How many Adblocking/Privacy extensions are too much?
How many Adblocking/Privacy extensions are too much?
So as the title mentions, I'm wondering how much is too much?
I am currently using Brave with the setting to:
- Aggressively block trackers & ads
- Only connect with HTTPS
- Block fingerprinting
- Block cross-site cookies
In addition to that, I have installed the following extensions:
- uBlock Origin
- Ghostery
- Decentraleyes
- DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
So my question is: Is this overkill? If so, what should/could be removed that may be redundant? I want as much coverage as possible, but not have things bloated.
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Brave is trash and its owned by an asshole. I use adblock browser in my phone and Firefox otherwise. Not sure about the owner or Dev or whatever, but it's much better quality for blocking ads.
An answer to the more pertinent question of how much is too much, however? None. There's no such thing as too much ad blocking.
Why is it trash?
And why are Americans obsessed with the politics of who makes a product?
Its a free, as in free beer, browser. By using it you are not donating money to the CEO.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure he donated to (or still donates to?) homophobic action groups.
That's more than enough reason to boycott something that person is in charge of, imo
How does that affect the software.
When you support software you support the company making it, allowing them to grow and profit. If someone does not want to financially support the actions of someone they disagree with, then that is fine.
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Wow he called me dork.
I'm offended
I do not want success for that man, therefore I'm not going to give his project market share
Market share.. Of something that can be had free? You are making less and less sense.
Yes, because if the browser has no market share, there is no point in it continuing to exist and the company folds.
I don't care if it's free or costs money, the man gets paid if the product is successful. I don't want to support him, therefore I don't use the product. If enough people agree with me and do the same, the product dies & the man fails. Or at the very least the rest of the company kicks him out and the man still fails.
Like this isn't rocket science
This makes no sense.
How do you expect to convince a large group to stop using a product? Just by saying "he's bad"?
Be honest with yourselves and admit it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling of "sticking up to the man" by doing... Nothing.
You see you are deluding yourselves in believing you are making a change, but it's all in your head.
Have you never heard of a boycott?
I've said why I think he's bad, therefore I boycott him and his product. There are other people out there doing exactly the same.
I'm not really sure how you're struggling with this
How are you thinking of stopping a free product.
Okay, one last time, but I've said all this before in fewer words:
Brave is owned by a for-profit company that makes money from its users. One of the ways it does this is the ad credits system on the new tab page (there's probably other ways, I've not looked into it too hard)
If it doesn't have enough users (market share) to sustain the company or if they can't sell the ad space, the company doesn't make enough money to sustain itself and has to do something or fold. If the company folds development stops, the product stagnates and basically dies.
The company might decide to kick out the CEO if enough people are boycotting for the same reasons, that would resolve the issue too.
But yeah I don't even care about the software, I just don't want to support the company and therefore the CEO, so I won't use its product. Otherwise known as a boycott
There's not really much else to say about it
Because we're talking about privacy. If a company has a shady history why would you trust them with your data?
In 2008 he donated $1000 in support of California Proposition 8. I don’t know of anything else, at least publicly. Californians also voted and passed the amendment 52%/47%, it was thrown out by the courts.
More recently in 2020 he did say some of the typical conservative stuff about COVID lockdowns, mask mandates, calling Fouci a liar, etc.
Never mind the American politics nonsense, Brave has a history of slightly dodgy behaviour. Replacing websites ads with their own, keeping donations meant for creators, hijacking referral links and adding in their own, a lot of cryptocurrency shenanigans, and that's just what's on Wikipedia!
I agree with you, that's irrelevant. What's not irrelevant is that it's chromium as in based on chrome, the browser trying to add drm to internet pages. Please use Firefox instead
Given that the US has almost zero privacy legislation, the politics of the owner/maker often hints at decisions that eventually make it into the software. Many of the reasons to avoid chrome and chromium are similar to this, though not about a specific person but about the values that google holds in fucking over standards. We see this reflected in some of the decisions of say social media platforms (even "free-as-in-beer" ones) and many companies.
In many cases, you're still giving them money and/or power to continue fucking up open standards.
What money am I giving. I didn't spend a singular cent.
What power am I giving. I didn't vote for anything.
Who made you like this?
You sure about that?
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Why waste your time on lemmy/kbin or the fediverse? Reddit/X/Threads are free-as-in-beer so you don't pay for them, there's more content, and you don't pay for them. You can skip all of the ads with adblockers and have a great time.
I don't get the point that you are trying to make
That part is clear. You're presumably concerned about privacy based on your participation here, but not about the people responsible for making privacy an issue of concern in the first place. You've artificially constrained politics to "voting", but voting is only a tiny portion of politics, and when it comes to non-government entities one that's not useful. Using software or a platform is inherently political, and when someone is profiting from that and working to chip away your rights it becomes important.
Yes that's the point. I couldn't care less about the politics involved, as long as the product is FOSS.
You like to attach "politics" to anything, because that's what USA television has warped your mind into.
lol. That's the weirdest mind-warping logic that you need to use to make that statement make sense.
I don't watch television in the US. However, everything being political was true when I lived in Europe for years. Many smart Europeans have written about this for centuries, but I'm guessing you haven't read their work.
lol. That's the weirdest mind-warping logic that you need to use to make that statement make sense.
I don't watch television in the US. However, everything being political was true when I lived in Europe for years. Many smart Europeans have written about this for centuries, but I'm guessing you haven't read their work.