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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created (blog.mozilla.org)
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[-] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

Don't all the advanced ways rely on JavaScript?

[-] hoot@lemmy.ca 57 points 5 months ago

Lots do. But do you know anyone that turns JS off anymore? Platforms don't care if they miss the odd user for this - because almost no one will be missed.

[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 29 points 5 months ago

"Anymore"? I've never met a single soul who knows this is even possible. I myself don't even know how to do it if I wanted to.

I do use NoScript, which does this on a site-by-site basis, but even that is considered extremely niche. I've never met another NoScripter in the wild.

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 34 points 5 months ago

Why not just use ublock medium mode?

Roughly similar to using Adblock Plus with many filter lists + NoScript with 1st-party scripts/frames automatically trusted. Unlike NoScript however, you can easily point-and-click to block/allow scripts on a per-site basis.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 17 points 5 months ago

Am I in the wild? I use it.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I like the grid add-on for Firefox. It disables 3rd party pretty much anything by default. And you can control cookies separately from everything else, and I can't remember any time I've needed to enable those cookies to get a site working properly (whereas sometimes you need to enable scripting, media, or iframe for cdn or something).

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

uBlock origin + NoScript for me. I deal with the bigger umbrella of scripts with uBlock and then fine tune permissions to the ones that uBlock allowed with NoScript.

They might be fingerprinting me using these two extensions though.

[-] pmc 2 points 5 months ago

I use LibreJS with few exceptions. If I need to use a site that requires non-free JavaScript, I'll use a private browsing window or (preferably) Tor Browser.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 9 points 5 months ago

Not all but most, yes. But TBF, sites that still function with JS disabled tend to have the least intrusive telemetry, and might pre-date big data altogether.

Regardless, unless the extent of a page’s analytics is a “you are the #th visitor” counter, all countermeasures must remain active.

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