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> My goal is to make my browser as private as possible with minimal damage to my usual browsing experience. Not very long ago I wrote a guide documenting my sp
by discreditable 11y ago
> My goal is to make my browser as private as possible with minimal damage to my usual browsing experience.
Not very long ago I wrote a guide documenting my specific configuration which has precisely this goal in mind [1].
The short version: disable third-party cookies, enable tracking protection (Firefox only), use uBlock Origin with some extra filters, use HTTPS everywhere, Enforce Click-to-Play and Disable Unnecessary Plug-ins.
One tweak I don't cover in the guide that I think I like is disabling custom fonts. In Firefox this is under Options > Content > Advanced > uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above". The privacy benefit here is probably negligible, but I quite like that I don't have to wait for giant remote fonts on everyone's blog to load.
[1] https://brashear.me/blog/2015/08/11/hardening-firefox-to-protect-privacy/ https://brashear.me/blog/2015/08/11/hardening-firefox-to-pro...
- merpnderp 11y agoI use basically this setup with one additional plugin: Noscript. But this has more to do with browser safety than privacy, in that I don't want some shady third party site getting to run whatever JS they want on my machine.
- discreditable 11y agoI made myself use NoScript for a few days. I was quite surprised at how performant the web suddenly was, but quite discouraged at how often I had to unbreak websites. Because of that I don't run it anymore, but understand why people do.
- merpnderp 11y agoHah, yep, but after a while you get good at guessing which third party sites will unbreak the current page. And sometimes you realize the content isn't worth letting all the garbage run on your computer.
- wdr1 11y agoHow do you get around the combination of your IP + UA being fairly unique?
- discreditable 11y agoGenerally speaking, you don't. In my case it's worse. As a user of Firefox Nightly my User Agent is more unique than most.