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by gorhill 3487 days ago
> I hope uBlock Origin will keep in mind that some people only care about the tracking.

Efficiency is a primary feature of uBlock Origin, it's not going anywhere, regardless of whether it blocks tracking or ads, or whatever else.

Just pick your filter lists according to what you want to achieve.

In any case, I fail to see the difference between ads and tracking, as I have often mentioned, ads are just the visible tip of the tracking/profiling iceberg.

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"In any case, I fail to see the difference between ads and tracking"

I agree for most ads as they are implemented now but things like the common audible.com mentions in YouTube videos I'm totally fine with, that's how advertising was done for decades before the internet and there's no reason it can't still be done. Web page standards give too much power to the page author by default, if the things they use to track people had never been allowed by default, we never would have had this problem because no sane person would agree to them if asked.