Between uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, ClearURLs, Decentraleyes, and Privacy Possum, I’m having a hard time deciding which ones I actually need and which ones I don’t. Do they actually do different things, or are they largely the same?

  • Infiltrated_ad8271
    14•9 months ago

    Note that this is targeted to arkenfox users, who by default use privacy.resistfingerprinting (unlike most users); without it, canvasblocker is also recommended.

    • LinkOpensChest.wav
      1•9 months ago

      Couldn’t one just set privacy.resistfingerprinting to true instead of using another addon?

      • Infiltrated_ad8271
        4•9 months ago

        I suppose that I can be leaving some other (like disabling webgl), but in principle yes. The bad thing is that this setting can be annoying, it does things like change the time zone, force the light theme, always start in window, among many others.

        • @ink@r.nfEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          it’s strange for them to specifically choose the light prefers-color-scheme instead of ignoring it completely. So if a website has a dark default interface with an optional prefers-color-scheme:light, it will use the light interface ignoring the default.

          Seems counterintuitive

        • LinkOpensChest.wav
          1•9 months ago

          Oh, I didn’t realize it had other side effects. Maybe I’ll just keep using JShelter then.

        • LinkOpensChest.wav
          2•9 months ago

          I currently use JShelter because that seemed to be the app of choice among r/privacy users

          Is CanvasBlocker better?

        • @ChiefGhost295
          1•9 months ago

          This is wrong. By enabling privacy.resistFingerprinting you cannot make yourself more unique in Firefox because you’re already unique. I would read this guide by the Arkenfox project about fingerprinting. The guy has worked for the Tor browser, so he knows his stuff. The summary is that the privacy.resistFingerprinting is the best tool that Firefox has against fingerprinting, but it can only ”fool naive scripts.” If you’re really worried about fingerprinting and want to defeat advancing fingerprinting, the only option is to use either Tor or Mullvad Browser depending on your threat model.