On Sat, Jan 30, 2016, at 01:26 AM, Nik Cubrilovic wrote: > Hi everybody - I know that the topic of migrating the Tor Browser on > Tails from AdBlock Plus (ABP) to a faster and more modern plugin comes > up regularly, so i'll keep this short and get to why Adblock Plus > should be replaced with uBlock Origin (uBO) and why it's ready now: [...]
>From all that you have written about uBlock Origin (uBO), it sounds highly appealing. Your arguments for having it replace AdBlock Plus in Tails sound most compelling. I eagerly await to see how others on this list will respond. > I also plan on advocating that Tor Browser > should switch to uBO (and away from NoScript and HTTPS-Everywhere), > which is successful would bring the browser fingerprints between Tails > and Tor Browser back together. That alone would seem a most worthwhile goal as far as I can see. https://tails.boum.org/news/version_2.0/index.en.html "so this only means that it's easy to distinguish whether a user of Tor Browser 5.5 uses Tails or not. That is already easy given that Tails has the AdBlock Plus extension enabled, unlike the normal Tor Browser." Indeed and that is something I have never understood and always found troubling. To be clear: I understand the arguments both for as well as against including an ad-blocker (be it ABP, uBO or some other one) in Tor Browser. The arguments on both sides appear reasonable to me and I would not presume to be able to decide between them (at least not at my present level of knowledge and experience). What does seem quite clear to me, however (and has ever since I first became aware of this matter) is that the best interests of at least an overwhelming majority of Tor Browser and Tails users would best be served by having the fingerprints of the Tor Browser in Tails and the stand-alone Tor Browser be as indistinguishable from each other as possible. After all, the reality is that the total number of Tor Browser users (stand-alone as well as Tails) already comprise but a mere fraction of total Internet users. Does it really make sense to splinter such a small minority into even smaller sub-divisions? And to do so for something as /relatively/ trivial and even petty as not being able to reach a consensus over whether to include an ad-blocker (or which ad-blocker to include)? Isn't this self-defeating behavior? _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
