Timeline for Does an adblocker defeat the tracking part of the ad module, or just the display of ads?
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| Oct 3, 2018 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAndroid/status/1047501751056777218 | ||
| Oct 3, 2018 at 14:08 | answer | added | beeshyams | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 10:14 | comment | added | Izzy | Oh, and I'd take my fingers off Ghostery. It's quite obvious they are able to track you, even the Firefox addon's settings are in the cloud and not local. | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 10:08 | comment | added | Izzy | ABP blocks "intrusive ads", but doesn't let you decide what's intrusive and what's not (rumors have it that's decided by who pays them). uBlock is strongly recommended in Firefox. I use it, it works quite well. And the dev has a good reputation. uBlock uses a mix of host lists and "cosmetical filtering", like ABP ("element hiding"). But I'd trust uBlock 1.000 times more than ABP. | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 2:06 | answer | added | iBug | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 2, 2018 at 23:53 | comment | added | Izzy |
@beeshyams OP mentioned AdAway. That's a root app which just manages the /system/etc/hosts file, and thus not "part of user tracking" (I use it myself). It doesn't check what hosts you connect to. So we need to differentiate here – as for AdblockPlus you might be right ;)
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| Oct 2, 2018 at 20:02 | history | asked | YetAnotherRandomUser | CC BY-SA 4.0 |