Fanboy's Anti-ThirdpartySocial is right there in the list of lists, under the Social header.
And it doesn't block any of the things I mentioned. The domain connect.facebook.com isn't in there, for example, and I ran into a page running a script from there within five minutes of switching to the new plug-ins.
Ok, my answer was meant to address your point that uBO was no replacement for ABE
Sorry, I'm not sure where I said anything like that. I explicitly noted that uBO was apparently being promoted as the successor to ABE, as you seem to have noticed. I just also noted that the plug-ins I've got running now aren't as good in some respects as the ones that worked just fine for a long time until recent FF changes.
Yes, you're right, apologies to you and to 'gorhill.
I misunderstood before and at the time I read "Fanboy's Anti-ThirdpartySocial" as "Fanboy’s Social Blocking List" not "Anti-ThirdpartySocial (see warning inside list)", perhaps because the latter sometimes seems to change its name to "Anti-Facebook List" for reasons I haven't identified. The former does block numerous Facebook addresses, just not that one.
I'm not sure any of this really invalidates my original point, though. Two weeks ago my Firefox had a couple of privacy/blocker extensions installed, and with no real configuration beyond ticking the "everything" boxes in the Ghostery wizard, they blocked pretty much everything that bothered me. Today, with FF42, neither of them works any more.
Apparently the new version involves figuring out which of the almost 50 lists that are suggested but not active by default in uBlock Origin are needed to get a reasonable level of blocking. I dare say almost no-one is actually going to get that right reliably even if they want to. And while I might have guessed to just activate everything under the social heading to block Facebook Connect (at least if I'd realised something related to Facebook wasn't already blocked by default), I have no idea which of those lists to even check to see if I can disable the various web font resources that involve tracking.
> Adblock Edge was discontinued a little while back [...] uBlock Origin is apparently now the blessed alternative [...] but I immediately found a few potential tracking issues with its default lists [...]
"but", implying Adblock Edge somehow did not have the "few potential tracking issues" you said you found in uBO.
You're reading things into my posts that aren't there. Please note that the context for my original comment that you selectively quoted was the add-ons (plural) I had used before. My full comment on uBO was that it was OK for blocking most ads but didn't block some of the trackers. The next part of the comment was about Ghostery, which was what did previously block (but no longer appears to block) those trackers.
And it doesn't block any of the things I mentioned. The domain connect.facebook.com isn't in there, for example, and I ran into a page running a script from there within five minutes of switching to the new plug-ins.
Ok, my answer was meant to address your point that uBO was no replacement for ABE
Sorry, I'm not sure where I said anything like that. I explicitly noted that uBO was apparently being promoted as the successor to ABE, as you seem to have noticed. I just also noted that the plug-ins I've got running now aren't as good in some respects as the ones that worked just fine for a long time until recent FF changes.