Regular firefox with enhanced protection on by default + ublock origin does most of the work for me. Personally I also like to add a user agent switcher on top of it. Oh and the Facebook container extension, that one is a must.
Both LocalCDN and any anti ad-block scripts are useless nowadays. uBO by itself does quite a bit of defusing itself as long as no other extensions conflict with it (so, make sure it's the only ad blocker you have) (also enable the built-in annoyance filters. They deal with anti-adblocks as well)
Noscript can also be replaced with uBO's dynamic filters/advanced mode. Read it's wiki if you want to learn how
Anti ad blocker blocker scripts have been installed because of ad blocker blocker who blocked me using ublock origin. After enabling the anti ad blocker never bothered me again and since i have other user scripts and write my own occasionaly, tampermonkey isn't useless at all.
noScript has a very convienient menu and is superior to ublock regarding usability (when it comes to selectivly blocking scripts). No need to read a wiki. Therefore I prefer it.
Canvas blocker - prevents some usage of javascript for fingerprinting.
Change Geolocation - the actual reason that I use it is not privacy, but to prevent Google from forcing local results (I set my geolocation to Antarctica). However you can use it for privacy, specially if you live in a small town.
Decentraleyes - prevents tracking through content delivery.
Ninja Cookie - handles cookies banners, telling them that you don't allow cookies. It's one of those extensions where QoL is privacy, since those banners are often crafted in a way to tire you out so you allow cookies.
uBlock Origin - I guess most people here know about it.
Decentraleyes - prevents tracking through content delivery.
Decentraleyes is AFAIK severely outdated. Use LocalCDN if you must, though I personally am not convinced there's any real threat model where these are useful.
A lot of people mentioning things like Privacy Badger, NoScript, ClearURLs, Ghostery, etc. Can anyone explain to me what benefit these provide over a properly configured uBO setup?
My understanding is these are all redundant, and just serve to slow things down or provide ways to leak your data (looking at you Ghostery...)
Also saw a comment about Multi Account Containers. I don't see this as necessary, at least in my case, ever since they introduced first party cookies isolation by default. The only application I see is if you want to log into the same website with two different accounts, e.g., using Outlook for work and personal email on the same machine.
Lots of good ones in this thread, but one I don't see is Adnauseam. Think of it as the inverse of uBlock Origin, in fact it is based on UO and you can even access the UO UI in it.
Basically: they can't track you if you don't load any trackers, sure.
But they also can't track you if you "click" literally every ad, plus it messes with their ad revenue calculations and tracking statistics.
Also try to use the Container feature in Firefox. I have acting Google all contained in one subset for example, so none of their tabs gets a view on my other tabs.
Beyond that I don't go crazy with extensions but I do still use NoScript to block javascript by default & only enable it for domains I choose. For ad blocking stuff I handle that at the router level with pfSense + the pfBlockerNG package.
+1 for Cookie Autodelete. Forgot to mention it. Have some more advanced options than the native cookie delete, fx whitelisting. Privacy Badger broke some things for me but I think I'll give it another shot given the fine recommendations in this thread.
This is absolutely false. In a standard browser environment you are going to require a multitude of plugins to achieve various tasks. In fact; having uBo installed is in and of itself fingerprintable to the nth degree. An advanced fingerprinting suite can glean data from your browser based on which uBo lists you subscribe to.
With the sole exception being purpose-hardened browsers like Mullvad's or Tor Browser; there is no reason to skip having plugins. You already fingerprinted yourself by running that one plugin.