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@ -19,7 +19,15 @@ On top of the [obvious problem](#the-obvious-problem) mentioned above, there are
The problem here is that adblockers (especially with Manifest v2) are highly privileged and have access to all of your data within the browser. All it takes is for the extension developer to turn malicious for your passwords, session ids, TOTP secrets, etc to get compromised. Even if you were to assume that the extension developer is trustworthy, one vulnerability within the extension could still be catastrophic. This is made worse by the fact that adblockers typically use third-party blocklists, extending trust to the blocklist maintainers to not exploit the extension should a vulnerability be found. The ["uBlock, I exfiltrate"](https://portswigger.net/research/ublock-i-exfiltrate-exploiting-ad-blockers-with-css) blog post describes in detail how a CSS injection vulnerability in uBlockOrigin lead to data exfiltration with one sigle bad filtering rule. The problem here is that adblockers (especially with Manifest v2) are highly privileged and have access to all of your data within the browser. All it takes is for the extension developer to turn malicious for your passwords, session ids, TOTP secrets, etc to get compromised. Even if you were to assume that the extension developer is trustworthy, one vulnerability within the extension could still be catastrophic. This is made worse by the fact that adblockers typically use third-party blocklists, extending trust to the blocklist maintainers to not exploit the extension should a vulnerability be found. The ["uBlock, I exfiltrate"](https://portswigger.net/research/ublock-i-exfiltrate-exploiting-ad-blockers-with-css) blog post describes in detail how a CSS injection vulnerability in uBlockOrigin lead to data exfiltration with one sigle bad filtering rule.
Overall, adblockers weaken your security for dubios privacy benefits. You are better off not using any advertisement/tracker blocking extensions at all. If you want to avoid stateful tracking, consider clearing all cookies and site data upon exit, using [FireFox containers](https://linuxbsdos.com/2021/11/27/see-multi-account-containers-extension-is-not-needed-to-use-containers-in-firefox/), or using multiple browser instances. You would also need to hide your IP address using a VPN or something like the Tor network as well. If you are worried about stateless tracking, use a browser with fingerprinting protection like Brave (which can fool naive scripts) or Tor Browser (which has the best protection in the market). Overall, adblockers weaken your security for dubios privacy benefits. You are better off not using any advertisement/tracker blocking extensions at all. If you want to avoid stateful tracking, consider clearing all cookies and site data upon exit, using [FireFox containers](https://linuxbsdos.com/2021/11/27/see-multi-account-containers-extension-is-not-needed-to-use-containers-in-firefox/), or using multiple browser instances. You would also need to hide your IP address using a VPN or something like the Tor network as well. If you are worried about stateless tracking, use a browser with fingerprinting protection like Brave (which can fool naive scripts) or Tor Browser (which has the best fingerprint protection in the market, albeit [a lot less secure](https://medium.com/@thegrugq/tor-and-its-discontents-ef5164845908)).
## DNS Filtering
DNS filtering solutions. while not having any negative impact on security, are trivially bypassable by just hosting the ads and tracker under the primary domain. For example, instead of hosting advertisement and trackers under ads.example.com, the webmaster can move them to be under example.com/ads and it would be impossible for DNS filters to block.
It should also be noted that websites can detect which DNS server a visitor uses. You can look at [DNSLeakTest](https://www.dnsleaktest.com/) as an example. Using non-network provided DNS server adds to the fingerprint and make you more identifiable.
The best way to do DNS filtering is to use a VPN provider which has this feature built in like [ProtonVPN](https://protonvpn.com), [Mullvad](https://mullvad.net), and [IVPN](https://www.ivpn.net/) so that you do not standout from other users of the same VPN provider. Even then, DNS filtering is purely a convenince feature and cannot be relied on for privacy and security.
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