Ask HN: Which browser add-ons do you use, what for and how did you discover them?

Post by c0wb0yc0d3r » Mon, Oct 05, 2015, 2:44 PM UTC

raur wrote: post #20

Ghostery is the only extension I use. I prefer bookmarklets for specific actions like adding to pinboard and instapaper for instance. Being a bit of privacy nut I don't really trust most extensions, a lot of them have quite wide ranging permissions. That said I turn off cookies and just whitelist the sites I want to set data on my machine so I'm not exactly typical in my use.

  Being a bit of privacy nut

So you use Ghostery instead of Privacy Badger? [0]

[0] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Post by raur » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 7:21 AM UTC

c0wb0yc0d3r wrote: post #21

raur wrote: post #20

Ghostery is the only extension I use. I prefer bookmarklets for specific actions like adding to pinboard and instapaper for instance. Being a bit of privacy nut I don't really trust most extensions, a lot of them have quite wide ranging permissions. That said I turn off cookies and just whitelist the sites I want to set data on my machine so I'm not exactly typical in my use.

Being a bit of privacy nut So you use Ghostery instead of Privacy Badger? [0] [0] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

I do. It's more regularly updated and much simpler to use. I found myself constantly having to play with the settings of Privacy Badger on a site by site basis to get the experience I wanted. But YMMV.

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