better browser extension & add-ons recommendations about riseup_help

[disturbio]

Adblock plus is always critized for this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8103140 and adblock edge emerged as an alternative.

Anyway, enabling a good privacy focused list on adblock/plus/edge will give you good results but you are forced to mantained or rely in somebody trustable for that. With disconnect you have to trust disconnect for that (you can't add rules for it). Privacy Badger works different, it detects 3rd party content, it learns from it and blocks it... so you don't need to rely on lists.

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• At least for firefox it's just to switch a config option (Network.http.sendRefererHeader), so even if there is no free software extension should be easy to create one.
• I like the idea of disabling flash more than recommend better privacy, but in the case of using it and the mix with firefox you still need better privacy as firefox control over LSO still sucks.

[elijh]

here are two free software user agent switchers:

• https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer/ (Firefox)
• https://github.com/tarampampam/random-user-agent (Chrome)

I am using the latter, and it works well. Although some sites, like github, will break if it thinks you are using an older browser.

[elijh]

I like the idea of disabling flash more than recommend better privacy

+1

[elijh]

oh, nevermind, i guess i was just agreeing to you agreeing with me. :)

[elijh]

Why has no one written a simple all-in-one that disables referrer, disables flash, disables third party cookies, and sets a generic user agent string? I want something that you install and then it sets good defaults and warns you if you ever change them.

[elijh]

prism-break recommendations: https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/#web-browser-addons

disconnect vs ghostery discussions:

• prism-break/prism-break#280
• https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1qkc2b/disconnect_vs_ghostery/

tl;dr ghostery is better but closed source.

[xinomilo]

refcontrol for mozilla (included in debian repos) is a nice referrer addon, for firefox only...
http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol
user-agent-switcher (firefox only) for changing default user agent..
http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/

adblock edge for firefox, adblock(?) for chrome, do the adblocking part nicely.
tried ghostery in the past with both chrome/firefox, but lots of memory used and random crashes.. got rid of it and browsing was fun again :)

cookies deletion (on exit), and flash plugin can be disabled manually via regular browser options (not about:config), maybe thats a better "tip", than just filling the browser with addons (?)

[elijh]

this seems better than adblock for chrome: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

[disturbio]

And now it supports firefox too! https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases :D

[elijh]

Another long discussion on this very topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/31ikb0/firefox_addons_what_to_keep_and_what_to_get_rid_of/

[cooperq]

Add https-everywhere, canvas fingerprint block, and webrtc block from chromium
There is also the chameleon plugin which tries to detect and block fingerprinting but it does tend to break some things still.

[cooperq]

I would say that one advantage of privacy badger over µblock is that privacy badger will block third party resources from setting/getting cookies and getting referrers, which µblock will not block at all. For example maps.google.com, amazonaws, cloudflare, etc.

[taggart]

I would like to recommend switching search to DuckDuckGo. They have a page that's a good start at
https://duck.co/help/desktop/adding-duckduckgo-to-your-browser
But I would recommend:

• installing their browser plugin
• going into the search settings and deleting (or at least disabling) gmail/yahoo/bing/etc

[elijh]

resolved by #213