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For blocking I'm using uMatrix, plus uBlock Origin and Ghostery. There's a lot of overlap and it might not be the most efficient, but there are reasons. This is fine for sites that I'm on regularly, but is annoying for one-offs. I actually flip to Chrome with only uBlock Origin for some purchases and for some specific websites that work better there (like GMail), though I could probably use the Firefox beta channel builds as a non-locked-down browser for that.

uMatrix generally blocks third-party items, though it defaults to allowing CSS and images from anywhere and I haven't changed that. uBlock Origin provides list-based blocking instead and is a failover if I give up and temporarily turn off uMatrix for a site. Ghostery is useful for a quick reference of why various things are blocked in terms of website categories (trackers, discussion, ads, etc.).

I'm also using DeCentralEyes, which provides locally-injected versions of a lot of CDN-based resources.



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