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<blockquote data-quote="Decopi" data-source="post: 740150" data-attributes="member: 67091"><p>Hi [USER=46633]@Darrin[/USER] ,</p><p></p><p>In Firefox you have several 3rd-party blockers, tiny, lightweight. The same for Chrome.</p><p>Which one to use? It depends on you! Some of them are very basic. Other are more technical.</p><p></p><p>This one is very basic:</p><p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/policy-control/" target="_blank">Policy Control - JavaScript and Flash blocker – Add-ons for Firefox</a></p><p></p><p>More technical:</p><p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3prb/?src=search" target="_blank">Third-party Request Blocker – Add-ons for Firefox</a></p><p></p><p>My advice? Go to the Firefox add-on page (or Chrome Web Store), search for "blocker", lot of alternatives will appear. Test those with less than 200KiB size.</p><p></p><p>Here is important to understand that "privacy/security" without performance... is not an option.</p><p>The reason to substitute ad-blockers, or UBlock, hosts lists blockers etc etc etc... is because they kill browser performance. All of them were great 5 years ago. Not today! They are part of the past... dinosaurs.</p><p>I am saying that "browser performance" has the same priority as "privacy/security". And we should prefer solutions satisfying both categories.</p><p></p><p>In this context, the best alternatives for "privacy/security" are those solutions outside from browsers, at OS level, or even better outside from OS, like Pi-Hole. Sadly, most of the users prefer nothing, or prefer add-ons/extensions.</p><p></p><p>If you prefer add-ons/extensions, tiny/lightweight 3rd-parties blocker will stop at least 70% of the webgarbage (ads, trackers, phishing, malwares etc). And with the Firefox built-in anti-tracking (strict mode) + FPI + Containers + DNS/DoH encryption... it will be more than enough for privacy. Paranoids don't care about browser performance, so they can use Tor, VPNs, heavy extensions etc.</p><p></p><p>Now, for security, I recommend you to use the Firefox built-in protection (Safebrowsing - Google) + VirusTotal add-on/extension (<strong>VTzilla 2.0 </strong>) + an external AV (Avast) + firewall (Comodo CS' settings). In my opinion this is the less intrusive combo, with the best protection.</p><p></p><p>Malwerbytes + Netcraft is better than Safebrowsing - Google. But if you have a 3rd-party blocker, it will overlap. In other words, you have plenty of combinations here. The best way to approach "privacy/security" is by thinking in terms of combos. But, "system performance" should be equal important than "privacy/security".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Decopi, post: 740150, member: 67091"] Hi [USER=46633]@Darrin[/USER] , In Firefox you have several 3rd-party blockers, tiny, lightweight. The same for Chrome. Which one to use? It depends on you! Some of them are very basic. Other are more technical. This one is very basic: [URL='https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/policy-control/']Policy Control - JavaScript and Flash blocker – Add-ons for Firefox[/URL] More technical: [URL='https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3prb/?src=search']Third-party Request Blocker – Add-ons for Firefox[/URL] My advice? Go to the Firefox add-on page (or Chrome Web Store), search for "blocker", lot of alternatives will appear. Test those with less than 200KiB size. Here is important to understand that "privacy/security" without performance... is not an option. The reason to substitute ad-blockers, or UBlock, hosts lists blockers etc etc etc... is because they kill browser performance. All of them were great 5 years ago. Not today! They are part of the past... dinosaurs. I am saying that "browser performance" has the same priority as "privacy/security". And we should prefer solutions satisfying both categories. In this context, the best alternatives for "privacy/security" are those solutions outside from browsers, at OS level, or even better outside from OS, like Pi-Hole. Sadly, most of the users prefer nothing, or prefer add-ons/extensions. If you prefer add-ons/extensions, tiny/lightweight 3rd-parties blocker will stop at least 70% of the webgarbage (ads, trackers, phishing, malwares etc). And with the Firefox built-in anti-tracking (strict mode) + FPI + Containers + DNS/DoH encryption... it will be more than enough for privacy. Paranoids don't care about browser performance, so they can use Tor, VPNs, heavy extensions etc. Now, for security, I recommend you to use the Firefox built-in protection (Safebrowsing - Google) + VirusTotal add-on/extension ([B]VTzilla 2.0 [/B]) + an external AV (Avast) + firewall (Comodo CS' settings). In my opinion this is the less intrusive combo, with the best protection. Malwerbytes + Netcraft is better than Safebrowsing - Google. But if you have a 3rd-party blocker, it will overlap. In other words, you have plenty of combinations here. The best way to approach "privacy/security" is by thinking in terms of combos. But, "system performance" should be equal important than "privacy/security". [/QUOTE]
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