tor-android VS uBlock

– Moat Service in Tor Browser: Use the Moat feature to request bridges directly from the Tor Browser. This can be done by clicking on "Configure Connection" and selecting "Request a bridge from torproject.org (http://torproject.org/)" in the Tor settings window. Complete the Captcha and submit your request.

I ran into the fake positive situation on sunday and downloaded Tor (from torproject.org) to make sure that the issue was not with my old installation. The install needed admin rights, and tor.exe was of course flagged again. I deleted the installation and downloaded the installer again later when Tor confirmed that the malware flag was false. This time the browser was installed without needing admin rights. I clearly remember having UAC pop up on the previous install case.

I'm using a MacBook Air, downloaded the Installer DMG file from techspot. (torproject is blocked by fortiguard, see below) The DMG doesn't get deleted, but Tor does.

> where the fact that you are connecting to a Tor node is extremely obvious

Yes, additionally, it has been concluded that it is impossible to hide the usage of Tor from the ISP, VPNs do not help. The usage of Tor is obvious.

> but don't want you to use a VPN

If you can't use Tor safely, it would be unlikely that you can use a VPN safely either.

> That may give you privacy, but it hardly seems like it makes you anonymous.

What makes you say that? There are millions of Tor users connected at any time, if you believe the number of users is an issue. I suggest you read more about Tor on their website - https://torproject.org

> Rather, wouldn't that send up a giant beacon for anyone at your ISP who cares to look at connections they (or the authorities) might want to pay more attention to?

No, I don't believe so granted that you live in a western democracy.

No, it was me. I did it and some other things, including messing with templates to briefly make every page say things like "I love Bronya x Seele <3". However, if you want to do the same thing as me, use Riseup VPN to make your accounts from c.fandom.com, then edit with the Tor Browser. Just note that they recently made some filters and protected some pages, so this isn't as easy to do as it was before, sadly.

But when I disabled my firewall rule that blocks all DoH attempts, then librewolf could reach that site. This was puzzling, since I have DoH completely disabled in the browser settings. Is this a bug? Or am I being stupid? Something else? This is completely reproducible. I disable all DoH attempts at the firewall, and I cannot reach the site. I enable DoH and librewolf can reach it. I triple checked the LW settings, and it says to use my DNS server. I even added torproject.org to the exceptions list, but the same thing.

If you want one (which you don’t) Load up a TOR Browser and just search for one

This is one of the first sentences you get displayed when entering this subreddit. You can even simply visit https://torproject.org and make your own research in seconds to understand how to use the Tor Browser or other software like Orbot (Android & IOS), Tails OS etc.

Step 1: Go to https://torproject.org Step 2: Install Tor Browser on your operating system Step 3: Launch Tor Browser and connect into the network Step 4: Access a site like Facebook to click on it's hidden service which redirects you to the site as a .onion or simply use a search engine dedicated to darknet sites like https://ahmia.fi or https://vormweb.de/en and search with common and harmless terms.

edit: it might not work, if it doesn't, it's a problem in your wifi. you will need to install tor browser from torproject.org, and when you download it, connect to tor, go to klj3as7dsatdyask43u6hoiuu6bvw56weedshop.onion, click the big red "653 grams" button, make the 65-stepped bot verification, click "order now", pass the other 20-stepped audio bot verification, put your credentials (real name, dads name, mothers name, grandfathers name, ip, adress, past address, mom's adress, fathers adress, date of birth, identity card, et cet), pay with shiba inu or dogecoin (equals to 883 decadillion in zimbabwean currency) and after u pay, go to xvideos.com/gay and watch exactly 825 hours of gay porn, and then, reset your computer and it should be working! yay!

Check out uBlock Origin's per site switches [1]

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...

If ads, in particular on YouTube, are the problem, anything Chromium-based is probably only going to get worse and worse (see [1] and [2]). So that basically leaves you with Firefox and Safari.

I work for Mozilla (speaking for myself, of course), so I'll leave you to guess which I'd recommend :P

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-oppos...

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Or if on mobile, it is well worth it to look up adblock options for the browser you use.

What are the compelling advantages of Chrome nowadays?

Chrome is working to limit the capabilities of ad blockers:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/chrome-pushes...

Whereas a compelling advantage of Firefox is that uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Advertising networks have often been vectors for malware. Using an ad blocker is an important security measure. Even the FBI recommends ad blockers:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising

https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624

> It allows for 30,000 dynamic rules

That is not what we mean by dynamic filters. From https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-fi...

> However, to support more frequent updates and user-defined rules, extensions can add rules dynamically too, without their developers having to upload a new version of the extension to the Chrome Web Store.

What Chrome is talking about is the ability to specify rules at runtime. What critics of Manifest V3 are talking about is not the ability to dynamically add rules (although that can be an issue), it is the ability to add dynamic rules -- ie rules that analyze and rewrite requests in the style of the blockingWebRequest permission.

It's a little deceptive to claim that the concerns here are outdated and to point to vague terminology that sounds like it's correcting the problem, but on actual inspection turns out to be entirely separate functionality from what the GP was talking about.

> Giving this ability to extensions can slow down the browser for the user. These ads can still be blocked through other means.

This is the debate; most of the adblocking community disagrees with this assertion. uBO maintains a list of some common features that are already not possible to support in Chrome ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... ) and has written about features that are not able to be supported via Chrome's current V3 API ( https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... ). Of particular note are filtering for large media elements (I use this a lot on mobile Firefox, it's great for reducing page size), and top-level filtering of domains/fonts.

> "Its happened before"

> That's not an argument

It's a subheading to "2. Browser engine monopoly". The subsection's purpose is describing how bad things were during the IE monopoly to reinforce that it's something to be avoided.

> in fact you could counter-argue that IE left a lot of technical debt

That would be agreeing with the article, unless I understand what you mean.

> On top of that, the internet was very different back then.

In a way that now makes it harder for truly new competing engines to pop up due to increased complexity of the web.

> I'm still not convinced, why would I change my browser?

The points made in the article are:

* Increased privacy, opposed to willingly giving your data to an ad-tech company

* Helps avoid a browser engine monopoly which would effectively let Google dictate web standards

* It’s fast and has a nice user interface

Onto which I'd add:

* Content blockers work best on Firefox (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...), doubly so when Manifest V3 rolls out

* Allows more customization of interface and home page

* UX improvements, like the clutter-free reader mode, aren't vetoed to protect search revenue as with Chrome (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675467)

Advertising networks are vectors for malware:

https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/malvertising

https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising

https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...

So if you're concerned about security then you want the browser with the best ad blocker.

uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...