Privacy Paranoia

[Knightmare]

I want to keep my computer clean and stop trackers/ads/malware, but I know that having too much protection is a bad thing and can slow down your internet. I need some suggestions on if I'm too safe or if I can add a little more. Here is a breakdown of the programs/addons I use for privacy and the settings:

Adguard Fitlers:

-Easylist

-Easy Privacy

-Fanboy's Enhanced List
-Adblock Warning Removal List

Firefox Addons:

-Better Privacy

-Self Destructing Cookies

-Policeman

-Strict Pop-Up Blocker

Peerblock Lists:

-PSP

-Spyware

-Advertising
-Bogon

-DShield

-Hijacked

-Level-2

Installed Programs:

-Malwarbytes' Anti-Malware

-Malwarbytes' Anti-Exploit
-ESET NOD32 v7
-CCleaner

[Dce3480]

Firefox Addons:

uBlock :rockon:

[OrbingStorm]

Firefox:

Disconnect me

HTTPS everywhere

Zenmate although does slow down a bit.

[Knightmare]

Firefox Addons:

uBlock :rockon:

If I use Adguard, do I need uBlock?

[stephs]

You can use user script too in the form of "user.js" or use Jondo browser. It has it all.

Too many privacy addon will break some sites.

Adguard and ublock is same thing. "Potato - Potato"

adguard is windows based and ublock is browser based.

For windows you can always use HOSTS file.

Ublock claims that it is light on system resources nothing special.

[emerglines]

Edit: Prefs.js for firefox.

Addons for firefox:

HTTP UserAgent cleaner

Tinfoil

[Knightmare]

So if my Self Destruct Cookies deletes tracking cookies from ad sites, does this mean that adding the Advertising List in Peerblock would be pointless?

[CODYQX4]

So if my Self Destruct Cookies deletes tracking cookies from ad sites, does this mean that adding the Advertising List in Peerblock would be pointless?

No, because sometimes they like to make your browser load 1x1 gifs to foil cookie and script blocking.

I spoof my referer, and use VPN, so they don't get my real IP, and of course uBlock+uMatix blocks all but the image. This is of course if I have allowed the domain in uBlock.

[Knightmare]

So if my Self Destruct Cookies deletes tracking cookies from ad sites, does this mean that adding the Advertising List in Peerblock would be pointless?

No, because sometimes they like to make your browser load 1x1 gifs to foil cookie and script blocking.

I spoof my referer, and use VPN, so they don't get my real IP, and of course uBlock+uMatix blocks all but the image. This is of course if I have allowed the domain in uBlock.

What do you think of my setup? Is there anymore that I can add? Like filters for Adguard or lists for Peerblock?

[Dce3480]

Firefox Addons:

uBlock :rockon:

If I use Adguard, do I need uBlock?

nope but good combo :)

[opr]

add Policeman, a firefox addon, better than noscript.

[Knightmare]

add Policeman, a firefox addon, better than noscript.

Looks nice! I'll have to check it out.

[Knightmare]

Is anyone else having a problem with Easylist in Adguard?

[dcs18]

I want to keep my computer clean and stop trackers/ads/malware, but I know that having too much protection is a bad thing and can slow down your internet. I need some suggestions on if I'm too safe or if I can add a little more. Here is a breakdown of the programs/addons I use for privacy and the settings:

Adguard Fitlers:

-English Filter

-Spyware Filter

-Social Media Filter

-Peter Lowe's List

-Adblock Warning Removal List

Personally, I never use any subscription filters - they lag the browser (depend on purely custom rules.)

I want to keep my computer clean and stop trackers/ads/malware, but I know that having too much protection is a bad thing and can slow down your internet. I need some suggestions on if I'm too safe or if I can add a little more. Here is a breakdown of the programs/addons I use for privacy and the settings:

Firefox Addons:

-Better Privacy

-Self Destructing Cookies

Sweet!

I want to keep my computer clean and stop trackers/ads/malware, but I know that having too much protection is a bad thing and can slow down your internet. I need some suggestions on if I'm too safe or if I can add a little more. Here is a breakdown of the programs/addons I use for privacy and the settings:

Peerblock Lists:

-PSP

-Spyware

-Advertising

-Bogon

-DShield

-Hijacked

-Level-2

A firewall delivers far more finer granular control - targeting specific needs, for me . . . . . than all those generic lists.

[CODYQX4]

So if my Self Destruct Cookies deletes tracking cookies from ad sites, does this mean that adding the Advertising List in Peerblock would be pointless?

No, because sometimes they like to make your browser load 1x1 gifs to foil cookie and script blocking.

I spoof my referer, and use VPN, so they don't get my real IP, and of course uBlock+uMatix blocks all but the image. This is of course if I have allowed the domain in uBlock.

What do you think of my setup? Is there anymore that I can add? Like filters for Adguard or lists for Peerblock?

I would use uBlock and block all 3rd Party domains by default, and use Policeman to block most types of request by default.

I use Chrome, but I block all 4rd Party domains, and by default a site can load all CSS/Images (but not 3rd Party due to uBlock kicking in), and I allow 1st Party XHR, Frames, and Other. XHR and Frames should be harmless without Script enabled, and Other seems to usually be downloads or fonts in Chrome.

Gradually, common things I allow. I let anyone load jQuery from the jQuery CDN, so if I let them run JS they can use jQuery.

For CDNs like cloudfront and akamaiHD, I am careful to not allow it without a subdomain. They always load with random crap (hjfhjlfjhldjlhjdlkhjklfd.cdn.com) on there, but by never simply allowing the root domain, if somehow some other scripts from the CDN get injected, they don't run.

For uBlock, I never bypass static filtering in the Dynamic Filtering unless necessary. 99.9% of the time, hitting grey instead of green works. Rare cases are a site that just absolutely won't work without something like Facebook, or the login submit breaking because of something like Google Analytics being bound to the click.

In that case, VPN and no cookies help. Your VPN IP is likely to change, and the more you limit them saving and loading, the less they can reidentify you.

Self Destructing Cookies is good, but with uMatrix Chrome, it behaves by letting a site set cookies, but not read them. So there is no wait time in that case, effectively, as the next reload it creates the cookie as if it never existed. I don't know the equivalent setup for Firefox.

I'm not sure how Firefox does it, but I have Chrome purge all "Local Data" on close, and have my Cookie Manager save a few cookies (like this site, so I stay logged in). This is mainly for clearing HTML 5 Local Storage.

I block Flash from saving any local data at all. If you don't play Flash games (these are all on mobile now) or view Flash DRM videos, this is harmless.

I block all usage of the HTML5 Canvas feature, as every PC renders a bit unique, even simply between Chrome and Firefox.

When I spoof my referer, I always send the page itself (domain with no URL). This rarely makes that page break. Few cases where things do break, is 3rd party places (like fonts), that check the referer. I let them get the page normally in that case. Besides, they already know what web server is requesting them, and the real reason to hide the referer is so sites don't know the last page you came from unnecessarily.

I disable Click to Play in my browser, and let my addons filter the request. So either I won't run things like Flash, and won't see the big ugly click box, or I allow your site (YouTube) enough to run it, and I don't want the extra click.

It can help avoid being uniquely ID'd if you have less NPAPI/PPAPI plugins enabled. I haven't gone this far, as my 3rd Party download managers rely on them, but I disable Acrobat/Adobe plugins that I don't need. Of course, I don't believe that this or Font listing are possible unless you've allowed that site to run JavaScript.

This has required a bit of maintenance, but things rarely seem to slip through the cracks, and by that I mean maybe a page has an image on their own site (1st party), that is an ad banner (just a JPG, not Flash), that no AdBlock rule filtered. No harm since it wasn't tracking code, and if I don't like it, trivial to hide it.

[Knightmare]

I'm not looking to be paranoid. I just wanna know which security settings will protect me but also allow me to have fast internet. I love Adguard because it works across numerous browsers and blocks ads, but I need to know what is useless and if I can add any filters or lists.

[Batu69]

Add NoScript addon for Firefox and enable ABE(application Boundaries Enforcer) in advance option.
Look ABE here > https://noscript.net/abe/

Add RequestPolicy (if you already installed Policeman addon just ignore RP).

Is RequestPolicy an alternative or competitor to NoScript?
No! :)

Look here > https://www.requestpolicy.com/faq.html#faq-noscript

Add this addon-> https://www.dephormation.org.uk/?page=81
This useful to prevent this tracking method > http://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/

Up to you to choose which one is better for your paranoid level.

[Chancer]

I'm not looking to be paranoid. I just wanna know which security settings will protect me but also allow me to have fast internet. I love Adguard because it works across numerous browsers and blocks ads, but I need to know what is useless and if I can add any filters or lists.

Nothing wrong with a bit of healthy paranoia.

[Batu69]

Firefox Addons:

uBlock :rockon:

If I use Adguard, do I need uBlock?

nope but good combo :)

Good combo and tick these 3rd-party filters list in uBlock.

Privacy:

-Block all well known privacy trackers (gnu.org)‎

Multipurpose:

- hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers‎

Just my 2cent suggestion :)

[clubhouse]

Firefox Addons:

uBlock :rockon:

If I use Adguard, do I need uBlock?

nope but good combo :)

Good combo and tick these 3rd-party filters list in uBlock.

Privacy:

-Block all well known privacy trackers (gnu.org)‎

Multipurpose:

- hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers‎

Just my 2cent suggestion :)

This and block all third party frames.

[Knightmare]

So using uBlock with Adguard won't slow my connection? Also should I get uBlock or uBlock Origin?

[Batu69]

So using uBlock with Adguard won't slow my connection? Also should I get uBlock or uBlock Origin?

uBlock Origin, just suggestion :)

[Knightmare]

Updated Adguard Filters on page 1

[Knightmare]

Edit to the Adguard Filters: I switched back to the Adguard defaults because I installed Policeman Addon and it is very nice! I also added Strict Pop-Up Blocker to FF.

[Batu69]

Policeman nice addon, it's much like NoScript+RequestPolicy, but to me much likes NoScript, because NoScript addon included ABE feature in advance option and used RequestPolicy to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.