I use uBlock Origin and make some changes to the default settings. Have seen recommend configs, but haven’t gotten to implement them yet.
What do you do to make Firefox even more privacy respecting and secure?
Honestly, Firefox and uBlock Origin together form a pretty solid combo - that’s all I use.
See privacyguides.org recommendations for tuning FF & uBO settings.
I’ve been doing so for years, sometimes they do bit I will disable when they do.
Regular firefox with enhanced protection on by default + ublock origin does most of the work for me. Personally I also like to add a user agent switcher on top of it. Oh and the Facebook container extension, that one is a must.
- Ublock origin
- noscript
- localCDN
- tampermonkey with anti ad blocker blocker scriipts
- ptivacy redirects
Both LocalCDN and any anti ad-block scripts are useless nowadays. uBO by itself does quite a bit of defusing itself as long as no other extensions conflict with it (so, make sure it’s the only ad blocker you have) (also enable the built-in annoyance filters. They deal with anti-adblocks as well)
Noscript can also be replaced with uBO’s dynamic filters/advanced mode. Read it’s wiki if you want to learn how
Please elaborate how LocalCDN is useless.
Anti ad blocker blocker scripts have been installed because of ad blocker blocker who blocked me using ublock origin. After enabling the anti ad blocker never bothered me again and since i have other user scripts and write my own occasionaly, tampermonkey isn’t useless at all.
noScript has a very convienient menu and is superior to ublock regarding usability (when it comes to selectivly blocking scripts). No need to read a wiki. Therefore I prefer it.
I also use ghostery, ad-guard, and one that cleans trackers from linked urls. I forgot what it’s called.
Lots of good ones in this thread, but one I don’t see is Adnauseam. Think of it as the inverse of uBlock Origin, in fact it is based on UO and you can even access the UO UI in it.
Basically: they can’t track you if you don’t load any trackers, sure.
But they also can’t track you if you “click” literally every ad, plus it messes with their ad revenue calculations and tracking statistics.
