New Update Inquiry on Chrome privacy extension

[Trooper]

If you're just looking to block ads and trackers then the default selected lists (uBO's own filters, EasyList, EasyPrivacy and Peter Lowe's) will serve you perfectly well.

Gotcha and that is what I am running with. I was curious if there are any filterlists that could be added that would add the same privacy protection as the Privacy Badger extension does. I am trying to trim down the amount of extensions that I have installed already. Thanks.

 

[Handsome Recluse]

Gotcha and that is what I am running with. I was curious if there are any filterlists that could be added that would add the same privacy protection as the Privacy Badger extension does. I am trying to trim down the amount of extensions that I have installed already. Thanks.

Dynamic Filtering is an option if you're willing to go down the rabbit hole. Otherwise, hpHosts Ad and Tracking adds a lot. Fanboy's Social Blocking is possible but could decrease usability since it also hides a lot and you might have to disable cosmetic filtering per-site at which point dynamic filtering would've been preferred.

 

[Trooper]

Dynamic Filtering is an option if you're willing to go down the rabbit hole. Otherwise, hpHosts Ad and Tracking adds a lot. Fanboy's Social Blocking is possible but could decrease usability since it also hides a lot and you might have to disable cosmetic filtering per-site at which point dynamic filtering would've been preferred.

Thank you for the advice. I'd prefer not to go down the rabbit hole at this point in time so took your suggestion and have implemented it. Thank you!

 

[ozone]

Thanks for the answers. So it's like blocking via hosts then...blocking universally IPs?

IIRC hosts file doesn't block, it will redirect (usually to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 to "block")

you can configure adguard to similarly to uBO or other adblockers, e.g.to block: facebook as thirdparty on other sites (somesite.xyz) , but allow it on firstparty (facebook.com); some elements; ...

and unlike hosts file adguard (installed on host OS) can also filter browsers and apps in VM (guest OS, OS in VM is using it's own hosts file)

the only disadvantage for adguard (it is same for AV which can scan https) is that it replace certificates with it's own