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by sticazzi 2810 days ago
I have AdBlock, AdBlock Plus and DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. Anything else to recommend for Firefox?
3 comments

Ditch Adblock and ABP, and get uBlock Origin instead.

Cookie Autodelete, Ublock Origin, Decentraleyes, Don't touch my tabs!, FB Purity, First Party Isolation, google-no-tracking-url, HTTPS Everywhere, Link Cleaner, Privacy Badger, Smart Referer and of course uBlock Origin in advanced mode with all 3rd party scripts and frames blocked by default.

I know that Brave draws a bit of controversy on HN, but the fact that you just named a DOZEN plugins is the reason why I switched. That's just too much to keep up with, I need more sane defaults and built-in behavior.
Yes, I think BAT deserves a look. I'd much rather pay for good content than have my payment extracted from me subversively.

https://brave.com/faq-payments/#what-is-brave-payments

There's nothing to keep up with, really. You could very servicably get by with only uBlock Origin's default blocklists and the advanced mode with 3rd party scripts/frames on default-deny.

The rest are there because I'm slightly paranoid.

I'm concerned about fingerprinting.
Not much a way to get around that. Removing 99% of fingerprinting identification gives a stronger fingerprint than many defaults.
maybe get rid of adblock and use ublock instead. its open source and anytime I hear adblock being mentioned its usually something bad

check out https://www.privacytools.io as well or the subreddit for more discussions on that type of thing

Make sure to use Ublock Origin instead of Ublock. Solely "Ublock" you want to avoid.
Multi-account containers, Switch container, Google container, Facebook container.