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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] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The big downside is making payments on sites with silly amounts of 3rd parties involved

As a user of NoScript for many years, the easiest way to deal with this for me is to do my payments from a second browser. I have found LibreWolf to be really good as far as not blocking what it takes to do such a transaction but still blocking everything else very well.

I don't like to use NoScript under purchasing/payment circumstances; multiple sites are often involved in payment processing and it's too easy to break what I didn't know was there under my usually very strict rules.

Sure, I could just turn off NoScript for a site I want to do a financial transaction on, but instead of dicking around with it anymore I just use a different browser because the upsides are so good.

Like online shopping: I shop on one browser, and login and pay on another, which also allows me to strip any unwanted affiliate links and tracking information from the URL when I do purchase something. I also get to see price differences between anonymous and logged in users, which is another game online retailers like to pay: logged off there is a low bait price, and logged in switches you to a higher price (Amazon does this by changing the recommended seller of an item; I just log in on the second browser and change it back, lol).

Any different browser with NoScript turned off and secondary blocking (uBlockOrigin, uMatrix, etc) enabled will serve the purpose, if you're not interested in a puzzle one day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the info, I definitely have to consider an alternative like that in the future.
For the time being I tend to just enable 1 domain at a time temporarily and see if shit works, if it doesn't, disable it again. It works ok, as I've gotten used to seeing a specific few domains or commonalities between the payment type ones. But yeah probably similar to you I keep very few things allowed by default globally and have even begun reducing them lately.

If it's a really big hassle atm I'll revert to chrome (didn't have to yet) since those fuckers already have my card details anyway, but luckily I don't really do all that much shopping online so not a huge issue....the most common thing I do is top up my travel card for local transport and I use it like once a month, so that probably tells you a lot.