Privacy Guides

Currently rocking a modern Firefox 113 build with the following privacy enhancing addons:

• CanvasBlocker - to increase fingerprint resistance
• Multi-Account Containers - A critical multi-container account plugin
• I don't care about cookies - Bypass nag screens about cookies.
• LocalCDN - A much more functional alternative to Decentraleyes which actually does benefit privacy
• Temporary Containers - A critical plugin I use to enforce fresh "containers" for certain kinds of browsing. Works with MAC as well; allowing me to isolate critical SNSes and such from just any random old site I visit.
• TrackMeNot - Search Engine Privacy tool; set on a very slow; non-default interval. This injects some "background noise" of activity into search queries and browsing traffic.
• uBlock Origin - Absolutely Essential Adblocker. This addon shoulders a large load of the blocking and filtering work.
• Allow Right-Click - Essential tool to break websites' habit of interfering with my right to use my browser's functionality.
  Unsupported or "Problematic" Addons
• uMatrix - Additional content filtering addon. Equipped with a lightweight hosts list that only affects well known bad acting sites and trackers. Provides a frontline of defense against novel tracking and fingerprinting domains.
• ^ Listen; say what you want; I don't care. This addon is something I always pair with uBlock Origin as it provides an additional safety guard against unforeseeable objects, scripts and other nonsense that may appear on a webpage. I can cherrypick what I believe the website needs to function; while denying access to third party scripts and other objects. I still use it to defend my privacy every day.
• WhatCampaign ~Sorry~ ~I~ ~couldn't~ ~find~ ~a~ ~working~ ~source~ ~link;~ ~it~ ~seems~ ~to~ ~be~ ~down.~ - This addon breaks URL tracking breadcrumbs by obfuscating them; which breaks various websites' attempts at tracking behavior and interferes with websites' ability to take actions based on URL tracking.
• SponsorBlock for Youtube - Like it or not this little addon saves me a ton of time and helps me avoid feeding an algorithm by alerting me to sponsored videos and skipping unwanted commercials in content I consume. Depending on your ethics; you may or may not want this addon.
• Privacy Pass - Sometimes you just gotta do something about captchas...This tool can help reduce them while respecting your privacy
• Privacy Redirect - [PARTIALLY DISABLED VIA ADDON CONFIGURATION] - Sometimes you just gotta say "Nope!" to a website like Twitter or Google in general and visit a more privacy respecting mirror website. Invidious anyone? (Unfortunately oftentimes these mirror sites are getting sniped and go down frequently for various reasons; making this addon a frequenly frustrating and unreliable one because you have to disable it so often.)

Currently, I'm using Brave Browser :

• Clear URLs
• Dark Reader : for sites that don't have a dark mode
• Decentraleyes
• Grammarly: I'm not a native English speaker. I like to write English with good grammar
• HTTPS Everywhere
• Imagus: for zooming pictures by just hovering
• JSON Formatter
• Local CDN
• MultiLogin : a container like in the Firefox browser
• Privacy Badger
• Link Grabber : grabbed all the links on the page
• Disable automatic tab discarding : I don't like when the tab automatically refreshes when I didn't open it for a while. This extension disables that
• Old Reddit Redirect
• Reddit Enhancement Suite
• Return YouTube Dislike
• Snowflake
• SponsorBlock for Youtube

For search engines, I'm still using Google. Because I think the results it's more and better (I guess). If not Google, I will use DuckDuckGo or Brave Search

Aside from UBlock Origin, I use LibRedirect, which automatically redirects you to privacy-respecting front ends of services like Youtube.

As few as possible. Browser extensions can be used to fingerprint you.

I only run uBlock, as it's included with most privacy-focused browsers like LibreWolf. Even better if the browser has built-in domain blocking like Brave, then you don't even need that.

Just my password manager and uBlock Origin :)

uBlock Origin definitely. I use KeePassXC's browser extension, but if you're using Bitwarden already then you're probably fine on that.

My search engine of choice is SearX, as DuckDuckGo's results are just a frontend for Bing, i.e. not favorable to me.

Besides the typical privacy-oriented Firefox extensions, I love Sidebery. It's by far the best tree-style tab add-on I've ever seen. Beautiful and powerful.

uBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, Privacy Badger, Bitwarden.

One that I use which I haven't seen mentioned is Fast Forward

Firefox with the following.

Absolute must:

• containers
• bitwarden
• ubo

Nice to have:

• privacy badger
• I still don't care about cookies
• ublacklist
• clearurls
• decentraleyes

If you’re paying to use Kagi, why not just try using Mullvad’s Leta? It’s the same thing, but priced more reasonably and includes a great VPN.

UBlock Origin, Bitwarden, SurfingKeys

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I'm kind of using 2 browser currently Brave/Librewolf. Been thinking of trying out Brave for a while now so here we are. On brave I just have Bitwarden, LocalCDN & SponsorBlock. On Librewolf I have Bitwarden, uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, User-Agent Switcher, CanvasBlocker & Reddit Enhancement Suite.