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This add-on together with Firefox, Bitwarden, uBlock Origin, HTTPS everywhere and EFF's Privacy Badger I us to improve my privacy online. Once a blue moon (few
by cies 6y ago
This add-on together with Firefox, Bitwarden, uBlock Origin, HTTPS everywhere and EFF's Privacy Badger I us to improve my privacy online. Once a blue moon (few times per year) I have to switch them off to get a site to work.
Besides that I only have the Tree Style Tab add-on installed, which is much recommended.
- StavrosK 6y agoI used to use Privacy Badger as well, but they've recently removed the learning feature (because it could be used to track you, IIRC), so it became similar to uBlock Origin, to the point where it feels redundant to run both.
- eythian 6y agoThanks for pointing this out. I just had a look at the settings and found that you can turn it back on, though it does come with the warning. Personally I think the risk to me of it learning being a detectable event vs. the tracking it blocks to be less, so I turned it back on.
- StavrosK 6y agoYes, I also turned it back on when I realized. I just noticed that I'm actually still using it, I just had the icon hidden. It's not as useful without the learning, though.
- andrew_ 6y agoI use AdBlock Plus in tandem with Privacy Badger because they do occasionally snag baddies that the other does not. To make this silly redundancy complete, I'm running them both on Brave, which catches almost all of what the two extensions used to handle.
- celsoazevedo 6y ago> I use AdBlock Plus Isn't uBlock Origin a better extension, both from a blocking (no "Acceptable Ads", for example) and also performance point of view?
- andrew_ 6y agoI've been told that, but I'm comfortable with what I know at the moment. Given how aggressive Brave it, I'm not sure I'm at a disadvantage keeping the status quo.
- kristofferR 6y agoLocalCDN and Universal Bypass are two other privacy extensions you should add.
- medstrom 6y agoThose addons are very basic, just what I'd have done in 2010 --- before Snowden! Since you have Firefox, you could sync with a community-developed user.js like Arkenfox (previously GHacks) [1], which seems to go much farther and still not break much! At least the settings privacy.resistFingerprinting and privacy.firstparty.isolate looked indispensable as soon as I learned what they do. And without FPI (first party isolation), not getting LocalCDN [2] (Decentraleyes successor) and Temporary Containers [3] seems like a gross oversight. They have a great discussion on add-ons at the Arkenfox wiki [4]. [1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork... [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... [4] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
- kristofferR 6y agoArkenfox is great, but people should be aware that it also results in a significantly less pleasant web browsing experience. Fingerprinting is extremely hard to avoid, without being painfully conformist.
- medstrom 6y agoI haven't noticed, but I admit my Firefox setup has been subtly broken for a decade (by choice). In any case, you can always unconform where it matters for you, but why not start from sane defaults?
- kristofferR 6y agoArkenfox isn't really about sane defaults, it's about extreme defaults. Even auto-update is disabled.
- medstrom 6y agoIt still prompts you to install an update when one is available. In Firefox you still have to accept a prompt about restarting the browser after that, so it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. But fair point about "extreme" vs "sane". They're quite subjective terms.
- hollander 6y agoIf a site doesn't work, open the link in a private tab. Usually that works, unless you have all these addons working in private mode as well of course. But I only use them in normal mode.
- cies 6y agoI have all setup in private mode too. I use Chromium, which is mostly plugin free, as the alternative.
- koheripbal 6y agoI only run private mode, for everything.
- asdff 6y agoWhy? Browser history is useful.