For a while now I’ve been quite happy running LibreWolf, with Bitwarden and some other privacy extensions. I’ve also switched over from Google to Kagi as a search engine; doesn’t keep me anonymous, but I do love not being the product for once.

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.one
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    Currently rocking a modern Firefox 113 build with the following privacy enhancing addons:

    • CanvasBlocker - to increase fingerprint resistance
    • Multi-Account Containers - A critical multi-container account plugin
    • I don’t care about cookies - Bypass nag screens about cookies.
    • LocalCDN - A much more functional alternative to Decentraleyes which actually does benefit privacy
    • Temporary Containers - A critical plugin I use to enforce fresh “containers” for certain kinds of browsing. Works with MAC as well; allowing me to isolate critical SNSes and such from just any random old site I visit.
    • TrackMeNot - Search Engine Privacy tool; set on a very slow; non-default interval. This injects some “background noise” of activity into search queries and browsing traffic.
    • uBlock Origin - Absolutely Essential Adblocker. This addon shoulders a large load of the blocking and filtering work.
    • Allow Right-Click - Essential tool to break websites’ habit of interfering with my right to use my browser’s functionality.
    Unsupported or "Problematic" Addons
    • uMatrix - Additional content filtering addon. Equipped with a lightweight hosts list that only affects well known bad acting sites and trackers. Provides a frontline of defense against novel tracking and fingerprinting domains.
    • ^ Listen; say what you want; I don’t care. This addon is something I always pair with uBlock Origin as it provides an additional safety guard against unforeseeable objects, scripts and other nonsense that may appear on a webpage. I can cherrypick what I believe the website needs to function; while denying access to third party scripts and other objects. I still use it to defend my privacy every day.
    • WhatCampaign Sorry I couldn’t find a working source link; it seems to be down. - This addon breaks URL tracking breadcrumbs by obfuscating them; which breaks various websites’ attempts at tracking behavior and interferes with websites’ ability to take actions based on URL tracking.
    • SponsorBlock for Youtube - Like it or not this little addon saves me a ton of time and helps me avoid feeding an algorithm by alerting me to sponsored videos and skipping unwanted commercials in content I consume. Depending on your ethics; you may or may not want this addon.
    • Privacy Pass - Sometimes you just gotta do something about captchas…This tool can help reduce them while respecting your privacy
    • Privacy Redirect - [PARTIALLY DISABLED VIA ADDON CONFIGURATION] - Sometimes you just gotta say “Nope!” to a website like Twitter or Google in general and visit a more privacy respecting mirror website. Invidious anyone? (Unfortunately oftentimes these mirror sites are getting sniped and go down frequently for various reasons; making this addon a frequenly frustrating and unreliable one because you have to disable it so often.)
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    As few as possible. Browser extensions can be used to fingerprint you.

    I only run uBlock, as it’s included with most privacy-focused browsers like LibreWolf. Even better if the browser has built-in domain blocking like Brave, then you don’t even need that.

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    Aside from UBlock Origin, I use LibRedirect, which automatically redirects you to privacy-respecting front ends of services like Youtube.

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    Firefox with the following.

    Absolute must:

    • containers
    • bitwarden
    • ubo

    Nice to have:

    • privacy badger
    • I still don’t care about cookies
    • ublacklist
    • clearurls
    • decentraleyes
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    Currently, I’m using Brave Browser :

    • Clear URLs
    • Dark Reader : for sites that don’t have a dark mode
    • Decentraleyes
    • Grammarly: I’m not a native English speaker. I like to write English with good grammar
    • HTTPS Everywhere
    • Imagus: for zooming pictures by just hovering
    • JSON Formatter
    • Local CDN
    • MultiLogin : a container like in the Firefox browser
    • Privacy Badger
    • Link Grabber : grabbed all the links on the page
    • Disable automatic tab discarding : I don’t like when the tab automatically refreshes when I didn’t open it for a while. This extension disables that
    • Old Reddit Redirect
    • Reddit Enhancement Suite
    • Return YouTube Dislike
    • Snowflake
    • SponsorBlock for Youtube

    For search engines, I’m still using Google. Because I think the results it’s more and better (I guess). If not Google, I will use DuckDuckGo or Brave Search

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      Keep in mind LocalCDN will make your fingerprint more unique. HTTPS Everywhere is unmaintained and no longer needed… and you certainly don’t need Decentraleyes, thats a duplicate of LocalCDN and is also unmaintained.