Those are just some uses of malwares. It’s not always that noticeable.

This is the first time you noticed you caught a malware. I wouldn’t be so confident about never having caught one and Im way more paranoid than you. This one was just really noisy.

I have only uBlock Origin and no YouTube update has gotten past it (except the first one for a few hours), I never get “disable adblocker” messages either. Also anti adblockers are not blacklist based.

Twice the chances of being detected

Double the attack surface

Half the performance

It really does not work like that. If you need a second adblocker to block somethings just enable the block list of the second one in the first one.

In fact just use uBlock Origin and be done with it.

Why would you use two adblockers?

Yeah, I don’t think that’s the best selling point for desktop use. For me it’s having all my configs for all my devices in a single place, checked in git, with bits of config I can easily share between my different devices.

Well, first of all you really should not be using Windows 7 anymore. For the TPB, I don’t think they check the torrents, anyone can upload so it’s not a trusted source. It’s in the unsafe sites list on the megathread. And how would you know that you never had a malware on the TPB?

You’re right, I should have explained.

Privacy Badger was known to be able to learn what to block but local learning could be used to fingerprint you so it was removed. Nowadays it’s only a list based blocker, while the list is still automatically generated on their side through learning it mostly overlap with regular tracking protection list used with uBlock Origin.

They also claim other features but they are either outdated (google outgoing link protection last update is 9 months old and is based on the old url schema) or already covered by uBlock Origin (uBlock Origin can now sanitize urls with the removeparam filter, facebook outgoing link protection is included in the “AdGuard URL Tracking Protection” filter list, for third party widget blocking enable the “EasyList – Social Widgets” list).

It’s also in Arkenfox “Don’t bother” extension list.

Better use Firefox in strict mode with uBlock Origin.

In session sanitising seems pretty useless.

Click fraud is a big thing with a lot of countermeasures, it’s not as easy as adnauseum pretends it is. I doubt it does anything.

Privacy Badger is pretty useless now.

Privacy Badger is pretty useless now.

That’s all true, but why take a modified chromium instead of a modified Firefox?

Also clearurls and decentraleyes would be pretty much useless with Firefox and uBlock Origin.

From what I gathered Amazon is the only one that includes an identifier. Look for a string starting with “atv:kin”.

The DeDRM fork removes it: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/bf2471e65b1f52bb5292caeba70a9aea31bf6653/DeDRM_plugin/mobidedrm.py#L254

Synthetic rubber like SBR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrene-butadiene

Tires and brakes are a major source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17201-9

How do you keep a phone more than 5 years while still having security updates without a custom ROM?

A security feature: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/android-overview/#verified-boot

Isn’t it necessary lock it to get verified boot?

Some have an interview process in place (notably redacted). Once you get in a first one (either through interview, open signup or any other way) you can start climbing the ranks, at some point you should have access to an invite section on the tracker forum where you can find invites to other trackers (not all trackers have an invite forum and they don’t have access to the same invites).

It does not. Domain based blocking does not work with youtube.

Your link event says it:

Some ads may […] be served through the same domain as the website, making them harder to block without blocking the website itself.

There is no point in using a proxy for this, because of https it won’t be able to block more than with DNS blocking. Maybe a tiny bit more if you set up mitm but that’s really not worth it.