Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] good alternative to Firefox extension "Ghostery"

[Emanuele Rusconi]

I use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin and uMatrix.
I definitely recommend Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin.
uMatrix is really hardcore, and requires quite a lot of tuning and
reloading to make some sites work, so it's not for everyone.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] good alternative to Firefox extension "Ghostery"

[»Q«]

On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 07:14:59 +0100
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

> Question is: Are there any other comparable good alternatives,
> which understand the term "privacy" as it is ?

Disconnect, ,
uses the same basic idea as Ghostery, but Disconnect maintains its own
blocking lists.

There's also Firefox's built-in tracking protection, enabled by default
only in Private mode.  It uses one of Disconnect's lists -- their
'basic' list by default, but you can change it to use their 'strict'
list.  To enable it in normal, non-Private mode, go through
about:config and toggle privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to 'true'.


AIUI, since the Disconnect extension and the built-in stuff use the
same lists, having both is redundant.  I haven't used Ghostery in a
long time or the Disconnect extension, so I don't know how these things
compare feature-wise.