-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Perhaps an internal fork of it could be made specifically for Tor to make the black/whitelisting process accountable only to the interests of anonymity and the Tor network. As I understand it, AdBlock maintains a whitelist where providers can pay to be excluded from their blockers and so it has a commercial interest which is potentially very dangerous when combined with the factors already mentioned.
- -T Griffin Boyce: > Greg Norcie wrote: >> Also, from a less philosophical POV, adding any add-ons >> increases attack surface. > > Yeah. Aside from all of the other legitimate reasons why to not > bundle an ad blocker with TBB, this is also a large amount of code > (and filtering rules) that are maintained by an outside entity. > Which makes a pretty decent attack vector. > > And also, if you are a filter/autoblocker/adblock/etc, you're > deferring to someone else's judgment about what you should be able > to see or read. I say that as a user of adblock who is okay with > the tradeoffs (and I whitelist ads on my favorite ad-supported > sites). > > I'd be curious about the pros/cons of bundling in something like > Privacy Badger, which has a bit of a different approach than things > like Adblock Plus. But this still goes back to the obvious "blob > of outside code" and filtering issues that adblock et al have. I > think the best answer goes back to user choice -- users can add > these and other extensions if they'd like, but Tor's software is > designed to help bypass filters, so baking in filters feels like a > step back. > > best, Griffin > - -- Activist, anarchist and a bit of a dreamer. Current Fingerprint: E771 BE69 4696 F742 DB94 AA8C 5C2A 8C5A 0CCA 4983 Key-ID: 0CCA4983 Master Fingerprint: DDEF AB9B 1962 5D09 4264 2558 1F23 39B7 EF10 09F0 Key-ID: EF1009F0 Twitter: @CthulhuSec XMPP: thecthulhu at jabber.ccc.de XMPP-OTR: 4321B19F A9A3462C FE64BAC7 294C8A7E A53CC966 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUlaZqAAoJEFwqjFoMykmDv0oQAInkPYW9g5m1s2RhRJrls5u9 GkXbpt0tLL5htWoZs+/BAVz7gUYLBXdCw6cn1esgvSBoUmjg513D93fcL+LgpZw7 M6lmFhzLyV8TTIwG7eVilgvrH569BXvCggMEdmoOc5kk2RaZ6sFjgsZSqlUg12pt xn++4YFk5XcSnvE3ZLgKQSBlY9A7vvtO0cpLzAq/k6RsfaMZZC7tfBVJ/FMh/FtV 95alaP7tpCMRqBcPyTv9rzISoTmtc6CdfaNXgBmjv3bcRQfTzPS03/4s9VjmPO20 qO0UNbW+TAUoSLLDpTBbMdRqVWHmaoTOdVtgkSj0ZKcFVBQdavcdL5ThiGJY/+ao BBzpJ+KrvNKUeECDm+q9lB+t2pyQr741WcACDF2bzOC+YOrPa77WM5dtG0eLKAIA ZpjMnXCmvPNX/H+RJsI3KhEhb1fKTI6sXAdrW5bZiC2AUmRrU2e1QZPPEWN/cJY4 zv+B1MDklTLHpqU1ZZpEM9Y9zOtVFZTPgpBP1u4CqGIr/hPpi99NrYtQJiIU1iBZ Gv7lCRwEzmMK+InUh+yDV5JanVVxpmo9n5VMgcy+6vhYgqPcwnan7vunJTy95sQ3 8yXQ7bOE6dyE2+6PcTY9H+SAn+HZCHT53w3Odn/tvFyrZAoVdjItlPCSFC96yNuc tPZMkSLskyB8irO1lWez =xo/6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
