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?
The Firefox hardening project Arkenfox only recommends uBlock Origin. Everything else is redundant.
Note that this is targeted to arkenfox users, who by default use privacy.resistfingerprinting (unlike most users); without it, canvasblocker is also recommended.
Couldn’t one just set privacy.resistfingerprinting to true instead of using another addon?
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.
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
Oh, I didn’t realize it had other side effects. Maybe I’ll just keep using JShelter then.
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I currently use JShelter because that seemed to be the app of choice among r/privacy users
Is CanvasBlocker better?
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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.
You seem to be right. i misunderstood exactly how
privacy.resistFingerprintingworked.
uBO is enough for me. If I need more than that, I’d probably just use something like Tor instead.
This. Keep also in mind that Firefox already comes with an integrated anti-tracker: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop. So with that + uBlock Origin, you shouldn’t need anything else.
There is a great video from Techlore about hardening firefox, watch it and try some of the tips.
TLDR: uBlock Origin properly configured and some tweaks on firefox settings is good enough.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
bleh. more face than actual content (where text is actually better to relay these kind of information). annoying af.
The firefox sertting labels are self explanatory, no youtube video required. Anything more, there are tons of articles and discussions threads to suit your needs.
uBlock origin and CanvasBlocker/JShelter are probably enough. There’s also uMatrix, which gives you more granular control over what to block or allow.
Ublock Origin is enough as blocker (It’s so complete in terms of filters. also it’s recommended by Mozilla, and it’s very light). Also Decentraleyes for some third-party contents. Other blockers do the same (they usually use the same blocking lists, too). I only have these two, along with setting Firefox tracking protection to Strict. I guess it’s enough. (Though, you can see UBO wiki to have more advanced blockings.)
Well all this things will not protect from something like creepjs fingerprinting
I don’t know what can prevent you from that 🤔 Maybe totally disabling JS?
This tool can make harder to fingerprint u https://jshelter.org/
Clear urls is also a good one to have as sites like amazon has tracking data in the url
Just Read the README.md of each one.
uBlock Origins
Privacy Badger
ClearUrls
Decentraleyes
Privacy PossumTLDR : they all do different things.
Generally, there’s no need for anything other than uBlock Origin.
I use noscript and whitelist javascript URLs per-origin, this coupled with uBlock means even the trackers uBO doesn’t block usually don’t work
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Now commented on the built-in tracker protection in Firefox? Is it useless.
Personally I bank on uBo.
“Depends”.
Keep in mind that figuring out some information about your client is not unwanted, like screen size and device type (desktop vs mobile page and also desktop page orientation), browser and version for special handling code, or languages as defined in the browser to decide which language version to show.
The same readouts, of course, also enable tracking.
What do you think of AdNauseam?
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I dont like people who intentionally create mischief and chaos in orderly systems. Personally, I do not think ad networks, their offerings, quality control and freedom of use is capable to a level in which it can be considered an orderly system. It is already too chaotic in my eyes. Threat actors can already target and cause more chaos to many of these metrics that ad nauseum targets. It is insignificant to my eyes to use ad nauseum or block its use. To even think about the moral and ethical implications is too obtuse when ad systems are already clearly pushing those boundaries
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