[Serious] What to use Ublock Origin or Adguard extension

[U53R]

Hi

First of all, you should know about my configuration to understand why am I asking this:

Firefox, hardened with arkenfox. Google safebrowsing disabled via about:config not to leak anything to Google.

No I am choosing between Ublock Origin or Adguard extension. In Adguard there is built-in malware protection.

Or use Ublock and Adguard DNS to block malware?

What is your recommendations?

[ph00lt0]

According to the website AdGuard uses thr Safe Browsing API for what they call “malware protection”. That is pretty pointless given your browser does that anyway.
Privacy Guides recommends to use ublock origin over adguard.

[SkewedZeppelin]

What lists do Proton VPN's Netshield use?

I don’t know if I posted it here, but please don’t rely solely on these lists. Quoting myself: Google Safe Browsing goals are blocking threats that are gone within 10 minutes Quad9 claims “up-to-the-minute list of threats” DNS0 claims “detection-to-protection window to just a few seconds” ControlD claims “are rebuilt and deployed every 30 minutes or less” Mullvad updates once a week with a tiny list: History for output - mullvad/dns-blocklists · GitHub Please use Quad9 or DNS0, layer a brows…

Having multiple layers is good. You should have: uBlock Origin, Safe Browsing, and Protective DNS

[U53R]

@SkewedZeppelin

uBlock Origin, Safe Browsing, and Protective DNS

The main thing i wanna achieve: stop Google getting URLs i visit.

So I turned off safebrowsing. This lines in Arkenfox

So I am thinking how to replace it privately.

Maybe just turn on something like this (already included in Ublock)?

[SkewedZeppelin]

@U53R

stop Google getting URLs i visit.

they don’t, please read the explanation and links in the arkenfox section

@U53R

Maybe

that is absolutely not the same as noted in my link above, a list that updates daily/weekly is useless compared to one that updates in realtime

[U53R]

@SkewedZeppelin

explanation and links in the arkenfox section

I am about this:

SB has taken many steps to preserve privacy. If required, a full url is never sent to Google, only a part-hash of the prefix, hidden with noise of other real part-hashes. Firefox takes measures such as stripping out identifying parameters and since SBv4 (FF57+) doesn’t even use cookies. (#Turn on browser.safebrowsing.debug to monitor this activity)

This still reveals my ip to Google.

Plus, can’t someone as big as Google compare hashes and understand what had been visited (since they crawl websites and have databases with dozens of URLs)?

[ikelatomig]

Then - IronFox OSS / Safe Browsing Proxy · GitLab

If you use NextDNS, it already has Google Safebrowsing at DNS level.

You can trust the proxy or use SB at DNS level.

If you can’t trust the proxy. You can use Brave browser. They also run a safe browsering proxy under brave.com domain. Essentially, you don’t have to worry about it since you trust the browser already.

[ikelatomig]

In case of uBlock Origin vs AdGuard.

If you want to use a Mv3 based blocker but with filter lists. Use AdGuard.

AFAIK, UBlock Lite doesn’t allow adding filter lists. It’s pre-configured. Correct me, If I’m wrong.

[TsengGames]

both of those are great but i prefer ublock, just dont use that bullsh*t adware called adblock

[SkewedZeppelin]

@ikelatomig

or use SB at DNS level.

Safe Browsing is a database of both domains and URLs.
DNS doesn’t work with URLs, so that is less effective than SB on the browser side.

[ikelatomig]

Hence, why I also suggested the Iron Fox proxy.

[naibed]

OP is on FF-fork so he can use the full uBO instead of uBO lite fyi. uBO also allows for importing blocklists too.

Back to OP:
I run AGH on my router + uBO personally. I used default uBO settings for years and recently started using the more advanced ‘medium’ mode which locks things down even further. uBO does have 1-2 malware lists available and you can install additional lists from GitHub and also the ability to block webpage elements.