Switch from Brave to Firefox

3 years ago by Matrim to c/firefox

Decided I'm going to make the switch today. What I like about Brave is the out-of-the-box tracker and add blockers. Is an extension like Ghostery good enough with Firefox to get similar results or are there better ways to approach this?

Thanks!

igorlogius 50 points 3 years ago

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Matrim 2 points 3 years ago

Will do! Looks like uBlock should be exactly what I need.

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Rade0nfighter 8 points 3 years ago

Important to note the difference between “uBlock” and “uBlock Origin”. The latter is the good one.

/pedantry 😂

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aggelalex 24 points 3 years ago

Firefox offers Enhanced Tracking Protection out of the box, check settings. For adblock, I suggest uBlock Origin.

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Skimmer 20 points 3 years ago

I don't recommend Ghostery, they've sold data before and are pretty controversial.

Just stick to uBlock Origin. Ran entirely independent by the community, not by a for-profit company (like Ghostery for instance), plus extremely reputable and well trusted, free and open source, etc.

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Matrim 4 points 3 years ago

Perfect! Thank you, I will check them out.

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baseless_discourse 15 points 3 years ago

Ublock origin is the gold standard of ad blockers everywhere, it shoukd have similar effect as brave blocker by default. Many browsers even install it by default.

You can also tweak block list. For example, I dont block ads, but I block annoyance and trackers. There are also several region/language specific block list you can enable.

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nxfsi 3 points 3 years ago

Unless you absolutely need the very latest upstream features, just go with Librewolf.

It's literally just Firefox, but:

- telemetry to Google and Mozilla
- useless features like pocket and recommended websites
+ privacy-focused, aka non brain dead default settings
+ uBlock Origin installed by default

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Matrim 3 points 3 years ago

Librewolf looks super interesting. I might give this a shot first and see what it's like.

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slazer2au 2 points 3 years ago

I find that avoiding trackers is a tough thing. They will always find out about you, so I use Adnausem to click on every advert on a page while also hiding them. Messes up any kind of targeted advertising.

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009_Sound_System 1 point 3 years ago

https://adnauseam.io/

Maybe try this?

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