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

Go here: https://fingerprint.com/demo/
Note your fingerprint ID
Wait whatever time you want
Try again
It's the same ID

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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