It’s also deactivated by default now, despite other browsers happily doing it as well (it’s not problematic there, either). Identifying any single Brave user based on the referral was impossible, because all Brave users were using the same referral link – so this was never a privacy issue. This was the sole purpose of the referral – it allowed partner websites to see that you are using Brave and to count you as such. Since those Brave partners advertised themself on the New Tab Page (in case you have that turned on), they wanted to know how successful their campaign was, so they had an inherent interest to differentiate Brave users from the myriad of users that use the majority browser Google Chrome. One solution would be to change the user agent (the string identifying the browser) for the few websites in question OR you can use a referral to the same effect. Now, in order to distinguish Brave users from Chrome users, you have to find a solution. What was the purpose of the referral? Brave usually identifies itself as Google Chrome before websites for web compatibility reasons (a few websites exclude alternative browsers which do not provide mainstream user agents). Now, in the incident this guy described, when a user typed in, for example, Brave added a referral link of their own to the URL and offered this as the first suggestion out of a list of suggestions. One of those partners is Binance, but there are others as well. They mention their partners on their website. This is not directed against you, just know that I no longer feel inclined to dive into this topic as deep as I used to, because in general it’s just a nuisance at this point for me.īrave has several websites it partners with, those usually populate the sponsored New Tab Pages with their logos, in case you have those turned on. Let me preface this by saying that I am somewhat tired and annoyed regarding this bit of FUD, because I have explained the real situation a dozens of times (literally) on gHacks already. Unfortunately, this guy, David Gerard, doesn’t have the slightest clue what he is talking about. I for one use the one by the french dassault systems “exalead” which behaves in a way as google, altavista did years ago.Īs usual, nothing should be taken for Vaak
#Adblock for firefox on mac install
What i also did was to install the firefox extension “context search” from which one can search about 2 dozen search engines at once and can also add own search engines. This is a real dangerous development, unfortunately in accordance and a nod from our governments, and would hit me just as it does all others, if i would not have already a collection of bookmarks from which to start. Since i just read this article i will of course configure ublock accordingly.īesides all this, i fear that once ublock origins development ceases there will be no equal replacement.Īlso by far less visible are the censoring efforts of the search engines and social networks in that there are simply no relevant search results anymore which are outside the main stream media…
#Adblock for firefox on mac free
Now you:Â Use a different method? Feel free to share it in the comments below.īecause of this criminal behaviour i startet to use the no script extension in Firefox which disables java script and the search results are still there… This one breaks the "more" link on Google's search results page but search functionality itself is working fine. To block Google's before you continue popup on the main Google site add the following lines to uBlock Origin's My filter tab: To block Google's "Before you continue" popup
Note: if you notice issues with the first, some users reported that search stops working, you may want to try the following lines instead: You can hit the play button to start playback anew though and watch the videos like you normally do.
Note that you need to reload the pages, and that there is a downside to using these as all videos will pause a moment after they have started. YouTube won't display the popup anymore after you add these options. The first blocks the actual popup, the second a fullscreen overlay that YouTube displays once you block the popup. Add the following lines to the My filters tab of the uBlock Origin settings:
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