Anti-ThirdpartySocial" aka "Anti-Facebook List‎" list https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifacebook.txt https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifacebook.txt > ||connect.facebook.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.net|~fb.com > ||connect.facebook.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~fb.com > ||facebook.com/connect/$third-party Is that not what you are looking for?

by gorhill 11y ago

Silhouette 11y ago

Some specific examples I've noticed on the privacy side are pinging a Facebook server when a page uses Facebook Connect, and allowing the various web font services. It's certainly possible to customise uBlock Origin to prevent these things. However, I couldn't immediately see any of the other suggested lists that would have blocked some of these potential privacy/tracking issues either, which suggests that not only do I need to manually block them if I want to stop the tracking, I also need to manually update those lists. In contrast, with a couple of fire-and-forget plug-ins I've been installing as standard for years until recent FF updates broke them, I very rarely had to customise anything manually. They just worked as standard, and I trusted them to keep working and never noticed any significant problems, until now.

gorhill 11y ago
> I couldn't immediately see any of the other suggested lists Fanboy's Anti-ThirdpartySocial is right there in the list of lists, under the Social header. > In contrast, with a couple of fire-and-forget plug-ins I've been installing as standard for years until recent FF updates broke them Ok, my answer was meant to address your point that uBO was no replacement for ABE, as you stated "uBlock Origin is apparently now the blessed alternative [to ABE]".
- Silhouette 11y ago
  Fanboy's Anti-ThirdpartySocial is right there in the list of lists, under the Social header. And it doesn't block any of the things I mentioned. The domain connect.facebook.com isn't in there, for example, and I ran into a page running a script from there within five minutes of switching to the new plug-ins. Ok, my answer was meant to address your point that uBO was no replacement for ABE Sorry, I'm not sure where I said anything like that. I explicitly noted that uBO was apparently being promoted as the successor to ABE, as you seem to have noticed. I just also noted that the plug-ins I've got running now aren't as good in some respects as the ones that worked just fine for a long time until recent FF changes.
  - gorhill 11y ago
    > I'm not sure where I said anything like that Here (my emphasis): > Adblock Edge was discontinued a little while back [...] uBlock Origin is apparently now the blessed alternative [...] but I immediately found a few potential tracking issues with its default lists [...] "but", implying Adblock Edge somehow did not have the "few potential tracking issues" you said you found in uBO. Hope it's clear.
    - Silhouette 11y ago
      You're reading things into my posts that aren't there. Please note that the context for my original comment that you selectively quoted was the add-ons (plural) I had used before. My full comment on uBO was that it was OK for blocking most ads but didn't block some of the trackers. The next part of the comment was about Ghostery, which was what did previously block (but no longer appears to block) those trackers.
  - brymaster 11y ago
    > The domain connect.facebook.com isn't in there, for example "Anti-ThirdpartySocial" aka "Anti-Facebook List‎" list https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifacebook.txt https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifacebook.txt > ||connect.facebook.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.net|~fb.com > ||connect.facebook.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~fb.com > ||facebook.com/connect/$third-party Is that not what you are looking for?