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Cursed Firefox Addons. A fun list of things you should NOT add to your browser. (addons.mozilla.org)

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please don't use other posts as the URL for your post, it takes people away from their instance to the instance where it's hosted. It doesn't affect you because the link is in your local instance, but it affects everyone else.

Instead, use the same Mozilla URL that your other post used, then Lemmy should identify it and place an instance agnostic cross-post link to your other post.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf, it's smarter to fix that in software than ask people to change their behavior.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

While true right now we're still in the early days and working out some of the papercuts so to say of this new software :)

[–] AnUnusualRelic 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This lacks reasons for the selection (some are obvious, others less so).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

yes totally

[–] eager_eagle 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use Bitwarden, but what's wrong with 1password?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing. Some guy on the internet that uses Firefox doesn’t like them.

Also, Malewarebytes? I don’t use them but I thought they were actually legit.

[–] dustyData 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only the free malware detection. But they tend to bundle a lot of “clean your registry”, “reclaim unused space”, “pay us to ~~sieve all your private browsing data~~ keep you secure” bloat as well. It shouldn't be permanently on your system as they can track and funnel data like crazy if you let them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

So basically like every antivirus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They had a database breach afaik. Also a Malwarebytes extension will VERY likely compare every URL i.e. track you unnecessarily. There is UBlock Origin, nothing more needed.

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

Also a Malwarebytes extension will VERY likely compare every URL i.e. track you unnecessarily.

Sounds possible, but do you have evidence?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even if they did that, there are ways to do that without compromising privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not yet. Functionality looks unnecessary though, as its simply UBlock origin.

Will have to do a mtim analysis which I dont really see myself doing

[–] eager_eagle 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

actual link

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Done

[–] joseangel 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why Gosthery?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ghostery started out great, then they were bought by an ad company. There was a feature where you could mark something that had slipped past Ghostery as an ad, which they then used to fine tune the ads to make it past the filter.

The Wikipedia page is actually pretty good on this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Since July 2018, with version 8.2, Ghostery shows advertisements of its own to users

Damn. I'm a bit surprised it's labeled "recommended"

[–] metaphortune 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a general recommendation for a similar addon? Is PrivacyBadger the way to go?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin?

[–] BlovedMadman 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You've forgotten all those extensions which look for discount codes at checkout on online stores, in think "Honey" was one of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Will add them!

[–] cheese_greater 6 points 1 year ago

I'm glad Lemmy is appropriating the whole cursed schtick from Reddit. Even just seeing the subbnames like CursedComments makes me laugh

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

What’s wrong with open in Microsoft edge and no tabs?

[–] techognito 5 points 1 year ago

open in microsoft edge could technically be used to open in any chromium browser...

I use an extension in edge for opening things in Firefox, by the same guy. It can technically run any command on your system, but requires a daemon on your computer to do so

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its hard to put "bad Addons" from cringe to wtf to evil-corp into one pot.

open in MS Edge.

Why would you do that. This would 1. mean you are using Windows 2. Use this browser that is not more secure than Firefox Flatpak and tracks users.

If you want Videocalls, simply use an unhardened Firefox profile. "What is a profile?" If you dont know that, you dont need them as EVERYTHING will just work (WebGL, WebRTC, no fingerprinting resistance).

And normal websites should ALL work even on Arkenfox + Noscript.

No Tabs

This is so much how the Windows Explorer feels after using a capable File Manager like basically every on Linux.

MAYBE your OS has some fancy way its way better having several windows open that having a few small rectangle carts at the top. But I dont think that.

Haha okay, until recently I had 949 Tabs open.

But anyways. Autodeleting tabs for minimalism? I get that. Not using tabs at all?? The "Windows way"?? No damn way. Even Microsoft got it now in their damn slow Explorer.

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

These are just functionality you don't want which they also say they do, nothing seems to be wrong with the addons themselves... I could say the both for a bee theme on the marketplace and put it in cursed if that's really the reason

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No they dont offer functionality I dont want. Security? Privacy? Of course! They do false promises and trick users that... you know have an Antivirus program on their system.

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

How do these extensions do that? I’m not sure what you mean, I tried it and later uninstalled it a few days ago and saw nothing wrong… The open in edge extension literally just adds the edge protocol in front of the link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha I guess the open in edge addon has nothing wrong in its code.