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Unfortunately, even with EasyPrivacy and "Fanboy's Social Blocking", you will find that blockers (ABP, AdBlock, uBlock, etc) do not prevent 100% connecting to Facebook, Twitter, and whatnot.[1]

This is one of the reasons I see dynamic filtering as a key feature: users have the last word, not the filter lists.[2]

For example, I currently block all Facebook, Twitter, Disqus, and any of similarly ubiquitous domains by default using dynamic filtering, so that I have now 100% certainty that no connections to these domains occur on any page, while such certainty is not possible when relying solely on the filter lists.

[1] https://www.diffchecker.com/pz6rv6lq

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...



Oh, it's you! Great. I'm confused. I've been using HTTPSwitchboard now for the last several months and love it. Is µBlock the successor to that, or are they for different things?

edit: Ah, I followed the link to µMatrix and I see now, I think. HTTPSB became µMatrix, and µBlock is the "easy" version of µMatrix. So I guess I should upgrade my HTTPSB to µMatrix, then. Is that right? Thanks for all your work on these tools!


HTTPSB is discontinued since October last year, so yes you should upgrade to µMatrix.

https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/commit/b8a45e61d2...


>do not prevent 100% connecting to Facebook, Twitter, and whatnot //

Sounds like more of a job for a filtering proxy or hosts file.


uBlock will do it for you while keeping the point-and-click ability to un-block on a per-site basis. For example, a site which breaks if it can't connect to Facebook.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bzB6tESynM


Browser add-ons allow non-admin users to filter these requests. Installing a proxy or editing the hosts file requires admin privileges.

uMatrix also allows you to quickly and easily see which sites are trying to load what resources, which you lose with a hosts file setup.




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