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by MandieD 2986 days ago
uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger are my combo of choice. They play nicely together, and are easy enough to deal with that my non-web-savvy father-in-law surfs comfortably with them. Privacy Badger's most glaring weakness is that it takes a new install of the plugin awhile to learn that Facebook, fbcdn, etc are up to no good, but once it catches on, it’s great.
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Privacy Badger is also based on AdBlock Plus's code, which is a weakness in itself. The entire reason uBlock Origin exists is because of inefficiencies with ABP that the author thought could be avoided.

I just check the privacy list options in uBlock Origin.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-vs.-ABP:-effic...

I've always wondered how well Privacy Badger works if you also have third-party cookies disabled - is there any benefit in that case?