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What are your favourite extensions? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by filister@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.

One of my favorites are

Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

What extensions do you guys use?

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[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

•uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one •Privacy Badger - blocks trackers •Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

You don't need all of that at once. Privacy Badger and Ghostery are redundant with uBlock Origin and Total Cookie Protection. Source: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother.

Also, Ghostery is kinda shady in terms of opt-out tracking and showing ads to its own users. I don't know if they still do it, but my trust is already shattered and I see no reason to keep using Ghostery.