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Are there any addons as essential as uBlockOrigin? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by nebulaone@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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I would love to find extensions that make me think "How did I live without this?"

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[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Decentraleyes prevents loading common scripts from big name CDNs. Requesting a script from a google-owned CDN with your google cookies and the current URL as the referrer is a way to spy on you.

Decentraleyes loads these common scripts from it's own cache instead.

[-] nebulaone@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

I often heard that Decentraleyes doesn't actually do anything 99% of the time. I don't know how true that is, though.

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 7 months ago

aparently you know more than we here.

i had to look it up,
but aparently Decentraleyes isnt being maintained and grew more useless as the time went on.

aparently localCDN is a better mantained alternative.

[-] amackif@mastodon.social 4 points 7 months ago

@Kerb @nebulaone how trustworthy is #localcdn? #Decentraleyes is kind of confirmed by #Mozilla, they even recommend it

[-] nebulaone@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

The source code is public ( https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN ) and it has a reasonable amount of stars. So I think it should be fine. No guarantees, though.

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