So as the title mentions, I'm wondering how much is too much?

I am currently using Brave with the setting to:

  • Aggressively block trackers & ads
  • Only connect with HTTPS
  • Block fingerprinting
  • Block cross-site cookies

In addition to that, I have installed the following extensions:

  • uBlock Origin
  • Ghostery
  • Decentraleyes
  • DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

So my question is: Is this overkill? If so, what should/could be removed that may be redundant? I want as much coverage as possible, but not have things bloated.

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[–] 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean ublock origin is really all you need imo so I guess one

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I disagree. Test your set up here :

    https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html

    I use ublock and ad guard (app and DNS) together to get to 100%.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I get 100% using only ublock in firefox, without configuring either. Note that stacking filters not only reduces performance, but also increases your fingerprint.

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    Oh, I used canvasblocker for a lot of years, it's great. But I disabled it because from arkenfox it is not recommended together with privacy.resistfingerprinting.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    how does your solution fare vs the coveryourtracks link?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Very interesting site.

    On Vivaldi I get:

    • No blocking in settings: 39% (how?)

    • only Ghostery active: 86%

    • only uBlock active: 100% (ghostery still reports trackers)

    • Vivaldi Max blocking, no add-ons: 53%

    • Vivaldi max blocking + Ghostery: 93%

    • All max blocing and on: 100% (same as just uBlock)
      uBlock reports 144 blocked
      Ghostery reports 53 blocked

    Even with only uBlock I get a report of 144 blocked ads (96%) with 150 tests and the site showing 100% score Interesting. It's a nice test site, but I think I can conclude in my setup that uBlock is the best blocker, but a combination of Vivaldi's settings and uBlock is a minimum. No clue if ghostery ads anything, but the site won't test everything as it's impossible to do that in the ad war we're in.

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