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Bas Schouten: "If you are 'completely anti-ads' (i.e. even if their implementation is private), you probably use an ad blocker. So are unaffected by this." - Mastodon (mastodon.social)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Just wanted to surface this comment, because not enough people are cognizant of the fact that adblockers do their job and prevent any PPA submissions.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm inclined to believe the multiple parties that have said that adblockers protect you from PPA.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Logic being that blocker won't led the ad load?

So nothing to track?

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Won't let it load, so there's nothing to send and even if something loads it will be blocked like when you try and visit a site in your blocklist.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ublock is not 100% tho so there would still be some leakage tho?

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 4 months ago

According to the technical lead at Mozilla, there's no leakage.