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They only had two small websites for me. Great success!

I'll share my strategy.

On desktop:

Banking: Vivaldi Browser w/ privacy badger and ublock origin

Email and Commerce: Chrome Browser w/ privacy badger and ublock origin

News and other BS (like Hacker News): Firefox browser, always in private mode w/ privacy badger and ublock origin

LinkedIn (in the rare case I use it): Internet Explorer

Mobile:

Facebook: Opera

Commerce: Chrome

Reddit: Naked Browser

News and other BS: DuckDuckGo Browser

EDIT: I also do not use my credit card on my phone unless in extreme rare events. Absolutely no banking on my phone. No fancy apps (I use the web version where possible) beyond the generic stuff like email and maps. I use Signal for texting.

I also had only 2 sites/apps. One I used Facebook oauth, the other I'm not 100% sure what it was.

My strategy (Desktop & Mobile):

Firefox + Facebook Container & uBlock Origin & Privacy Badger & DDG as search.

For me they have nothing (success! :)

I use Firefox + FB container + uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger and recently started to use CanvasBlocker as well. I have Firefox configured to delete all cookies on closing (except for few sites to avoid the need to enter the 2FA code every time I log in).

I've also set Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection to "Custom mode" with "cross-site and social media trackers" blocked [1] and to use block list "level 2".

I also have the "Do Not Track" option switched on.

I don't have a proper smartphone (never owned one), just KaiOS-powered dumb-phone on which I use Facebook mobile (i.e. their web site) all the time.

Also no Pi-Hole or similar stuff.

I use a throwaway email account for Facebook.

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[1] Just now I've found out that there seems to be a new option, to disable "all cookies from unvisited sites", which I'm going to try as it looks even better.

> I use a throwaway email account for Facebook

I feel like this might be key, I use a random burner number and this seems to confuse the tracking.

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