How many add-ons do I really need to block trackers?
Between uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, ClearURLs, Decentraleyes, and Privacy Possum, I’m having a hard time deciding which ones I actually need and which ones I don’t. Do they actually do different things, or are they largely the same?
I dont like people who intentionally create mischief and chaos in orderly systems. Personally, I do not think ad networks, their offerings, quality control and freedom of use is capable to a level in which it can be considered an orderly system. It is already too chaotic in my eyes. Threat actors can already target and cause more chaos to many of these metrics that ad nauseum targets. It is insignificant to my eyes to use ad nauseum or block its use. To even think about the moral and ethical implications is too obtuse when ad systems are already clearly pushing those boundaries
Note that this is targeted to arkenfox users, who by default use privacy.resistfingerprinting (unlike most users); without it, canvasblocker is also recommended.
I suppose that I can be leaving some other (like disabling webgl), but in principle yes. The bad thing is that this setting can be annoying, it does things like change the time zone, force the light theme, always start in window, among many others.
it’s strange for them to specifically choose the light prefers-color-scheme instead of ignoring it completely. So if a website has a dark default interface with an optional prefers-color-scheme:light, it will use the light interface ignoring the default.
This is wrong. By enabling privacy.resistFingerprinting you cannot make yourself more unique in Firefox because you’re already unique. I would read this guide by the Arkenfox project about fingerprinting. The guy has worked for the Tor browser, so he knows his stuff. The summary is that the privacy.resistFingerprinting is the best tool that Firefox has against fingerprinting, but it can only ”fool naive scripts.” If you’re really worried about fingerprinting and want to defeat advancing fingerprinting, the only option is to use either Tor or Mullvad Browser depending on your threat model.
bleh. more face than actual content (where text is actually better to relay these kind of information). annoying af.
The firefox sertting labels are self explanatory, no youtube video required. Anything more, there are tons of articles and discussions threads to suit your needs.
Ublock Origin is enough as blocker (It’s so complete in terms of filters. also it’s recommended by Mozilla, and it’s very light). Also Decentraleyes for some third-party contents. Other blockers do the same (they usually use the same blocking lists, too). I only have these two, along with setting Firefox tracking protection to Strict. I guess it’s enough. (Though, you can see UBO wiki to have more advanced blockings.)
Keep in mind that figuring out some information about your client is not unwanted, like screen size and device type (desktop vs mobile page and also desktop page orientation), browser and version for special handling code, or languages as defined in the browser to decide which language version to show.
The same readouts, of course, also enable tracking.
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