Curious if anyone has any insight into using Ublock Origin with tor browser at all?
Don’t use plugins or customize the Tor browser, because it makes you stand out from the crowd. The point is to have everyone’s browser look exactly the same to fingerprinters.
Doesn’t Tor on Tails come with ublock origin ? I don’t get why Tor doesn’t come with it preinstalled too
That is correct. Tor Browser on Tails comes with uBlock Origin. It might be that DDG (or some other financial supporters) are not happy if the Tor Project ships TB with uBlock. There are many things to be blocked by uB even on DDG, Brave, MetaGer, etc. (although obviously they are much less invasive than you-know-what search engines). Purely privacy-wise they’re annoying of course. But understandably they do need to monetize something to provide search engines, and I think some of them are financially supporting the Tor Project too, or they’re helping each other, so… I don’t know. Just a guess.
Isn’t it like Mozilla has to be nice to Google? Ultimately, doesn’t this mean that end users are not making enough donations? People say privacy and freedom are important, but normal people really don’t like to pay for these important things, like assuming libre is like free beer!
i do
i use tor not for anonymity but for privacy from my isp. Where i live, they’re legally obliged to keep a record of all my connections.
and i use uBlock to filter all 3rd party connections, annoyances, ads &c.
Only tailsOS is worth doing this safely.
Yes because the internet without ublock origin is straight up unusable for me lol
Using Tor Browser with anything but its ootb configuration defeats the whole point, so… no
I slightly disagree. Adding addons and stuff does defeat the whole point, but Tor comes out of the box with JS enabled, and disabling JS makes life better for Tor users.
My question is why isn’t ublock installed by default
It is on mullvad browser which is a joint project between Tor and mullvad. At this point I think it’s just historical inertia preventing ublock origin from running inside the tor browser bundle by default.
yes, ublock origin is a must have to make the internet work for me.
so my school chromebook blocks ublock origin
anyway I was browsing the internet normally at school yesterday
i kept getting those weird temu banner ads with the dildos and shit
i reported the ad, clicked it was inappropriate MULTIPLE TIMES, and I KEPT GETTING IT, EXCEPT EVEN MORE OFTEN!
