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Listening to: Dream Nails – Dream Nails<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Photo: pic taken with my first digital camera, the Olympus D-360L<\/a> (bought 1999 in New Orleans). Still works!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I use Firefox<\/a>. One of only a small percentage of people who do these days. The market is dominated by Google’s Chrome and it’s derivatives. I could go on about how a mono-culture on web access is dangerous, or how that it would be headed by what is effectively an ad firm\/data broker with little sense of ethics, but I’d be digressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is about add-ons. Mostly so I don’t forget what I’m using. You’ll probably want to go back to doing something more relevant to your life at this point (videos of goats cavorting is my go-to<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

uBlock Origin<\/a> – blocks lots of ads* and crap. Makes the web faster to browse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Privacy Possum<\/a> – reduces and\/or falsifies data gathered by tracking companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Privacy Badger<\/a> – learns to block invisible trackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firefox Multi-Account Containers<\/a> – lets you run each website in isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook Container<\/a> – wraps Facebook automatically and generally screws with their tracking elsewhere on the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decentraleyes<\/a> – Messes with CDN (Content Delivery Network) delivery. Third parties that host web content and may monetise your data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ClearURL’s<\/a> – Removes tracking elements built into links and URL’s themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HTTPS Everywhere<\/a> – Just removed this one as the feature is now built into Firefox. Warns you when you load insecure websites (any password would be transmitted as plain text).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*I have no problems with seeing ads. I ran a site for a decade that depended on them for revenue. But those were topical, self-hosted and did not contain any trackers. Alas, many modern ad services are kinda shitty about that stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listening to: Dream Nails – Dream Nails Photo: pic taken with my first digital camera, the Olympus D-360L (bought 1999 in New Orleans). Still works! I use Firefox. One of only a small percentage of people who do these days. The market is dominated by Google’s Chrome and it’s derivatives. I could go on about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-tech","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}