1: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
I always thought that would be the evolution of ads, but didn't realize it was already fairly widespread.
Maybe it's time for me to look at switching back to Firefox. I ditched them when they pushed so hard for DoH which looks a lot like ad delivery tech to me. I thought Microsoft would give users a good experience with Edge since they should be trying to gain market share, but that was totally wrong. It pushes Microsoft accounts and affiliated products super hard.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a plain, un-Googled, Chromium browser on Windows. I'd prefer something digitally signed and without extra features like Brave, etc. have.
It looks like privacy-enabling tech to me. I don't want my ISP to snoop which domains I visit or hijack DNS requests.
Just wanted to point out that different threat models and actor evaluations exist.
Learned first hand when trying to visit adguard.com with DoH enabled at a relative's. Comcast's router blocked the website by recognizing adguard's unencrypted website IP address.
DoH is not really hiding anything from ISP's.
[0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-sni/
P.S. not sure why your comment got flagged. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.
It pushes Microsoft accounts
I use it on my work machine without an account, and there's no push that I could ever see. Seems about the same on that front as anything else, including Firefox. I also have a Firefox account. I do use a MS account on my personal Edge install.
and affiliated products super hard.
You would think this is a negative, but it opened my eyes and saved me a lot of money. In fact, Edge's shopping features were something I wish I had for years prior. I liked it enough that I went looking for best-in-class options, and ended up installing Honey. I now rely on both Honey and Edge's shopping features to save me money.
I would go so far as to say if I had to leave Edge and use a browser without Edge's shopping features, I'd be one of the features pulling me back to Edge.
[1] https://www.datarequests.org/blog/honey-data-collection/
Edit: When did we stop calling this stuff "spyware"? When it became widespread enough to no longer be remarkable?
I keep Tor Browser installed at all times for best-in-class privacy alongside Edge. It blows away Firefox on that front.
If I wanted to make the tradeoffs for a more privacy-oriented daily browser, I wouldn't reach for Firefox in 2022. I'd use Brave.
I can't say I fault MS on that one, but people will any way without thinking about it. They're providing a service. Teamviewer certainly requires an account.
Once edge workers get cheap enough I wonder how we'll be able to stop ads at all. Everything but the bootstrap page could be randomized per user and all fronted by the same 1st-party website.
Think encrypt the real request needed into the url to the edge worker it de-crypts that payload and does the request. Everything except the content will look identical to the users computer.
Agree Mozilla’s move to enable this practically by default with just a slimy quick pop up message about privacy was weak
Setting the default resolvers to cloudflare was also weak.
They even presented the problem in a misleading way. How is centralizing DNS requests to a major provider like cloudflare improving privacy. Ohh because wink wink … Mozilla said that they got privacy “guarantees”. Your local ISP will no longer snoop but instead we will just sent all requests to one of the largest resolving services in the world.
But that aside, maybe Vivaldi is what you're looking for?
> This is not the case with Chromium-based browsers, i.e. tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is up and ready in Chromium-based browsers, while these are properly filtered in Firefox.
Wow. I did not know this. This seems like a huge bug/problem in Chromium if you care about blocking trackers.
Hopefully, Mozilla won't be completely inept as to fail to position themselves to capture any users leaving Chrome over this.
I've seen some suggestions that the number of adblock users could be as high as 40% of all users but that's possibly an over estimation. It's also not clear how they are collecting that information.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/435252/adblock-users-wor...
No, we don't have any alternative to Chromium other than Firefox and Safari. But for the Chromium based browsers, Brave and Opera do have built-in adblocking independently of Manifest V3 [1]. Vivaldi claimed that they might maintain an alternate store [1]. So all three alternate browsers have the option to offer better level of ad-blocking to get more installs. Of course, they could also decide to monetize with an "Acceptable ads" program after they gain market shares.
[1]https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-brave-vivaldi-to-ignore-...