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Are there any addons as essential as uBlockOrigin? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would love to find extensions that make me think "How did I live without this?"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Decentraleyes prevents loading common scripts from big name CDNs. Requesting a script from a google-owned CDN with your google cookies and the current URL as the referrer is a way to spy on you.

Decentraleyes loads these common scripts from it's own cache instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I often heard that Decentraleyes doesn't actually do anything 99% of the time. I don't know how true that is, though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

aparently you know more than we here.

i had to look it up,
but aparently Decentraleyes isnt being maintained and grew more useless as the time went on.

aparently localCDN is a better mantained alternative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@Kerb @nebulaone how trustworthy is #localcdn? #Decentraleyes is kind of confirmed by #Mozilla, they even recommend it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The source code is public ( https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN ) and it has a reasonable amount of stars. So I think it should be fine. No guarantees, though.

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