Consent-o-matic instead of cookies and adnausem instead of ublock origin.
Consent-o-matic will actively opt out of popups.
Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently “click” on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.
uBlock Origin can just hide cookie pop ups if you enable said filter, and AdNauseam still loads the ad so you still have slower page loading speed and increased network traffic.
Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently “click” on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.
Tried it a couple of months ago. Didn’t nearly work as well as uBlock Origin, seemed buggy as hell.
What’s wrong with privacy badger?
I think UBO makes it redundant.
The layered security model has redundancy built in as a feature.
Well, it can be replaced with uBlock Origin and some people dont recomend it anymore
Need to add a pihole to that stack
I love my pie hole and I love the functionality of being able to access a VPN and use on my home network stuff on the go it’s pretty good
Truly! I have a streaming app for local TV and I recommended it to a friend and he said “no way man! Way too many ads in it!” That’s when I realized how awesome Pi-Hole is 🤣
Why is Badger bad?
It’s not bad, just mostly redundant these days, as the heuristic features are no longer enabled, and the defaults ublock lists will cover a lot of the same.
Also the heuristics can be exploited to create a unique identifier for your browser, so it’s not a flawless solution.
Fyi you can still enable heuristic blocking from settings.
What’s that?
A European shout out to Ghostery who auto refuses everything on our GDPR popups.
Pretty soon, Firefox will need to be replaced with Waterfox and LibreWolf, unfortunately.
I use Waterfox on my gaming computer and I love it.
You could add that extension that replaces clickbait titles by community-made descriptive ones. (lemmy do your thing and find the name please)
I just installed consentomatic right now and I didn’t know it existed thank you
except W instead of P. I don’t really need that shit.
Librewolf
Advanced kit: add NoScript and block first party scripts by default. Works surprisingly well for visiting sites you don’t care about, just want to read the article etc. Just switch it off if you’re trying to buy something and get through the checkout.
AFAIK every function of NoScript exists in uBlock Origin. So just get uBO and cut the redundancy. The less vectors the better
Gotta try Ctrl P
Does this actually work? I just tried it on a story on The Atlantic website and I just got a print page that looks exactly like the locked paywall page (i.e. not the whole article).
I use the web archives extension for firefox to easily get the archive.is version of pages. Unfortunately, doesn’t work when I’m using a vpn, but otherwise works like a charm.
EDIT: I found this comment on the previous thread:
https://lemmy.world/comment/13080227
“The idea is you quickly press print before the paywall loads, so you can read the full article”
That may work in some cases, but not all. Because not all paywall pages behave in a way where this is functional. The Atlantic is an example, it produces a partial page if you’re not past the paywall, so ctrl-p doesn’t work. The web archives extension still works though (I use it to easily access archive.is) and the extension is available on mobile firefox as well.
I have also used 12 foot ladder in the past, and it works well. In fact, testing it now, it seems to even work when I’m using Proton VPN. archive.is does not work for me through the vpn, so I may switch back to 12ft.io. 12ft.io just has you append the paywalled url to their url, so it should be easy enough to make a bookmarklet.
I haven’t tried it yet :)
Not working for me on multiple sites. I don’t get this tip.
I read, “With Butter”
Gotta finish my coffee
Librewolf instead of firefox
No love for Ghostery?
Isn’t Ghostery made by an ads company?
