Technology Liberation Front - Latest Comments in Privacy Solutions (Part 2): Adblock Plus

Re: Privacy Solutions (Part 2): Adblock Plus

Ryan Radia — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:58:57 -0000

This is very interesting, thanks Wladimir. Some of the issues with Filterset.G don't seem to exist for me (like slow browsing) but I will have to try a different set of filters.

Re: Privacy Solutions (Part 2): Adblock Plus

Wladimir Palant — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:27:54 -0000

Filterset.G is not recommended for Adblock Plus: http://adblockplus.org/en/f...

What you should look at if you are concerned about privacy, is ABP Tracking Filter (http://adblockplus.org/en/s.... Also, current Adblock Plus development builds implement a $third-party option (http://adblockplus.org/blog... which gives you a way to block tracking servers in a generic way (also likely to cause collateral damage however so using it in its generic form is only something for the most paranoid).

Re: Privacy Solutions (Part 2): Adblock Plus

Don Marti — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:58:01 -0000

Don't forget CustomizeGoogle. You can configure it to remove the Google tracking when you click through on a search result.

Re: Privacy Solutions (Part 2): Adblock Plus

Adam Thierer — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:14:32 -0000

Mike, I am totally with you on that point, but many others disagree with us. There's just a certain crowd out there that find the whole idea of commercial advertising annoying or even offensive and don't really think about the trade-off of what they would be missing without those ads being present. There is no free lunch, after all.

Re: Privacy Solutions (Part 2): Adblock Plus

Adam Thierer — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:42:26 -0000

Thanks Ryan. I will check our Filterset.G

Also, Berin and I are planning to cover NoScript in a future entry.

Re: Privacy Solutions (Part 2): Adblock Plus

Ryan Radia — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:19:21 -0000

Filterset.G (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... makes AdBlock even more powerful. It really does a good job of getting rid of ads.

Another add-on that goes well with AdBlock is NoScript. At first, it's annoying to white-list every trusted site that uses a script, but blocking all scripts by default really does enhance security while browsing.