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Some feedback: If you are going to market your browser as privacy focused, it has to block ads by default. As far as I can this one does not block ads at all. G
by Touche 7y ago
Some feedback: If you are going to market your browser as privacy focused, it has to block ads by default. As far as I can this one does not block ads at all. Good initial experience but please block ads.
- jamesgeck0 7y agoThis is at least partially covered by tracking protection, which is on by default.
- orbital-decay 7y ago>If you are going to market your browser as privacy focused, it has to block ads by default A privacy-focused browser should care about the privacy part of the online advertisement, which is tracking. Completely preventing the site from showing any ads is a different feature.
- suby 7y agoConsidering that advertisements are a common vector for installing spyware and malware, I think adblocking and antitracking are two sides of the same coin.
- bwat49 7y agoit already blocks trackers by default
- inanutshellus 7y agoNo, these are not the same and oughtn't be conflated. I'm perfectly happy seeing ads that aren't targeted to me personally based on my browsing history. Ads on, say, Stack Overflow or HN or whatever, that target nerds ("great hosting!", "3d printing tech!", "legos!") would be perfectly doable without tracking each of us personally.
- rrix2 7y agoIt's interesting to think about how these sorts of niche sites which have a narrow enough demographic to have valuable ad space are more or less being entirely eaten alive by networks with incredibly wide demographics. The centralized networks have to resort to building a panopticon to replicate segmenting which used to be natural at the network layer and the niche sites have to resort to playing along because of how powerful that panopticon is.