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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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[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 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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[–] Akip@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

speaking of finger printing I use these

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/javascript-restrictor/

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

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[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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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[–] Akip@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

how does your solution fare vs the coveryourtracks link?

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[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago

I guess reasonably well? It's hard to assess, but anyway I also use user.js from arkenfox which includes many other changes; they also have this service to detect fingerprints that I suspect you are interested in, it has the particularity to detect tampering.

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