FYI: A comparison of web privacy protection techniques

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

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👍 Good find!

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That figure just compares the numbers of blocked requests and domains, with the common ones into the green square. The diagonal has the items blocked exclusively by a specific addon.

...it's on prev page, right side.

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Seems like Ghostery has specific blocks of the same script, while Gorhill has neutered it:
gorhill/uBlock#902 (comment)

[gorhill]

Sorry I didn't have time yet to read all the details of the papers, I just quickly scanned it.

Table1 lists the version as 1.6 which doesn't exist yet - maybe they meant 1.06?

Version 1.6 was released on Feb. 10, 2016.

Not too long after 1.6 came out I started to make more use of uBO's ability to redirect to local neutered resources, to foil widely used 3rd parties, for example googletagservices.com -- not blocked by EasyPrivacy. So nowadays the authors would find much better results for uBO.

Its a shame uM wasn't included

Or even just uBO's medium mode, given they have covered NoScript and RequestPolicyContinued. I would say it's even weird given that uMatrix has a larger user base than RPC. But anyways, it's questionable to include default-deny extensions in such test, of course they will always have the upper hand when it comes to foil 3rd parties, at the cost of web page breakage, that sort of extensions can never be meaningfully compared to install-and-forget blockers.

[earthlng]

uBo can control XSS on a per domain basis

just FYI, XSS is a term used for a common vulnerability, and I think what you mean is XHR.

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It's under notifications where 5 options are enabled:

• blocked scripts
• XSS
• blocked META redirections
• ABE
• ClearClick Warning