PC Browser security....

[Turn7]

I suspect I maybe out of date again and maybe running to many "solutions", but using Firefox of late has become irritating.

Currently using up to date Firefox witht he following add ons:

Ublock Origin
No Script
HTTPS everywhere
Privacy Badger
I dont care about cookies

Oh, and Tampermonkey to hide a couple of trolls on here.

Some websites just wont work at all and its become a PITA TBH.

[mmm-five]

I'm not surprised some websites are not working if you've got all that enabled...they probably can't even bring up the cookie pop-up or any page building scripts.

[Turn7]

mmm-five said:

I'm not surprised some websites are not working if you've got all that enabled...they probably can't even bring up the cookie pop-up or any page building scripts.

I do suspect I am over protected, hence the post....

[grumbledoak]

I just use Brave and a Tampermonkey troll script. It works well.

The auto-cookie-dialog thing is the weakest.

[Ham_and_Jam]

Turn7 said:

I do suspect I am over protected, hence the post....

What are you hiding / protecting from?

I just use the MS version of chrome, can’t say I’ve ever come across any issues.

[Turn7]

Ham_and_Jam said:

Turn7 said:

I do suspect I am over protected, hence the post....

What are you hiding / protecting from?

I just use the MS version of chrome, can’t say I’ve ever come across any issues.

Nothing, just became used to having to run add ons in the 90's I guess.....

[Ham_and_Jam]

Turn7 said:

Nothing, just became used to having to run add ons in the 90's I guess.....

I’m sure I could benefit from the odd add on, but generally I don’t have any issues so just leave as is.

I do think you can get obsessed with this kind of stuff though, and end up in a position where it becomes problematic.

[Brainpox]

I don’t think NoScript is necessary these days. Everything relies on scripts so it’s probably responsible for most problems.

[eeLee]

Fully-patched browser
uBlock Origin

that's it.

If you want privacy then Privacy Badger, Cookie Auto Delete and/or DuckDuckGo. Choose one.

[peterperkins]

I use Chrome with ublock origin and 99% of the time a site doesn't work on the first visit is because the accept cookies popup has been blocked.

I simply disable ublock briefly, refresh the page, accept the cookie thing, then renable ublock and away you go until the cookie expires, then rinse and repeat if necessary.

I could not bear to use most sites without ublock origin, it's a life saver.

Edited by peterperkins on Tuesday 17th January 08:23

[130R]

NoScript will break just about every website until you have setup per-site permissions for everything required for the website to function. It's not an extension most people will want to use unless they want control over every script that runs.

Edit: also, Firefox has an HTTPS-Only Mode in the settings so you don't need HTTPS everywhere and uBlock Origin has an EasyList Cookie filter so you shouldn't need the separate 'I don't care about cookies' extension

Edited by 130R on Monday 16th January 12:01

[Turn7]

Thanks , some helpful advice there.

I’ll try and find the https setting and get rid of all
All the adding except ublock and privacy badger.

[130R]

Turn7 said:

I’ll try and find the https setting

It's under Settings -> Privacy & Security at the bottom