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Yes, and I feel like the internet is no longer a place I can visit without some form of protection. Things got so bad recently, that I had to switch from GNOME
by jamesponddotco 6y ago
Yes, and I feel like the internet is no longer a place I can visit without some form of protection. Things got so bad recently, that I had to switch from GNOME Web to Firefox, because I simply needed more protection than the default GNOME Web blocker could offer.
Right now I run a Pi-Hole[1] for my entire network, and on Firefox I use Clear URL[2], Decentraleyes[3], HTTPS Everywhere[4], Old Reddit Redirect[5], Privacy Redirect[6], and uBlock Origin[7], configured to block third-party fonts, and JS as well — which I whitelist when needed.
When I just want to read something, without having any form of interaction with the page, and I know it works well, I usually just use w3m[8] on the terminal, which I found out because of aerc[9]. Pretty cool browser for the terminal.
Am I super duper secure because of all these hoops I jump through? No. But it does not get in my way, and make me enjoy browsing the internet again, so why not?
[1] I have it set up on a dedicated server with Hetzner, with the server itself being the DNS provider for Pi-Hole using DNSCrypt.
[2] https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls
[3] https://decentraleyes.org/ https://decentraleyes.org/
[4] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
[5] https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect — not really privacy, or blocker related, but I find the new Reddit interface a dumpster fire
[6] https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
[7] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
[8] https://github.com/tats/w3m https://github.com/tats/w3m
[9] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc