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by bigbugbag 3103 days ago
Why would you use ghostery which was a tool to study people who want to black ads so they can be better served ads ?

Why would you use adblock which is outdated when ublock origin has been available for a while ?

It's strange that you take extra steps to block ads and tracker but peruse facebook whose sole purpose is tracking and profiling you and your family, friends, acquaintances through you.
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ariana82 3103 days ago
I don't use Ghostery and AdBlock. I see my friends using it and how Firefox consume tons of his PC memory.

I use different browser to access different category websites. Brave browser for social media and Firefox for news reading or researching. Both of that browsers using the same local proxy connection in my PC. I installed Privoxy and Squid on the same PC with that browsers and so they are appear as the same user agents (e.g. Chrome).

When I access http://www.janbambas.cz, of course my browser loading faster as my Privoxy allow/block these domains:

  2017-12-21 00:55:32.780 00000f04 Request: www.janbambas.cz:443/

  2017-12-21 00:55:34.632 00001194 Crunch: Blocked: fonts.googleapis.com:443

  2017-12-21 00:55:34.670 00000e3c Crunch: Blocked: secure.gravatar.com:443

  2017-12-21 00:55:34.697 00000e8c Crunch: Blocked: www.google.com:443

  2017-12-21 00:55:34.711 000013e8 Crunch: Blocked: secure.gravatar.com:443

  2017-12-21 00:55:34.741 000012cc Crunch: Blocked: secure.gravatar.com:443

  2017-12-21 00:55:35.680 00000ce4 Crunch: Blocked: secure.gravatar.com:443

  2017-12-21 00:55:35.721 00000978 Crunch: Blocked: secure.gravatar.com:443

  2017-12-21 00:55:35.736 000010e0 Crunch: Blocked: www.google.com:443

  2017-12-21 00:55:35.759 00000104 Crunch: Blocked: secure.gravatar.com:443
You see that, my Privoxy blocked 9 connections and 3 domains.

What makes me sick is this person #Honza Bambas# doesn't give a real solution to our browsing problems. He only makes us die slowly.

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Dylan16807 3103 days ago
Can you explain why you think gravatar is a problem?

Or google fonts?

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ariana82 3103 days ago
By blocking both of domains we reduce page load time. The browser doesn't have to wait _forever_ for both of connections complete as it already blocked. Moreover, I need only the article and not picture of his avatar or fancy fonts. Remember, Google fonts are files in Google's web server, every request to a web server will be written in its log file (e.g. browser's user agent, http referer, IP address). Like suspicious OCSP requests (in disguise), it's a kind of tracker, right?
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