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What browser / extensions do you make use of? (beehaw.org)
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For a while now I've been quite happy running LibreWolf, with Bitwarden and some other privacy extensions. I've also switched over from Google to Kagi as a search engine; doesn't keep me anonymous, but I do love not being the product for once.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Currently rocking a modern Firefox 113 build with the following privacy enhancing addons:

  • CanvasBlocker - to increase fingerprint resistance
  • Multi-Account Containers - A critical multi-container account plugin
  • I don't care about cookies - Bypass nag screens about cookies.
  • LocalCDN - A much more functional alternative to Decentraleyes which actually does benefit privacy
  • Temporary Containers - A critical plugin I use to enforce fresh "containers" for certain kinds of browsing. Works with MAC as well; allowing me to isolate critical SNSes and such from just any random old site I visit.
  • TrackMeNot - Search Engine Privacy tool; set on a very slow; non-default interval. This injects some "background noise" of activity into search queries and browsing traffic.
  • uBlock Origin - Absolutely Essential Adblocker. This addon shoulders a large load of the blocking and filtering work.
  • Allow Right-Click - Essential tool to break websites' habit of interfering with my right to use my browser's functionality.
    Unsupported or "Problematic" Addons
  • uMatrix - Additional content filtering addon. Equipped with a lightweight hosts list that only affects well known bad acting sites and trackers. Provides a frontline of defense against novel tracking and fingerprinting domains.
  • ^ Listen; say what you want; I don't care. This addon is something I always pair with uBlock Origin as it provides an additional safety guard against unforeseeable objects, scripts and other nonsense that may appear on a webpage. I can cherrypick what I believe the website needs to function; while denying access to third party scripts and other objects. I still use it to defend my privacy every day.
  • WhatCampaign ~Sorry~ ~I~ ~couldn't~ ~find~ ~a~ ~working~ ~source~ ~link;~ ~it~ ~seems~ ~to~ ~be~ ~down.~ - This addon breaks URL tracking breadcrumbs by obfuscating them; which breaks various websites' attempts at tracking behavior and interferes with websites' ability to take actions based on URL tracking.
  • SponsorBlock for Youtube - Like it or not this little addon saves me a ton of time and helps me avoid feeding an algorithm by alerting me to sponsored videos and skipping unwanted commercials in content I consume. Depending on your ethics; you may or may not want this addon.
  • Privacy Pass - Sometimes you just gotta do something about captchas...This tool can help reduce them while respecting your privacy
  • Privacy Redirect - [PARTIALLY DISABLED VIA ADDON CONFIGURATION] - Sometimes you just gotta say "Nope!" to a website like Twitter or Google in general and visit a more privacy respecting mirror website. Invidious anyone? (Unfortunately oftentimes these mirror sites are getting sniped and go down frequently for various reasons; making this addon a frequenly frustrating and unreliable one because you have to disable it so often.)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like Firefox. But, I don't know why, I still prefer using a Chromium-based browser like Brave. Wow, I didn't know there is an extension called "Allow Right-Click". I find that annoying for some sites that disable users using right click, I usually want to open the link in the new tab then I use (Ctrl+Left Click) instead

[–] off_apparition 1 points 1 year ago

"I don't care about cookies" was bought by Avast. You should instead check out I still don't care about cookies