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Meanwhile, having to browse the web without an adblocker has been nothing but relaxing for everybody else.
by tripzilch 8y ago
Meanwhile, having to browse the web without an adblocker has been nothing but relaxing for everybody else.
- conanbatt 8y agoThere is a before and after with adblockers. Its a real pity they are the worst privacy-vioolating tools ever.
- feanaro 8y ago> Its a real pity they are the worst privacy-vioolating tools ever. What do you mean?
- conanbatt 8y agoThey read your entire page content, they have access to all your information.
- feanaro 8y agoBut there are free software ad blockers like uBlock Origin.
- conanbatt 8y agoif uBlock got compromised as an extension even for 1 day, the amount and value of data uBlock can collect will make anyone very very rich. It's on the level of saving passwords as texts in terms of privacy.
- kzrdude 8y agoHow is it different from any other browser extension? They are all like that, aren't they?
- conanbatt 8y agoIt depends on the permissions: uBlock has permissions to read the entire page on any domain. Some extensions only limit themselves to specific domains, or don't touch that at all. uBlock still reads your bank website, etc.
- xvector 8y agoSorry, the stress someone on the Firefox team must be experiencing would easily be magnitudes beyond what we are.
- mccosmos 8y agoNo offense but they're not getting inhumane shock treament either if you're going to pull "our stress is holier than thou" and say it's magnitudes higher, I'll be waiting scientific backing on this or else it's just rude... plus they can always just not make me periodically re-install all my addons with no option to just bypass verification... except this time it doesn't work even with the fixes. (Actually, one time I just didn't see it was set to update automatically downgrading one of them. I'm no expert on these issues, really. They just could have asked first in my opinion.) Thanks, Mozillama. Edit: I had to click "Restart with addons disabled (safe mode)" for those wondering.
- kzrdude 8y agoFirefox includes content blocking, so it's not that bad.