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Feature Request: Built-in adblocker

Open GuiMar10 opened this issue 1 year ago • 15 comments

What feature would you like to see?

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What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Additional context

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GuiMar10 avatar Aug 04 '24 20:08 GuiMar10

Shipping it with uBlock Origin wouldn't be a bad idea :)

Donnnno avatar Aug 04 '24 20:08 Donnnno

he said hes working on a built in one based on ghostery in a reddit comment sometime earlier

mayemu avatar Aug 05 '24 11:08 mayemu

I think uBlock Origin would be optimal.

Highly supported, most efficient on Firefox, popular and customizable. There's a reason it's the first choice in LibreWolf and alike.

cyrneko avatar Aug 06 '24 12:08 cyrneko

yea, mullvad does as well. i definitely agree. ublock is miles ahead of ghostery in its content blocking abilities and really is an undisputed requirement to browse the web safe and privately. even brave users will disable brave shield for it, so i think developing a ghostery based adblock would be efforts better towards other features

mayemu avatar Aug 06 '24 12:08 mayemu

I believe Arc also bundles uBlock Origin, so that's another browser to add to the list of references.

cyrneko avatar Aug 06 '24 12:08 cyrneko

ghostery is also redundant with firefox's total cookie protection.

arkenfox has a full guide to necessary and redundant extensions here: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother and they are kind of the utmost authority on firefox browser security. ghostery is also listed under redundant extensions as is most "privacy" extensions because ublock literally does everything they all do but miles better. bundling with ublock and maybe skip redirect would be best for user experience imo!

mayemu avatar Aug 06 '24 12:08 mayemu

Does Arc bundle uBlock?

mr-cheffy avatar Aug 06 '24 22:08 mr-cheffy

Ye

GuiMar10 avatar Aug 06 '24 22:08 GuiMar10

Doesn't it have to comply with Manifest Version 3?

mr-cheffy avatar Aug 06 '24 22:08 mr-cheffy

Not for now, but they're working on a native alternative to uBlock

GuiMar10 avatar Aug 06 '24 22:08 GuiMar10

There's no reason to make a native ad blocker since ublock origin is blazing based, and if another adblocker is chosen I will dox all the developers and harass them for the next 25 years as a prank.

freebritney132 avatar Aug 21 '24 03:08 freebritney132

There's no reason to make a native ad blocker since ublock origin is blazing based, and if another adblocker is chosen I will dox all the developers and harass them for the next 25 years as a prank.

that's the most compressed cringe I've ever read on GitHub

cyrneko avatar Aug 21 '24 13:08 cyrneko

There's no reason to make a native ad blocker since ublock origin is blazing based, and if another adblocker is chosen I will dox all the developers and harass them for the next 25 years as a prank.

I've decided to go for Firefox's built in adblocker 😬

mr-cheffy avatar Aug 21 '24 13:08 mr-cheffy

Firefox's built-in one?

Are you simply extending the tracker protection with new lists that also block ads? :thinking:

cyrneko avatar Aug 21 '24 13:08 cyrneko

This issue should be discussed further. You can view and continue the discussion here: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/discussions/888

~ This is an automatic operation to better enhancements requests organization.

mr-cheffy avatar Aug 26 '24 10:08 mr-cheffy