Battle Privacy extensions on Chromium

[Rus Anca]

What product (extensions) is better in terms of keeping your computer safe searching the internet using Chromium ?

1) uBlock vs Adblock Plus
2) Disconnect vs Ghostery
3) ZenMate vs Privacy
4) HTTPS Everywhere Dev - Just to make things little more hassle free and more secure
5) Chameleon - To prevent fingerprinting

 

[Ink]

Security or Privacy, they are quite different.

 

[thepierrezou]

HTTP switchboard give better control of the browser it's for advanced user, Try it
It block ad and you can choose what you want to block

 

[Kent]

1.Ghostery
2.ZenMate
HTTPS Everywhere breaks functionality of lot of sites.......
Better use Adguard rather than Adblock Plus,it has anti-phishing filter

 

[MalwareT]

And where is PrivDog ?

 

[Kent]

And where is PrivDog ?

It is bundled with Comodo Dragon (browser)

 

[tucfawa]

What product (extensions) is better in terms of keeping your computer safe searching the internet using Chromium ?

1) uBlock vs Adblock Plus
2) Disconnect vs Ghostery

Lots of opinions are thrown out there regarding the above. It usually in the form, "I use x since a long time, it's the best". But they are just subjective opinions. Hard data is more rare to find though, but this is what currently exists:

http://www.areweprivateyet.com/

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/µBlock-and-others:-Blocking-ads,-trackers,-malwares

The sources could be disputed, but so long as the methodology is provided, anybody can try and replicate, make their own benchmarks with their own settings and publish their own results/methodology.

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

Lots of opinions are thrown out there regarding the above. It usually in the form, "I use x since a long time, it's the best". But they are just subjective opinions. Hard data is more rare to find though, but this is what currently exists:

http://www.areweprivateyet.com/

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/µBlock-and-others:-Blocking-ads,-trackers,-malwares

The sources could be disputed, but so long as the methodology is provided, anybody can try and replicate, make their own benchmarks with their own settings and publish their own results/methodology.

I agree with tucfawa, and surprisingly these studies encouraged me. It might be a complete coincidence, but the Cyberfox x64 browser I'd dusted off to update just happens to have both Ghostery & Adblock Edge (Thanks @Littlebits ) which apparently rated quite high on said studies. I'd like to imagine some of the wisdom of MT may be rubbing off onto myself, but that's no thanks to me rather to all of you whom I'd like to thank as members of The Academy of Malware Tips for making this possible!!

Update: ..and ublock ext. also found it's way onto the Chromium browser I use on linux after what I'd first taken to be a joke (thinking ublock was a made up name by 'U'-mbra Polaris) but numerous positive comments for 'ublock' were to follow which all appear to be true, ..and although I've not had it long, it thus far works great!