this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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Oh god, uBlock or privacy badger needs to do this
While funny, the whole idea of tracking your data enough to give you a wrapped kind of goes completely against everything these extensions are supposed to do.
My suggested alternative is you click the wrapped button and it just says:
"Fucked if I know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
It could keep a local count, wouldn’t need to communicate it out. It basically already shows you how many things are getting blocked, it would just be a funny end of year easter egg
Yeah a local record of blocked ads would be trivial to save and no need to upload.
It already shows how many ads have been blocked.
"who cares, fuck em"
Well. uBlock does track total blocks
But it does say right on that page:
Take note that the network request logger in uBO is a forward-looking logger: this means only future requests can be logged.
In the spirit of efficiency, uBO will log entries IF AND ONLY IF the logger is opened. Otherwise, if the logger is not opened, no CPU/memory resources are consumed by uBO for logging purpose.
Or it could just be made up static data
That would legit get me to pay them or donate or something. Such a hilarious idea.
I totally want a uBO version of that
"Advanced Privacy" app on /e/-os (opensource android ROM) sends me occasional notifications about apps with most trackers haha. Also has a "wall of shame" (it's literally called that) where you can browse the worst offending apps
You clicked "Accept all" ONCE in a real hurry, huh?
This used to give me nightmares. Then I learned to love the bomb: Clean out everything each time you close your browser.
And all that's left is your fully trackable browser fingerprint.
The things that give it off (i.e. 0.00%):
- List of fonts (JS)
- I think this should be an easy fix. Just provide some, widely-used fonts to the browser and not all the 200 fonts that are on the system
- HTML5 Canvas
- I have no idea what this is based on, but shouldn't it be possible to randomise it every time, so that even though it is unique every time, it is so for everyone and every time they refresh the page?
- Audio data (sometimes)
- happened in LibreWolf, but not in Firefox
Sure, it's still better to NOT click Accept all once in a hurry.
But my browser does mitigate some of that.
How much does privacy badger help with that
data shared with 17203 partners
Only 17203? I feel like that's low
Is this that metadata I hear so much about /s
I wonder what the 2025 version will be ;)
The "Login teminder popup remover" userscript works well for me. Additionally to an adblocker of course.