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Firefox doesn't really have tracking protection built-in. There's "Do not track", but that's worse than worthless and off by default, and you can turn on blocki

Firefox doesn't really have tracking protection built-in. There's "Do not track", but that's worse than worthless and off by default, and you can turn on blocking thrid-party cookies but, again, off by default and only covers a small area of concern. I don't even know what to say about Brave other than the business model feels very wrong. Firefox + uBlock Origin is the right level of protection and you can get it on desktop and mobile (Android at least). I've come across a few sites that were still using affiliate links and uO didn't block them. I'm not sure if uO has a policy of not blocking them but, to me, those are the only type of "acceptable ad" and CPU cycles shouldn't be wasted trying to detect and eliminate them.

skymt 9y ago
I believe clouddrover is talking about this tracking protection feature, which uses Disconnect's list of tracking scripts: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection
dhimes 9y ago
I use noscript and am pretty happy with it. I also use Adblock Plus because I'm ok with the idea of allowing certain types of ads through the adblockers. I was kind of thinking that we could get sites to stop doing the tracking bullshit if we put out a list of what is acceptable and blocked the rest. I guess it wasn't well executed?
- libertyEQ 9y ago
  I see people mention noscript and uMatix a lot, but you should also consider RequestPolicy for added protection: https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/ https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/
  - thisacctforreal 9y ago
    As far as I can tell uMatrix covers this (XHRs).
- KozmoNau7 9y ago
  That's a very noble and really naive thought. Ad pushers have repeatedly shown that they cannot be trusted with our bandwidth and browser resources, they will always try to find the most insidious ways of inserting themselves into our lives, and try to track our every move, no matter how unwelcome they are. Add to this the long history of malware using ad networks as an attack vector, and you have a very good case for simply blocking everything, in the name of privacy and security. I hate ads, both for the above mentioned reasons, and because I find them extremely obnoxious (yes, even simple text ads), so I block everything with extreme prejudice. I am also on the "no mailed ads, ever" and the "you will be fined if you ever call this number with advertising" registries. My eyeballs, my attention, my PC, my OS, my browser, my home. Anything I don't trust and don't explicitly allow can just buzz off and leave me alone.
clouddrover 9y ago
> Firefox doesn't really have tracking protection built-in. No, Firefox really does have tracking protection built-in: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/20/firefox-private-browsing-vs-chrome-incognito/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/20/firefox-private-bro...

skymt 9y ago

I believe clouddrover is talking about this tracking protection feature, which uses Disconnect's list of tracking scripts: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection

dhimes 9y ago

I use noscript and am pretty happy with it. I also use Adblock Plus because I'm ok with the idea of allowing certain types of ads through the adblockers. I was kind of thinking that we could get sites to stop doing the tracking bullshit if we put out a list of what is acceptable and blocked the rest. I guess it wasn't well executed?

libertyEQ 9y ago
I see people mention noscript and uMatix a lot, but you should also consider RequestPolicy for added protection: https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/ https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/
- thisacctforreal 9y ago
  As far as I can tell uMatrix covers this (XHRs).
KozmoNau7 9y ago
That's a very noble and really naive thought. Ad pushers have repeatedly shown that they cannot be trusted with our bandwidth and browser resources, they will always try to find the most insidious ways of inserting themselves into our lives, and try to track our every move, no matter how unwelcome they are. Add to this the long history of malware using ad networks as an attack vector, and you have a very good case for simply blocking everything, in the name of privacy and security. I hate ads, both for the above mentioned reasons, and because I find them extremely obnoxious (yes, even simple text ads), so I block everything with extreme prejudice. I am also on the "no mailed ads, ever" and the "you will be fined if you ever call this number with advertising" registries. My eyeballs, my attention, my PC, my OS, my browser, my home. Anything I don't trust and don't explicitly allow can just buzz off and leave me alone.

clouddrover 9y ago

> Firefox doesn't really have tracking protection built-in. No, Firefox really does have tracking protection built-in: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/20/firefox-private-browsing-vs-chrome-incognito/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/20/firefox-private-bro...