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Goodbye Chrome. It was great while it lasted. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by cyborganism@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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I'm fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.

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[-] neonred@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago

Firefox it is and was for over a decade and more. Add uBlock Origin, uMatrix and some smaller stuff and the web suddenly becomes accessible.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Can you provide a list of the smaller stuff? Been meaning to switch to Firefox.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Firefox actually has most privacy stuff you need built-in nowadays. There are surprisingly few steps you need to harden it after install (on both desktop and mobile):

  • Install the uBlock Origin extension.
  • Switch Enhanced Tracking Protection to "strict".
  • Turn on HTTPS-only mode in all tabs.

Optionally:

  • Switch your search engine away from Google. I've been using DuckDuckGo with zero problems for years, but there are others.
  • Install the multi-containers extension, it can be used to load websites in isolated color-coded tabs so no data "leakage" can occur.

You do not need any other extension. There is some advanced stuff for fingerprinting protection but they can do more harm than good if you don't know what you're doing. Stick to the above, update Firefox when prompted and that's all.

[-] rikyu@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

I love the possibility to have uBlock Origin on mobile. I have Privacy Badger and Decentraleyes installed as well. Toolbar on bottom is another thing I can't live without anymore. That's configurable through settings.

[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

You can use uBlock Origin on mobile in the Firefox nightly build.

In the nightly build, you get to use pretty much all addons from desktop.

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