I invite anyone interested to do their own research on the subject, as always. Just because you are many fans of uBlock Origin / Firefox around here does not mean what you say is anywhere near true.
The replies I’ve gotten were full of shit, utterly hypocritical, and oftentimes factually wrong. They just say “in strict mode websites can break” and let you chose.įact VII: In reality, Firefox does not set the tracking protection to “Strict” by default for compatibility reasons. > AFAIK Firefox tracking protection devs doesn’t make such sneaky move “for compatibility”. Even Saint Gorhill understands this, which is why uBlock Origin is not blocking the scripts in question either by default, you *. In truth, you can’t block each and every script on these pages, as basic functionality breaks. > I wont add much because people already gave good arguments but i’ll just leave this hereįact VI: Brave does not allow Facebook / Twitter / Google trackers, nor is there any kind of monetary agreement between Brave and these companies. Show me the default adblocker of Firefox that is somewhat similar to uBlock Origin or Brave’s adblocker, then. > Whatever Martin’s posts cover, we can reliably expect your never-ending agitation against Mozilla. > Brave is, after all, owned by an advertising company, and not being able to detect ads impacts their business modelįact IV: Mozilla receives 80%+ of its annual revenue from Google, the biggest ad company in the world.įact V: Mozilla does not implement a local ad delivery system that would hurt Google’s revenue. Brave’s ads are also opt-in and the browser doesn’t show its own ads by default.įact III: Websites do not lose any more revenue via Brave than they would via uBlock Origin or any other adblocker. > Brave added an adblocker for one reason – to be able to detect ads in order to be able to replace them.įact II: Brave does not replace ads on websites, Brave’s ads are system notifications. My point still stands, what you say does not disprove it at all. > Enhanced Tracking Protection is a tracker blocker, not an ad blocker – the name should give you a clue, but yeah, let’s be disingenuousįirefox’s tracker blocking tracking blocking exists because they are too afraid to include an adblocker similar to uBlock Origin, Brave etc. Those API limitations are not applicable to native adblockers (like the one in Brave) as native adblockers are not extensions... For example, Brave does CNAME uncloaking: > I guess the developer of uBlock Origin knows more about the subject than you:įact I: This article just cites the extension API limitations of Chromium. The Firefox version of uBlock Origin is considered the version that offers the best protection, as it supports protection against CNAME tracking, which the Chrome versions do not offer. To name a few improvements: blocking WebRTC from leaking IP addresses, removing elements permanently from webpages, blocking JavaScript by default, and addressing new tracking methods, such as CNAME tracking, Hill improved the extension over the years, adding features and improvements to it on a regular basis. The extension was created after Hill left the uBlock project that he created. The uBlock Origin extension was first published on Mozilla's extensions store in April 2015 by its creator Raymond Hill, known as gorhill online. As far as the number of reviews is concerned: uBlock Origin received more than 13200 reviews, thousands more than Adblock Plus' 8500 reviews at the time of writing.
The average rating is 4.8 out of 5 on the Mozilla add-ons store, while Adblock Plus has a rating of 4.5 out of 5. To increase your privacy, you should constantly manage and delete unwanted cookies.UBlock Origin beats Adblock Plus in other metrics as well. Multi-Account Containers can help manage these and prevent them from building a specific persona for you, but that isn’t the end of the story. Still, they allow websites to track your activity and siphon your personal data. They can be useful on various websites (such as remembering your shopping cart). Most of the tracking that occurs on the internet happens via cookies. This way, one website won’t be able to know about your activity on another site, so your search results won’t influence the advertisements you receive.Īnother bonus function of Multi-Account Containers is that you can simultaneously sign in to multiple accounts for the same site, giving you a better browsing experience. For instance, you might use a Facebook container, search engine container, and Amazon container.
With Multi-Account Containers, you can separate your browsing activity (and therefore the cookies) into separate containers.