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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
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Instead of uBlock Origin rather use AdNauseam. It's basically uBlock Origin, but it "clicks" on the blocked ads so the ad networks still have to pay website owners.
this is hilarious and I will be trying it when I'm home
With all the malware, etc., clicking on any ad is ill advised.
Ehh, its throwing the response away so there would have to be an exploit that just by receiving a response you are hacked. That would be absurdly bad, with or without AdNauseum
Those exact type of issues have existed in the past it's why the FBI uses ad blocking and recommends that it's used for security. There have been several browser vulnerabilities over the years that required absolutely no interaction from the user whatsoever it simply had to load the data.
The whole reason that manifest V3 was such a big deal for unlock origin is that it prevents it from intercepting and stopping the initial connection to The domain in the first place it can only remove it after it's been received and even that was limited. On Firefox everything is still normal it's able to completely stop the browser from ever reaching out in the first place
Getting "hacked" via clicking a link and discarding the response is so extremely rare. It would require stringing together some of the most prized zero day vulnerabilities. There is just no world where someone would run that kind of attack on a google ad in the current year.