bypass-paywalls-clean-filters VS user.js

I use this filter list with ublock origin and Mozilla Firefox, so I wasn't aware they even had a paywall. Pretty much any website that wants their articles to be fully indexed by Google Search, can have their paywalls disabled using a filter list.

! Homepage: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

Add this to the custom filter in uBO...

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter...

Or you can load this uBO filterlist, which should basically do the same thing as the extension

    https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/bpc-paywall-filter.txt

Add Bypass Paywalls Clean filters to your My filters list on the uBlock Origin dashboard.

I recommend using uBlock Origin with the Bypass Paywalls Clean filter list (https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters) installed. For me, this reduces Linkvertise to just a captcha (since I'm using a VPN) then a single click on its "free access" button.

adguard filters (basic, social, annoyances, url tracking, anti-tracking, easyprivacy, single regional list, nocoin and malicious online url). Adguard mobile ads list if I'm on android. As extras, I run https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/phishing-filter and https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/tracking-filter (quite big, only use on windows). Also https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters for paywalls on android, coupled with scripts that extend list's function.

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.