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Adding Ghostery to Firefox
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The numbers in the tables below show the number of requests blocked by each Firefox add-on when visiting the listed page.
Without Ghostery
| Site | Noscript | uBlock | Privacy Badger | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail | 15 | 6 | 4 | 25 |
| The Independent | 19 | 31 | 11 | 61 |
| CBC News | 11 | 23 | 6 | 40 |
| Universe today | 6 | 23 | 6 | 35 |
With Ghostery
| Site | Noscript | uBlock | Privacy Badger | Ghostery | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail | 5 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 29 |
| The Independent | 19 | 19 | 11 | 18 | 67 |
| CBC News | 10 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 44 |
| Universe today | 7 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 40 |
Request counts when no extensions are active
The table below shows the number of requests made to individual hosts by visiting the listed page when all Firefox add-ons are disabled, the MVPS ad-blocking hosts file is moved aside, and DNS requests are not being filtered by the Pi-hole ad-blocking DNS server.
(An “individual host” is a fully qualified domain name. “www.independent.co.uk" and “static.independent.co.uk” are counted as two individual hosts.)
| Site | Requests | Individual Hosts |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail | 365 | 78 |
| The Independent | 248 | 74 |
| CBC News | 171 | 46 |
| Universe today | 120 | 29 |
Request counts when maximum ad blocking/privacy is active
The table below shows the number of requests made to individual hosts by visiting the listed page when all Firefox add-ons are ensabled, the MVPS ad-blocking hosts file is in place, and DNS requests are filtered by the Pi-hole ad-blocking DNS server.
| Site | Requests | Individual Hosts |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Mail | 85 | 3 |
| The Independent | 83 | 3 |
| CBC News | 79 | 7 |
| Universe today | 52 | 7 |
My Firefox ad-blocking and privacy extensions
The ad-blocking and privacy extensions I use for firefox are:
- Ghostery - A powerful privacy extension; Blocks ads, stops trackers and speeds up websites.
- NoScript Security Suite - Maximum protection for your browser: NoScript allows active content only for trusted domains of your choice to prevent exploitation.
- Privacy Badger - Automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
- uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker, easy on CPU and memory.