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Comment by nickthemagicman | Hacker News Reader

Just install ghostery and ad block pro extensions.

It gets you like 90% of the way there and you don't have to use a less polished browser.

Ghostery, at least in the past, has sold user data. ABP allows companies to pay to whitelist their ads[1], and is somewhat bloated in my experience.

I highly recommend uBlock Origin. Their manifesto[2] most closely aligns with my beliefs on how my browser should behave: "The user decides what web content is acceptable or not in their browser."

1: https://adblockplus.org/en/about#monetization

2: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/MANIFESTO.md

Install whatever. You can check how good your set up is.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Does uBlock Origin have, like NoScript, an easy way to toggle whether scripts (and other resources) from various domains are loaded straight in the browser? Or is it "modify a config text file and reload".

I figured out how to block specific elements, but I do miss the ease of just turning off sources from a GUI of "everything that loaded".

Yes, here's an image of the uBlock Origin UI: https://files.catbox.moe/upzo0c.png

You can see you can block by domain, host, and some pre-determined groups like "3rd-party".

It was hidden behind the advanced user setting. Thank you.

Which one is less polished, and are you implying Chrome is more so? Maybe it's "polished" but it's incredibly slow and FF/Brave both have better features from what I can see.

It’s not factually accurate to claim that chrome is “slow”, especially vis-a-vis Firefox.

I’ve found it depends more on which hardware you use than on which browser. Firefox is unusable on some of my machines, where Chrome is OK, and it’s the opposite on others. (All are low end machines.) I think it mostly depends on video drivers.

Ghostery? Owned by Cliqz? Seems a bit questionable.

Just check your setup here.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

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