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by pythux 6y ago
I have been using Firejail for a few years now and absolutely love it. It is now a central part of my setup and workflows. Here are two features I use regularly: - The "virtual home" specified with --private=/path/to&#x2
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by pythux 6y ago
This. Since you mention Cliqz, this article might be relevant: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-22/google-competition-is-just-... Google spends billions to secure its position, which makes it virtually impossible for
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Parsel: A tiny, permissive CSS selector parser(lea.verou.me)
1 points by pythux 6y ago|0 comments
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by pythux 6y ago
> This isn't a scalable solution. I am not sure what your point is. > If the value per ad decreases, services will need to display more til the user generates enough value to support the costs they incur. What they need to do is
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by pythux 6y ago
I would probably always pick non-personalized, as my assumption is that the less relevant they are, the easiest it would become for me to ignore them (assuming they are not more intrusive than the personalized ones).
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by pythux 6y ago
I think you might be referring to the « doomsday argument »? - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
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by pythux 6y ago
I was thinking that some of their engineers must be making more than that. Seems like a fine they will not even notice...
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by pythux 6y ago
To be fair, blocklists are not really lists of regexps. They contain some regexps indeed but the syntax is mostly custom and matching relies on both patterns found in URLs (This part could be partially expressed as RegExps) as well as a mul
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by pythux 6y ago
This is indeed a performance critical problem, but it is already pretty much solved at this point. If you look at the performance of the most popular content blockers, their decision time is already below fractions of milliseconds. So it do
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by pythux 6y ago
To add to the excellent answer from Gorhill, you might find this read interesting: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-20/not-all-adblockers-are-born... It is a deep dive into how modern content blockers work and what k
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by pythux 6y ago
FYI: content blockers like uBlock Origin or Ghostery use block lists of tens of thousands of rules as well (can be up to 100k depending on lists enabled) and there are ways to make this matching very efficient[1]. [1] https://n
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by pythux 6y ago
Nit: you must be talking about uBlock Origin, because uBlock was actually bought[1]. [1] https://blog.getadblock.com/the-adblock-family-gets-a-new-ad...
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by pythux 6y ago
Well, enhanced tracking protection is closer to what an adblocker/content blocker would do as far as I know. They classify some domains as trackers based on a static list from Disconnect then use that information to either block reques
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by pythux 6y ago
As mentioned in another comment, it’s actually possible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23524626
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by pythux 6y ago
The Cliqz browser used to have this feature built-in. It would ask you once in the beginning what your default choice would be regarding data collection practices (e.g. opt-out of everything or opt-in; most likely you would like to opt-out)
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by pythux 6y ago
It’s pretty unlikely that a DNS blocker (like NextDNS or others) can effectively remove cookie notices since content blockers rely on injecting custom style sheets in practice to tackle them (which a DNS blocker absolutely cannot do).
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by pythux 6y ago
For the record, this section of Wikipedia seems pretty outdated. Ghostrank has been removed from Ghostery in 2017 after Cliqz acquired Ghostery and the extension was open-sourced. (Disclaimer: I worked there at the time)
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by pythux 6y ago
Depends, there is a bunch of Electron apps that work just fine as websites (e.g. Slack, Spotify, Microsoft Teams, etc. As far as I know). I personally prefer running those in a browser tab to both save resources and benefit from privacy enh
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by pythux 6y ago
Interesting project! As far as I can see it only approximately converts the rules right? Since the iOS Content Blocker does not look granular enough to express the rulesets semantics fully. Out of curiosity, how did you handle exclusions? A
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A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere(remusao.github.io)
70 points by pythux 6y ago|23 comments
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A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere(remusao.github.io)
1 points by pythux 6y ago|0 comments
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What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016)(remusao.github.io)
105 points by pythux 6y ago|28 comments
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Ecoin exposed data from 2M+ users: emails, names, phones, encrypted passwords(twitter.com)
1 points by pythux 6y ago|1 comments
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by pythux 6y ago
If you can select the <a> tag, then you can likely use a procedural cosmetic filter to go up the DOM like with :upward(n). So this should be possible.
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by pythux 6y ago
> Google is just a default search; data isn't being sent to them. You mean, apart from everything typed in the URL bar by default?
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Covid-19’s Impact on Tor(blog.torproject.org)
3 points by pythux 6y ago|1 comments
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by pythux 7y ago
Just to avoid any confusion, I have nothing to do with the change of behavior in Firefox 75. And the « fix » was only about changing the default behavior with new prefs values (the real fix was done in Firefox around 2007 but for some reaso
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by pythux 7y ago
Yey! This is a fun one, I fixed it in Cliqz (a browser based on Firefox) a while ago: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-f/pull/912#issue-195908... If you are wondering why this discrepancy in behavior betw
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by pythux 7y ago
uBlock Origin is still almost exclusively maintained by the original author: Raymond Hill. He was already behind uBlock and is now working on uBlock Origin (the original uBlock being basically stale).
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by pythux 7y ago
This. It is exactly what happened about a year ago when this performance study[1] was published. In the months that followed, uBlock Origin, Brave and Adblock Plus all worked pretty hard on improving the performance of their content blockin

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