disconnect-tracking-protection VS intel-data

Right, but Firefox’s ETP blocks Statcounter’s JS (see https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti... which is where, I believe, Mozilla source their ETP blocklist from).

Is there a particular reason portmaster uses the depricated and unofficial Disconnect.me Ad Domains (DM-AD) found at https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt rather than the official up-to-date list found at https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protection/blob/master/services.json ?

You're wrong. People have noticed that they use Whiteops (now called HUMAN Security) browser fingerprinting.

The lists are part of an open source project that can be found on Github.

Like Microsoft Edge has shared that they use Disconnect's list. Which list is being used by Brave?

However the ultimate proof that it’s effective is that advertisers use it: a quarter of the top 10,000 websites globally use fingerprinting (https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-quarter-of-the-alexa-top-10k-websites-are-using-browser-fingerprinting-scripts/) and basically every company you’ve heard of uses it: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protection/blob/master/descriptions.md

Firefox Focus is based on the Mozilla/Firefox/Disconnect tracking block-lists. (https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protection)

Edge and Firefox use lists provided by Disconnect. I find it quite lacking. If you take a look at their GitHub, it's only occasionaly updated and there's a lot of ignored open issues.

I see what you're saying. I don't expect that will have much, if any, effect. First, their block list is limited: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protection/blob/master/services.json

thanks for letting us know, you can always recommend new lists here: https://github.com/safing/intel-data/issues

Thanks for providing additional information to readers. However, this is not entirely correct. Let me clarify:

- Community nodes are used to diversify server ownership and strengthen the privacy of connections.

- Community nodes may technically act as entry, middle and/or exit nodes.

- Community nodes will never be used for unencrypted connections, only for encrypted connections. We are thinking about a concept of trusted partners, which will also be allowed to handle unencrypted connections - but this is currently not the case.

- We publish advisories [0], which are automatically applied by all clients. This gives us the ability to quickly react to changing situations. Currently, community nodes _are_ being selected as exit nodes, but not as entry nodes.

I hope this cleared things up. I am happy to go into more detail.

[0] https://github.com/safing/intel-data/blob/master/spn/main-in...

since this seems to be a false positive (in terms of blocking) - would steamtrades.com be a fit for the unbreak list? That way even if a filter list blocks the domain, Portmaster does not block it by default but leaves it up to the user.

no, not in a significant way. Portmaster already handles a few hundred thousand domains through the integrated filter lists. You can check the sources here - some of these files are massive - like Steven Black's adware + malware list containing 135k entries.

this repo is where we manage what filter lists are included in the Portmaster https://github.com/safing/intel-data