Sponsorblock, TamperMonkey, 1Password, CamelCamelCamel, etc are all useful extensions as well that make browsing the web specifically for me better. Your consistent advice in your post history is don't ever use any extensions besides uBlock Origin because of fingerprinting and "privacy"īut what if I want actually use the web instead of just blocking ads. The book _Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest_, written by the authors who developed Ad Nauseam and TrackMeNot, has a great chapter on chaff (the obfuscation tactic, not the Chaff extension mentioned above). The problem with that extension was that I would sit back and wait for it to start browsing, and then I’d waste too much time watching it / customizing its behavior. As with Ad Nauseam, the means of protecting privacy behind it is not anonymity, but rather obfuscation - muddifying your actual browsing behavior by flooding the data you leave behind with junk data (at which point it ceases to be data, I suppose). ), which opens up a tab and browses on its own when the browser is idle and disappears when you start using it again. It was entertaining to see the visualization of all the ads it had clicked on. Now that I’m a Firefox user, I should pick that back up and give it a spin again. I don’t remember why I eventually stopped - probably the inconvenience. Google banning it from their extensions marketplace only strengthened my loathing for Google and my resolve to use it. I totally forgot about Ad Nauseam! I used to use it instead of uBlock Origin (which, if I remember correctly, is what Ad Nauseam actually uses for its adblocking). It did not appear to.Įdit: Added semicolons to separate plugins in list b/c HN stripped the newlines from my comment. those permissions that I granted to plugins x, y, and z? They don't apply to Is there a browser that has that feature yet? I spent a few hours trying to figure out if Firefox did. IE: I just want to be able to say "Hey, Firefox. I'm worried this will be the next stage in the battle for our attention - best case: companies will buy popular plugins to track us and show us intrusive ads worst case: nefarious actors will buy them to scrape information we think is private and collect it. I feel like in the last year, I've read a couple stories about companies buying successful plugins and then using them to track you or show ads or whatever. What I really want now is the ability to exclude entire websites from any permissions I grant to plugins. To list a few:Ĭhannel Blocker (lets me block channels from search results on Youtube) Ĭonsent-O-Matic (auto fill cookie consent forms) īasically, if I visit a website and don't like the experience, I either never go back (Kagi lets me exclude it from search results) or find a plugin to make it tolerable. Lately, I find myself using more and more plugins to make the "modern web" tolerable. I recommend using an ad-blocker while visiting that site :-/
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