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    uBO absolutely helps against tracking. It is at least half of its reason for existing.

    The two primary lists are an (1) an ad block list (2) an anti-tracking list.

    And used in medium or hard mode uBO categorically blocks many methods of tracking.

    But also, if you use Firefox, this is layered on top of Enhanced tracking protection, blocking of 3p tracking cookies, and total cookie protection (dfpi)




  • xe3@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldFF Evangelists
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    6 months ago

    Google is in the process of undermining the effectiveness of uBlock Origin and other adblockers on Chrome and other Chromium browsers. I believe that change comes into effect this year.

    But even before those changes were announced, uBlock Origin’s creator and main dev has stated that uBO is most capable on Firefox.





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    8 months ago

    Pihole is a great project, but it is objectively less capable than uBlock Origin.

    That is not a criticism of the software. It is just a fundamental fact that DNS based adblockers are less powerful, and less granular/precise than Browser based adblockers.

    They do work well in combination though (the DNS level adblockers gives you moderately effective network wide blocking, and uBlock Origin gives you exceptional blocking but is limited to the browser.