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How many Adblocking/Privacy extensions are too much? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by SomeTeaMonster@lemm.ee to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

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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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[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You don't need any of those.

The functions and lists of uBlock are built into Brave. Most of the rest are redundant. You're just having the opposite effect that you're trying to achieve. These extensions are just used to fingerprint you.

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[–] SomeTeaMonster@lemm.ee [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

So you don't use any extensions then?

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[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

Depends on which browser. On Brave the only ones I use are Proton Pass and ViolentMonkey. You can search/install/run scripts in ViolentMonkey to do the same thing as any other extension.

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