My Browser Builds (Part 5)

[Sampei.Nihira]

UBO Legacy has no ability to prevent URL tracking parameters.
Your link should look like this (without the tracking parameters):

Check that your adblocker also blocks:

https://cas.avalon.perfdrive.com (fingerprint)

https://sr-client-cfg.amplitude.com (tracker third-party)

P.S.

These 2 trackers are also blocked by my FF (and also UBO).
If they are not blocked by your UBO Legacy I can recommend adding a list of filters

Edited November 13, 2024 by Sampei.Nihira

[UCyborg]

1 hour ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

You need to disable -webkit-animation

Unsure your best route to do so (I disable via Proxomitron).

You could use a custom style sheet to override.  Below should work.

Bruh, Pale Moon has layout.css.animation.enabled in about:config.

1 hour ago, Sampei.Nihira said:

That link (but also the images) has so many tracking parameters in the URL,that it is a very bad idea to use an extension (and browser) with no filtering capabilities.

But if tracking is not your priority,do not consider these written words of mine important.

And good luck with any exposure to a possible privacy violation to third-party as well.

Yeah, security / privacy extensions for these browsers are just a joke at this point. Unless you're talking about whatever might be out there that requires you to be the programmer to use. Some of us are just taking a leap of faith at this point. xD

Though the browser on my phone has no extensions neither, can run user scripts, has an ad blocker which I'm not sure if it does anything more, but being behind AdGuard's DNS catches some annoyances. Still, modern uBO is better, at least in the sense it can catch embedded baddies.

Edited November 13, 2024 by UCyborg

[Sampei.Nihira]

@UCyborg

 

Yes filtering at the DNS level helps a lot.
With a browser without extensions the optimum is to achieve 97% blocking at d3ward test.

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But of course DNS filtering is more useful with Windows.
And in that case you need to enable at least 2 filter lists that are also available in AG DNS.
With these 2 filter lists (which I use in NextDNS) you can greatly reduce network filtering with UBO.

Edited November 13, 2024 by Sampei.Nihira

[UCyborg]

3 hours ago, modnar said:

Do you honestly expect me to let my graphics card idle while the CPU has to perform graphics tasks? That's not a solution. But it is passed around as such on quite some forums...

That's the impression I got on this forum, but your description doesn't really make it clear what your problem is, so I'm not sure if anyone will be able to help you.

And browser engines have similarity to game engines, graphics APIs are called all the time on those, otherwise nothing would end up on the screen.

[AstroSkipper]

1 hour ago, Sampei.Nihira said:

UBO Legacy has no ability to prevent URL tracking parameters.
Your link should look like this (without the tracking parameters): ...

Just for clarification. I know how to prevent URL tracking parameters. But the two profiles I am currently using are actually for testing and developing in New Moon 28 and Mypal 68. Apart from uBO, there is no other protection. And even this content blocker is only configured slightly, as it is not of interest. I test JavaScript and CSS files in these profiles. Mainly things I have created myself. I had searched for something on eBay there weeks ago, and now these pages no longer work as before. No more, no less. Nevertheless, thanks for replying!

Edited November 13, 2024 by AstroSkipper

[NotHereToPlayGames]

52 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

I know how to prevent URL tracking parameters.

I for one pretty much assumed that you do.  But it still was a gigantic surprise that you posted the link without manually removing the vvveeerrryyy lllooonnnggg aaannnddd uuunnnnnneeeccceeeessssssaaarrryyy pppooorrrtttiiiooonnnsss ooofff ttthhheee UUURRRLLL.

[AstroSkipper]

Just now, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I for one pretty much assumed that you do.  But it still was a gigantic surprise that you posted the link without manually removing the vvveeerrryyy lllooonnnggg aaannnddd uuunnnnnneeeccceeeessssssaaarrryyy pppooorrrtttiiiooonnnsss ooofff ttthhheee UUURRRLLL.

Had to make a quick trip to the pharmacy. Just copied and pasted and bye-bye.

[AstroSkipper]

3 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

4 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

You need to disable -webkit-animation

Unsure your best route to do so (I disable via Proxomitron).

You could use a custom style sheet to override.  Below should work.

* {
    animation-delay: initial !important;
    animation-direction: initial !important;
    animation-duration: initial !important;
    animation-fill-mode: initial !important;
    animation-iteration-count: initial !important;
    animation-name: initial !important;
    animation-play-state: initial !important;
    animation-timing-function: initial !important;
    animation: initial !important;

    -moz-animation-delay: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-delay: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-direction: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-fill-mode: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-iteration-count: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-name: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-play-state: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-timing-function: initial !important;
    -moz-animation: initial !important;

    -webkit-animation-delay: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-delay: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-direction: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-fill-mode: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-name: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-play-state: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-timing-function: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation: initial !important;

    transition-delay: initial !important;
    transition-duration: initial !important;
    transition-property: initial !important;
    transition-timing-function: initial !important;
    transition: initial !important;

    -moz-transition-delay: initial !important;
    -moz-transition-duration: initial !important;
    -moz-transition-property: initial !important;
    -moz-transition-timing-function: initial !important;
    -moz-transition: initial !important;

    -webkit-transition-delay: initial !important;
    -webkit-transition-duration: initial !important;
    -webkit-transition-property: initial !important;
    -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial !important;
    -webkit-transition: initial !important;
}

Thanks for your suggestion!  I'll try it out later on my Windows XP computer. Since Stylus no longer works in Mypal 68, and Stylish is no longer installed in New Moon 28, I will try to inject the code into the eBay pages via the userContent.css file.

No success. This does not do anything. The issue doesn't seem to be related to animations and transitions. Only when blocking ebayimg.map.fastly.net in uBO, the CPU utilisation becomes normal again. But then the page looks unusable like that:

Edited November 13, 2024 by AstroSkipper

[j7n]

In what situations would hardware accleration make a significant difference? Most normal, even rather complex webpages are rendered once and stay like that as they are scrolled. You'd have to have some elements overlayed onto one another with transparency and moving, or being constantly refreshed as if they were moving, or a video. There probably are such. But what are any concrete examples where h/w acceleration makes the CPU usage noticeably go down?

[RamonUn]

18 hours ago, UCyborg said:

Interlink lost mails again. Maybe the problem was that I updated it...since I usually don't have that kind of problems with UXP stuff, I didn't note the version, it was from the time Tobin decided to rage quit, but there were subsequent updates.

I think in this period the profile folder changed, you have to move your profile to the new location if this is the case. I remember having the problem.

new profiles folder is %APPDATA%\OpenSource\MailNews

 

[NotHereToPlayGames]

8 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

Only when blocking ebayimg.map.fastly.net in uBO, the CPU utilisation becomes normal again.

Unable to replicate.  ebayimg.map doesn't show up in any of my logs even when visiting https://www.ebay.de/itm/186679189985 incognito.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

10 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

Just copied and pasted and bye-bye.

I would edit the post and remove the long URL if I were you.  I do not have an ebay account and do not visit often enough to know it "inside and out".

But I do know that many popular websites basically send a member ID string stored inside a "cookie" and include that member ID string in the URL.

Again, I do not "know" ebay, but if you were logged in at the time of copy-paste, then you should at the bare minimum LEARN each and every "tracking parameter" contained in that URL to know if you yourself is comfortable KEEPING that URL "public".

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Without searching extensively, I could find "shopping history" string identifiers and your URL does not contain them so your shopping history is not being revealed.

So odds are, you were not logged in at the time of copy-paste.

With something like PROXOMITRON, I could have LITERALLY used YOUR publicly-posted "shopping history" string and shopped ebay "appending" to YOUR HISTORY.

Not "easy", but CAN be done.

 

[AstroSkipper]

3 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

So odds are, you were not logged in at the time of copy-paste.

Correct! I was not logged in at the time. The eBay link is in the format that you are offered as a simple guest. It actually only contains one real tracking component starting with _trksid, the other two are purely item related starting with itmprp (followed by a checksum) and itmmeta and are not normally filtered by tracking filters. The current URL tracking filter list inside uBO does not even clean _trksid, although it is included but not activated.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

11 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

The current URL tracking filter list inside uBO does not even clean _trksid, although it is included but not activated.

Agreed.  Same observation here.  BUT here at work, I can no longer use AdGuard (URL|) Tracking Protection uBO filter lists.  

I've been meaning to import manually from home but haven't gotten around to it yet.

So unsure if those two AdGuard lists would have removed _trksid or not.