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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What tools and lists are you using to make the Internet more enjoyable and filter out the crap? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Mostly interested in non-standard ones, e.g. https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt. Not necessarily just about ad-blocking but a clean online experience like SponsorBlock. Interested in non-standard uBO lists as well.

I will try to compile a list of what was said here:

Automatic Captcha Solving: Buster. Great mention, use it myself!
Consent-O-Matic. Didn't know about this one, will give it a look!
Additional Annoyances list for uBO
DNS blocking/ Pi hole
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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Vivaldi ad/trackerblocker with custom filters from ABP and uBO

Extensions (I've put the homepages with the links also to the Mozilla Store):

Glorious were the times, when none of this was necessary to defend yourself from all this shit that has accumulated on the network today. Free Internet getting further and further away, sad.