Vivaldi browser partners with DuckDuckGo for Tracker blocker
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@snlj: Probably yes. The option is basically just missing from the UI on android at the moment.
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@julien_picalausa , with calm, the adblocker is perhaps not as efficient at certain points yet as uBO or nano, but at least it cuts any ad well, even on YT.
While Vivaldi can use extensions like Privacy Badger and others, it is easy to 'fill in the gaps'.
With your magnificent work it is anyway less necessary to have to use extensions in each update, being most of the extensions of the Chrome Store superfluous and redundant for Vivaldi. -
@npro said in Vivaldi browser partners with DuckDuckGo for Tracker blocker:
How could one block fonts.googleapis.com easily though? Or otherwise called "remote fonts". Very sneaky tracking via fonts.
I believe this should be enough:
- Create an empty text document somewhere on your computer.
- Write
fonts.googleapis.com
in that document. - Open Vivaldi Settings > Privacy > Manage Sources
- Click the
+
under Tracker Blocking Sources. - Click the folder icon in the popup and choose the text document you created.
I tried this and pretty much all fonts in the list on https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_google_fonts.asp were replaced with a default font.
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@Komposten hehe I wrote "easily", I know a couple of ways already for example with the chromium switch --disable-remote-fonts to the target line, so I meant it for the non so tech-savvy user, provided by Vivaldi. Besides, that example covers only google
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@julien_picalausa: Maybe Open Source "Block-This" can be of assistance? https://block-this.com/
So far, i've replaced Adguard with it and it seems to be doing just fine.
Haven't checked to see memory usage for both, but my hunch is Block This is probably lower. -
@danielson I used Block This for a while until I needed the VPN connection for a proper tunnel, but it worked really well and with little resource impact.
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@npro said in Vivaldi browser partners with DuckDuckGo for Tracker blocker:
@Komposten hehe I wrote "easily", I know a couple of ways already for example with the chromium switch --disable-remote-fonts to the target line, so I meant it for the non so tech-savvy user, provided by Vivaldi. Besides, that example covers only google
"Write the URL in a text file and add as a tracker blocking list" sounds easy to me.
But yes, it only disables fonts from that particular URL, but you asked for blocking that particular URL.
For remote fonts in general it might be trickier. -
@Komposten said in Vivaldi browser partners with DuckDuckGo for Tracker blocker:
@npro said in Vivaldi browser partners with DuckDuckGo for Tracker blocker:
@Komposten hehe I wrote "easily", I know a couple of ways already for example with the chromium switch --disable-remote-fonts to the target line, so I meant it for the non so tech-savvy user, provided by Vivaldi. Besides, that example covers only google
"Write the URL in a text file and add as a tracker blocking list" sounds easy to me.
But yes, it only disables fonts from that particular URL, but you asked for blocking that particular URL.
For remote fonts in general it might be trickier."Write the URL in a text file and add as a tracker blocking list" requires research from a non tech-savvy user, which is different than having an option for "block remote fonts", trust me
Also I was responding/requesting to @julien_picalausa about not just the url but "remote fonts" (or otherwise in the sentence), I doubt blocking only this url would be useful to anyone, yet alone the fact that one non-tech savvy person should search for that specific url to come to this solution, which is an oxymoron . The best way is either to block remote fonts globally via a switch (advanced) or use uBlock's (or similar) setting for it (normal). -
@npro said in Vivaldi browser partners with DuckDuckGo for Tracker blocker:
"Write the URL in a text file and add as a tracker blocking list" requires research from a non tech-savvy user, which is different than having an option for "block remote fonts", trust me
[...] The best way is either to block remote fonts globally via a switch (advanced) or use uBlock's (or similar) setting for it (normal).True, but would a non tech-savvy user look for "disable remote fonts" in the first place?
Also, remote fonts are probably not the only thing of its kind which can be abused for tracking so why stop at just remote fonts? At that point it's probably better to have a "prevent websites from using techniques which might be used for tracking by third parties"-switch. -
@julien_picalausa This is reassuring since I got a ton of "invalid" and "unsupported" rules when importing (https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/46091/vivaldi-tracker-blocker-ad-block-list-import-invalid-unsupported).
I hope full support for uBlock lists can come soon so we can make use of the whole list, but of course "WIR" is the principle. Anyway the internal blocker still gets the job done so I'll leave uBlock disabled. Awesome job on the this feature! -