Hi, Nik Cubrilovic wrote (30 Jan 2016 06:26:44 GMT) : > Hi everybody - I know that the topic of migrating the Tor Browser on > Tails from AdBlock Plus (ABP) to a faster and more modern plugin comes > up regularly, so i'll keep this short and get to why Adblock Plus > should be replaced with uBlock Origin (uBO) and why it's ready now:
Thanks for the update! I'll snip everything except what may still remain problematic. > 5. It is not just an ad blocker - advanced mode with dynamic filtering > can implement NoScript (with website scopes, so if you approve > cloudflare.com on one domain it won't globally approve it), same with > Request Policy like rules, and implementing HTTPSEverywhere in rules > (or similar redirects to take users to .onion versions of websites). > Dynamic filtering would allow a default block mode for all third-party > resources and all scripts while allowing a whitelist of sites where > non-third-party javascript could be enabled: > https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering > Example default deny ruleset: > https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-default-deny:-useful-rulesets > I'm familiar with the "whitelists can be fingerprinted" argument, but > it is resolved here as a third-party site can't check what the user > has blocked or allowed because of the rule scopes. > uBO has an emphasis on supporting and loading privacy and tracking > oriented rulelists, along with malware rules - so it is more suited to > a privacy-oriented browser and operating system than a simple ad > blocker. To me, this point is rather problematic. I'm not sure it's a good idea to add more filtering than ads, and supporting it adds some code (and potential for security issues) that I would rather avoid shipping and running unless we really want it. So, I would really like to treat _as a separate discussion_ the question of whether we want to use these features or not. Let's please, for the moment, consider uBO as an ad blocker that is proposed to replaced ABP _only_. How easy is it to turn off all filtering features / lists except the ad blocking ones? > I think this issue, which talks about ABP being replaced with uBO > should be reopened: > https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9833 Done. What's your Redmine login? Cheers, -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.