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.
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. ::: spoiler 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.
WhatCampaignSorryIcouldn'tfindaworkingsourcelink;itseemstobedown. - 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.):::
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
Dark Reader : for sites that don't have a dark mode
Decentraleyes
Grammarly: I'm not a native English speaker. I like to write English with good grammar
HTTPS Everywhere
Imagus: for zooming pictures by just hovering
JSON Formatter
Local CDN
MultiLogin : a container like in the Firefox browser
Privacy Badger
Link Grabber : grabbed all the links on the page
Disable automatic tab discarding : I don't like when the tab automatically refreshes when I didn't open it for a while. This extension disables that
Old Reddit Redirect
Reddit Enhancement Suite
Return YouTube Dislike
Snowflake
SponsorBlock for Youtube
For search engines, I'm still using Google. Because I think the results it's more and better (I guess). If not Google, I will use DuckDuckGo or Brave Search
Keep in mind LocalCDN will make your fingerprint more unique. HTTPS Everywhere is unmaintained and no longer needed… and you certainly don’t need Decentraleyes, thats a duplicate of LocalCDN and is also unmaintained.
1.Ublock Origin, ublock is really cool and you can even add filter lists to it for example i found one for filtering ip grabbers (https://github.com/piperun/iploggerfilter) 2. Containers 3. NoScript (Its like ublock origin but for java script) 4. Skip Redirect the arkenfox guy recommended it. 5. VoilentMonkey (I use it for scripts like youtube age verification bypass and undiscord) 6. Return youtube dislikes 7. Sponsor Block
I disagree, the whole usecase for decentraleyes (although i'd recommend localcdn instead as it supports a lot more frameworks), if for users not using a vpn, in which case you'd be fingerprintable via your ip address anyways, what localcdn achieves is having privacy from third parties, as opposed to the website itself.
If you're using localcdn with a vpn, i agree that'd be counter productive since what does it matter that third parties get your ip if that ip's shared with a massive group of people and isn't your real one, but otherwise its still a perfectly valid addon.
I disagree, the whole usecase for decentraleyes (although i’d recommend localcdn instead as it supports a lot more frameworks), if for users not using a vpn, in which case you’d be fingerprintable via your ip address anyways, what localcdn achieves is having privacy from third parties, as opposed to the website itself.
That is not how it works. It modifies your fingerprint because its no longer requesting certain resources. Even one of the Tor developers points that out and it’s why it’s mentioned on github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-…
Maybe this is the wrong way to think, but I use it even though I'm aware of this because although I have nothing but respect for Raymond Hill, I personally find it unwise to rely on a tool with just one developer, and I'm hoping EFF will continue to support Privacy Badger.
uBO, of course. LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead Buster for automatic captcha solving Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google
On desktop FF I run NoScript and Ublock Origin. The functions of pretty much all the other privacy-oriented extensions are already covered by those two.
On mobile I just use Tor Browser with Vanadium as a backup in case Tor won't properly display a page (and allowing the JS doesn't help).
Besides the typical privacy-oriented Firefox extensions, I loveSidebery. It's by far the best tree-style tab add-on I've ever seen. Beautiful and powerful.
You can organize your tabs into panels (little side tabs for tabs :P) and groups (collapsible tab folders for organization inside a panel). You can set colors, set containers, move to panels and windows. You can duplicate, unload, clear cookies. You can flatten trees and mute tabs. You can set up automatic snapshots to manage your sessions.
On my PC I use ungoogled chromium with UBlock origin mainly for online purchases etc, FF with UBlock and NoScript for email and github type things and Librewolf with UBlock for general searches and my webUI stuff on my home server
On my phone I constantly switch between Bromite, DDG Firefox and Mull with UBlock on the FF and Mull
For search engines I constantly switch between DDG, Searx, Startpage, Qwant, Swisscow, Ecosia and Brave and sometimes Google when I'm really strugglingtpo find things but I can't remember the last time I needed it. Its great being able to switch search engines on the fly with FF based browsers and bangs on DDG
I hate monopolies and being over reliant on a single entity so I try to have a bit of variation wherever I can
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