Root Moose<p>Mozilla Firefox is officially dead. </p><p>My back is officially turned.</p><p>What options remain?</p><p>For now I'm probably going to be using Gnome Web (i.e. Epiphany) for most straightforward web browsing. It works more than well enough for the stuff I do. Mobile version for Android? Does it exist? iOS?</p><p>I'll use Vivaldi for lame "modern" sites that a "simple" browser like Epiphany can't render properly. Mobile? </p><p>We'll see how far that goes. This may be less and less of an issue. The big player sites like Google, Meta, etc. are not somewhere I tend to visit. </p><p>Banking sites are a mixed bag of necessity. </p><p>I'm about to let my Amazon Prime account lapse on its yearly renewal since I won't use them any more.</p><p>At least Vivaldi seems to be a decent organization. Technology is based on Chromium though - and this is why I haven't started using it. </p><p>I will need to investigate Vivaldi's built-in adblocking since manifest v2 isn't a thing under Chromium. </p><p>I used to care about keeping the Mozilla rendering engine alive and relevant but now not so much.</p><p>The Firefox forks I've tried have been a mixed bag of whether their new versions follow re-enabling the privacy invasive things that Mozilla upstream does when it sends out a new version. </p><p>Time to leave them behind as well I guess. </p><p>A lot will depend on how much I miss ublock origin. </p><p>If there is a mass exodus from all the Firefox based forks then ublock may cease to exist. </p><p>There's a rant in there about pi-holing all browsers but I don't have it in me ATM.</p><p>(Posted with Epiphany)</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/114071999359445580" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11</span><span class="invisible">4071999359445580</span></a></p><p><a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gnome</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Epiphany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epiphany</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vivaldi</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/ublock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ublock</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/ublockorigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ublockorigin</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chrome</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Chromium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chromium</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Rights" 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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵<p>Peace was <strong>never</strong> an option.</p><p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/roku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roku</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/buttonremoval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ButtonRemoval</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a></p>
Adam Beer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@FirewallDragons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FirewallDragons</span></a></span> For the first few minutes of you talking about the Bitly story, I was thinking to myself, "I could've <em>sworn</em> that it already does that." Eventually I realized that no, that's Adfly I was thinking of. The story is that Bitly has degraded into Adfly.</p><p>If the actual implementation turns out to be accurate to what you read out on the show, it will be trivially easy for a browser extension to automatically and instantly skip you straight to the destination URL. The only question is whether or not uBlock Origin, specifically, will have (or add) the ability to do it.</p><p><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/adBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adBlock</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/adFly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adFly</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/bitly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bitly</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlockOrigin</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/webExtension" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webExtension</span></a></p>
Roni Laukkarinen<p>Google Chrome blocking Ublock Origin and Violentmonkey as of today. I wonder why.</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/UblockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UblockOrigin</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adblock</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/GoogleChrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleChrome</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Browsers</span></a></p>
Andrey DarkCat09<p>Один из юзкейсов дополненной реальности — адблок ирл. Видел когда-то на ютубе то ли концепт, то ли реально работающую реализацию: реклама заменялась на приятную картинку по выбору, например, лес.<br><br>И тогда подумал, зачем это нужно, если, по крайней мере мне, рекламные баннеры никак не мешают, а некоторые даже поднимают настроение (см. "Горит крыша? Звони 01. Украли крышу? 02. Едет крыша? 03. Нужна крыша? [телефон компании]").<br><br>Иду, на каждом шагу листовки про военную службу по контракту и огромный баннер на здании. Мне нужен этот адблок. Срочно.<br><br><a href="https://gts.dc09.ru/tags/augmentedreality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>augmentedreality</span></a> <a href="https://gts.dc09.ru/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> <a href="https://gts.dc09.ru/tags/rupol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rupol</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.ml/@rf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rf</span></a></span></p>
ℒӱḏɩę :blahaj:<p>If you are not running ad blockers on your mobiles and PCs, you are at risk of spying and malware. In the age of fascism, this is more important than ever.</p><p>On desktop: uBlock Origin on FireFox or FF based browsers. Hosts file for everything else.</p><p>On Android: AdGuard DNS (no root needed). AdAway if you have root.</p><p>On iPhone: AdGuard DNS, uBlock in FireFox.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/malware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>malware</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>android</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ios</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/spyware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spyware</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
MOULE #RedInstead<p>Ad blockers, script blockers, cookie blockers and other privacy-respecting browser extensions are essential to browse an increasingly hostile, corporate-dominated web.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/WebPunks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebPunks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/WebPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebPunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a></p>
Infrapink (he/his/him)<p>Someone on another forum pointed out another workaround that doesn't need any additional software.<br>• Click the Share button under the Video<br>• Click Embed<br>• Watch</p><p>6/5</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a></p>
Infrapink (he/his/him)<p>Looks like YouTube is blocking adblockers again. This time, they are claiming that the use of adblockers violates its terms of service.</p><p>I read the terms of service: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/t/terms#20c5cf0fa6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/t/terms#20c5cf0fa6</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> There is nothing in there about adblockers. And yes, I actually read the terms, I didn't just search for 'adblock'; contrary to youtube.com's lies, you are NOT required to disable adblock.</p><p>So once again, let's delve into how to watch get around YouTube's adblockerblocker.</p><p>1/5</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AdBlocker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlocker</span></a></p>
ekari<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Gargron</span></a></span> I wonder if all of this now slop, but eventually "great", AI crap will start pushing people back to using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lynx</span></a> and the like, or even <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gopher</span></a>. Why bother with images and videos any more when signal-to-noise ratio gets below a certain point.</p><p>With browsers we learned to use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> and the like, but how to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aiblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aiblock</span></a>?</p><p>At this rate the only winning move might be just not to play, and move back to text based tools. Or enjoy your new friends if you never left 🙂</p>
derPUPE<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TimesSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimesSquare</span></a> with <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> enabled</p>
MOULE #RedInstead<p>I will never understand how some people can surf the modern web without <a href="https://mastodon.moule.world/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a>, script blockers, and tracker blockers. They really just put up with invasive ads and strangers they've never met at ad companies collecting thousands of data points about them and tracking them everywhere they go??? :MOULE_Uh:</p>
DigiDavidex :kde:<p>Ultimamente <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Pinterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pinterest</span></a> si è riempito di pubblicità, e infatti adesso uBlock Origin e tutti gli <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> gli danno fastidio. Ti piacerebbe che lo disattivassi, eh?? E invece no! Ho messo anche <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Ghostery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ghostery</span></a> su <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a></p>
Richard<p>I love <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Vivaldi</span></a></span> but its builtin adblocker sucks. Czech filter list turned on. No ads blocked.</p><p>This is a random article on idnes.cz which is one of our major news sites.</p><p>Second screenshot is the same site in Firefox with uBlock Origin.</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vivaldi</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/vivaldibrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vivaldibrowser</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/VivaldiWebBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VivaldiWebBrowser</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a></p>
Cadu Silva :verified:<p>Agora que o Google está levando a cabo as limitações em bloqueadores de anúncios que ainda usam Manifest v2, está mais do que na hora de mudar de navegador.</p><p>Algumas opções:<br>- Firefox<br>- LibreWolf<br>- Waterfox<br>- Palemoon<br>- Mercury Browser<br>- Chromium Ungoogled [1]<br>- Vivaldi</p><p>[1] Apesar do nome, é multiplataforma: <a href="https://github.com/macchrome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/macchrome</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://bolha.one/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chrome</span></a> <a href="https://bolha.one/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlockOrigin</span></a> <a href="https://bolha.one/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a></p>
Avoid the Hack! :donor:<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon</p><p>This is part of manifest v2 deprecation.</p><p>There is a manifest v3 compliant version of uBlock Origin - uBlock Origin Lite. Note due to limitations of manifest v3, the lite version may not block as much as the regular.</p><p>Or users can switch to a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> (gecko) based browser to continue using the regular uBlock Origin.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chrome</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-warns-ublock-origin-and-other-extensions-may-be-disabled-soon/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bleepingcomputer.com/news/goog</span><span class="invisible">le/google-warns-ublock-origin-and-other-extensions-may-be-disabled-soon/</span></a></p>
Nacho<p>Recordatorio periódico de que utilizar un navegador desarrollado por una empresa cuya principal fuente de ingresos es la publicidad online igual no es el mejor escenario:<br><a href="https://www.genbeta.com/actualidad/parecia-eterno-farol-ha-llegado-dia-google-chrome-esta-desactivando-bloqueadores-anuncios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">genbeta.com/actualidad/parecia</span><span class="invisible">-eterno-farol-ha-llegado-dia-google-chrome-esta-desactivando-bloqueadores-anuncios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://frankenwolke.com/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://frankenwolke.com/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chrome</span></a> <a href="https://frankenwolke.com/tags/adblock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adblock</span></a></p>
BadgerScot 🦡🏴<p><span>The url sources for the blocklists:<br><br></span><b>The Toolz website's adblock list:</b><span> <br></span><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d3ward/toolz/master/src/d3host.adblock" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d3ward/toolz/master/src/d3host.adblock</a><span><br></span><b>The Toolz website's hosts list:</b><span><br></span><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d3ward/toolz/master/src/d3host.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d3ward/toolz/master/src/d3host.txt</a><span><br><br></span><b>uBlock Origins' own filter-lists</b>: <a href="https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/tree/master/filters" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/tree/master/filters</a><span><br><br></span><b>How to add these to Vivaldi:</b><span><br>1. In Vivaldi settings go to </span><b>Privacy and Security</b><span><br>2. Click </span><b>Manage Sources</b> (which will then change to <b>Hide Sources</b><span> as shown)<br>3. Click on the plus icon to add the url of your list. <br>4. Import. Vivaldi will then pop up a small summary. Toolz' lists added 135 entries. the uBlock lists added 1845.<br>5. Win at the Internet! </span>:neocat_cool_fingerguns:<span><br><br></span><a href="https://kitty.social/tags/Vivaldi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vivaldi</a> <a href="https://kitty.social/tags/AdBlock" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdBlock</a> <a href="https://kitty.social/tags/Blocklists" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blocklists</a></p>
BadgerScot 🦡🏴<p><span>Ad-Blocking, then. The literal difference between constant annoying internet harassment and privacy invasion, and a peaceful web experience.<br><br>Google have played funny-buggers with Chromium's extension format so Manifest v3 is here to effectively castrate all of your fave Ad-Blocking tools.<br><br>I've been testing Vivaldi browser this morning to see how it's own in-built Ad-Block works. Vivaldi are supporting Manifest v2 for the time being but only until mid 2025 when the Chromium code for v2 will be entirely removed.<br><br>Vivaldi's own Ad-Block solution has been described as less-capable but what does that mean in real terms? Does it offer the same level of protection as purpose-specific extensions like uBlock Origin? Is it even capable of offering that level?<br><br>I found the following web site that gives me an lovely visual representation of ad-blocking with a list of anything blocked and anything that slips the dragnet.<br><br></span><a href="https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html</a><span><br><br>Let's do some informal testing:<br></span><b>Vivaldi Ad-Block OFF | UBlock Origin OFF = 4%</b><span><br><br>That's to be expected. Truly appalling, the raw unfiltered web. Every market-store vendor in the world up in your face selling things at you.<br><br></span><b>Vivaldi Ad-Block OFF | UBlock Origin ON = 99%</b><span><br><br>Yep, also expected. This is why people swear by uBlock Origin. All of that advertising and tracking nonsense </span><i>annihilated</i><span>. NB: That 1% is the test dev admitting there may be other Javascript web pages it doesn't specifically cover with their test.<br><br>Now here's the meat of this post:<br><br></span><b>Vivaldi Ad-Block ON | UBlock Origin OFF = 74%</b><span><br><br>That's actually reasonable, if not all-encompassing. The Test's own score-banding lists this as a good result. However, a glance down at some of the blocking reveals big names like Google and Amazon are slipping through the net. I personally wouldn't accept this.<br><br>Luckily, though, you can import your own block lists to Vivaldi's own default lists. The Toolz test itself lists a couple that they claim will plug the gaps in the testing. Vivaldi's forums linked me to a couple more. Four url imports later (importing the urls rather than text files means they'll update automatically)<br><br></span><b>Vivaldi Ad-Block ON with Imported Lists | UBlock Origin OFF = 99%</b><span><br><br>99% again, natively inside Vivaldi </span><i>without</i> uBlock Origin! That's really great to see although there are <i>tonnes</i><span> of caveats around this, for example it is only ONE test that might not test for everything needing blocked; it's far from a definitive finding so please don't take this as recommendation just yet.<br><br>Vivaldi have said they'll improve the Ad-block in the future as we approach v2 shut-down, and I think it's currently missing Dynamic Blocking which is a bit of a biggie, but my tests above are still very encouraging for the plucky Norwegians. I'll post the url sources in the post below. Feel free to chime in with your own thoughts and experiences!<br><br></span><a href="https://kitty.social/tags/AdBlock" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdBlock</a> <a href="https://kitty.social/tags/Vivaldi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vivaldi</a> <a href="https://kitty.social/tags/Browsers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Browsers</a> <a href="https://kitty.social/tags/Software" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Software</a> <a href="https://kitty.social/tags/ManifestV3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ManifestV3</a></p>
Adam ♿<p>Why hasn't anyone developed <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AdBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlock</span></a> or <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SponsorBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SponsorBlock</span></a> for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Podcasts</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a></p>
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