Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection

Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by sticazzi on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:44AM (#18199923)

I have AdBlock, AdBlock Plus and DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. Anything else to recommend for Firefox?

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by KozmoNau7 on Friday October 12, 2018 @06:33AM (#18200465)

Ditch Adblock and ABP, and get uBlock Origin instead.

Cookie Autodelete, Ublock Origin, Decentraleyes, Don't touch my tabs!, FB Purity, First Party Isolation, google-no-tracking-url, HTTPS Everywhere, Link Cleaner, Privacy Badger, Smart Referer and of course uBlock Origin in advanced mode with all 3rd party scripts and frames blocked by default.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by StevePerkins on Friday October 12, 2018 @06:59AM (#18200564)

I know that Brave draws a bit of controversy on HN, but the fact that you just named a DOZEN plugins is the reason why I switched. That's just too much to keep up with, I need more sane defaults and built-in behavior.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by imglorp on Friday October 12, 2018 @08:25AM (#18200916)

Yes, I think BAT deserves a look. I'd much rather pay for good content than have my payment extracted from me subversively.

https://brave.com/faq-payments/#what-is-brave-payments

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by KozmoNau7 on Friday October 12, 2018 @07:08AM (#18200599)

There's nothing to keep up with, really. You could very servicably get by with only uBlock Origin's default blocklists and the advanced mode with 3rd party scripts/frames on default-deny.

The rest are there because I'm slightly paranoid.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by StevePerkins on Friday October 12, 2018 @07:58AM (#18200796)

I'm concerned about fingerprinting.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by zamadatix on Friday October 12, 2018 @02:39PM (#18203659)

Not much a way to get around that. Removing 99% of fingerprinting identification gives a stronger fingerprint than many defaults.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by mackrevinack on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:56AM (#18199963)

maybe get rid of adblock and use ublock instead. its open source and anytime I hear adblock being mentioned its usually something bad

check out https://www.privacytools.io as well or the subreddit for more discussions on that type of thing

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by bkor on Friday October 12, 2018 @04:21AM (#18200037)

Make sure to use Ublock Origin instead of Ublock. Solely "Ublock" you want to avoid.

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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by mtgx on Friday October 12, 2018 @07:46AM (#18200738)

Multi-account containers, Switch container, Google container, Facebook container.

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