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It is pretty bad that they started Degoogle page with largely Google-unrelated privacy-focused extensions which break websites and sometimes do more harm than g
by neop1x 6y ago
It is pretty bad that they started Degoogle page with largely Google-unrelated privacy-focused extensions which break websites and sometimes do more harm than good. For example ClearURLs by default disables ETag header which is very important for caches to work. Yes, ETag can be used for tracking but there are many many more ways to "track" people and many definitions of tracking, installing such extensions won't fully protect them from all kinds of tracking. Instead, by installing extensions like this people end up with lots of websites broken and slow browsing experience and blame Firefox for lagging and unresponsiveness. How do I know? I have gone through all this. And I ended with only a few extensions - uBlock Origin, Neat URL, I don't care about cookies, ViolentMonkey, Stylus, Cookiebro, User agent switcher.
I especially don't recommend ClearURLs, Privacy Badger, Decentralays. Users or these are begging for problems [1]. Look at how bloated their code is. Prefer smaller extensions focusing on one thing only.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/g2dett/firefox_75_slow_with_many_tabs_browser_issue_or/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/g2dett/firefox_75_...