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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by nickthemagicman on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:12AM (#26681668)
Just install ghostery and ad block pro extensions.

It gets you like 90% of the way there and you don't have to use a less polished browser.

Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by cmeacham98 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:29AM (#26681810)
Ghostery, at least in the past, has sold user data. ABP allows companies to pay to whitelist their ads[1], and is somewhat bloated in my experience.

I highly recommend uBlock Origin. Their manifesto[2] most closely aligns with my beliefs on how my browser should behave: "The user decides what web content is acceptable or not in their browser."

1: https://adblockplus.org/en/about#monetization

2: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/MANIFESTO.md

Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by HWR_14 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:06PM (#26685859)
Does uBlock Origin have, like NoScript, an easy way to toggle whether scripts (and other resources) from various domains are loaded straight in the browser? Or is it "modify a config text file and reload".

I figured out how to block specific elements, but I do miss the ease of just turning off sources from a GUI of "everything that loaded".

Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by cmeacham98 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:51PM (#26686058)
Yes, here's an image of the uBlock Origin UI: https://files.catbox.moe/upzo0c.png

You can see you can block by domain, host, and some pre-determined groups like "3rd-party".

Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by HWR_14 on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:02PM (#26705245)
It was hidden behind the advanced user setting. Thank you.
Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by nickthemagicman on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:31PM (#26685328)
Install whatever. You can check how good your set up is.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by neilsimp1 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:27AM (#26681795)
Which one is less polished, and are you implying Chrome is more so? Maybe it's "polished" but it's incredibly slow and FF/Brave both have better features from what I can see.
Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by franklyt on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:32AM (#26681835)
It’s not factually accurate to claim that chrome is “slow”, especially vis-a-vis Firefox.
Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by hedora on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:00PM (#26682070)
I’ve found it depends more on which hardware you use than on which browser. Firefox is unusable on some of my machines, where Chrome is OK, and it’s the opposite on others. (All are low end machines.) I think it mostly depends on video drivers.
Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by franklyt on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:21AM (#26681740)
Ghostery? Owned by Cliqz? Seems a bit questionable.
Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by nickthemagicman on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:31PM (#26685331)
Just check your setup here.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/