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The only two privacy firefox extensions you'll only ever need (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

~~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~~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tried it but it didn't seem effective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.