I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.

One of my favorites are

  • Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
  • uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
  • Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
  • Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

What extensions do you guys use?

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Chameleon. My user agent changes every 30 seconds. Makes attempts to track me basically useless.

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Are you passing CloudFlare captchas with that? I’m using a VPN and whenever I hit a CloudFlare captcha with a modified user agent, it doesn’t let me pass.

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Sometimes. It depends if the admin misconfigured their cloudflare.

I dont have issues logging into cloudflare’s website itself with this setup. I have had to email many website admins to let them know that they have a broken cloudflare config.

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Changing your user agent will not stop you being tracked. Browser fingerprinting can work with heaps of different signals, and is very difficult to block.

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It means I’m being tracked for 30 seconds. So basically useless tracking.

Chameleon doesn’t just change the user agent. It changes a bunch of stuff that’s used to break fingerprinting. Of course you have a fingerprint, but it constantly changes so that the data they collect is so short lived that its useless to them and therefore very useful to me.

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You can try to fool it with a VPN, change country, etc but it doesn’t work. Fingerprinting is very strong these days.

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Doesn’t that fuck up logins and stuff?

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Nope

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I would imagine many services would think you’re hijacking the session or something.

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