Privacy Solution of the Year

gotfw · 02-04-2015, 12:28 AM

C'mon!!!

uBlock, Privacy Badger, and HTTPS Everywhere rock!

Yes, GnuPG and NoScript are also great, but I am surprised the above didn't get more votes. Meh, evidently not many of the hip, cool kids hang out here ;-P

teresaejunior · 02-04-2015, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by gotfw

C'mon!!!

uBlock, Privacy Badger, and HTTPS Everywhere rock!

Yes, GnuPG and NoScript are also great, but I am surprised the above didn't get more votes. Meh, evidently not many of the hip, cool kids hang out here ;-P

I had a look at uBlock and in my opinion, Adguard AdBlocker is still better. Although uBlock is a little faster, Adguard replaces Privacy Badger or Ghostery and uses less RAM than Adblock Plus! Also, you can block new elements very easily with the mouse!

cynwulf · 02-04-2015, 06:38 AM

No idea why adblock is so popular especially considering: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02..._plus_unblock/

And of course the "acceptable ads" thing of a few years back: https://adblockplus.org/development-...n-adblock-plus

gor0 · 02-04-2015, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by JWJones

But no, I have zero interest in showing proof of this

is this u 'BIG' ublock ???

Code:

uBlock 		2 	0.74%

gotfw · 02-05-2015, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by cynwulf

No idea why adblock is so popular especially considering: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02..._plus_unblock/

And of course the "acceptable ads" thing of a few years back: https://adblockplus.org/development-...n-adblock-plus

Ignorance. That's why.

gotfw · 02-05-2015, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by teresaejunior

I had a look at uBlock and in my opinion, Adguard AdBlocker is still better. Although uBlock is a little faster, Adguard replaces Privacy Badger or Ghostery and uses less RAM than Adblock Plus! Also, you can block new elements very easily with the mouse!

Proprietary, closed source, commercial software for Winweenies? Thanks, but no thanks.

uBlock is very light footprint w/o noticeable impact on performance. This on a workstation that I built almost a decade ago by now (hmmm.... my how time flies, maybe 9 years? Time for an upgrade? Hell, no, still runs great.)

gor0 · 02-05-2015, 06:53 AM

tia!

which 1 to use ???

Code:

firefox-extension-ublock
Category: 	network
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock


firefox-extension-ublock-git 
Category: 	x11
https://github.com/Deathamns/uBlock/tree/ports/xpi

most folks say'd GIT ???

---------- Post added 02-05-15 at 08:54 AM ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by gotfw

Proprietary, closed source, commercial software for Winweenies? Thanks, but no thanks.

uBlock is very light footprint w/o noticeable impact on performance. This on a workstation that I built almost a decade ago by now (hmmm.... my how time flies, maybe 9 years? Time for an upgrade? Hell, no, still runs great.)

nice1 that!

Quote:

Winweenie$

gor0 · 02-06-2015, 09:58 AM

[QUOTE=gor0;5312450]

which 1 to use ???

Code:

firefox-extension-ublock
Category: 	network
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock


firefox-extension-ublock-git 
Category: 	x11
https://github.com/Deathamns/uBlock/tree/ports/xpi

GIT ???

... ? ...

gor0 · 02-08-2015, 07:54 AM

[QUOTE=gor0;5313067]

Quote:

Originally Posted by gor0

which 1 to use ???

Code:

firefox-extension-ublock
Category: 	network
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock


firefox-extension-ublock-git 
Category: 	x11
https://github.com/Deathamns/uBlock/tree/ports/xpi

GIT ???

... ? ...

NO ONE ? need to solve !

gotfw · 02-09-2015, 11:18 AM

[QUOTE=gor0;5313903]

Quote:

Originally Posted by gor0

NO ONE ? need to solve !

They're both hosted on github. Grab the gorhill one, as the other generates a "This is not the page you were looking for".

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

ozar · 02-18-2015, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by JWJones

Here's a new adblocker:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

µBlock - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

Currently using it instead of my usual Adblock Edge, seems pretty good so far.

Yeah, uBlock is an awesome blocker for sure, especially in "advanced user" mode. I switched to it about a month or two back and find it better than the alternatives in pretty much every way. In addition, it's now available directly from the Mozilla Add-ons web-page for those that don't want to fetch it from GitHub:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock/

This extension gets my vote for 2015 Privacy Solution of the Year.

ozar · 02-18-2015, 07:29 AM

Oh, and another really nice privacy/security extension that didn't make the Members Choice Awards list for 2014 is Policeman:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir...don/policeman/

I've been experimenting with this one on Firefox for a while now and find it to be very powerful, and highly worthy of checking out. Note that it's not simply an install and go extension, but one that requires some time and effort to get it tweaked for proper usage.

JZL240I-U · 02-18-2015, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by ozar

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock/

The download button is not activated?!? (Or is that a after effect from my still using AdBlock+

).

ozar · 02-18-2015, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by JZL240I-U

The download button is not activated?!? (Or is that a after effect from my still using AdBlock+

).

The uBlock developer recommends against using other blockers at the same time you are running uBlock, so that's probably it... just guessing, though.

gotfw · 02-18-2015, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ozar

Oh, and another really nice privacy/security extension that didn't make the Members Choice Awards list for 2015 is Policeman:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir...don/policeman/

I've been experimenting with this one on Firefox for a while now and find it to be very powerful, and highly worthy of checking out. Note that it's not simply an install and go extension, but one that requires some time and effort to get it tweaked for proper usage.

This looks pretty promising, albeit a bit of effort up front to configure.

Has anyone looked into uMatrix? I've been happily using uBlock as replacement for AdBlock Edge - much faster - but not yet gotten around to checking out it's big brother, uMatrix.

Peace-