I like to use Tor for everything except streaming videos. But I have it setup with a few add-ons to make it a more pleasant browsing experience. I know it increases fingerprintability, so I wanted to know in case you use Tor browser on a regular basis, do you use any extensions? Do you feel the trade-off in privacy is worth it?
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When i run Tails, yes, because it comes with an ad blocker. Otherwise i don’t use extensions usually.
But if you run in Safest mode (without JS) the attack/fingerprinting surface from remote sites is very small so if you’re strict about no-JS policy then running extensions in Tor Browser is very fine.
Using extensions is usually detectable by websites, which means that it puts you in a different “anonymity set” than people using an unmodified default tor browser.
I use ublock origin, because it’s great and also because (last time i checked, at least…) it is installed in tor browser in Tails. So, hopefully tor browser with ublock origin is still a pretty decent-sized set of people.
I think using any additional stuff with Tor make’s it lose the point of it’s existence