• ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    I remember people recommending decentraleyes for some time and then I remember there being an argument against it. I don’t remember what the problem was though.

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      5 months ago

      I happened across a thread on Lemmy recently that discussed the usefulness of certain extensions, and this “Don’t Bother” section of the Arkenfox wiki was linked:

      https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother

      A lot of conventionally useful extensions like Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, Decentraleyes/LocalCDN, etc are apparently not necessary (at least in Firefox) if you have certain browser preferences selected, like Strict Mode/Total Cookie Protection.

      I felt outdated cause I still run Privacy Badger and Decentraleyes in my Firefox environments, but it was nice to see that a lot of these “extra” features that used to require extensions are now options built into the browser (or Firefox, at least).