Anyone have any good information on using ublock origin with tor browser? Does it compromise my anonymity?

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    Hi! It doesn’t make sense at all. Blocking ads & trackers is not a good approach to achieve privacy. It’s quite weak actually for many reasons…

    First of all, because enumeration badness doesn’t work; it’s not possible to create a list of every possible “malicious domain”. And even if it was possible, websites could develop their own first party tracking and then share the information to third parties like Google or Facebook.

    Second of all, because apps and websites can detect what domains are blocked, thus they -or malicious actors- will able to uniquely identify users more easily.

    Third of all, because extensions add more attack surface since they use privileged script in order to work.

    That’s why Tor doesn’t use any ad-blocker.

    For more information about enumeration badness and browser tracking you can see here and here

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        I can totally see how Madaidan can cause fear, uncertainty, and doubt. When I read, for example, his criticisms of Linux, I felt not only that, but also disappointment. You for sure have good reasons to dislike Madaidan and either GraphenOS or the Lemmy GrapheneOS community. But I don’t know them. Could you explain a bit why Madidan and GrapheneOS (or it’s Lemmy community) are problematic? Your answer would help me see what you see :)

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            Requesting is not begging, hence the purpose of c/community_requests

            You seem like an angry person replying out of hate. I’m sorry for whatever it is that happened to you to be this way. It doesn’t give you a right to attack, harass and bully people.