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Are there any addons as essential as uBlockOrigin? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by nebulaone@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world
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I would love to find extensions that make me think "How did I live without this?"

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[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Decentraleyes prevents loading common scripts from big name CDNs. Requesting a script from a google-owned CDN with your google cookies and the current URL as the referrer is a way to spy on you.

Decentraleyes loads these common scripts from it's own cache instead.

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I often heard that Decentraleyes doesn't actually do anything 99% of the time. I don't know how true that is, though.

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

aparently you know more than we here.

i had to look it up,
but aparently Decentraleyes isnt being maintained and grew more useless as the time went on.

aparently localCDN is a better mantained alternative.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thanks for the tip. From the localCDN description:

Differences between LocalCDN and Decentraleyes

LocalCDN contains a big collection of frameworks and useful functions.

  • New: Sync extension settings with Firefox Sync or own server
  • Includes Rocket Loader, Findify, Vue.js, page.js, lozad, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Google Material Icons, React, Vue, Chart.js and much more. The list will be continuously updated.
  • Includes Font Awesome in different version (v3.x, v4.x, v5.x, v6.x)
  • Prepared rules for uBlock Origin/uMatrix/AdGuard and notifications if rule changes are necessary
  • Removes integrity/crossorigin attributes to replace more frameworks

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/

[–] amackif@mastodon.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@Kerb @nebulaone how trustworthy is #localcdn? #Decentraleyes is kind of confirmed by #Mozilla, they even recommend it

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

The source code is public ( https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN ) and it has a reasonable amount of stars. So I think it should be fine. No guarantees, though.

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I saw there has been a recent update to Decentraleyes. Not sure if this addresses the abandoned issue though. Trying out LOCALCDN instead..