New Update ClearURLs

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

then use FPI (First Party Isolation) + Containers

Remember that Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux, where it can hardly be considered a sandbox at all) then Chromium based browser and lacks support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole.
So if one exploit Firefox itself, then all of your content would be not secure as it's not isolated.

That's why Chromium based browser have (strict) site isolation which also protect against sidechannel attacks too.

 

[toto_10]

Anyone else experiencing problems with this extension on sites like MalwareTips, YouTube, sites with logins and dark mode. This extension logs me automatically out of sites and resets my YouTube dark mode setting. After I disabled this extension every site is back to normal. Even though I disabled Allow blocking domains, it still give me problems.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Anyone else experiencing problems with this extension on sites like MalwareTips, YouTube, sites with logins and dark mode. This extension logs me automatically out of sites and resets my YouTube dark mode setting. After I disabled this extension every site is back to normal. Even though I disabled Allow blocking domains, it still give me problems.

No such issues here. It's pretty uncharacteristic of this extension do such things. Anyway, try resetting it from options.

 

[oldschool]

Anyone else experiencing problems with this extension on sites like MalwareTips

Nope.

Allow blocking domains, it still give me problems.

Just disable it. It's now the only extension I use on Brave, besides Emsisoft, and it works flawlessly.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

Anyone else experiencing problems with this extension on sites like MalwareTips, YouTube, sites with logins and dark mode. This extension logs me automatically out of sites and resets my YouTube dark mode setting. After I disabled this extension every site is back to normal. Even though I disabled Allow blocking domains, it still give me problems.

Strange. I even still use blocking domains and MT works fine

 

[oldschool]

@toto_10 what other extensions are you using? What browser and settings?

 

[Decopi]

Remember that Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux, where it can hardly be considered a sandbox at all) then Chromium based browser and lacks support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole.
So if one exploit Firefox itself, then all of your content would be not secure as it's not isolated.

That's why Chromium based browser have (strict) site isolation which also protect against sidechannel attacks too.

With all due respect:
1) FPI (First Party Isolation) + Containers = both privacy features... have nothing to do with sandboxing.
2) Sanboxing feature is related to SECURITY, and this post is about PRIVACY. More specifically, this post is about one add-on/extension and privacy... that's all.
3) I have nothing against Chrome/Chromium. I just followed the logic. And considering that this post was focused on privacy, then all my explanations were related to Firefox. I don't want to sound rude, but it's a contradiction to worry about privacy and to use Chrome/Chromium at the same time.

If you want to completely change subject, and you want to compare Firefox' security with Chrome/Chromium' security, be my guest, open a new post and talk there, for example, about sandboxing.

 

[oldschool]

it's a contradiction to worry about privacy and to use Chrome/Chromium at the same time.

This is off-topic as well.

 

[Protomartyr]

I'll have to revisit ClearURLs! I remember it not cleaning Amazon links for me properly but that was a while ago.

 

[toto_10]

@oldschool I switched between uBlock Origin and AdGuard to find out witch one was causing the problem, but neither of them did.
Beside these ad blockers I have

• Checker Plus for Gmail
• Bitwarden
• uMatrix
• Dark Reader
• FACEIT Enhancer
• Google Translate
• Windscribe

I'm using Edge Chromium as my main browser with all 'Privacy and services' settings disabled.

 

[oldschool]

uMatrix

What about this? If you're using this with µBO then you don't need ClearURLs.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

What about this? If you're using this with µBO then you don't need ClearURLs.

Sadly it's not true as uMatrix can't remove URL tracking.
This is not client but server side which mean it can't be blocked but only modified

 

[oldschool]

Sadly it's not true as uMatrix can't remove URL tracking.

OK, I clearly don't use or fully understand uMatrix. Maybe @toto_10 needs to disable ClearURLs to solve his issue.

 

[toto_10]

OK, I clearly don't use or fully understand uMatrix. Maybe @toto_10 needs to disable ClearURLs to solve his issue.

I have disabled ClearURLs for now. I will try it again after som updates and see if it will work out for me.

 

[harlan4096]

@toto_10: I got similar issues (login off some sites and other issues accesing some URLs), so I removed it from my FF for now...

 

[SeriousHoax]

login off some sites

Can you give any example of sites? I'll try to reproduce and open an issue on gitlab.

 

[oldschool]

@toto_10 @harlan4096 OK, I just tested on Gmail and I was not logged out after closing the tab and opening again.

 

[harlan4096]

Can you give any example of sites? I'll try to reproduce and open an issue on gitlab.

One of the sites I think it was in Kaspersky Community

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

One of the sites I think it was in Kaspersky Community

Some sites, specially forum use automatic logout after some time for "security" reasons.

Don't think that ClearURL is the problem here as it doesn't change cookies

 

[toto_10]

I get specially and continuously logged out of MalwareTips and YouTube.