Just wanted to add that Adblock edge is a fork of Adblock Plus that does NOT whitelist advertising companies. See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
Andrew Lewman <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 05:18:18 -0400 (EDT) >Alice Anderson <[email protected]> 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 - [email protected] >To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
