Starter Kit to browse Web in 2024/2025 (Must-have)

I'd actually recommend consent-o-matic instead of IDCAC. It actually selects the minimum concent for you instead of just hiding it.

Drop IDCAC and Privacy Badger, add consent-o-matic, sponsorblock and bypass paywall clean.

Check Arkenfox for Firefox config and extension recommendations.

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

Only use temp mails for unimportant, one-shot account, otherwise use an email relay.

DONT use the "I Don't Care About Cookies" plugin. It was sold to Avast. The same company that stole users information and sold it ON A PRIVACY PRODUCT illegally for years causing them to get sued for 16 million. (slap on the wrist tbh)

https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/whats-new/acquisition/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting

Privacy badger is not longer needed IIRC, its role is taken care by uBlock.

IDCAC should not be on this list since it was compromised, ABP-style. consent-o-matic is probably better but the most direct replacement is "I Still Don't Care About Cookies".

UBO can block YT ads, no need to use a seperate ad blocker for YT

Sigh

ublock origin has a cookie notice and nag filter that removes those.

go into the settings and turn on the annoyance filters, they are awesome.

Shout out to pi-hole

What’s the upside down Z-Library icon in the lower left for YT?

Ublock origin already has privacy badger and no cookies functionality. Worst case nothing gets blocked. Also slower internet for you.

Go into uBO settings and then filters and enable all the non-language filters. You won't need privacy badger or that cookie addon anymore.

Another recommendation for YT:

SponsorBlock

It is Community-Based. Ppl (like you) mark timecodes from sponsor ads and if toggled on those will be skipped. You can whitelist channels as well if you want to.

150% better YT-experience!

I’m not saying my setup is any better, but it currently looks like this:

Firefox
UBO
SponsorBlock
Return YouTube Dislikes
DeArrow
Archive.ph

I’m open to suggestions if anybody knows any better alternatives. I’ve had mixed luck with services that filter out YouTube’s crap.

Be careful with using Privacy Badger and uBO together as it might get in each other's way. I had YouTube detect me having ad block until I paused Privacy Badger for YT.

NewPipe and FreeTube if you want YT subscriptions without ads

Addy.io or simplelogin for email account signups

Install the LibRedirect extension and fiddle a bit with the settings to automatically redirect to privacy respecting alternatives away from ad heavy sites.

Lemmy could be better…

If I can’t recover an account because I used temp mail

I just make another

I have yet to see unpaywall workk ever. All that site does is link you to free versions if legally available. So it does nothing. Bypass Paywalls clean sometimes works, but if you want non mainstream sites going to archive.today is the most reliable option.

Shift + RClick to force the browser's native context menu instead of triggering a JavaScript event.

Ctrl + Shift + E (and then perhaps Ctrl + F5) to see URLs of resources.

CTRL+P

Dear god. My inner 90's kid wants this as a browser.

Firefox actually has their version of tempmail built in now.

What's the one in the bottom left?

I have adblocked yt and pirated yt music on my phone, but those 1 minute ads between 1:50 songs on my tv are getting to me...bad.

I'm damn near ready to yeet the tv off the balcony.

note that I don't care about cookies and Privacy badger is unnecessary when you have uBO. Also get Bypass Paywalls Clean though.

Anyone know if there is a proper solution to block ads on twitch? ublock doesn't work for me.

there's some good shit in these comments that I need to come back to later.

If you want a usable mail for all your accounts that is also spam resistant, may I recommend https://port87.com

What's with the control+P thing? I have the same paywall bypasser thing right next to it and it just works automatically without needing a special command.

archive.is or archive.ph is what I use for getting past paywalls. If it’s a hard membership paywall there won’t be much you can do about it. If it’s just a splash screen, they work by removing the annoying stuff that prevents you from going further since they have to package the content for SEO. The archive sites basically grab that content as if they were going to index it for a search engine, but then they present it in human readable format instead.

Invidious is it effectively dead

Who knows if they can actually gnd a workaround this time. They themselves where unsure about it.

Bypass paywall clean Firefox is a really good addition as well

What is "No need YT ads" and the "Ctrl+P"?

sponsorblock, return youtube dislike

Also setting the browser to forget all cookies.

What's ctrl-p do?

Yeah I'm saving this thread this is good shit gotta check some of these innanet tips

Install Freetube (which has sponsorblock already), then get the FreeTube redirect addon

I've been using Ghostery for years now and I don't know whether or not it's still relevant.

If you don’t have this kit you will be bombarded to Temu’s ads!

I might start using Firefox once it has proper multi-account/profile features like Chrome.

I recently tried it but it's such a hassle to set up and switch between them.

Ah, the beginner loadout.

I believe LibreWolf is better than Firefox. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Who is Temu?

Permanently Deleted

Did not know Privacy Badger existed, it's going right on the must have corner

Thankfully I'm not very interesting so I can use Chrome. If someone wanna know what I'm up to they'd probably get bored and leave.

Just using the Brave browser takes care of a few of these by itself and without add-ons.