The Adblock Detection tool was created to show people that the use of some filters can be detected, and this can help attackers to identify you.
What I am talking about? Few cases:
> The person changed the IP address using VPN, changed the browser and system language. Everything indicates that he is from the UK. But, he has a Japanese filter in ad blocker subscriptions — this may reveal that he has something to do with Japan.
> Tor Browser is designed so that one person with a «Tor Browser on Windows» does not differ from another person with a «Tor Browser on Windows» (they stopped the war trying to hide OS as far as I can tell) within the same version of Firefox ESR.
> By default, Tor Browser does not contain an ad blocker, but some people install it to reduce network traffic and block ads. They do not realize that this action will make them different from other TBB users, especially if they change the default set of subscriptions.
> Even if you think this threat is too far-fetched, people have a right to know.
> There is no any «Anti-Adblock» on this page. It does not fight with ad blockers to show more ads or something like that. Trying to break this page, you are not doing anything good, but falsely satisfying your users' concerns.
All the money you spend counter detecting my ad-igoring is simply more money they have to spend to try and market to me. It adds nothing to their bottom line.
In that respect, a win. The sudden panic of all these conglomerates seems to indicate that their click-bait based model of shitty advertising is falling down around their fucking heads. Here's why this is a good thing...
Zachary Morgan
How do you update it?
Kevin Ward
With a shell script I made. I pass a file of links to hosts files and a file of domains to grep-whitelist and it does its thing.
Angel Green
Any Palemoon/myPal/ancient XUL firefox users can test if it works on that?
Justin Wood
>But, he has a Japanese filter in ad blocker subscriptions — this may reveal that he has something to do with Japan. That's why you enable every single filter. We've known this for years, why is this newsworthy? >> By default, Tor Browser does not contain an ad blocker, but some people install it to reduce network traffic and block ads. What part of "DO NOT INSTALL ANY ADDONS" do people not understand?
>What part of "DO NOT INSTALL ANY ADDONS" do people not understand? My "good faith" guess is that people who use adblockers in tor browser do so because they just want to access "normal internet sites" which are blocked where they live and they don't want use noscript (like 95% if not more of today's ads are simply not showing without memescript).
