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?
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.
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.
Oh, I didn’t realize it had other side effects. Maybe I’ll just keep using JShelter then.
You could, but
privacy.resistFingerprintingis a little more extreme, which can ironically make you stand-out a lot more and make fingerprinting easier.privacy.resistFingerprintingwas developed for the TOR browser, not regular Firefox.Plus, it doesn’t have the ability to set-up exceptions, for example, to the Window API (
window.opener,window.name) protection for websites like PayPal that can be unusable without it.It’s generally better to just install CanvasBlocker and stick to the defaults.
I currently use JShelter because that seemed to be the app of choice among r/privacy users
Is CanvasBlocker better?
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 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
uBlock origin and CanvasBlocker/JShelter are probably enough. There’s also uMatrix, which gives you more granular control over what to block or allow.
Just Read the README.md of each one.
uBlock Origins
Privacy Badger
ClearUrls
Decentraleyes
Privacy PossumTLDR : they all do different things.
Now commented on the built-in tracker protection in Firefox? Is it useless.
Personally I bank on uBo.
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
“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?
