For those of you that don’t want to install another add-on, this filter for uBlock does a similar thing: https://filterlists.com/lists/clearurls-for-ublock-origin
Also good for cases where a website reads your active addons. Ublock users > users of privacy badger + ublock
Excuse my ignorance, but how are these added to Ublock, as it seems such a sensible thing to do?
If you follow that link you will see ‘Subscribe’ towards the bottom, that will add it to uBo
https://filterlists.com/lists/actually-legitimate-url-shortener-tool is bigger list and is updated more often.
What’s the reason to use Google services to begin with? Asking because I’m genuinely curious.
YouTube is basically the only video platform where the vast majority video creators are gathered on. PeerTube and the likes are nice, but for the most part, don’t even play in the same league, IMHO. YMMV depending on the content you like to consume, of course.
I mostly use a combination of DDG/Brave, but I have to fall back on Google Search way more often than I’d like to find some things. Especially for local (geographically speaking) stuff or non-English content…
It sucks that they dominate so much, but it’s not particularly difficult to guess why your average person still use them, no?
Would badger break ublock?
I used Privacy Badger for years, but recently removed it because it was breaking so many sites. ublock + adguard is good enough for me.
Or… Avoid Google products unless absolutely necessary,
I can honestly say I don’t hit any front-end Google server for a few days to a week at a time. Occasionally I look some obscure technical issue that only Google search finds and that’s usually when I break my streak. Otherwise, there are plenty of alternatives to get you 80% of the way there functionally without touching Google with a 10-ft pole.
Of course, and despite my best efforts, my browser probably hits a lot of back-end Google servers - you know, the gstatic.com, google.com and such that other websites inflict on you and you can’t avoid half of the times without breaking the site.
