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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought it would be helpful for all the good people of Lemmy World if we shared our browser setups.

I'm mostly a laptop user when it comes to the Internet. I've been using Firefox with the Ublock Origin addon and it makes browsing the web so much less ad filled.

For youtube specifically I've had the best results with Chrome and an extension called Clear Skies for ad skipping.

Share you own browser setup. What do you use to surf the wild waves of the web to avoid the sharks and the sharp rocks?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ghostery is extremely shady and should not be used. Also piling up adblockers is really bad, use one and that should be enough.

Look at badness enumeration to understand that reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is shady about Ghostery?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism

They tracked users by sending every domain to their servers even though using dumb badness enumeration (possible via a quickly updated local blocklist).