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  • I suggest going for addons recommended by Firefox.

    For blocking ads and other annoying content, I suggest uBlock Origin. It allows you to customize your experience, and can have the same or better effect than some other extensions. It is also not recommended to use multiple ad blockers, as they may conflict with each other.

    For deleting cookies, I recommend not using an addon, but the settings of Firefox. Under “Cookies and Site Data” you can choose to delete cookies on close and manage exceptions for the cookies you want to keep.

    For translation, Firefox Translations is fine.

    Search by Image, I never used but it is recommended.

    I usually avoid “redirect skippers”. As they can be as problematic as the initial problem itself. I cannot find FastForward in firefox and Skip Redirect is not recommended by firefox.

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    11 months ago

    Summary:

    00:28 - Security is not privacy, prefer security

    02:53 - Telemetry is not always bad

    05:18 - Tor is not a trap

    06:52 - Big companies are not more secure than smaller ones

    08:58 - Icognito is only private locally

    09:55 - VPN is not an infallible legendary magical tool

    11:02 - Privacy is not dead, you don’t need to be 100% private

    12:11 - “I have nothing to hide” fallacy




  • I am talking about features and developers themselves. Yes, companies are giant immortals that always existed. However, developers are individuals trying to create something new. And features do work like new bands - some people like them, others don’t and it all depends on how/when they are introduced to the customer.

    A different problem which you can identify is, for example, how some companies use the customer as a test subject. They release unfinished features to the public to test them in a real environment. This often causes chaos, as new features tend to have multiple exploits and bugs.

    What happened to “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?”

    Saying this in tech is complete nonsense. Nothing is ever not broken! Because there is always something to be polished, acessibility and usability can only be perfected over time.