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AdBlockPlus and Ghostery are always the two plugins I install first on my Firefox.

http://adblockplus.org/en/

http://www.ghostery.com/



I like RequestPolicy because it blacklists all external domains by default and it's easy to whitelist them as needed.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/


After using NoScript for while, I realized that it was painful to whitelist every website I visited. My goal was different, I only want to block tracking scripts and cookies. This is why Ghostery is best suited to my needs.


Request Policy is really annoying for daily use. Lots of sites use multiple domains to load images or CSS or other static content faster. Using the Readability plugin helps. Just tap ` and the missing CSS doesn't matter anymore.


Also Adveristy and Anti Social subscription for AdBlock. http://code.google.com/p/adversity/


How is it different from Ghostery?


I feel bad running on adblock, and then gorging on cyanide and happinesss, xkcd, smbc, etc... One day I just might click on an add and make them some money.


Isn't it just easy to Opt-Out from Online Behavioral Advertising..

http://www.aboutads.info/choices/




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