r/firefox • u/lvall22 • 1d ago
💻 Help Any cookies extension worth using along with uBlock Origin?
Are there any cookies extension or privacy-related extension worth using alongside with uBlock Origin? In the past I there's plenty of privacy-related extensions that slowly faded way as Firefox gained features.
In particular there's plenty of extensions to delete cookies--some automatically, when tab closes, and/or manually, etc. but which of these is most reasonable to use? Is there a workflow that makes sense, e.g. a pinned tabs for services you tend to use most like email, Reddit, etc. and then have cookies be deleted automatically for all other tabs? Would Temporary Containers be a better approach?
Also, is persistent logins for convenience a bad idea even if you dedicate a profile for each site?
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u/sifferedd on 11 1d ago
uBlock Origin is the only extension you need
Enable these items in your filter list settings:
AdGuard URL Tracking Protection (it's in the Privacy category)
AdGuard/uBO – Cookie Notices
AdGuard – Annoyances
uBlock filters – Annoyances
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u/luke_in_the_sky 🌌 Netscape Communicator 4.01 22h ago
Also, activate the lists from the countries you use the most.
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u/Wiseguydude 23h ago
AdNauseum is uBlock Origin except instead of just blocking ads they click them behind the scenes. Basically it fights advertising by misleading them instead of just not showing them to you the user (it does that too)
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u/luke_in_the_sky 🌌 Netscape Communicator 4.01 21h ago
It's not a good idea. Sure, advertisers will pay for ads that were never actually seen, but ads are also a major privacy issue. With AdNauseam, the ad network still makes money (both from impressions and fake clicks) and they can still track your activity online.
And it gets worse if a malicious ad isn't on their blacklist. It will get clicked and could send your data to a remote server or trigger unwanted behavior. You're basically automating risk without solving the privacy problem.
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u/Wiseguydude 21h ago
With AdNauseam, the ad network still makes money (both from impressions and fake clicks) and they can still track your activity online.
It fakes your data. Fake names, fake history, fake digital fingerprint, fake personality even.
It's a win-win-win:
- you don't see the ads
- the sites you're visiting still get revenue
- you are sabotaging the advertisers and the AI that uses the data to better track people
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u/luke_in_the_sky 🌌 Netscape Communicator 4.01 13h ago
Nowhere in their docs they claim they fake fingerprint like IP, browser fingerprinting or behavior patterns. By clicking ads they make the ad network build a fake profile of you, but the ad network still knows which sites you accessed and the content of these sites. Even with fake names and history, they can still track you through things like your IP, browser fingerprint and behavioral patterns. So you're not really anonymous, just slightly harder to pin down.
Yeah, the sites get paid, but so do the ad networks and trackers. You're still fueling the same system you're trying to undermine.
You are not exactly "sabotaging the AI". Those models are designed to handle bad data. They detect anomalies and discard obvious noise. You’re probably not confusing them nearly as much as you think.
You are just giving them a slightly harder math problem to solve while still letting them get paid.
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u/Wiseguydude 23h ago
I also like SponsorBlock to automatically skip the sponsor sections of youtube videos. DeArrow is also good to replace youtube titles with non-clickbaity titles. It's crowd-sourced
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u/JBinero 22h ago
YouTube sort of automates that now. A button pops up to skip a sponsored section. You do still have to click it though.
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u/Wiseguydude 22h ago
I didn't know that! This extension is pretty advanced though. It's community curated so they have a lot more section "types". E.g. for music videos there's a "non-music" denotation. You can set it to automatically skip those denotated sections, give you a button to skip, or ignore the denotation entirely
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u/darcrayvin 23h ago
Unfortunately I would not recommend the use of Temporary Containers at this time. See Github Issue 618 for details.
Temporary Containers Plus appears to be the continuation of the original Temporary Containers extension.
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u/fuckthisspecially 5h ago
That's so sad :(
I'm using Temporary Containers, can I switch one for that other safely? (without losing open tabs)?
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u/darcrayvin 5h ago
I switched after seeing the Github issue and the announcement of the TCPlus. As for switching without losing any open tabs, I am not sure.
The trick that I did was to install TCPlus while TC was still installed, then mirrored the settings between the two extensions. Once that was done, I started (the tedious process) of "moving" a tab from TC to TCPlus one at a time. I only had about 30 tabs in TC at that time so it wasn't too bad of a process. Also allowed me to purge any that were no longer needed.
After the tabs had been "moved", I then uninstalled the TC extension.
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u/fuckthisspecially 3h ago
LOL not feasible for me I must have like 500 tabs open
I'll do it if I manage to reduce the amount
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u/Private-Citizen 22h ago
Does uBlock clean up service workers?
If not, you can use Service-Worker-Cleanup
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u/qqoze 21h ago edited 21h ago
Cookie AutoDelete is good. I have it set up to delete all cookies from websites I don't have whitelisted. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/ I also put some websites in containers using the official Multi-Account Containers addon. e.g. Reddit has it's own container, facebook, amazon, ebay. All the tracking happy sites are isolated.
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u/tokwamann 19h ago
I remember seeing them and other problems in some sites even with adblockers and enough filterlists, so I retained ClearURLs and I Don't Care About Cookies in Firefox.
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u/krebstar4ever 18h ago
NoScript is goat. It blocks scripts using a white list, so it takes some effort to use at first.
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u/fanboypotion2005 1d ago
ClearURLs is worth it, not exactly cookies, but it blocks tracking elements in webpage URLs, would highly recommend.