Starter Kit to browse Web in 2024/2025 BUT BETTER! (Still Must-have)

better version of: https://lemmy.world/post/21210097

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What's wrong with privacy badger?
- Not OP, but what puts me off is that it calls itself badger, but really it's just a software that has nothing in common with those glorious animals. Did you know that badgers' keen sense of smell is about 800 times sharper than our own?
  
  !subscribe to badger facts
  
  Did you know that badgers keep their homes in tip-top shape by creating a latrine pit as a bathroom? They won’t defecate in their homes, instead making a pit out of dried grass and leaves just outside their burrow.
  
  Is that where they dump the ads they block?
  
  "Exterior plumbing for the win"
  -Someone who takes demon shits
  
  Is that how they sniff out the ads to block?
- I think UBO makes it redundant.
  
  The layered security model has redundancy built in as a feature.
- Well, it can be replaced with uBlock Origin and some people dont recomend it anymore
- Privacy Badger has historically allowed tracking until it successfully identifies a domain as a likely tracker. Like the air bags going off after you've already wrapped your car around a telephone pole. But it's now been changed and is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):
  Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default, as “local learning” may make you more identifiable to websites.
  They've since corrected one of the core issues with PB by doing so, but it still it is very weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.
  uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.
  Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging "please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!".

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