On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 23:41:45 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 22:20:41 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:
>
>> How does one set up an adblocker (uBlock Origin or equivalent) for
>> firefox on a Pi running Buster? Chromium seems well ad-proofed by
>> default, but firefox is nearly unusable.
>>
> Install uBlock Origin - that should be straight-forward, if a bit
> unintuitive on recent Firefox versions, unless there's something odd
> about Firefox for Raspbian.  Click the 4-horizontal-lines icon at the
> left of the title bar, select Extensions and pick uBlock Origin from the
> list.
>
> FWIW I'm running FireFox on this Lenovo laptop and have uBlock Origin,
> Cookie Autodelete, Ghostery and PKC11 Loader installed. uBlock Origin
> and Ghostery might look like similar tools, but I remember having
> reasons for installing both: their capacities aren't a total overlap.
>
> On a slower system than this thing (Lenovo T440 with a 1.9GHz i5 and 8GB
> RAM) a better combo is probably uBlock Origin plus Cookie Autodelete
> because there's little or no capability  overlap, or just install
> Ghostery by itself and see it that does enough to keep you ad-free and
> tracker- free.

For  'Click the 4-horizontal-lines icon at the left of the title bar'
read 'Click the 4-horizontal-lines icon at the *right* of the title bar.

Sorry 'bout that. That braindead symbol-littered replacement for a proper
menu bar is why I switched to Palemoon. Now that seems to be abandonware,
I'm using Brave as my standard Browser - its fast, pretty stable, and the
various blockers are built-in and configurable.


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