What browser / extensions do you make use of?
What browser / extensions do you make use of?
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.
Bitwarden, ublock Origin.
+1 They’re too good to not use.
uBlock Origin obviously is a must.
I use Duck Duck Go for searching, but there might be a better option out there.
I use Firefox.
I make use of Firefox’s “containers”.
I recently switched from DDG to Ecosia. It gets results from the same dataset (Bing) and they plant trees when you search a certain number of times (the number fluctuates based on your frequency of searches I think). They're also supposedly carbon negative and have a decent privacy policy from what I can tell.
Just my password manager and uBlock Origin :)
Bitwarden (password manager) Bookmark Ninja (high recommend if you have multiple browsers you use
Aside from UBlock Origin, I use LibRedirect, which automatically redirects you to privacy-respecting front ends of services like Youtube.
+1 for LibRedirect. It's a game changer IMO
Besides the typical privacy-oriented Firefox extensions, I love Sidebery. It's by far the best tree-style tab add-on I've ever seen. Beautiful and powerful.
hmmm, and it says it works well with containers ... I'll give it a go as well, thank you :)
Yes! :)
You can organize your tabs into panels (little side tabs for tabs :P) and groups (collapsible tab folders for organization inside a panel). You can set colors, set containers, move to panels and windows. You can duplicate, unload, clear cookies. You can flatten trees and mute tabs. You can set up automatic snapshots to manage your sessions.
You get the gist, it's super powerful.
Thanks I will give it a try
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.)
"I don't care about cookies" was bought by Avast. You should instead check out I still don't care about cookies
I like Firefox. But, I don't know why, I still prefer using a Chromium-based browser like Brave. Wow, I didn't know there is an extension called "Allow Right-Click". I find that annoying for some sites that disable users using right click, I usually want to open the link in the new tab then I use (Ctrl+Left Click) instead
uBlock Origin definitely. I use KeePassXC's browser extension, but if you're using Bitwarden already then you're probably fine on that.
My search engine of choice is SearX, as DuckDuckGo's results are just a frontend for Bing, i.e. not favorable to me.
I use SearxNG as well. I run my own instance and IMO it's the best option for me.
Aside from the ones already commented: Skip redirect
With Firefox's protection against fingerprinting automatic dark theme detention doesn't work (and in general for sites which don't have the option) I use Dark reader
uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Snowflake, Canvas Blocker
On my PC I use ungoogled chromium with UBlock origin mainly for online purchases etc, FF with UBlock and NoScript for email and github type things and Librewolf with UBlock for general searches and my webUI stuff on my home server
On my phone I constantly switch between Bromite, DDG Firefox and Mull with UBlock on the FF and Mull
For search engines I constantly switch between DDG, Searx, Startpage, Qwant, Swisscow, Ecosia and Brave and sometimes Google when I'm really strugglingtpo find things but I can't remember the last time I needed it. Its great being able to switch search engines on the fly with FF based browsers and bangs on DDG
I hate monopolies and being over reliant on a single entity so I try to have a bit of variation wherever I can
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
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.
Ublock Orgin, No-Script is essential... for searches just build your own Searx instance. I love that I can customize so much with Searx Honorable mention? - Privacy Badger
uBO, of course.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck GoogleClipboard history pro: Stores a list of everything you have copied
It's a bit of a privacy headache - as the data is stored on cloud, but it has been so so damn useful to me that I keep using it, and haven't found anything that adequately replaces it.
If anyone has an FOSS alternative that stores data locally, please let me know :)
Switch to Linux :) you can do it system wide and locally
Just out of curiosity, do you mean that Windows does not have a built-in system-wide clipboard manager? TIL.
Windows also has it's clipboard manager, which I quite like.
Ubuntu's default clipboard manager is meh, and stuff like CopyQ are available for windows too.
Sadly, they just don't fulfill the niche use cases for me
If anyone has an FOSS alternative that stores data locally, please let me know :)
on windows, ditto is a great one
on linux, kde has a built in one, for gnome theres the pano extension, and im sure there many other apps as well
If you’re paying to use Kagi, why not just try using Mullvad’s Leta? It’s the same thing, but priced more reasonably and includes a great VPN.
Firefox with the following.
Absolute must:
- containers
- bitwarden
- ubo
Nice to have:
- privacy badger
- I still don't care about cookies
- ublacklist
- clearurls
- decentraleyes
A lot of these are unnecessary or actually modify your fingerprint.
- privacy badger
Can be detected https://adtechmadness.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/detecting-privacy-badgers-canvas-fp-detection/
- clearurls
Unnecessary, as uBO has
removeparam- decentraleyes
Modifies your fingerprint making you more unique.
For more information about what not to use see https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother
Modifies your fingerprint making you more unique.
I disagree, the whole usecase for decentraleyes (although i'd recommend localcdn instead as it supports a lot more frameworks), if for users not using a vpn, in which case you'd be fingerprintable via your ip address anyways, what localcdn achieves is having privacy from third parties, as opposed to the website itself.
If you're using localcdn with a vpn, i agree that'd be counter productive since what does it matter that third parties get your ip if that ip's shared with a massive group of people and isn't your real one, but otherwise its still a perfectly valid addon.
Unnecessary, as uBO has removeparam
and there's a neat list that uses it for stripping a shitload of tracking parameters at https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt
Thank you so much for this great feedback! I will adjust my habits.
I think that privacy badger is kind of obselete along side uBlock Origin, because Ublock Origin can already do what privacy badger does
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.
1.Ublock Origin, ublock is really cool and you can even add filter lists to it for example i found one for filtering ip grabbers (https://github.com/piperun/iploggerfilter) 2. Containers 3. NoScript (Its like ublock origin but for java script) 4. Skip Redirect the arkenfox guy recommended it. 5. VoilentMonkey (I use it for scripts like youtube age verification bypass and undiscord) 6. Return youtube dislikes 7. Sponsor Block
uBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, Privacy Badger, Bitwarden.
One that I use which I haven't seen mentioned is Fast Forward
sponsorblock's built into piped btw, i'd recommend using that over youtube, no ads as well as being more private
I use LibreTube on my phone, so I'm not sure why I haven't switched over on PC. I'll look into it, thanks
Privacy Badger
You might want to reconsider that https://adtechmadness.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/detecting-privacy-badgers-canvas-fp-detection/
It's really unnecessary with anything that uBO offers.
Maybe this is the wrong way to think, but I use it even though I'm aware of this because although I have nothing but respect for Raymond Hill, I personally find it unwise to rely on a tool with just one developer, and I'm hoping EFF will continue to support Privacy Badger.
On desktop FF I run NoScript and Ublock Origin. The functions of pretty much all the other privacy-oriented extensions are already covered by those two.
On mobile I just use Tor Browser with Vanadium as a backup in case Tor won't properly display a page (and allowing the JS doesn't help).
I run Ublock Origin, volume master (chrome), augmented steam, RES, and Edit this cookie.
uBlock, Sponsorblock, Noscript.
I mostly just use Brave whenever possible, I usually add a password manager to it.
UBlock Origin, Bitwarden, SurfingKeys
I'm kind of using 2 browser currently Brave/Librewolf. Been thinking of trying out Brave for a while now so here we are. On brave I just have Bitwarden, LocalCDN & SponsorBlock. On Librewolf I have Bitwarden, uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, User-Agent Switcher, CanvasBlocker & Reddit Enhancement Suite.