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.
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They will use popups asking you to upgrade to a premium version:
https://adblockultimate.net/pricing
Which is kinda silly when they seem to mostly copy the work of others:
https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/1078
I second the uBlock Origin recommendation.
Well that's shady
@Alb087 why not use something more... trusted and probably better? ublock origin is the best around.
Why not use uBlock? Widely used and gets job done
If you're using Mozilla's level of endorsement as a metric, note this prominent disclaimer on the addon's page:
⚠️ This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.
Check the licence.
If it's not any open source licence then fundamentally not trustable.
I'm not going to tell you what to use instead, but how you make the judgement for yourself: audit the code yourself
The source code is linked right there, and you don't need trusting someone to make the call. You're making the call. Mind you, the actual add-on installed from Mozilla Add-Ons might contains different code then what shown in the repo. I never release any add-ons so that is just a wild guess and a hint possibility this could happen.
To give you an head start: look for URLs and any encoded strings in all files, be it Base64 or something else. And follow them to find out why there it is there, how is it triggered, etc. Same goes for encoded strings with the added question: what was encoded within.
Still, that is just the basic, and I'm not too into JavaScript but there could be other ways of hiding information, like in an image file via steganography.
@umami_wasbi @Alb087 auditing code is complicated, not everyone will know how to do that, and even the people who do can miss a lot
Yes, but we are not auditing security or cryptography implementation.
Instead, the goal is get a sense how it works, and look for suspicious codes or have if parts hidden (encoded) and doesn't want people to know. That's relatively way easier than a serious audit.
I think you greatly overestimate the average person's ability to understand even the most basic code. Let alone in multiple languages.
Really? Maybe I got too used to it.
Why not DNS level AdBlock?