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If uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger give you too many problems, what you are after is a worse setup. You want a less aggressive system that allows the ad-tech tha
by stubish 7y ago
If uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger give you too many problems, what you are after is a worse setup. You want a less aggressive system that allows the ad-tech that those sites are relying on to work, which will also allow that ad-tech to display some ads and invade some privacy, but its a perfectly reasonable choice.
Personally, I use uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger (and NoScript for work, per policy). In most cases, if a site doesn't work I've realized I really don't want to be there (and the Internet is likely better off without adding my rant to the comments section of that click bait article I really shouldn't be wasting my time with). It is fairly rare to find a broken site and rarer still to actually need to use it (airlines are the worst), so I don't sweat the time to temporarily disable protection or work out the white list.
- nickjj 7y agoI never heard of Privacy Badger until you mentioned it. Their FAQ[0] says it's a replacement to Adblock Plus (which implies uBlock Origin too). What makes you use both of them together? Why not just Privacy Badger? [0]: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/faq#How-is-Privacy-Badger-different-from-Disconnect,-Adblock-Plus,-Ghostery,-and-other-blocking-extensions https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/faq#How-is-Privacy-Badger-...
- input_sh 7y agoPrivacy Badger isn't an adblocker per se. It's designed to block trackers, not ads. Those two often collide, but Privacy Badger won't do a thing to block first-party ads (as an example). That's somewhat different than uBlock Origin's no-ads-what-so-ever policy.
- WilTimSon 7y agoDoes PrivacyBadger interfere with uBlock or vice versa? I really like this on paper but wouldn't want to fiddle too much with adding exceptions to each of them just to make sure they don't cannibalize one another.
- stubish 7y agoNo, they play together just fine. Privacy Badger probably doesn't do much (or anything) in addition to uBlock Origin, but it is nice to wave the EFF flag.
- jefftk 7y ago> NoScript for work, per policy Your workplace requires you to browse with NoScript?
- stubish 7y agoFor some teams, yes. Risk analysis doesn't have it worth it for most employees.