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PSA: You probably don't need that extension (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by blarp@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm sure a lot of us are already using Firefox with uBlock Origin, and I'm also sure that most of us already know about Arkenfox.

Despite this, one thing that I'm still noticing on the internet are people recommending extensions that, as per the Arkenfox wiki, are frankly just not needed anymore.

So people, please stop using:

Cookie extensions like Cookie Auto Delete
URL cleaning extensions like ClearURLs
Anti-fingerprinting extensions
Redundant privacy extensions like Ghostery or Privacy Badger
NoScript

And also please note that Firefox Multi-Account Containers is probably overkill for most threat models, and that Firefox's builtin Total Cookie Protection is probably just fine.

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[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How exactly are my URLs going to be cleaned without ClearURLs?

My extensions are:

UBlock Origin
Dark Reader
ClearURLs
NoScript
Multi-Account Containers
Cookie Quick Manager (probably not required since I don't deal much with cookies other than flushing them)
LocalCDN

[–] folak@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt add this to ublock origin

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The option in uBlock Origin should really be baked-in and more prominent IMO, also I think I had some issues with the shortener not working on, e.g. Amazon in the past, but things might be working fine now, idk

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny how even when I toggle the "advanced user" option on, I still can't see any interactive menu/console to work with individual scripts. This is what prompted me to install NoScript in the first place. Am I using an old version?

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, don't know about that, I was talking about the ClearURLs replacement

[–] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

According to the wiki through ublock but I honestly don’t know how to do that