uBlock Origin (adblocker) is a most
and there is Dark Reader which forces a dark theme on any site. Which extensions do you use/recommend?
PS come join us in !libre for everything open source.
Im sorry 😭, please forgive me, its a remnant of when i was terminally online on reddit. Since hexbear launched i have been instead terminally online here.
Bitwarden is a game changer. I've been using that, tempmail, and privacy. Those 3 add-ons can basically auto fill registration with dummy data. Privacy is great because you can generate cards that are merchant locked and pause them whenever. So if I want a free trial, I just generate a mercahnt locked card then immediately pause it and if I want to keep going, I can unpause.
Fantastic alternative to using your real card data on a ton of sites. I just gave Privacy my debit card and have an alert set for possible data leaks from them. If that happens, I can just pause my debit card and it pauses everything else. Plus if I need a new card, I just plug that into privacy and don't have to do it on everything.
👀 sorry for the bullshit comment lol just reminding myself to look at this shit
Some of my addons probably overlap and fight each other...
ClearURLs and Neat URL - remove trackers from the URL
Decentraleyes - load javascript libraries locally instead of getting tracked by crossloading them from google on every page
ff2mpv - play most video links in mpv instead of on a stupid page with a single click. ( windows version )
HTTPS Everywhere - don't use http pages
Skip Redirect - don't load redirect pages that track you
uBlock Origin, uMatrix - block everything, don't load those things. uMatrix will break pages, so be prepared to need to fiddle to unfuck some pages if you use it.
Tree Tabs - Love tabs on the side, not the top. Prefer this addon to tree style tabs, but they're both fine.
Redirector - Don't load twitter or youtube, load nitter and invidious instead. Not for everyone, you have to do your own regex.
Firefox containers - and I keep all my accounts separate and unlinked, each one has a dedicated container incl this site
Temporary containers - makes temp containers that I use for casual browsing that get deleted when you close the tab
Ublock origin is a must
Decentraleyes
HTTPS everywhere
Channel blocker - prevents YouTube channels from coming up in your recommendations
Cookie Autodelete
ClearURLs - clears tracking elements from urls
Privacy redirect - auto redirects from Reddit, Twitter and YouTube to nitter, invidious and others
firefox containers is one of those things i'm always planning to do but never do
To add on (heh):
Temporary Containers is one of the better features of Firefox, it eats more RAM but isolates each tab from each other to help prevent tracking between sites that you visit. Set to 'automatic.' If you want to remain signed in to some sites you should pair it with Multi-Account containers which can create a persistent tab for a given site.
Canvas Blocker gives you a new, unique fingerprint per site (or tab? Idk) but the resist fingerprinting setting in about:config is probably better because it is more anonymous when your fingerprint is not unique but instead just like everyone else who has RFP on. I think "strict tracking protection" enables this
Privacy Possum is iirc a better replacement for Privacy Badger. Deletes cookies etc so you must sign in to every site anew every browser session. I forgot what else it does
Site isolation is a security feature available in Nightly called Project Fission, not very developed yet but security people say that site isolation is one of the most important features of browser security and is something that Chromium does much better than FF.
I use noscript but I'm pretty sure ublock has similar functions if I bothered to learn. It's fun to see what's necessary for a webpage to function and what isn't!
noscript
I find that uMatrix does the same thing but better, but they're both fine. Some pages use WAY too many scripts, and work if you block all of them
uMatrix's interface is amazing and I have yet to find a good replacement on that front. At first I tried NoScript, but I lost my whitelist after a couple months and didn't feel like building it up again, then I tried GNU's script blocker that doesn't block open source scripts (which was helpful for peertube instances because I had to always manually unblock them with noscript) but it was really difficult to know what the scripts actually were with that one. After that I tried uBlock on advanced mode and I'll be honest I don't think I ever fully understood what that did but I went back to uMatrix for the time being because just being able to see the domains and subdomains and the categories all in a grid and easily blockable was really simple and useful for me.
I know uMatrix isn't actively developed at the moment but it works great and from a browse of the buglist, it's mostly UI nitpicks or new features. Seems safe to keep using.
There's one fork called nuTensor which is basically uMatrix but the developer fixes it if it breaks.
It's still working great and the forks are just there as a precaution really
but those random memes the algorithm suggests are our monoculture
Thank you for calling this in, a volcel officer is on the way to ensure those balls stay full. There will be no cumming on our watch
Adnauseam, which is based on uBlock origin but clicks the ads it hides so that advertisers lose money and as a bonus it fucks up the data collection on you as well.
I don't think it's recommended cuz it makes you look unique and stuff
Isn't there another one that just responds to all the requests with dummy data?
I'm not sure but this stuff doesn't usually confuse AI afaik. If you wanna resist fingerprinting then I'd recommend Tor browser.
Ofc, tor is just slow as shit for normal use and especially video. Also, doesn't work well with DNS level ad blocking.
Do you use Facebook or you just wanna block it from shadow tracking you?
Share as little as you can and try to get your family/friend to use Telegram or Signal to contact you. Telegram has a lot of features so you can entice them with that :)
the Official Wayback Machine extention lets you pull up a wayback machine copy of a website in like, two clicks. incredibly useful at times
ad nauseum to fuck with any ads that slip past ublock origin
bitwarden b/c lastpass a fuck now
bypass paywalls and sponsorblock because fuck those things
panorama tab groups to quickly swap between 'do whatever' mode and school stuff
using adnauseum in conjunction with ublock origin makes both work worse since they're essentially competing to modify the same resources in the same way
adnauseum is already based on ublock origin code, so anything that "slips through" is a result of your blocklists being either incomplete or out of date, and therefore adnauseum won't detect or hide the ad either
adnauseum is placebo at best anyway, eventually with enough data the data brokers can figure out your actual browsing habits anyway since you're not just browsing entirely random traffic and clicking every link, you're only clicking on the ads you'd have seen anyway
I don't think ad nauseum is recommended... it's pretty easy for the companies to spot its patterns and it doesn't add any privacy AFAIK
I'm amazed nobody has said Greasemonkey, it was basically the number one poweruser extension in the 2000's, and it remains useful.
Yeah but a lot of this stuff makes you fingerprintable. There are people using quite a lot of extensions actually which makes them look very unique.
I think the
privacy.resistFingerprintingpreference in about:config blocks many of the methods sites use to detect and enumerate installed extensions. Generally, in combination with aggressive script and tracker blocking and a bunch of other mitigations, I'm not too worried about extension-based fingerprinting.Well, the thing is that these methods also make the user unique -_- It's a crazy loop really and using Tor is my way of getting some peace of mind.
Bypass Paywalls is a pretty good one that does what it says on the tin. Certainly doesn't work for every site, but it hits quite a few notable ones.
