• amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Obsolete imo, there are many other extensions that do the exact same thing. Its not that I dont trust Privacy Badger, I just don’t see the point in trusting it when it offers nothing new.

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          1 year ago

          why are you trusting the other extensions over privacy badger? Trust wise privacy badger coming out of eff is high on my list.

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            1 year ago

            uBlock has as far as I know all the same features, a better reputation (anecdotally), and is a single, extremely common browser extension (if you care about being fingerprinted through having multiple extensions, that is an advantage).

            I don’t really care if the EFF endores the tool, as it doesnt have any unique features.

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              ah see that makes sense. I only use no script and privacy badger as sorta a backup for when I allow pages. and I guess to long didn’t read if you include that in this kind of thing. I don’t use much beyond no script for similar reason you don’t see the need to use privacy badger.

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                1 year ago

                NoScript is great for blocking Javascript on websites, it even comes pre-installed on Tor Browser. Highly recommend either NoScript or GNU LibreJS (which blocks all Javascript it deems “non-trivial” or unfree) for Javascript blocking.

                For your use case, I would just uninstall Privacy Badger and use uBlock. You sound like you don’t value your convenience super highly (because you use noscript :)), so I would take a look at the advanced user settings in uBlock. It will show every domain attempting to be loaded on a website, and you can pick and choose which you want to allow / block globally or allow / block per-site. You can also block large media elements, remote fonts, among some other things I can’t remember off top.

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                  1 year ago

                  yeah but for me privacy badger is on because it comes from the eff who I trust highly. I don’t know enough about ublock to care to put it on. If I was not doing privacy badger I would replace it with nothing.

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            1 year ago

            @HubertManne @leo @amanneedsamaid OK then, but saying that, rather than just saying don’t use privacy badger would have made a lot of difference. I use UBlock origin, privacy pass for hcaptcha stuff, privacy badger, jshelter from time to time, plus I also use a vpn when I have to, because honestly I don’t really like using them, their apps feel clunky, etc. So yeah, it’s absolutely fine to have different solutions to the same problem installed, that incourages healthy competition

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              1 year ago

              About having multiple solutions installed to same problem being “absolutely fine”, yeah no. (albeit 5 year old tweet, but I would assume it holds true).

              Also, adblock extensions are not an industry, and given the fact they’re open sourced, there is no real benefit to “encouraging competition” for such a simple tool.