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AdGuard tweaking (Yes, I confess, I did it again, changed adblocking strategy)
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<blockquote data-quote="Lenny_Fox" data-source="post: 908876" data-attributes="member: 82776"><p>For the convenience for other members who don't like to tweak and ONLY want to try out my enhanced STEALTH mode settings I have added the AdGuard setup of my girlfriend's laptop.</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">1. General</span></strong></p><p><strong>[ATTACH=full]247250[/ATTACH]</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">2. Filters</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">NB. When you live EU or North America, as suggested by [USER=85179]@security123[/USER] you could add Kees1958 most prevalent ad & tracking networks (see post above).</span></p><p></p><p><strong>[ATTACH=full]247252[/ATTACH]</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">3. Stealth mode</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">As posted earlier, you can add the additional URL-parameters used for parsing trackingg data from one website to another which I suggested in the Remove tracking parameters box (just add)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">[Code]</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">,gs_l,gs_Lcp,client,sclient,ei,sei,gws_rd,gs_gbg,gs_mss,gs_rn,ved,uact,fbclid,_hsenc,_hsmi,__hssc,__hstc,hsCtaTracking,sc_campaign,sc_channel,sc_content,sc_medium,sc_outcome,sc_geo,sc_country,elqTrackId,elqTrack,assetType,assetId,recipientId,campaignId,siteId,s_cid,itm_source,itm_medium,itm_campaign,itm_content,itm_term,spReportId,spJobID,spUserID,spMailingID,hmb_campaign,hmb_medium,hmb_source,mkt_tok,mc_cid,mc_eid,pk_campaign,pk_kwd,pk_source,pk_medium,pk_content</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">[/Code]</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Since most privacy aware people (95% of this forum) have already eneabled the option in their browser to use session cookies only, I have disabled self-destruction for third-party cookies. When you read this and think "what on earth does this guy mean with session cookies", don't disable the 'Self-destruction of third-party cookies' option (which is enabled by default).</span></p><p></p><p><strong>[ATTACH=full]247253[/ATTACH]</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">4. Miscellaneous</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The 'Use optimized filters' really is a nice feature. When enabled only the often triggered rules are used. This reduces the number of stale rules polluting a filter considerable. As example with the filters Adguard base+privacy+annoyance+Dutch+Kees1958 this results in just over 52 thousand rules. This will reduce cold - first lanch of your webbrowser with (estimated) plus or take half a second on a midrange spec PC up to a second on a low spec PC (compared to uBlockOrigin with default lists).</span></p><p></p><p><strong>[ATTACH=full]247254[/ATTACH]</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lenny_Fox, post: 908876, member: 82776"] For the convenience for other members who don't like to tweak and ONLY want to try out my enhanced STEALTH mode settings I have added the AdGuard setup of my girlfriend's laptop. [B][SIZE=5]1. General[/SIZE] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1602579182386.png"]247250[/ATTACH] [SIZE=5]2. Filters[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]NB. When you live EU or North America, as suggested by [USER=85179]@security123[/USER] you could add Kees1958 most prevalent ad & tracking networks (see post above).[/SIZE] [B][ATTACH type="full" alt="1602579407593.png"]247252[/ATTACH] [SIZE=5]3. Stealth mode[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]As posted earlier, you can add the additional URL-parameters used for parsing trackingg data from one website to another which I suggested in the Remove tracking parameters box (just add) [Code] ,gs_l,gs_Lcp,client,sclient,ei,sei,gws_rd,gs_gbg,gs_mss,gs_rn,ved,uact,fbclid,_hsenc,_hsmi,__hssc,__hstc,hsCtaTracking,sc_campaign,sc_channel,sc_content,sc_medium,sc_outcome,sc_geo,sc_country,elqTrackId,elqTrack,assetType,assetId,recipientId,campaignId,siteId,s_cid,itm_source,itm_medium,itm_campaign,itm_content,itm_term,spReportId,spJobID,spUserID,spMailingID,hmb_campaign,hmb_medium,hmb_source,mkt_tok,mc_cid,mc_eid,pk_campaign,pk_kwd,pk_source,pk_medium,pk_content [/Code] Since most privacy aware people (95% of this forum) have already eneabled the option in their browser to use session cookies only, I have disabled self-destruction for third-party cookies. When you read this and think "what on earth does this guy mean with session cookies", don't disable the 'Self-destruction of third-party cookies' option (which is enabled by default).[/SIZE] [B][ATTACH type="full" alt="1602579651340.png"]247253[/ATTACH] [SIZE=5]4. Miscellaneous[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]The 'Use optimized filters' really is a nice feature. When enabled only the often triggered rules are used. This reduces the number of stale rules polluting a filter considerable. As example with the filters Adguard base+privacy+annoyance+Dutch+Kees1958 this results in just over 52 thousand rules. This will reduce cold - first lanch of your webbrowser with (estimated) plus or take half a second on a midrange spec PC up to a second on a low spec PC (compared to uBlockOrigin with default lists).[/SIZE] [B][ATTACH type="full" alt="1602579874511.png"]247254[/ATTACH][/B] [/QUOTE]
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