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@kbin.social
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      1 year 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.

    • DigitalJacobin@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You could, but privacy.resistFingerprinting is a little more extreme, which can ironically make you stand-out a lot more and make fingerprinting easier. privacy.resistFingerprinting was 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.