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I do. It's more regularly updated and much simpler to use. I found myself constantly having to play with the settings of Privacy Badger on a site by site basis to get the experience I wanted. But YMMV.
Re:Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached on Monday October 05, 2015 @09:12AM (#10331562)
"TPP raises significant concerns about citizens’ freedom of expression, due process, innovation, the future of the Internet’s global infrastructure, and the right of sovereign nations to develop policies and laws that best meet their domestic priorities. In sum, the TPP puts at risk some of the most fundamental rights that enable access to knowledge for the world’s citizens."

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

Re:VW Scandal Will Speed Up Diesel's Demise on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:04AM (#10330999)
I can't help but think that the whole 'clean coal' industry, and carbon capture and storage as a whole, will go exactly the same way.
Ghostery is the only extension I use. I prefer bookmarklets for specific actions like adding to pinboard and instapaper for instance. Being a bit of privacy nut I don't really trust most extensions, a lot of them have quite wide ranging permissions. That said I turn off cookies and just whitelist the sites I want to set data on my machine so I'm not exactly typical in my use.