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Those 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

Those 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 5y ago
Arkenfox 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 5y ago
  I 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 5y ago
    Arkenfox isn't really about sane defaults, it's about extreme defaults. Even auto-update is disabled.
    - medstrom 5y ago
      It 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.
cmg 5y ago
I used privacy.resistFingerprinting for a long time, but it changes the timezone to UTC. As a web developer it just caused a little more confusion than I was willing to deal with when working on front-end stuff. There's a bug [0] to address this but it hasn't been acted on yet. [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1364261 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1364261
brunoqc 5y ago
LocalCDN seems to break sites often for me. Isn't it because it sometimes replaces js libs with a non-compatible version?

kristofferR 5y ago

Arkenfox 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 5y ago
I 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 5y ago
  Arkenfox isn't really about sane defaults, it's about extreme defaults. Even auto-update is disabled.
  - medstrom 5y ago
    It 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.

cmg 5y ago

I used privacy.resistFingerprinting for a long time, but it changes the timezone to UTC. As a web developer it just caused a little more confusion than I was willing to deal with when working on front-end stuff. There's a bug [0] to address this but it hasn't been acted on yet. [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1364261 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1364261

brunoqc 5y ago

LocalCDN seems to break sites often for me. Isn't it because it sometimes replaces js libs with a non-compatible version?