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Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by maltalex on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:55AM (#24719631)
I try to keep the number of browser extensions to a minimum since they have access to every piece of sensitive information in the browser.

So my setup is:

- uBlock Origin [0]

- Cookie AutoDelete [1]

- Firefox's "Enhanced Tracking Protection" set to "Strict" [2]

- DuckDuckGo as the default search provider

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

[2]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...

Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by AstralStorm on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:01PM (#24721164)
Additional useful pieces are Skip Redirects and Smart Referer. And enabling First Party protection in about:config, plus perhaps Facebook Container.

Against anti-adblock, Nano Defender is the thing. (There's an uBlock Origin mode in that.)

Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by maltalex on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:04PM (#24721909)
I like the idea of Skip Redirects and Smart Referer, but I feel they aren't worth the risk.

They're not popular extensions (11K and 6K users respectively) and aren't being reviewed by Mozilla. I'm certainly not going to review them myself, and I see no reason to trust their developers and their personal security practices.

Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by mkskm on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:40PM (#24721614)
I've found EasyList + "uBlock filters – Unbreak" to be sufficient in eliminating anti-adblock warnings.
Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by ghostpepper on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:04PM (#24721209)
Are these options in firefox or addons? Would you mind explaining what they do and why they're useful?
Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by crossroadsguy on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:09PM (#24726373)
What is the best way to use DDG like Google with minimum friction and good search results (I rarely get relevant answers if I do a pure DDG search)?

Also, what is DDG? It has its own crawlers (DuckDuckBot) like Google and Bing have (assuming Bing has, haven't read on it)? Or DDG (or DuckDuckBot) just filters/parses results from Google et al?

Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by mkskm on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:44PM (#24721655)
It's also possible to configure Firefox to natively clear cookies on exit, minus an exception list if preferable.

- Firefox > Preferences > Privacy & Security > Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed

- Firefox > Preferences > Privacy & Security > Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed > Manage Exceptions

Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by crtasm on Friday October 09, 2020 @11:25AM (#24730763)
Definately worth considering yes. I rarely close Firefox so deleting cookies when I close a tab works better in my case.
Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by ubercow13 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:16PM (#24721360)
What about setting privacy.firstparty.isolate? I've had it on for years and almost nothing breaks.
Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by hadrien01 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:27PM (#24721476)
'almost'? Do you have examples of websites breaking? Does it mean for example that you wouldn't be able to log onto YouTube because Google cookies are blocked?
Re:Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better by fdgdd on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:44PM (#24741339)
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