Martin Gregorie  wrote:
> 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.
>
>

For some reason I got the idea that extensions in general were platform
specific and therefore didn't expect to find much support for Raspberry
PiOS outside of the apt-get infrastructure. In any case, it turned out
uBlock Origin was already installed and turned on, so I added Ghostery
for good measure and will play with it further.

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska

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