Ask HN: What's the best ad-blocking, privacy-enhancing extension set up?

There are a bunch of privacy enhancing and ad-blocking extensions out there, but it's impossible to figure out where their features are unique and where they overlap. Of course, too much overlap, and they start slowing down your browser.

My goal is to make my browser as private as possible with minimal damage to my usual browsing experience. For example:

- LSO and Flash: Blocked. - As many third party cookies blocked as possible without breakage. - JavaScript works most of the time? - Ads are blocked - Various forms of fingerprinting are blocked/disabled - HTTPS is used as much as possible - etc.

I'm currently using Privacy Badger + uBlock Origin + HTTPS Everywhere. It feels like a lot already, but there's also Ghostery, RequestPolicy, and a million others.

here its a performance review of some of them uBlock origin seems the best performance wise, https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested...

I had nice results blocking ads with squid+adzapper.

The nice thing is that it does not slow down firefox, ad opposed to the adblock plus extension.

I use uBlock Origin to block ads and Ghostery to block social media foo (and trackers, of course). Ghostery makes it easy to enable stuff you want to use all the time (Gravatar, Typekit, etc.) and to temporarily enable stuff like Twitter buttons, Soundcloud player, etc. On top of that I use HTTPS Everywhere.

When I feel the need for real privacy I use the Tor Browser.

// Oh, and I also disable all the fancy features in Chrome and most plugins.

I use uBlock Origin [1] along with the EFF's Privacy Badger [2].

Hard to say how well it really works for privacy without really digging in to exactly what private info I'm leaking across the web but I haven't seen an ad in ages.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

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