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.
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With uBlock Origin you can go Easy Medium and Hard mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode and also set your blocking preferences per site.
I’ve used uBlock Origin for years and never knew about this. Just enabled it. Thanks!
Note that medium mode is a good compromise and is a lot less painful than hard mode.
Huh. I stand corrected. You only ever do need uBlock. Thanks
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 And even though uMatrix is no longer updated, it still works better than NoScript for me.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.
Just say no to noscript.
NoScript is awesome, just learn to use it properly
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
You don’t need NoScript, unlock can do that too
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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
I tried it but it didn’t seem effective.
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.
