#ghostery-web-browser — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

This dream involved me testing the Mozilla Firefox web browser with the Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker web browser extension.

I also tested the Ghostery Privacy Browser web browser, which has built-in ad blocking.

I tested them online against many advertisement (ad) filled websites, especially bootleg websites.

This was all done from my desktop computer using the Linux distribution (distro) Ubuntu LTS.

My goal was to compare the ad blocking abilities between both of them.

I wanted to see if there was a difference.

Was there a difference between using the Ghostery web browser extension and it being built into the web browser?

I also wanted to see if it was worth using instead of Brave Browser or Mozilla Firefox with Ghostery installed.

At some point, my computer crashed / froze.

I started to worry as I feared that a malicious ad or something had done this.

Then I wondered why I did this from my computer.

I questioned why I did not use a virtual machine or a live USB with Ubuntu instead.

I probably was not even using private mode.

Then I hoped that I was not a victim of a session hijacking attack.

I did not want all of my passwords, browser cookies, et cetera stolen / copied.

I woke up as I restarted my computer, hoping for the best.

The hope was that Linux, Ubuntu, would be more resistant if my fears were correct.

I also prepared for the worst while wondering why I did something so stupid.

The end,