Private Browsingmode in web browsers as being misleading and not very useful. Well - here's an addon that allows you to fix that. What it does is take your existing proxy settings and apply them only to private windows. Anyone who's ever tried Tor probably realized that it's barely usable for regular web browsing - I mean, just the amount of Cloudflared pages will destroy your attempts. With this addon, you can have one window open for surfing as usual - where you'll visit all the Tor-hating sites - and a second private one for the Tor-friendly ones. The Private Browsing mode blocks local data storage by default, which does prevent some tracking (e.g by cookies or JS history snooping) - but since your IP would still be known, it only makes sense in combination with Tor's IP-masking functionality. Another way to use this addon is to set a domain list for which Tor will be used; amazingly, this allows the seamless browsing of onion domains without fiddling with proxy settings or using another browser - just type
*.onionin the Domain List field. All in all, this is an excellent addon which bridges the gap between anonymity / privacy and convenience. Other proxy addons are either much more complicated, lack some of its functionality, or are not available for Pale Moon - so I don't recommend them. Available for Firefox and Pale Moon.
more than 1,800,000 malicious websites on record.Not something I would brag about, when it's so simple to just block entire classes of requests via uMatrix, rendering most of these adblockers irrelevant. By using them, you are also relying on someone else to provide you with the lists, instead of taking your web browsing into your own hands. If something isn't on these lists, it will not be blocked, and you cannot possibly make a list that will capture everything ever. Advertisers have also been ferociously fighting these lists for a long time now (BlockAdBlock, etc.). This has then spawned userscripts and such that block BlockAdBlock, which the advertisers have again responded to.uMatrix just sidesteps this whole dumb war. With a properly configured uMatrix, you don't need to care about what tricks the trackers or advertisers have got up their sleeves, since it will all be blocked until you choose otherwise ('default deny' versus 'default allow' policy). Adblockers are easier to use (install and go.), but in the end, outclassed by uMatrix, if you take the time to learn it. If you really want a list-based extension, Disconnect is the least worst. It has a nice UI and shows you the saved bandwidth and time, as well as a tracker visualization mode. But really, learn uMatrix. Note on uBlock Origin: it has some additional features like element hiding and disabling WebRTC - but for basic content blocking, uMatrix is king.
Privacy Badger looks for tracking techniques like uniquely identifying cookies, local storage 'supercookies,' and canvas fingerprinting.But these are three out of many more tracking ways, and PB will miss the rest. Also, PB only cares about tracking, but there are many other things you may want to block. Maybe you don't want random Twitter images on the sites you're browsing (and you can be tracked by those anyway). The funny thing is, PB enforces the sending of the Do Not Track header, which actually provides a way to track you (worsens your fingerprint). Ignore the fancy stuff and use uMatrix, the only content blocking extension you need.
[email protected]will be made into a link, but
127.0.0.1will not. Still, it's very useful. Pale Moon only - but Chrome and Firefox have alternatives such as Linkbot or Linkify Plus.
Write style for digdeeper.neocities.org. Then paste the CSS there and click Save. Now visit my site again and you will see the look change; you can have all the styles installed at once and choose whichever you want at any time. Very convenient and available for both Chrome and Firefox based browsers (Pale Moon uses the Stylem fork). This extension can also double up as an adblocker that will get things even uMatrix can't (by way of element hiding). For example, StartPage ads can be blocked with the style:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain('startpage.com') {
#adBlock {
display:none;
}
}