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a portion of the arkenfox wiki where a bunch of popular, yet unnecessary, extensions are discussed. make good use of it :-)

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[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I did not know about this list. It is super nice. And not so common to see, but necessary and required nonetheless, I would say. One usually sees only articles introducing new extensions and prompting to install them, not the other way around. Thank you. I find myself still having some redundant extensions from the past installed here and there I know about, probably even more that I do not know about. I will have to spare some time to clean my setups, I guess.

[–] fishonthenet@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One usually sees only articles introducing new extensions and prompting to install them, not the other way around.

yup, plus I recognize the average user can easily keep track of how built-in protections and extensions might overlap. nowadays once hardened firefox makes most of them useless, nice to see.

[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

My thoughts, exactly. I can only agree. I have often thought about some extension only to keep it installed anyway because I was not sure its functionality truly overlapped with something new added to the browser or with another extension.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Regarding Neat URL, ClearURLs, anyone has a filter list for uBlock Origin to suggest that remove most tracking parameters from URLs?

[–] fishonthenet@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

there's one listed on that same page!

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The article says that LocalCDN is useless for privacy, but doesn't it decrease network usage?

[–] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What about HTTPS Everywhere?

[–] fishonthenet@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Oh silly me, I think I ctrl+F'd it without a space between HTTPS and Everywhere. Thank you.

[–] LIESGREEDMISERY@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I find temporary container feel more convenient to have an incognito-like mode in the same window. Although incognito mode may have different settings such as several extensions disabled so it may be better or worse depending on what I need.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the "RFP" frequently mentioned in the document? I can't find any setting about it and am confused by Internet search results about it.

[–] cs127@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as far as I remember, it stands for "resist fingerprinting" not sure how it works or how to use it tho

[–] pglpm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, at least the explanation of the acronym helps. I'm looking for more info, it seems to refer to a setting in about:config.

The only extention I have is uBlock Origin.