Or a fork of Firefox like fennec

  • Undertaker@feddit.org
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    10 months ago

    Depends on the user.

    For me it’s uBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie AutoDelete and Binnen-I be gone

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago
    • uBlock Origin
    • NoScript
    • JShelter
    • CSS Exfil Protection
    • Libredirect
    • Indie Wiki Buddy

    I also sometimes use the IceCat extensions, too:

    • LibreJS
    • LibrifyJS
    • Reveal hidden HTML
    • Searxes’ Third-party Request blocker
    • Workarounds for nonfree JS
    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.orgBanned from community
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      10 months ago

      Jshelter is good. You know it works because many shady websites won’t even load bx they are big bad they can’t finger print you lol

  • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m not gonna lie, I’m a little bit of an extensions hoarder, which is bad for fingerprinting 😣, but I seriously do use the extra ones.

    Vital:

    uBlock - obviously, some people even suggest to only use this extension and nothing else to reduce fingerprinting. Make sure to enable those filters! Also check out the advanced mode, eliminates the need for NoScript.

    Not Vital But Really Good To Have:

    LibRedirect - Never worry again about visiting the original social media site, you can immediately be redirected to a proxy version of the site that doesn’t stalk you. Great when I’m forced to click a Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, etc. link. Unfortunately, some proxy services are dead (Instagram, Tiktok, Invidious is always under threat, etc.)

    Bitwarden - Password manager

    Dark Reader - Nice, especially on fingerprint resisting browsers like Librewolf that don’t let your browser/sites see your system settings to automatically pick the dark mode of a website. Have singed my eyes a couple times.

    For Language Learners (like me):

    Yomitan - The GOAT of tools, a popup dictionary that can be used to instantly look up the definition of a word in your target language, and connects with Anki, a flashcard app. I use it for making vocabulary cards from Japanese media I consume. Literally all the other resources are meant to be paired with this.

    Asbplayer - Lets you add subtitles to whatever media you’re streaming and makes the text selectable. Paired with Yomitan, you can easily make Anki flashcards from the TV/Movies/Videos you watch.

    Lap Clipboard Inserter - By using a clipboard extension with Textractor, you can hook a game/visual novel and auto-copy all the game text to a webpage, which can be paired with Yomitan (you guessed it!) to look up words. You have to turn it on for individual pages, so don’t worry about it constantly stalking you.

    Neat, But Random:

    Mastodon Streetpass - Helps you figure out if a person is on Mastodon by looking for a custom link on their site. Collects a list of them and tells you the date that it found the account. Basically just browse as usual and it will passively collect a list.

    • coracoral@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      A fellow Japanese learner and VN enjoyer! Are you on Linux? I ran into issues with Lap Clipboard Inserter not capturing any clipboard events when the window was in the background, and I think it’s an issue with Wayland, since all firefox-based browsers had the same issue but chromium-based ones didn’t

      • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Yep, I used Fedora Kinoite now! I originally used Fedora Silverblue, but that used GNOME + Wayland, and I dropped it cause spectacle couldn’t take screenshots in a Wayland based system. I switched to Kinoite because it uses Plasma instead. I don’t know if Wayland causes clipboard issues, as I never tested/got that far when trying to make Silverblue work. I just rebased cause I couldn’t get ShareX (the tool I used while on Windows) to work with WINE.

        I use my clipboard tool with FF and have little to no issues there. The only thing I will note is, Textractor hooks the sentences a little weirdly. None of the hooks are perfect, the best one I can find that isn’t complete gibberish is a hook that simply copies the sentence twice. All the others repeat characters in a sentence like 50 times, so they’re unsalvageable. Not sure if it’s a browser hook thing, or a trying to force Windows apps in weird ways thing, but it’s not as smooth as a process compared to native Windows 😅

        • coracoral@sh.itjust.works
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          10 months ago

          At least from my research, Kinoite is Wayland. I think you can go to KDE (Plasma) settings, find the “About this System” page and it should say “Graphics Platform: Wayland”. GNOME and KDE are desktop environments, X11 and Wayland are display managers (I think of them like rendering engines).Though it’s true that Spectacle has issues on Wayland, apparently all screenshot apps do, due to security restrictions and slow development. But Spectacle works great on KDE because Spectacle is made by KDE, and gets special privileges when run on KDE desktop. Same with GNOME screenshot when run on GNOME desktop. Third-party screenshot tools don’t get these privileges and don’t work well on either (at least when using Wayland), you can read more about it here: https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip/issues/727.

          As far as Textractor goes, I haven’t had any issues with text hooking, but from my experience it heavily depends on the game, and I’ve only tested 2 games on linux so far. But if I’m reading you correctly…are you using Firefox inside WINE?

        • coracoral@sh.itjust.works
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          10 months ago

          By the way, in case you are interested, I do have a hacky script that lets me use keyboard shortcuts to attach screenshots and audio recordings to my anki cards. Just be warned that it is QUITE hacky, especially since I use a Fedora Atomic distro.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    It’s not about privacy per se but Tridactyl “A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.” because, like Userscripts - Tampermonkey, you can basically redesign any website.

    A basic privacy oriented solution I made was using autocmd https://tridactyl.xyz/build/static/docs/modules/_src_excmds_.html#autocmd to redirect YouTube content to my local https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local and that works even with embeds.

  • Ardens@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    uBlock Origin Firefox Multi-Account Contaniners (and then use them) If you use some kind of webmail like google, hotmail, yahoo, then: Webmail Ad Blocker Remove FBclid and UTM

    Optional Dark Reader Enhancer for Youtube

  • Lokoschade@feddit.org
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    10 months ago

    To support independent Wikis

    • Indie Wiki Buddy

    For those who are multilingual that are annoyed at websites autotranslating via a shitty ai

    • Reddit Untranslate
    • Youtube Anti Translate

    To make Youtube better

    • SponsorBlock
    • YouTube Row Fixer
    • Hide Youtube-Shorts
  • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    uBlock Origin is the must have.
    Personally I also use Dark Reader, NoScript, View Page Source and User-Agent Switcher.

        • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          10 months ago

          But having two addons will make your fingerprint even larger. So your argument doesn’t explain why you should use two addons instead on one that does it both.

          • hansolo@lemmy.today
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            10 months ago

            No, you use one as the backup. That’s why I said use JShelter, but if a site breaks beyond use, switch IPs and then reload with NoScript instead to be more selective of what is blocked and what’s not. That way I can still block Cloudflare and Google and Apple and still let the actual site load. And JScreep seems (for me, YMMV) to treat each as distinct fingerprints.

            IMO if you know you can have multiple fingerprint profiles anyway based on which combo of extensions you use that do roughly the same job, that’s a net benefit.

      • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz
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        10 months ago

        Because I’m used to noscript, I’ve tried using uBlock in stricter than default settings but found it hard to get into their flag system.
        I do not trust 1st party by default in noscript and am pleasantly surprised anytime a site works without js.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
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      10 months ago

      I don’t think NoScript is a good idea in 2025. It breaks virtually all websites.

      uBlock Origin + cookie banner filters should be enough

      • simpolomeo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        10 months ago

        breaking websites is a good thing actually, as it disables any and all javascript and webgl tracking (and you can unbreak a website anyway if you really need javascript for it to function)

    • Carol2852@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      What advantage does it have compared to extended mode of ublock? I used NoScript years ago but switched to ublock to block scripts and resources.