frogzone
The TailsOS devs say they include #uBlockOrigin in 🧅 Tor Browser "to remove advertisments", but tbh it removes all sorts of nasties.
Q: Do you think all 🧅 #TorBrowser installs should have #uBlock by default?If you dont want to answer yes or no, ur welcome to just share so others know they have this option if they want to install uBlock manually. 🥸
Ma10gan ♠️Ⓥ
@frogzone I don't think every Tor install *needs* ublock by default, but they should probably mention it and similar common steps people take after installing Tor on a welcome page for new people.
Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧
frogzone
@ma10gan so an option in tor browser like, "Disable ublock this session? Sometimes uBlock can block page elements like counters and adverts." ?
i'd like that, actually! @torproject see above ^^^
Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧
frogzone
@silverpill @stefano @sun @jeffcliff someone in DMs made a good point that "ublock should be configured in a way that makes browser fingerprint identical for all users"!
Is a good point because another addon #noScript doesn't do this. Is VERY different when you u manually install it, as opposed to the version built into torbrowser. Manual installing NoScript in say #iceWeasel or #librewolf has disappointing exceptions to blocking #javascript, they don't block js of 40 CAGeMAFIA, netflx, yahoo, and pay(Prowl) domains/disservices.... therefore ENTRENCHING the past 25 years of effective #colonialism and i would say #fascism. A person needs to manually untick each of the 40(!) CAGeMAFIA domains every time they install (and reset!) the addon. Whereas tor browser, in Safest Mode of course, at least begins to level the playing field and blocks all js by default not giving favorable treatment to #oligarchs. (tangential to this problem, I believe tor could be much more transparent in highlighting sites that entrench the #technocracy, maybe it should include #yandex and #bytedance too and put a warning in the corner that a site is on #bigtech??)
To my surprise, the https://tails.net page states that @torproject are the developers of tails (!!!) so we can ask them direct....
"Hi Tor Devs,1)why is uBlock on Tails' Tor browser and not in other tor browser installs? That immediately creates a browser #fingerprint and your project is against #fingerprinting because it negatively affects #anonymity, have you considered asking people whether they want to disable uBlock when they open tor browser, as per my response to @ma10gan above?
2) does the built-in uBlock in #TailsOS differ in anyway from a manual install of the addon of the same version?
3) while failing at (1) but confirming (2), can a link to the latest version of ublock used by Tor be placed on this page where ublock is mentioned, so people using Tor outside of Tails can stay up to date?
Thanks and looking forward to hearing back from #TorProject on this fairly serious discrepancy.
frogzone
@silverpill @stefano @sun @jeffcliff @ma10gan
hi @torproject it would be great to get a response to the above well-reasoned query about improving privacy and reducing fingerprinting. thanks in advance and thanks for the work u do.
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