Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox

EddieTee77@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• 31337@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think ghostery is owned by an ad company. I wouldn’t trust it.

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  • EddieTee77@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seriously? I had no idea. That’s kind of ironic if it is

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    • Zeroc00l@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, privacy badger and ghostery are no longer recommended, unlock origin will do their job (better).

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      • dreamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What’s wrong with Privacy Badger? Isn’t that from EFF?

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      • EddieTee77@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do I need to adjust any settings?

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      • yum@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m surprised I haven’t heard this before. Thanks! I will proceed to only use uBlock Origin from now on (although I really enjoy the auto-reject cookies)

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• janAkali@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Try libredirect, it automatically redirects links from twitter, youtube, imgur and many other spying platforms to alternative privacy friendly frontends. It is also very customizable: you can turn only some redirects and configure what particular site to use for each platform.

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  • EddieTee77@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good suggestion! I haven’t heard of this before and it seems like a great tool considering how much things have changed recently on these platforms

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• Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’ve hit all the great ones, most of which were already available.

  Have you added the bypass paywall clean filter list to ublock? Here’s the url you can copy paste under “import” in the ublock addon settings: gitlab.com/magnolia1234/…/bpc-paywall-filter.txt

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  • EddieTee77@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I haven’t done this. Thank you so much for this suggestion!

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• lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You don’t need Privacy Badger and Ghostery anymore if you turn the Enhanced Tracking Protection up to “strict” in settings.

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  • Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ghostery has been great for denying cookie pop-ups. I don’t think this setting will replace this feature?

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  • EddieTee77@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh even better! I would rather have settings in my browser instead of relying on extensions anyway. One of the many things I love about Firefox

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• TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can also drop ClearURLs filter. Better filters that are more up to date exists exists on uBlock like Adguard URL Tracking Protection and Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool.

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  • EddieTee77@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wasn’t aware. It really seems like uBlock origin can do everything I had all those extra extensions for! Pretty impressive

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    • TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes. It’s really a powerful tool that helps to keep the Web tidy and sane.

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      • EddieTee77@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What amazes me is how much of the web is practically unusable without it… And yet the majority of users don’t have it

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