Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
by bradly on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @08:18PM
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Protip #4: I use Forget Me Now to whitelist sites I want to save cookies for after closing tabs. You'd be surprised how few websites you actually need to save cookies for. I thought it would be way more hassle than it ended up being.
Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
by smichel17 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:42AM
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Yeah. I use Temporary Containers to do the same (with permanent containers as my whitelist). I also have 3rd party cookies blocked entirely. Recently I also set uMatrix to block 1st party cookies. Yes, I need to re-enable them relatively often, but I've been surprised at how often I simply don't need them.
E.g. I usually use Firefox with NoScript. I frequently exit Firefox; when I do I clear everything using "Clear history when Firefox closes".
When I want to visit a site that requires JavaScript I switch to Safari. I'm just as aggressive in Safari in clearing my history.
Consequently, about the only ads I do see (in Safari) are clothing ads for teenage girls. I have two teenage girls, they have their own computers, so it must be the shared IP address.
So far it hasn't been worth the hassle for me to switch to a new IP address from Comcast more than about once a year. By default my firewall asks for the same IP address and even if it didn't, Comcast will use my firewall's MAC address to give me the same IP address.