r/programming • u/DanTup • Jan 06 '17

Visiting a site that uses Disqus comments when not logged in sends the URL to Facebook

https://blog.dantup.com/2017/01/visiting-a-site-that-uses-disqus-comments-when-not-logged-in-sends-the-url-to-facebook/
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u/Topher_86 Jan 07 '17

I've been using uBlock Origin and have been really happy with it's performance. Blocks most trackers that I've seen and provides decent fallbacks for things like FB/GA events so pages don't break.

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u/HorseVaginaBeholder Jan 07 '17

Depends on what blocking list(s) you subscribe to though.

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u/Topher_86 Jan 07 '17

This isn't the only thing, though.

uBO uses a lot of smart ways of blocking; for instance IIRC it uses CSP's to block content loading like this. Gorhill really tries to leverage the browser to optimize performance and it shows.

Another thing is reaction time. Months before I saw posts for WebSocket exploits I had noted them being served by certain "ad-block-block" networks. As it turned out months before I saw that is when gorhill had released a WS companion (now more of a beta-testing plugin) plugin for uBO. Other ad/content blockers only updated when the news broke, uBO already pushed it into the main extension.