Adblock integration in Vanadium?

router99

Johnnyloans what I don't understand is, why in the world is some of this information even requested and allowed to be sent from the device? Why wasn't this clamped down decades ago? Why is a web server able to find out how many CPU cores my device has?

userofgos

router99 Here is another thread with additional information/identifiers that may be used: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/17118-identifiers-across-private-space-and-profiles/4

DeletedUser996

techliterateidiot DNS based adblock is decent. dns.adguard-dns.com, I think.

techliterateidiot

Lusca

I decided to go with the IronFox option. It works great, I just need to get used to it now. I had to adjust the DNS over HTTPS setting from 'Max Protection' to 'Increased Protection' since with the former websites would take ages to load and sometimes give a 'can't find that domain' error.

Two questions - Is there a way to pick and choose what trackers are allowed and disallowed on a site? I can only enable or disable enhanced tracking protection, but I need to allow something from Disqus for that site to function at full capacity. However, there is also a facebook tracker, which I would very much like to block.

Secondly, how can I pin bookmarks on the new tab screen like in Vanadium? It shows them there, but whenever I add a new one it's put at the top of the list, shifting the more frequent ones to the side.

Lusca

techliterateidiot
The best way for you to "pick and choose what trackers are allowed" is to use one of the blocking modes with uBlock Origin. You can use this to allow Disqus on certain sites but block Facebook globally, for example.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode

I would avoid changing settings unless you know what you are doing and it's necessary.

I don't pin bookmarks on the new tab screen so someone else will have to answer your second question.

Novaliss

techliterateidiot Can you tell me what you see here?: [https://www.devilscandycomic.com/comic/ch21p00]

https://imgur.com/a/D0z4sJH
https://imgur.com/a/nYTdZ1i

I see no ads here?

But I see RethinkDNS doing this: https://imgur.com/a/TkKbPOo 😉

Novaliss

So, Vanadium and RethinkDNS works together in a very fast and convenient fashion and I very rarely see any ads when browsing. Vanadium is both much safer and faster than any of the Firefox-based browsers.

router99

userofgos I just don't understand why so much information is allowed to be queried by apps and sites. Who demands this?

Carrousel7956

router99 When they were building this software they just made it in an easy way to make it convenient for apps. They didn't take into account or didn't care about the possibility of using features for tracking.

router99

Carrousel7956 I think it's too much of an issue to have been overlooked, and it is certainly something they can remedy now, but obviously won't. Two-front tracking: ad money and surveillance.

koocmit

router99 analytics, when done well and not maliciously, is an important tool.

Let's say you have a website, where you sell things. You notice people come to the website but never make a purchase. So now you use analytics to see where the issue it by tracking the visitor across their journey.

Same for apps, they can use timezone to serve you region specific content, language to translate the website for you, look for your device processor to see if they should send you the heavy version of the website or the light version, etc.

It is a shame that adtech has monetized what used to be a way to make websites and apps better for visitors and users. The incentives are very distorted nowadays.

router99

koocmit and collectively, we acquiesced to such invasive ability to query. I miss the days when this wasn't a thing.

GrapheneOS

router99 JavaScript supports using multiple cores with workers so it's easy to detect how many cores are available. A whole lot can be determined about the CPU architecture and GPU architecture based on which capabilities are available. It would be useful to have more attack surface reduction toggles for things like WebGL but there's little point in trying to hide something like the number of CPU cores from JavaScript without taking away many ways of determining it.

techliterateidiot

I figured out how to pin bookmarks in IronFox, by the way: I just have to go to the website itself, open the three-dot menu, then open the ... More dropdown menu underneath the desktop site and extensions options, then select the "📌Add to shortcuts" option. It's treated as a distinct thing from being a bookmark, which must be why I couldb't find it in the bookmarks editor.

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