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What extensions would you absolutely recommend to someone who use Firefox? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Or a fork of Firefox like fennec

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most people will tell you that it's been made obsolete now since (1) it doesn't use behavioural analysis to detect trackers anymore, it just uses a pre-defined list of trackers to block (2) browsers (especially firefox) now have built-in tracker blocking (3) ublock origin blocks trackers by default anyway.

I don't think it hurts to still use it, just as a belt and braces approach, but I suppose it's possible it makes your browser fingerprint more unique.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Interesting. Fingerprinting is a good point, although I've switched to a combo of Vivaldi and Librewolf browsers so they're already fairly unique unfortunately.