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Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 1 year ago

How many Adblocking/Privacy extensions are too much?

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How many Adblocking/Privacy extensions are too much?

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Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 1 year ago

So as the title mentions, I’m wondering how much is too much?

I am currently using Brave with the setting to:

Aggressively block trackers & ads
Only connect with HTTPS
Block fingerprinting
Block cross-site cookies

In addition to that, I have installed the following extensions:

uBlock Origin
Ghostery
Decentraleyes
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

So my question is: Is this overkill? If so, what should/could be removed that may be redundant? I want as much coverage as possible, but not have things bloated.

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  speaking of finger printing I use these
  
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/
  
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/javascript-restrictor/
  
  https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
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      how does your solution fare vs the coveryourtracks link?
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