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I stopped using Great Suspender a few years back when Chrome built this in https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding https://developers.g
by tonymet 6y ago
I stopped using Great Suspender a few years back when Chrome built this in https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discar...
I encourage people to disable all chrome extensions. They have unprecedented access to your data (they can read your bank credentials), and they are a big performance hit. e.g. using Chrome Devtools you can see that Lastpass doubles page load times.
You can use SimpleExtManager (only has perms to turn on /off extensions) to turn everything off until you need them.
- sizzle 6y agoWhat about useful things like ghostery and uMatrix?
- tonymet 6y agoI keep a “temp” browser profile (chrome —> settings —> add user profile) and install extensions there. That way you can use ghostery on specific sites and it has no access to your important data from your main profile
- tonymet 6y agoThey both have full access. some may say “do you trust these publishers” – but the way extensions are designed, there’s no way to trust them. You have to be extremely vigilant and inspect the code every time the extension updates, and you aren’t notified when there are updates. I wouldn’t install any extension permanently. I only keep Lastpass and it’s disabled until it’s needed for login.
- sizzle 6y agoso we should accept website analytics/tracking scripts that potentially are recording every click and cursor movement under the guise of user research?