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Are there any addons as essential as uBlockOrigin? (self.firefox)

submitted 2 months ago by nebulaone to c/firefox

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I would love to find extensions that make me think "How did I live without this?"

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[–] CrayonRosary 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Decentraleyes prevents loading common scripts from big name CDNs. Requesting a script from a google-owned CDN with your google cookies and the current URL as the referrer is a way to spy on you.

Decentraleyes loads these common scripts from it's own cache instead.

[–] nebulaone 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I often heard that Decentraleyes doesn't actually do anything 99% of the time. I don't know how true that is, though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

aparently you know more than we here.

i had to look it up,
but aparently Decentraleyes isnt being maintained and grew more useless as the time went on.

aparently localCDN is a better mantained alternative.

[–] CrayonRosary 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thanks for the tip. From the localCDN description:

Differences between LocalCDN and Decentraleyes

LocalCDN contains a big collection of frameworks and useful functions.

New: Sync extension settings with Firefox Sync or own server

Includes Rocket Loader, Findify, Vue.js, page.js, lozad, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Google Material Icons, React, Vue, Chart.js and much more. The list will be continuously updated.
Includes Font Awesome in different version (v3.x, v4.x, v5.x, v6.x)
Prepared rules for uBlock Origin/uMatrix/AdGuard and notifications if rule changes are necessary
Removes integrity/crossorigin attributes to replace more frameworks

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@Kerb @nebulaone how trustworthy is #localcdn? #Decentraleyes is kind of confirmed by #Mozilla, they even recommend it

[–] nebulaone 4 points 2 months ago

The source code is public ( https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN ) and it has a reasonable amount of stars. So I think it should be fine. No guarantees, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I saw there has been a recent update to Decentraleyes. Not sure if this addresses the abandoned issue though. Trying out LOCALCDN instead..