[GLLUG] Ghostery Extension & gllug.org

[Tom McArthur]

I had never heard of uBlock Origin, so I gave it a try. I also installed 
a memory utility so I could see how much memory each add-in used.

Although I liked the small memory footprint of uBlock Origin (it uses 
less than 10% of the memory of Ghostery and Adblock Plus combined), I 
didn't like the UI for several reasons:

1) I don't see a white list
2) I can't see a list of what is being blocked
3) It doesn't block Facebook and Google+ buttons/tracking
4) I don't care how much blocking it does "behind the scenes." If it 
doesn't show me what it's blocking, then I assume that it's not doing 
enough. Merely displaying a "blocked" number in the icon is not enough.

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll take the better blocking of Ghostery and 
Adblock Plus over a smaller memory footprint any day. My 8 Gig i7 can 
easily handle the increased memory load, even with a VM running.

Tom


On 08/18/2015 05:42 PM, eos at draggi.es wrote:
> I recommend uBlock Origin as a replacement for both Ghostery and 
> Adblock Plus. Just an FYI.
>
> Sent from my android device.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com>
> To: "linux-user at egr.msu.edu" <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
> Sent: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 2:08 PM
> Subject: [GLLUG] Ghostery Extension & gllug.org
>
> I've installed a Firefox extension called Ghostery that displays and can
> block methods websites and companies use to track our web behavior.  I
> noticed that our website takes about two seconds to load now, versus
> maybe twenty, thirty, or more seconds it used to.  Ghostery blocks the
> Facebook Connect tracker, which speeds loading up considerably. Of
> course, I've visited our website recently enough that the graphics are
> still in my cache, but this is over dial-up.
> -- 
>
>                                 Chick
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