19 Aug
2020
19 Aug
'20
9:40 p.m.
On Wednesday 19 August 2020 14:12:39 Janek Stolarek wrote:
You might consider creating a custom hosts file. Somewhere I believe I have a
URL where you can download a file of hosts to block, but I have added to this
on my own. I would be glad to share my hosts file, but it is big; not just
big, but abnormally big, currently 16 mb.
Anyway, if you use a customized hosts file, then you don't really need an
ad-blocker. I haven't looked at an online ad since about 2005 or so; unless,
of course, I am forced to use a direct connection.
Bill
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I did try
Vivaldi, and it has some good things about it; however, it is
not exactly free/libre, GNU/Linux, Richard-Stallman-approved.
Indeed. The team claims that although the code is not on a Free license
(aside from Chromium modifications, which are BSD license), but it is
openly available for inspection:
https://vivaldi.com/source/
Vivaldi makes connections to gezillions of
different IP addresses.
I would be guessing it queries external sites for data needed to provide
functionality like ad blocking (it needs to regularly update the ad
filters), etc. Firefox seems no better here, I think.
Otherwise,
have you considered other Mozilla-based browsers, such as
Icecat
I haven't heard about Icecat. I will take a look.
There is also PaleMoon, as well as a few others,
and most of these
preserve some of the old Mozilla features that we have missed.
I do have Palemoon, which I primarily use when I need to download huge
files. Palemoon has the Flashgot plugin, which intergates with Trinity's
KGet allowing to easily redirect links to TDE's download manager. It's a
pity that when Firefox moved to Quantum it left behind so many good
extensions that have not been replaced until now and most likely will never
be replaced.
I am sure you have your own reasons for choice of
browser, so I will
refrain from rants against proprietary or "non-free" software.
I do prefer my software open source and only go for closed source when
there's really a significant difference in software quality.
Janek