What are the best Google Chrome extensions to protect my privacy, hide ads, no bitcoin?
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Which Chrome extensions should I install for privacy, no ads & stop crypto miners?
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You just need a decent adblocker. That's it. There's uBlock Origin or Adguard.
Don't fall for the extension-crazed advice to add 10,000,000 filters and 17 different browser extensions. It is absolutely unnecessary and does nothing except consume system resources.
It's unfortunate, but you're gonna get all kinds of well-meaning, but over-the-top advice here that will likely just confuse you more than anything else.
Stick to the basics. The basics will serve you better than anything else.
- Nov 17, 2016
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People here would surely recommend uBlock Origin
I'd recommend Adguard or Avira Browser Safety because they're less popular so less anti-adblocking problems.
Easylist/Adguard Base+EasyPrivacy+Fanboy's/Adguard's Social Media+Fanboy's Anti-Facebook would block most things - ergo, just avoid overlap.
I'd recommend Adguard or Avira Browser Safety because they're less popular so less anti-adblocking problems.
Easylist/Adguard Base+EasyPrivacy+Fanboy's/Adguard's Social Media+Fanboy's Anti-Facebook would block most things - ergo, just avoid overlap.
Some people will advise you not to install 10+ extensions. They are right because they only surf Wilders and MT lor
Some people will advise you not to install 10+ extensions. They are right because they only surf Wilders and MT lor
Nope. It's based upon real-world data.
The data shows that people that use a single extension using the defaults do not get infected at a higher rate than someone who installs a bunch of extensions and imports a bunch of filters.
The data shows that "gaming" the extensions is a waste of effort.
- May 29, 2018
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Ublock origin can do all this, just learn the medium mode
With ublock origin you could use the following if you want to ( not really needed, as above comments said, its up to you)
-Netcraft against phishing
-Malwarebytes extension against malware, scams, pups
; malwarebytes extension tend to slow your browsing a little, so you could replace it with bitdefender trafficlight or microsoft browser protection
But your antivirus should do the malware/pup/scam filtering so all you basically need is the ublock origin after all
- Mar 13, 2016
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choose one of the below extensions
1. MalwareBytes
2. Avira Browser Safety
3. Bitdefender Trafficlight plus Adguard with English and Spyware/privacy filter (enable optimized filters)
1. MalwareBytes
2. Avira Browser Safety
3. Bitdefender Trafficlight plus Adguard with English and Spyware/privacy filter (enable optimized filters)
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Read these 3 posts. In short, you can use both
Is there a reason to use both uBlock Origin and uMatrix? I thought uMatrix was a... | Hacker News
Is uMatrix still intended to be used in conjunction with uBlock? · Issue #32 · gorhill/uMatrix
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- Apr 1, 2017
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All in one(thnx to HarborFront for finding this Gem) :
Trace - Online Tracking Protection
look at the changelog:
Trace Changelog & Roadmap
very active development!
the only extension that can block E-Tag Tracking(only paid version of ADGuArd (Stealth mode) can do it)
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- Feb 8, 2016
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uBlock Origin (add nanodefender filters) + Malwarebytes browser extension/bitdefender TL, and if you want you can add Privacy Possum.
I'm a user of AdGuard because I like them as a company and it works well for me; I used to be a user of uBlock Origin and it worked very well for me.
I recommend that you to do not go over-the-top with configurations on any ad-blocker because doing so can cause performance reduction and extra hassle with unexpected content blocking.
There's a popular open-source list called NoCoin which many ad-blockers support: hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list
I recommend that you to do not go over-the-top with configurations on any ad-blocker because doing so can cause performance reduction and extra hassle with unexpected content blocking.
- Mar 13, 2016
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No, that is why I suggest to use in combination with Adguard. BDTL for minecoiner protection (or broader for malware in general)
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BDTL does not block ads or trackers.
That is why I suggest to use BDTL in combination with Adguard
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