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Ads?
What ads?
I mean, who TF is not running with a proper adblocker and multiple other anti-spyware and anti-malware add-ins in their browser?
I’ve been doing so since 2004, when the first adblocker came out for Firefox. Except for system set-ups of client machines and working on the machines of new clients, I haven’t seen an ad in over 20 years.
Of course, you actually need to be running Firefox to have anything approaching an effective in-browser adblocker… Chrome has massively neutered adblockers into near uselessness.
Seriously, people:
And for those on mobile:
You really shouldnt need all of these extensions, and the more extensions you use the more fingerprint able you are. May I suggest stock LibreWolf/IronFoxn or Mullvad Browser instead?
Missed Privacy Tweaks, did ya? Look closer.
It lists these tweaks, none of which I understand to have anything to do with extension detection/fingerprinting:
So you’re talking about bot detection and bot denial of a website, then.
Well, I’m not a bot.
No, I'm talking about extension detection being used as part of the process to fingerprint your browser to identitify you as a unique person.
That's used to track you across websites for ad targeting and other shit such as but not limited to sites displaying different prices to different people based off information they've gathered on you and connected to your unique fingerprint.
Fingerprinting effects a lot more than the ads you don't see due to blocking them and bot detection. Please read up on it more instead of running with assumptions.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/browser-extensions/
Please give this article a read
Notable section from the Wikipedia article linked there as "stand out":
I'm not well versed on it, but I believe installed extensions are directly query-able through javascript or html5 on sites loaded by the browser.
Preaching to the choir.
The list above is the vast majority of my add-ins. I don’t use any which are sufficiently duplicated in the browser or which are not required for enhanced security.
I am not one of those people with multiple dozens of add-ins.
You say you aren't one of those people but i genuinely dont believe most of those extensions are needed if youre using hardened Firefox (LibreWolf/IronFox/Mullvad Browser/Tor)
The average person.
Prettt sure DecentralEyes has been abandoned. I think LocalCDN is the reccomendation now.
I also believe there are ways to configure uBlock Origin to handle referrer stuff, clean links, for smart https stuff, and to handle redirect links as well. Probably something you can do with it for amp links as well.
Also, just know that every extension installed absolutely spikes up your uniqueness to fingerprinting.
Missed Privacy Tweaks, did ya? Look closer.