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j45today at 2:23 PM5 repliesview on HN

Ad blockers focus on ads, not fingerprinting.


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ronjouchtoday at 2:28 PM

"Ad blockers" nowadays do much more. From the horse’s mouth, which describes itself as a “wide-spectrum content blocker” [1]:

“uBlock Origin (uBO) is a CPU and memory-efficient wide-spectrum content blocker for Chromium and Firefox. It blocks ads, trackers, coin miners, popups, annoying anti-blockers, malware sites, etc., by default using EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe's Blocklist, Online Malicious URL Blocklist, and uBO filter lists. There are many other lists available to block even more [...]

Ads, "unintrusive" or not, are just the visible portion of the privacy-invading means entering your browser when you visit most sites. uBO's primary goal is to help users neutralize these privacy-invading methods in a way that welcomes those users who do not wish to use more technical means.”

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock?tab=readme-ov-file#ublock-...

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autoexectoday at 5:19 PM

Disable JS and you've eliminated the vast majority of fingerprinting (besides "blocks JS")

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mewmewblobcattoday at 2:24 PM

Depends on what lists you use. If you use uBlock Origin, and enable most of the lists, it'll target both.

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