Assuming you mean built-in adblock and so on, Librewolf on the Desktop and the Mull Browser on Android. The latter is the default browser for DivestOS, a custom rom based on LineageOS.
Well, Mull doesn’t have a buil-in blocker, but you can use uBlock Origin
The original dev handed over development to a team and left, new cunts removed his name from project and made donation links, original dev came back and made ublock origin which is now the best adblock out there.
I learned about this years ago and the details are a bit hazy, but you may find this warning by the developers of uBlock Origin to be relevant.
There’s also a “uBlock” extension available on Chrome that lists ublock.org as its website. From what I remember, AdBlock Plus and/or uBlock engaged in advertisement middlemanning. Essentially, they would let ads through to the end user as long as the advertisers gave them a cut and the ads weren’t deemed “intrusive.” I know ABP did this when I switched away, I’m not sure about uBlock.
uBlock Origin is a general content blocker, which puts it ahead of ad blockers anyway. You can configure it to block things like cookie popups too.
Can confirm. Started using it yesterday after another comment. It’s pretty much plain FF, so works well right out of the gate. I enabled some features in the setting like Firefox sync and allow DRM media, but I’m really liking it.
I’ve found that it might not work on banking sites because of the fingerprinting protection. Be warned, if you try to use on banking sites, you may be locked out. I suggest you do all banking and stuff on a separate browser that saves cookies and tracks you.
The new Mullvad browser is even better, and regularly maintained. But a little bit further down on the privacy end of the Spectrum and further from the useability end. Watch out for timezones, that one always gets me!
My bad, bought out was the wrong way to word it- I should have said “Made partnerships with-” then listed Google and Yahoo(defunct), China and Russia.
If you watch this video discussing how privacy respect firefox is by default- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8UFJzpNls you’ll see the telemetry they collect is miles long and Firefox is no better at protecting your privacy than Chrome/Chromium is whatsoever.
Definitely recommend Librewolf or Mullvad, which are actual privacy respecting browsers, even Chromium forks like Brave are better than default firefox.
I was banned from r/whitepeopletwitter for following r/conservative then I was banned from both r/conservative and r/libertarian for suggesting that Biden knew about politics. Not that I agreed with him on anything, just that he had an above average understanding of how politics works
This is why I’m not worried about rushing features into the fedi. We’re at an usable point right now, a lot obviously can be improved. But the point is that the fedi isn’t going away. A private social media can be nuked over night. If all ActivityPub devs stopped contributing over night, then more people would step up and continue. The fedi isn’t going anywhere and will continue to get better over time. There will be no stopping point where we run out of time. Development and improvements will be eternal until the heat death of the universe!
An /r/Conservative post popped up on /r/All announcing that they would be banning anyone who shares a differing opinion, and bullshit like that. At some point in the post it said they didn’t know what to call that type of community. So I quoted that bit and said,
“It’s called an echo chamber. You are admitting that this is an echo chamber and is not meant for real discourse or discussion.”
I was banned within 3 minutes.
I was banned from /r/Gaming for simply giving the exact version number .BIN file to use for PCSX in a thread asking on how to get PCSX working. I don’t know how their no link to piracy rule applies, but that’s what they used against me. The rest of the comments helping and the post itself should have also been removed and banned though, as they wanted to interpret their rules to mean any discussion of piracy or emulation. Up until the split, I had just been posting with an alt account to get around the ban.
I was banned (and later reversed) from the entire site just a month before the API bullshit announcement for making a joke about punching Nazis on a thread that was a joke about punching Nazis. I wasn’t the only one, either. That entire thread got absolutely nuked by some pissed off Nazi admin. It took a week of spamming appeals before it was overturned by an admin who actually can understand context.
I was banned from… Uh… I forget the exact name of the subreddit. It was one of the Feminism subs, but it was consistently full of misandrists not actual feminists. I pointed out their hypocrisy on a thread and was promptly banned.
I was banned from /r/furry_irl for posting a trans related joke on a trans related post. The joke came directly from my sister, who is herself trans and heard the joke in her trans support group. The mods simply went “oh he’s pulling the ‘but I have black friends’ bullshit” and then disabled me from even communicating with the mod team, labeling me a transphobe.
I was banned from… Uh… I forget the exact name of the subreddit. It was one of the Feminism subs, but it was consistently full of misandrists not actual feminists. I pointed out their hypocrisy on a thread and was promptly banned.
But it doesn’t though, not really. There are quite a few things which are still sent back as telemetry. One hell of alot better than chrome but it’s still watching you. It’s still not respecting your privacy.
There are some privacy respecting browser out there but they’re quite inconvenient to use. I haven’t found a real reasonable middle ground personally, but altering librewolf or the mulvad browser to keep you signed in has been nice enough for me
To clarify why this is important, this data can be de-anonymized where anonymized and be used for fingerprinting your internet usage. If you’re concerned about privacy this is a pretty big red flag, especially if your government is getting this information, which many have and will be able to in the future.
Fingerprinting isn’t a perfect system and can incorrectly flag innocent people. Or, if you unfortunately life in the wrong place, whether true or not being flagged as gay/trans or the wrong political party can very much harm you. Texas has asked the government for a list of trans people inside their state, which was denied, what happens when it isn’t? what happens when it’s not just trans people, and is instead your group? Caution is king.
As a comment above mentioned, it has a feature to get cryto through ads that is disabled by default, but you can opt-in if you like. I personally find it concerning that it’s a feature to begin with
If you hate Brave that’s fine, but at least be honest. It never had any mining whatsoever. It has a feature that let’s you earn crypto through ads that is turned off by default. That’s it. You never have to deal with it if you don’t want to.
I just threw on table what I knew without any experience with Brave… I removed the mining from it so it’s somewhat more accurate. I still find it concerning that it’s a feature to begin with, but that’s with me :)
I was banned from the Anti-Work subreddit for questioning why someone in a picket line was dressed like the wish .com version of Che Guevara. He looked ridiculous, nobody else was dressed up, and they were picketing a fucking Starbucks.
I thought it was just a funny observation but the mods banned me after it got upvoted to top comment on the post lol
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