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Top 10 Firefox extensions to avoid

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 4 comments
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Popularity shouldn't be the acid test to determine if you should install an extension. The important question is whether it enhances your browsing experience without any nasty side effects. The good news is that the extension community is actually pretty adept at self-policing. Most extensions that are truly "broken" (for instance, they crash your browser or suck up all your CPU power) either get fixed quickly or simply vanish.

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zenarcher ·
So long as government and advertisers continue to harvest my information without my consent, I will continue to make extensions such as Adblock Plus, NoScript and TrackMeNot, priority extensions in Firefox. Likewise, I will continue to recommend them for my customers.

Certainly they are not "cure-alls" and call it paranoid if you like, but whatever measures I can take to protect my privacy and to block advertisers from unwelcome intrusions, I shall continue to use.
Sander_Marechal ·
I don't see the use of TrackMeNot. Simply don't accept coockies (not even session cookies) from Google et. al. and they can't track you anymore. Well, technically they still could but their current systems are all about the (session) cookies.
zenarcher ·
Personally, I use Scroogle Scraper, rather than Google, since Scroogle and a couple of others do not maintain the history of searches Google and others do. I suppose my bull headed attitude regarding those search engines who do keep history is that I am merely doing my part to see that they have a bit extra. You could call it a "protest," I suppose.
tracyanne ·
I use Adblock Plus, Noscript, and turn off persistent cookies. I don't care if they track my usage and target ads at me, I don't see 99% of ads, so as far as I'm concerned it's their money, they can spend it targeting me with ads I'll never see.

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