Privacy Badger 1.0 [LWN.net]

Privacy Badger 1.0

Posted Aug 7, 2015 16:47 UTC (Fri) by MoSal (guest, #103113)
In reply to: Privacy Badger 1.0 by heftig
Parent article: Privacy Badger 1.0

Why implement a new extension at all?

I run multiple browser sessions with varying privacy/blocking requirements. uBlock Origin (the fork/branch maintained by the original author of uBlock) implements all the features I need. It replaced 3-4 extensions i've been using for years including NoScript and RequestPolicy.

I don't see myself going back to installing multiple extensions that don't integrate well with each other and add a lot of overhead. I'm sure many others share that sentiment.

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Privacy Badger 1.0

Posted Aug 8, 2015 12:27 UTC (Sat) by ledow (guest, #11753) [Link] (1 responses)

I used to use Opera.

It was able to do all this, by default, with no extensions whatsoever, years before Firefox was even a thing.

But everyone hated on it, for no real reason, and never really supported it.

Then some idiots sacked the dev team, ruined it but turning it into a Chrome-a-like, and now I'm waiting for the Vivaldi browser (written by the original Opera people) to get back up to par.

I find it cute that people think that tabbed browsing, private tabs, being able to rearrange tabs, being able to switch to developer mode, being able to block ads or make them "play-only-on-click" by default, etc. are things that only "modern" browsers have had and/or are things you need plugins and extensions for.

Privacy Badger 1.0

Posted Aug 8, 2015 16:20 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

To be fair, Opera isn't unique in that regard: Internet Explorer 6 also had better built in cookie/javascript controls than Firefox ever has.

Privacy Badger 1.0

Posted Aug 10, 2015 20:46 UTC (Mon) by yhager (guest, #50165) [Link] (1 responses)

What's the difference between uBlock and uBlock Origin?

Privacy Badger 1.0

Posted Aug 10, 2015 21:06 UTC (Mon) by rwhogg (guest, #103069) [Link]

The maintainer. The feature sets are not exactly the same, but one was forked from the other.

The two maintainers have had some disagreements over who's really in charge and who should benefit from user donations, but it looks like for all intents and purposes they're going to split for good.

(Sources: https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock, https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock)