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[–] [email protected] 8 points 41 minutes ago

UBO can block YT ads, no need to use a seperate ad blocker for YT

[–] [email protected] 4 points 58 minutes ago

Lemmy could be better…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Firefox actually has their version of tempmail built in now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

it's not like a tempmail it's like proxy email to hide your actual email. So if you sign up for spam the spam will reach your actual email.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 47 minutes ago

Yeah, you can block that at any point though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

I believe LibreWolf is better than Firefox. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 45 minutes ago

i actualy use both LibreWolf and Firefox

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

What’s the upside down Z-Library icon in the lower left for YT?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

Currently, it is recovering from attacks from Google. Only self-hosting works reliably at the moment..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Idk it's not NewPipe or Grayjay

[–] [email protected] 75 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (4 children)

Drop IDCAC and Privacy Badger, add consent-o-matic, sponsorblock and bypass paywall clean.

Check Arkenfox for Firefox config and extension recommendations.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

Only use temp mails for unimportant, one-shot account, otherwise use an email relay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

There is also I still don't care about cookies

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 hours ago

It's insane how big a fight we have to put to JUST surf the damn Internet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Ok any tips on how to manage email addresses to minimize their exposure and spam?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Don't give out your email to spammers. Most legitimate businesses might send quite a lot of mail, but it's very often easy to unsubscribe so do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, use an email relay service like Firefox Relay, SimpleLogin, the one from Proton if you have an account with them (that's SimpleLogin behind)…

You can create email aliases, that will relay the email to your main address. Create a new alias for each website so they can't use your email address to correlate your identity and you can close it anytime, you can even configure an alias to only allow a set amount of messages and auto-close afterward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Addy.io gives you email aliases as not to expose your actual email address. Everything gets funnelled into a single inbox of your choosing still. And the great thing is that if you use a unique email alias for all services, you know instantly who leaked your email address if you start getting spam. :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why drop privacy badger? It's been working well for me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Because it doesn't bring anything more than Firefox in strict mode and uBlock Origin.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

FF blocks Facebook et al widgets in strict mode now? This is news to me, news indeed. Thanks for the tip

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Not exactly.

uBlock Origin blocks the widgets (with the "EasyList – Social Widgets" blocklist, I don't remember if it's on by default). As would any other blocklist based blocked do like Privacy Badger, uBO is just better.

FF's strict mode has something called Total Cookie Protection that makes it so Facebook widget on site A cannot read the cookie dropped by the Fackebook widget on site B. It isolate 3rd party cookies for each website.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

It also has built-in Facebook Container to isolate Facebook links.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago

Ublock origin already has privacy badger and no cookies functionality. Worst case nothing gets blocked. Also slower internet for you.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

I'd actually recommend consent-o-matic instead of IDCAC. It actually selects the minimum concent for you instead of just hiding it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

EDIT: Ignore my blind confidence. CAD is (mostly) broken in recent FF versions. (See ivn's reply to this post).

Consent-o-Matic with Cookie Auto Delete and Firefox's Multi-Account Container tabs covers it all nicely for me.

Cookie banners get handled, cookies I don't explicitly want to keep automatically disappear when I leave the site/close the tab, and those I do want to keep can be given their own containers to keep them separated.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Cookie autodelete doesn't work with strict mode and you should use strict mode. Just drop it.

You don't need an extension to auto remove cookies with Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You're right. I'll be damned. That'll teach me to set-and-forget then not keep up with changes to Firefox and their effects on extensions. Thanks for the heads up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Here's how to auto-delete cookies without an extension: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/128.0/user.js#L669

Set privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown and privacy.clearOnShutdown_v2.cookiesAndStorage (I don't know if privacy.clearOnShutdown.cookies is still needed) to true. To allow a website to keep cookies do CTRL+I on the address bar then check "Set cookie" in the Permissions tab.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Privacy badger is not longer needed IIRC, its role is taken care by uBlock.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 4 points 3 hours ago

Yeah I'm saving this thread this is good shit gotta check some of these innanet tips

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

I’m not saying my setup is any better, but it currently looks like this:

  • Firefox
  • UBO
  • SponsorBlock
  • Return YouTube Dislikes
  • DeArrow
  • Archive.ph

I’m open to suggestions if anybody knows any better alternatives. I’ve had mixed luck with services that filter out YouTube’s crap.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

IDCAC should not be on this list since it was compromised, ABP-style. consent-o-matic is probably better but the most direct replacement is "I Still Don't Care About Cookies".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't the "EasyList/uBO – Cookie Notices" filter in uBlock's settings do the same thing as IDCAC / consent-o-matic?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

iI think consentomatic scripts the opt-out interaction. idcac probably just hides the popup.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago

Be careful with using Privacy Badger and uBO together as it might get in each other's way. I had YouTube detect me having ad block until I paused Privacy Badger for YT.

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