PSA: If you do use #Brave browser, be aware it doesn't block #Facebook or #Twitter trackers

For Facebook tracking Brave white-lists
connect.facebook.net
connect.facebook.com
staticxx.facebook.com
www.facebook.com
scontent.xx.fbcdn.net
pbs.twimg.com
scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net

According to Brave developers, it's white-listed due to causing Facebook login to break if blocked.

See issue #1108 on Github
github.com/brave/brave-browser…

#privacy

@wuwei @Rastal doesn't make its money by selectively whitelisting ads? For that reason Brave is inherently a bad tool for .

@resist1984

Haven't heard something about that

I do know however know a lot of funding is coming from their cryptocurrency that is funded by them filling sites with their own ads.
It includes replacing actual ads as well as apparently adding them to some addfree sites

@Rastal

Follow

@wuwei @Rastal the two under-handed ways that ad-blockers profit is by whitelisting ads that pay the ad blocker not to block, and indeed the non-whitelisted ads are often replaced by ads that benefit the ad blocking project. I knew Brave made use of one or both of those schemes but didn't recall which.

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