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I get 82% (27 not blocked. I use Firefox ESR with uBlock and Privacy Badger.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These tools aren't a reliable indicator of your protection. See here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

F, that's the guy who made uBlock... I shouldn't have posted this...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You could make an edit to your original post explaining the limitations of the method

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

100% because i have javascript disabled.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

RMS approves

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

100% on Safari on iOS with AdGuard and PiHol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Same but with adguard home and not pihole

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

100% on Safari on iOS with Wipr.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This test is wrong for sure. It doesn't detect YouTube ads as being blocked despite them never appearing in this browser thanks to ublock origin.

I also highly doubt that any domain from DoubleClick.com would be allowed through ubo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I have a quite aggressive pihole and a lot of the domains it says aren't blocked are 100% blacklisted in pihole (and testing them gives an error message so they are blocked...)

Mull (Firefox) + uBlock + PiHole.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I get 90% on both mobile and PC.

Firefox on PC with UBlock Origin. Fennec on Android with UBlock Origin.

Both are behind an AdGuard DNS but I think UBlock Origin does most of the heavy lifting here.

If I turn off the "cosmetic filter" it goes up to 92% 🤷

Edit:

Adding the following to "My filters" in UBlock Origin brought it up to 97%

@@*$redirect-rule

100% with cosmetic filter disabled

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I opened this in Connect's in app browser and got a whopping 4%. Good reminder to change app settings to use your browser instead of whatever their internal browser is

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

this test has been known to have problems on Firefox. 90% Firefox+ublock+nextdns, 99% after using the fix they recommend @@*$redirect-rule in your rules.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

97% on FF Android with ublock origin. Adguard Home is my network DNS as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

89% with firefox for android with ublock origin and decentraleyes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

4% on duck duck go browser. 87% on fennec.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

96%

Using mull+ublock for android on GrapheneOS with DoT on Adguard Home.

Interesting, I can't block ads. youtube and ads.twitter but they are added into my blocking lists. Sus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

These results are not at all what I expected. Safari + several blockers seems to be best, followed by Brave of all browsers. Firefox and FF focus got the worst rating! I really thought Focus would do a better job. Then again, all cookies get deleted so at least that part won’t matter much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Testing at 100% w/Firefox + ABP + AdGuard home DNSBL and upstream DNS blocking. Need to get uMatrix back on here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

96% on /e/OS with the Mull browser with uBlock and Privacy Badger

92% on /e/ on the tor browser with the same extensions?? that's weird

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't know people actually used /e/os. not meant to be a dig I'd just never seen it in the wild.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

93% on mobile (Firefox + ublock + pihole) 84% on desktop (Firefox + unlock + pihole)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

93% with NextDNS and HaGeZi Ultimate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

100% with iOS Safari, Wipr, and Adguard Home on network level.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

100% on Safari with just Wipr.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wipr is pretty nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Before adding "@@*$redirect-rule" to uBlock Origin filters:

  • With uMatrix enabled: 99%, everything except ads-api.twitter.com and ads.youtube.com was blocked.
  • With uMatrix disabled: 83%, 125/150 blocked.

After adding "@@*$redirect-rule" to uBlock Origin filters:

  • With uMatrix enabled: 100%, 150/150 blocked.
  • With uMatrix disabled: 85%, 127/150 blocked.

Using Firefox with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and some others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

91% on Firefox for Android with I lock Origin and pfblockerng on my router.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems to still not work correctly. I remember a little while back that this testsite had issues with how uBlock Origin handled some blocking. Seems like the issue has not completely been fixed. Strange that the github issues all seem to have been closed. I find that kind of lazy and misleading.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

69% on my network alone. More once I turn ublock origin on :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

91% on Chrome mobile behind PiHole. Fairly good for a minimum effort whole network solution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Got 100% on ios using Orion with Ublock-origin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

84% on Fennec mobile with AdAway, uBlock Origin, Privacy Possum, Ad Nauseum and DecentralEyes. A lot of sites seem to be wrongly reported though, ad.doubleclick.net for example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

91% with pihole + ublock on Firefox. Time to add some domains to the blacklist

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I got 100%. Using Mull on android (Firefox fork) with Ublock.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow I only get 62%. Using Vanadium on GrapheneOS over a network with DNS blocking.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

99%
This is with Firefox in strict privacy mode with uBlock, Privacy Possum, Local CDN and CanvasBlocker. I don't think any other of my addons matter for this.

Edit: I also use Mullvad VPN which might block some stuff on the way too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Seems to be misreporting (Adguard home + ublock + FF). With ublock off I get a higher percentage than with it on (93% vs 91%). It's reporting things as not blocked while they are clearly blocked (all requests show blocked in inspector)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

See here for more information. You are correct that the tool is fairly useless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Got 92% on Firefox iOS in strict mode, with pfblocker. Tried safari but the test won’t even start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using UBlock for years and was surprised that out of the box, AdGuard had a much better score!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

96% with Brave Browser (android) and DNS66 (custom block list)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Interestingly, I get a better result with only nextdns profile with hagi pro on iOS 87%, compared to nextdns + iCloud private relay 37%. What gives? Nextdns still handles my requests with private relay enabled, I can see it in the logs of nextdns.

I also use the Firefox focus safari extension.

Score is also slightly less with nextdns and proton vpn at 81%.

I rather liked to iCloud private relay nextdns combo, should i change.

Orion gave me 100%, but that browser isn’t as polished compared to safari on iOS.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox focus gave me a 93% while fennec gave me a 91%. I run ControlD as a DoH provider that is suposed to block ads, trackers, malware, and big social (X, spybook, instabully, etc). I am also running ublock origin in fennec.

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