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I didn't know EFF was behind privacy badger, I've seen the extension around but never looked into it
I've had the extension forever and had no idea either. Learn something new every day.
Not trying to be rude here, but it does say "by EFF technologists" when installing the extension. Also their welcome page for the extension after installing it, states "" A project of the EFF".
I hope these things are read beforehand and just not skipped, ignored or just installed quickly before taking some time to look around / researched.
Fair enough and great points. In my defense I've had it installed for ages and the memory (mine, not my computer's) isn't what it used to be.
EDIT: And to be clear I'm not the one who downvoted you.
There's always that "funny" person downvoting every comment
Same, I've been using it for a few months now. Trust level has definitely gone up now that I know.
Do I need this when I already use uBlock Origin + ClearURLs
Is ClearURLs even needed?
I have like every filter on uBlock Origin filtered except the language ones. Yet when I go on Amazon, I get a huge nasty tracking url still. ClearURLs cleans it up for me, otherwise I wouldn't really need it. Not sure why uBlock doesn't do that.
Are you using the clear urls filter list? Copied another post in this thread:
You can replace ClearURLs with a filter list for uBlock Origin. Less CPU resources used.
Edit: idk how to link to the post on lemmy.world or if I'm just dumb but I grabbed a kbin.social link to the post.
That seems pretty good but ClearURLs also some neat other stuff to it. Also that's an unofficial list so I don't know how updated or comprehensive it'll be. Also it's pretty hard to find through a search engine tbh whereas ClearURLs is auto installed on my Firefox through addon sync.
I love your username, get a chuckle everytime I see it.
Can you do this with uBlock Origin in medium blocking mode. Also with Skip Redirect or Fast Forward?
Can we get rid of the “highlight and scroll to some text on Wikipedia” shit? It doesn’t work with dark mode and I want to read the whole article, not the sentence Google’s slapdick language model thinks is the answer.
That only works in Chrome (Chromium?) anyway.
It happens in Safari on iOS and it annoys the fuck out of me. On desktop, I just don’t use Google — Startpage is my default search engine. But on iOS, you’re stuck.
I already habe UbO and ClearURLs. Would this be redundant?
You can replace ClearURLs with a filter list for uBlock Origin. Less CPU resources used.
Besides the new functionality what's the different between this and the DDG extension?
EFF isn't trying to make money off of you or willing to compromise your privacy for profit when necessary.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blocking-limit
Por qué no los dos?
Like condoms, doubling up isn't always the best idea I heard. Increased fingerprinting.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, in my opinion. Fingerprinting is going to fingerprint. The whole idea of PB and things like uBlock is that it's trying to block as much fingerprinting as possible. They won't catch everything, but they catch a lot of it. The things they miss is just the cost of using the internet in this day and age, (unless opt for going ultra privacy mode and take even more precautions).
My point is, running two similar plugins isn't going to suddenly make you dramatically stand out any more from fingerprints than not.
How does that compare to uBlock Origin? I noticed it blocks redirects via creepy tracking intermediaries
Thanks. Installed.
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