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Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. If you want privacy, it would be best practice to not install an extension that has complete read/write access to
by happybuy 4y ago
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
If you want privacy, it would be best practice to not install an extension that has complete read/write access to all of the pages that you browse.
- jraph 4y agoI don't know about DDG's extension, but if you want privacy, you definitely need an extension with a complete read/write access to all of the pages that you browse though. uBlock Origin would not be able to do its magic without this access. It needs to inspect and filter any request from any website, and to apply filters on the page too. This is what Chrome's Manifest v3 is killing by the way.
- happybuy 4y agoThere's other ways to do content / ad blocking without full read/write access to every web page you visit and every network request that is made. These other approaches do have limitations and may not be able to block everything but from a privacy perspective they are infinitely more secure than giving an extension full permissions.
- jraph 4y ago> they are infinitely more secure than giving an extension full permissions Not at all, if they can't block everything uBlock Origin can block. I trust this extension infinitely more than the websites I visit. You can even install it from the package provided by Debian in its repositories [1] if you want an extra layer of review. [1] https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/webext-ublock-origin-firefox https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/webext-ublock-origin-fi...