On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 05:18:18 -0400 (EDT) Alice Anderson <foxacidprob...@aol.com> wrote:
> Why you have HTTPSEverywhere and Noscript by default but not > Adblockplus on TBB package? it really helps and blcok major tracking > companies like Google Facebook ... Tor is not perfect, as almost all > web pages have inserted at least one of these trackers on their > page's source, one mistake is enough to compromise our privacy. > Adblock solve this problem by just blocking these third parties. > another danger of these third parties is FoxAcid codes! Facebook > button is the best place for FoxAcid calls. please insert adblock by > default on TBB package, if not explain why? Adblock whitelists certain advertising companies and ads themselves: See https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads and http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2280451/Google-Paying-to-Have-Ads-Whitelisted-on-AdBlock-Plus See #5 under https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#philosophy "No filters Site-specific or filter-based addons such as AdBlock Plus, Request Policy, Ghostery, Priv3, and Sharemenot are to be avoided. We believe that these addons do not add any real privacy to a proper implementation of the above privacy requirements, and that development efforts should be focused on general solutions that prevent tracking by all third parties, rather than a list of specific URLs or hosts. Filter-based addons can also introduce strange breakage and cause usability nightmares, and will also fail to do their job if an adversary simply registers a new domain or creates a new url path. Worse still, the unique filter sets that each user creates or installs will provide a wealth of fingerprinting targets. As a general matter, we are also generally opposed to shipping an always-on Ad blocker with Tor Browser. We feel that this would damage our credibility in terms of demonstrating that we are providing privacy through a sound design alone, as well as damage the acceptance of Tor users by sites that support themselves through advertising revenue. Users are free to install these addons if they wish, but doing so is not recommended, as it will alter the browser request fingerprint. " -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk