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Though it's not advertised on the landing page, Lightbeam has a block functionality: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/

It's also endorsed by mozilla, which makes me trust it more. I've been using it for a while (on top of noscript) and it's quite informative and seems to work well.

My personal setup is noscript with careful whitelisting which I've found to effectively disable most tracking.




> It's also endorsed by mozilla, which makes me trust it more.

Somewhat skeptical, given that Mozilla referred to in-browser ads as "user-enhancing":

https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504

https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish...


Mockup of the ads: https://bug972916.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=837...

In this case I think Mozilla is right, many users will be happy to have a quick facebook/amazon/twitter/ebay shortcut out of the box.


People shouldn't use something with "block functionality". To protect our freedoms, we need everyone using stuff that defaults to blocking the surveillance.




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