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What's the overlap between uBlock Origin and other plugins like Ghostery or Privacy Badger? Or even uMatrix?
by nextos 11y ago
What's the overlap between uBlock Origin and other plugins like Ghostery or Privacy Badger? Or even uMatrix?
- the_zeroth_law 11y agoOne major difference is that Privacy Badger doesn't use a blacklist like the others and really isn't designed for the purpose of ad-blocking. It's designed to prevent non-consensual tracking, so it observes which third-party domains try to store high-entropy cookies, and if it sees a third-party domain doing so across multiple first-party sites, blocks any further third-party requests to that domain. Full disclosure: I work at EFF, which makes Privacy Badger.
- nextos 11y agoThat's good. What plugin setup do you recommend on Firefox to protect ourselves? Furthermore, I'm concerned about useragent and font metadata attacks. Any recommendations for these?