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Just now, afacc123 said:

I would absolutely not recommend it to most people. Universal stuff needs to be painless, like ublock. NoScript takes effort just to get some sites working.

Love NoScript. When I recommend it (even to techy people) the response is usually "that seems too time consuming" but it makes web browsing so much better and most of the effort is up front. Once you've whitelisted your main sites you almost forget about it.

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Just now, afacc123 said:

Love NoScript. When I recommend it (even to techy people) the response is usually "that seems too time consuming" but it makes web browsing so much better and most of the effort is up front. Once you've whitelisted your main sites you almost forget about it.

Facebook Container is great also; I use it with Firefox.

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Just now, afacc123 said:

Facebook Container is great also; I use it with Firefox.

Also the Container extension.

[afacc123]

Just now, afacc123 said:

Also the Container extension.

Pretty much the ones jinwk00 mentioned. Ublock origin is a must for everyone and the other ones don't harm either. Mainly to block all the tracking going on such and ads of course

Noscript would be good too but as the one persion mentioned lots of sites don't display correctly or and most probably won't function fully.

Edit: Also pretty obvious but I'll say it, switch from Google Chrome to Firefox. I made the switch two years ago and didn't look back. Some people would recommend Brave but I am not sure it's a good company. Firefox on the other hand appears to be fundamentally good.

[afacc123]

Just now, afacc123 said:

Pretty much the ones jinwk00 mentioned. Ublock origin is a must for everyone and the other ones don't harm either. Mainly to block all the tracking going on such and ads of course

Noscript would be good too but as the one persion mentioned lots of sites don't display correctly or and most probably won't function fully.

Edit: Also pretty obvious but I'll say it, switch from Google Chrome to Firefox. I made the switch two years ago and didn't look back. Some people would recommend Brave but I am not sure it's a good company. Firefox on the other hand appears to be fundamentally good.

Firefox has a long history of doing the right thing where the Web is concerned. Always adopting open source standards and pushing Google's attempts to corner the Web upon its own proprietary standards. By extension, don't use chromium based browsers until things really break. Firefox supports almost anything and everything the Web throws at you. Some sites belonging to Google will be deliberately slowed down there for no reason but unless you use them heavily, don't go to chromium based stuff.

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Just now, afacc123 said:

Firefox has a long history of doing the right thing where the Web is concerned. Always adopting open source standards and pushing Google's attempts to corner the Web upon its own proprietary standards. By extension, don't use chromium based browsers until things really break. Firefox supports almost anything and everything the Web throws at you. Some sites belonging to Google will be deliberately slowed down there for no reason but unless you use them heavily, don't go to chromium based stuff.

What about Ungoogled Chromium? Is it legit more secure?

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Just now, afacc123 said:

What about Ungoogled Chromium? Is it legit more secure?

Security isn't the issue. Chromium is still maintained by Google as an "open source" standard but they constantly add support for their own in house proprietary technologies and then try to push it as a web standard that they could license out. It's a classic market cornering practice and they can do it because Chrome is so massive in the market. If you really use Google's services day in and day out, just go for the full chrome experience. If not, try not to use anything chromium based.

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Just now, afacc123 said:

Security isn't the issue. Chromium is still maintained by Google as an "open source" standard but they constantly add support for their own in house proprietary technologies and then try to push it as a web standard that they could license out. It's a classic market cornering practice and they can do it because Chrome is so massive in the market. If you really use Google's services day in and day out, just go for the full chrome experience. If not, try not to use anything chromium based.

Ungoogled Chromium is good, but the problem with Chromium-based browsers is not just privacy issues, it's that you're still allowing Google to control the web. Even though Chromium is open source, Google has complete control. So if Google made a website only work on Chromium-based browsers, that means that most people would just shift from Firefox to Chromium-based browsers, creating a Chromium monopoly on the web.

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Just now, afacc123 said:

Ungoogled Chromium is good, but the problem with Chromium-based browsers is not just privacy issues, it's that you're still allowing Google to control the web. Even though Chromium is open source, Google has complete control. So if Google made a website only work on Chromium-based browsers, that means that most people would just shift from Firefox to Chromium-based browsers, creating a Chromium monopoly on the web.

Firefox doesnt support one thing and that is the Windows precision touchpad gestures. I've seen sone extension to add similar behavour but it was really janky. These gestures are making browsing web on a notebook actually enjoyable for me, until they finally adopt it, I genuinely can't use Firefox with a smile. I'm currently on chromium Edge as it seems to be the lesser evil now.

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57 minutes ago, afacc123 said:

In my recommendation and daily use, I have Decentraleyes, uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, and Privacy Badger

How do you know that the above plugins are not spying on you?