The only two privacy firefox extensions you'll only ever need

I believe that the only two privacy extensions you really need to meet 90% of your privacy goals are uBlock origin + NoScript

uBlock origin is effective because it stops the injection of ads which might contain and inject code. NoScript forces you to look at which scripts you really need for the website to function. Say you visit a trusted site, like your lemmy instance, then you can enable running of javascript by default the next time you visit the site. You’ll be surprised how functional some sites are even without javascript. I did not like the idea of browsers having Javascript: it’s remote code execution and if there’s anything malicious in there and your browser is not patched against it you’re fucked. This way yeah it’ll be annoying when you first visit a site but it remembers your settings for the next time you visit.

schwim,

Just say no to noscript.

n3m37h,

NoScript is awesome, just learn to use it properly

Patches,

Just spend hours pouring over JavaScript for every single website you ever visit. It absolutely won’t consume you, or leave you constantly frustrated with broken websites

Gargari,

You don’t need NoScript, unlock can do that too

delirious_owl,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

You can still be tracked with that.

I wouldn’t run without Chameleon set to change my borwaser properties every 60 seconds, which makes tracking fingerprinting useless.

MigratingtoLemmy,

I need to learn Chameleon well, I tried it once but it seemed complicated so I gave up

delirious_owl,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

What’s hard? After install the only thing I change is the drop down to 60 seconds.

MigratingtoLemmy,

Did I mistake it for a different app? I use Librewolf with letterboxing, is using Chameleon more secure?

ivn,

In session sanitising seems pretty useless.

PoorPocketsMcNewHold,

Actually, tracking the extremely unique individual with sometime, nonsensical features is making you hyper-easy to track on websites. Maybe it could be useful per browsing sessions, but every 60 seconds in non-sensical, a compatibility nightmare and defeat even the deception method of faking your browser features.

Xer0,

Sounds dumb.

DreadPotato,
@DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz avatar

It’s crazy just how much of a PITA it is to use the internet when using NoScript

magikmw,

Eh you can go with a blacklist approach and try to selectively block tracking instead of whitelisting everything until a site works.

Patches,

But the worst scripts don’t even have UI for you to see.

LWD,

Using Noscript eventually causes me to give up using Noscript, which is probably the one thing I was supposed to avoid…

DreadPotato,
@DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz avatar

This was my experience as well, it was just way too inconvenient… Which is the crazy part, because it really shouldn’t be.

LWD,

That’s why uBlock Origin is such a blessing: so many people have already contributed to figuring out what to block on so many websites.

possiblylinux127,

Maybe shelterJS and Privacy badger

bbigras,

Does shelterjs have a big impact on performance?

ivn,

Privacy Badger is pretty useless now.

lemmyreader,

With uBlock Origin you can go Easy Medium and Hard mode github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode and also set your blocking preferences per site.

something_random_tho,

I’ve used uBlock Origin for years and never knew about this. Just enabled it. Thanks!

bbigras,

Note that medium mode is a good compromise and is a lot less painful than hard mode.

aldalire,

Huh. I stand corrected. You only ever do need uBlock. Thanks

Tramort,

This deserves its own post.

Quacksalber,

I much prefer uMatrix over NoScript, it is way more intuitive. And even though uMatrix is no longer updated, it still works better than NoScript for me. My Firefox Android has gotten soft-locked by NoScript in regular intervals. Since they enabled uMatrix for Firefox Android again, I have had no such issues.

sharkfucker420, (edited )
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

Adnauseum is also very good, its based on ublock but instead of just blocking ads it will also randomly “click” them to add noise to advertiser data

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e1ee91e9-1ed0-4f5d-bf9e-e0c65520b062.png

SendMePhotos,

I tried it but it didn’t seem effective.

PoorPocketsMcNewHold,

It is as effective as uBlock with the same settings. The ad-deception “auto-clicking” method shouldn’t and doesn’t have any results to the end-user as it should just confuse the ads companies themselves. Still looking forward to potential documentation on how effective it may or may not be nowadays.

ivn,

Click fraud is a big thing with a lot of countermeasures, it’s not as easy as adnauseum pretends it is. I doubt it does anything.

sharkfucker420, (edited )
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

Word? I wasnt aware of this, guess i will switch back to ublock

ExtremeDullard,
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

You don’t need Noscript anymore uBlock Origin handles everything Noscript handles and much more, and it affords more granular control.

Undertaker,

uBlocks handling is very bad. NoScript was superior. Especially I could only block partial JS after it was loaded in uBlock.

the_post_of_tom_joad,

I still use noscript and ublock. How is ublock “everything and more” than noscript? i would love to be corrected by you but far as i know they are very different programs, each with their place

Tenkard,

Put ublock in advanced mode github.com/gorhill/…/Advanced-user-features and test if it’s enough for you. I use it this way and I’m pretty happy with it

the_post_of_tom_joad,

Thanks, that does unlock new options!

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