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Chromium/Chrome/Firefox Extensions for Privacy

posted by martyb on Wednesday December 30 2015, @05:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the nothing-to-see-here... dept.

Absolutely.Geek writes:

I have recently switched back to chromium after running firefox for a few years. I have some basic privacy extensions (AdBlock Plus; Privacy Badger; HTTPS everywhere and uBlock Origin). I was getting annoyed with a bunch of stuff so decided to switch; I may switch back at some point.

I want to know which extensions the Soylent crowd uses and more importantly why. If someone hasn't heard of an extension before having a brief description of what it does and why it is better then the "other" extension can really help out.

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  • (Score: 2) by Aichon on Wednesday December 30 2015, @04:02PM

    by Aichon (5059) on Wednesday December 30 2015, @04:02PM (#282538)

    I'll second uMatrix for anyone here looking for the best blocker. It's not intended for laypeople, but for the crowd here, it'll work great. There's a bit of pain for the first few weeks, but after that, you'll have your settings locked in for your normal sites, so it's only a problem when you visit new ones, and even then, it only takes a few seconds to get working.

    But all in all, definitely nice to use instead of ABP, Ghostery, or uBlock/uBlock Origin.

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