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How “test your adblocker” websites can harm users and the adblocker ecosystem (brave.com)

submitted 5 months ago by pandasiusfilet@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Surprise, the company that has shady adblocking practices doesn’t want you to use a tool to compare ad blockers…

[+] Engywuck@lemm.ee -18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They aren't say anything crazy in that post. But I already know that the sheep mentality and hypocrisy of the "community" only accepts the existence of the crappy Mozilla's browser, which stays afloat precisely thanks to the biggest ad company in the world.

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

In terms of vibes, firefox and brave give off the same queezy "we care about your privicy" half trueth. Read as uncharitably as possable, mozilla gives off a neglectful abusive father vibe where brave has a potential crypto scammer vibe. Being so jumpy about software as I am, following KISS and appearing to have less unknown background machinery is comforting. (caugh I hate "safe browsing" caugh) Firefox probably in reality fails to be properly privacy focused but sells the illusion effectively, and thats a bad thing. Also defaults are powerful and now switching costs are high for me.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Well, actually FF defaults aren't that great for privacy. Later on, crypto stuff is disabled by default on Brave, so it's not like they are stealing your wallet... Agreed on the safe browsing stuff, which I think it's on by default for both and it's something I'd prefer not to have in my browser.

[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

The colour scheme looks quite painful.

[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who uses an adblocking testing site rather than just the sites they want to block ads on?

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

Me when I develop something or test something with another ones tool or want a quick comparison: I don't want to use something in production for a while just to see if the basics are met.

Those sites give me the opportunity to bomb me with all kinds of scenarios and I check what's working for me and where not.

It's not about a few sites that I could quickly check but about patterns.