Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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87 % on mobile, 97 % on the desktop
82% on Firefox mobile + ublock origin + adguard home inside Tailscale.
90 % with UBO+Pihole
99% in Firefox with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes and AdGuard Home.
100% with just uBlock Origin
93% blocked running on my exentionless chrome on my phone. Damn I love pihole.
83 with Firefox, uBlock, Privacy Badger and DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
100% with Adblocker Ultimate.
90% with uBlock Origin.
I usually use Adblocker Ultimate.
To check it, I disabled all the other extensions.
Interestingly, I get a better result with only nextdns profile with hagi pro on iOS 87%, compared to nextdns + iCloud private relay 37%. What gives? Nextdns still handles my requests with private relay enabled, I can see it in the logs of nextdns.
I also use the Firefox focus safari extension.
Score is also slightly less with nextdns and proton vpn at 81%.
I rather liked to iCloud private relay nextdns combo, should i change.
Orion gave me 100%, but that browser isn’t as polished compared to safari on iOS.
93% with Firefox and privacy badger on Windscribe VPN adblocking enabled. 55% with Windscribe disabled.
89% without @@*$redirect-rule in My Filters, 96% with it added. Just using uBlock Origin with all filters on regular Fennec for Android (Firefox stable fork), and dns.adguard-dns.com private DNS sprinkled on top. Getting rid of that redirect rule though since I'm guessing it'll just cause breakage for me.
100% with Firefox for Android and Blokada. 100% with Firefox 117 beta for Windows (advanced tracking protection + uBlock Origin).
96% with Brave Browser (android) and DNS66 (custom block list)
53% with stock Firefox Focus on Samsung galaxy
87% with NoScript, Privacy Badger, uBlock
90% on Vanadium (which has no ad blocker) + Mullvad VPN. Good enough.
I got 73% in Vanadium + mullvad VPN... I also have adguard-dns set up.
That's insane. I only got 62% on Vanadium + Proton VPN + nextdns.
Try adding some blocklists, maybe the Hagezi ones. I remember NextDNS being quite good at that test.
Was getting 71% on Librewolf with only uBlock Origin. Enabled every blocklist in the extension and am now getting 100%. Thanks for sharing!
93% with Firefox and Ghostery behind Windscribe VPN. I've got a few other addons disabled like Decentraleyes and Ublock, but a combination of those with Ghostery didn't do any higher. Pretty sure I disabled them because Ghostery did everything they did. The stuff let in are to make websites like Youtube and Google usable. It's a tradeoff.
Just trying on mobile first, 57% in the in-app browser and 55% in Vivaldi vs 87% in Firefox. Even if the percentage is wrong it's interesting for comparing between browsers. Looking forward to trying on desktop (I haven't seen an ad on desktop in years) and seeing if I can improve adblocking on my phone later today
74% with ublock origin for Firefox
97% with Vivaldi and 87% with Mull +uBlock Origin... That's surprising.
I got 100% in Vivaldi on mobile by going into the settings and selecting "Block trackers and ads" and then selecting every single one of their ad blocking sources (the list was from all different countries). That got me 100% with no addtional add ons.
100% with Brave in aggressive mode, and a Pi-Hole behind it.
91% On Firefox with Privacy Badger, Nord VPN, Ghostery, a DNS filter as well.
75% on Mull with Ublock origin... I need an alternative but I like Firefox.
93% on my iPad with an ahaDNS profile installed. The only thing that makes it through are Apple’s stuff. All things considered, I’m fine with that.
I have quite a few browsers installed, all with adblock.
surprisingly, vivaldi did the best with 85%