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What are your favourite extensions? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by filister@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.

One of my favorites are

  • Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
  • uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
  • Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
  • Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

What extensions do you guys use?

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[-] EvenOdds@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Changing your user agent will not stop you being tracked. Browser fingerprinting can work with heaps of different signals, and is very difficult to block.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It means I'm being tracked for 30 seconds. So basically useless tracking.

Chameleon doesn't just change the user agent. It changes a bunch of stuff that's used to break fingerprinting. Of course you have a fingerprint, but it constantly changes so that the data they collect is so short lived that its useless to them and therefore very useful to me.

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You can try to fool it with a VPN, change country, etc but it doesn't work. Fingerprinting is very strong these days.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

That website is marketing bullshit. It doesn't tell you if you fingerprint "ID" is unique. If can just spit out the same fingerprint for millions of users, and it looks impressive but its totally worthless as a fingerprint.

Try again with some service that isn't trying to sell you their product

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you try with a Tor browser you'll get a unique ID everytime.

Feel free to try this one instead: https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint

Or whatever website you prefer, really. Fingerprinting is not solved by a single extension or checkbox. It's really hard.

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