Wow, I apologize, and very interesting! This is some sort of tech version of mansplaining, I guess, lesson learned!
I was certain on the PB github or something there was something saying not to use it with uBlock, and likewise on gorhills github, but maybe it was a mandella effect or something.
In any case, thanks for the clarification and humbling.
>Do NOT use uBO with any other content blocker. uBO performs as well as or better than most popular blockers. Other blockers can prevent uBO's privacy or anti-blocker-defusing features from working correctly.
My perspective:
- uBO is good enough by itself
- PB is good enough by itself
- uBO comes with unique features
- PB comes with unique features
- While using uBO with PB may indeed cause some problems like anti-blocker-defusing features to break, it doesn't seem like a big deal for most people
- uBO alone is good, PB alone is good, uBO + PB is also good
Google can keep talking about user safety all they want but their talk is hollow because:
(A) Chrome Web Store is full of malicious extensions. Google doesn't appear interested in consistently enforcing their own policies.
(B) Requiring DNR does nothing about all the other avenues for stealing user data. The fundamental problem is that a totally safe set of extension APIs is a totally limited set of extension APIs. No real innovation or differentiation is possible.
Not really? One of the design goals of MV3 is to reduce the ubiquity of the "Read and change all your data on all websites" permission which shady apps like Refoorest and Karma pretty much always require. The article makes hay of the fact that Karma has pathways available to exfiltrate your data and you have to trust they're handling it responsibly, but in Manifest v2 that was true of basically all ad blockers as well.
In a world where ad blockers and other responsibly written extensions don't expect to proxy all web requests, I think a lot fewer people will grant this permission to a "plant trees for free" extension.
What it changed for me personally is that I'm no longer exposed to such extensions because I don't grant any extension permissions which would allow malicious activity. I'm sure Raymond Hill is right that some functionality couldn't make it to his MV3 adblocker, but whatever it is I'm not missing it.
>some functionality couldn't make it to his MV3 adblocker
One of the things that didn't make it is the entire request control dashboard. No more granular reporting or controls, at all. No more "medium mode" or "hard mode" (blocking unknown domains by default and making exceptions as you go). Sure, if you didn't use it before, you won't miss it.
Yeah I get it, but I think we're talking past each other. You're a knowledgeable user and the new APIs made it possible not to worry about uBlock getting hijacked. I'm an extension developer, and I see an appalling disconnect between what Google says and the reality of Chrome extensions and Chrome Web Store for regular (non-technical) users.
“Over the past years, EFF has taken millions in funds from Google and Facebook via straight donations and controversial court payouts that many see as under-the-radar contributions. Hell, Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s foundation gave EFF at least $1.2 million.”
It seems to hurt a lot of people’s feelings in SV, but no, you wearing an EFF tshirt and making yearly corporate-matches donations doesn’t remove your culpability for working for big tech. Likewise, the EFF knows how many of the “small” donation come from SV tech employees.
It’s a sham organization that was premised on a faulty understanding of regulatory frameworks that does very, very little of value in the past 15 years.
This article is a manipulative hit piece from 2018. Employee donations with employer match are still individual donations. "Controversial" court payouts? Come on.
Privacy Badger can replace YouTube embeds with "click to activate" placeholders. Faster browsing, better privacy, easy-to-use controls, at least when the replacement works properly.
You have to move the toggle for youtube.com to red first.
Main Menu > Extensions > Extensions Manager > Privacy Badger > Settings > Tracking Domains > search for youtube.com > tap to update the toggle for youtube.com to red
Limit online advertising to contextual ads, and to the same attribution methods advertisers have access to with traditional (TV, print and billboard) ads.
Is your browser a user agent or an advertiser agent?
