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uBlock Origin becomes #1 addon on Firefox beating Adblock Plus

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  1. A browser extension that clicks on every blocked ad to fight advertising surveillance.

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Web Browsers 163 social mentions

  2. The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1683 social mentions

  3. Google Custom Search is a platform provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorize queries and create customized search engines, based on Google Search.
    I've started using https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/ which is a programmable, custom search engine that Google provides. I only include sites that I want to. For news, I have a separate search engine; for programming, I include Gitlab, Github, and others. It's quite nice, and you can share your search engines with others via a public URL.

    #Custom Search Engine #Custom Search #Search Engine As A Service 22 social mentions

  4. uMatrix: A point-and-click matrix-based firewall, with many privacy-enhancing tools.
    Today though, I'd recommend skimming through uBlock Origin's Github readme: https://github.com/gorhill.

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 5 social mentions

  5. **For our users who are experiencing a crash when launching the app after updating to v3.
    > In fact, a confusing banner that makes you play a minigame to get the respect for your personal information that you have a legal right to (in the EU) is explicitly disallowed. It is. So are the ones defaulting to "yes". And the ones where there is just a popup telling the user to install some blocker in their browser without giving them a choice (like https://npr.org ). Or telling them to take a subscription if they don't want to be tracked. All these things are illegal but unfortunately they are not enforced.

    #RSS Reader #News & Books #RSS 54 social mentions

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