Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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The classics: uBlock Origin to block those pesky ads and trackers as well as Dark Reader so I don't get flashbanged everytime I visit a website that doesn't have a dark theme
LibRedirect is awesome for avoiding tracking websites and replacing them with alternative FOSS frontends
Bitwarden to manage my passwords
Violentmonkey to load custom Userscripts
Snowflake to support the Tor network
Tell me more about snowflake. Never heard of this
From their website:
Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as though you're using the Internet for a regular video or voice call.
Did you know that Snowflake proxies are operated entirely by volunteers? In other words, a user gets matched with a random Snowflake volunteer proxy, which is run by a volunteer like you! So, if you want to help people bypass censorship, consider installing and running a Snowflake proxy. The only prerequisite is that the Internet in your country is not heavily censored already.
I tried installing it but got a security warning from Windows. I assume it's a false positive 'make sure you know what you're doing' situation, but I'd still like to know more about what's happening
Is there any indicator if my snowflake installation work ? I don't know if it really help anyone.
I use PC behind NAT, and sometime behind company firewall.
I like to use Privacy Badger. It's the best tracker blocker I've found so far.
What do you think of Arkenfox' following statements regarding Privacy Badger?
Ghostery, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, etc
Redundant with Total Cookie Protection (dFPI)
Note: Privacy Badger no longer uses heuristics by default, and enabling it makes you easily detected
Which can be found here.
uBO and Strongbox for PW management (used to be 1P, but since they forced everyone away from being able to store your vault locally, they had to go).
Cookie auto delete - I didn't install it for years because I thought it's not neccessary but boy did it changs my live. I still don't care about cookies
I'd like to include "I still dont care abour cookies" into the disscusion, cause I hate all these cookie-popups with X Submenues zu disable all optional Cookies.
for privacy:
additionally, i also use bitwarden for password managing, libredirect for automatically redirecting to alternative privacy front-ends, xbrowsersync for syncing bookmarks, and snowflake for tor censorship circumvention.
Just some advice, Privacy Badger, NoScript, ClearURLs, and LocalCDN are all redundant nowadays. uBlock does ClearURLs and NoScripts job, Total Cookie Protection does Privacy Badgers job and LocalCDNs job.
Also you might want to consider using RFP instead of CanvasBlocker, the more people using it the better it is for everyone.
i would use rfp but it causes images to look like a glitchy mess.
CanvasBlocker should be doing the same exact thing. If some images aren't glitchy messes then CanvasBlocker isn't working. And you can always let websites use your canvas data if you need to.
canvasblocker's default settings let images appear but the hash is different upon page reload. so if i were to use rfp, is there any way i can have viewable images and privacy? also how does ublock replace clearurls and noscript?
uBlock has NoScript built in if you turn it on, and has removeparam functionality by turning on some extra lists.
As for the images thing, I'm not really sure. If a sites images break with RFP I just don't use that site.
I have multiple LibreWolf profiles with different uses and therefore different extensions tied to each one of them. For example, I've got one in which I exclusively watch the Youtube content I'm interested; through Invidious of course*. Therefore, extensions like SponsorBlock and Video DownloadHelper are only found on that profile to improve the experience thereof without negatively affecting the other profiles. This is mostly done to protect the profile I use for regular browsing, which is somewhat alluded to by the team behind Arkenfox with "We recommend keeping extensions to a minimum: they have privileged access within your browser, require you to trust the developer, can make you stand out, and weaken site isolation.".
As for the extensions I have on my profile that I use for regular/random browsing; those would only consist of uBlock Origin, Redirector and Skip Redirect. All of which are -to some degree- endorsed by the Arkenfox-team. Though, from time to time, I am guilty of using Dark Reader as well; it's just too good to miss out on at times.