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A lot of these are unnecessary or actually modify your fingerprint.
Can be detected https://adtechmadness.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/detecting-privacy-badgers-canvas-fp-detection/
Unnecessary, as uBO has
removeparamModifies your fingerprint making you more unique.
For more information about what not to use see https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother
I disagree, the whole usecase for decentraleyes (although i'd recommend localcdn instead as it supports a lot more frameworks), if for users not using a vpn, in which case you'd be fingerprintable via your ip address anyways, what localcdn achieves is having privacy from third parties, as opposed to the website itself.
If you're using localcdn with a vpn, i agree that'd be counter productive since what does it matter that third parties get your ip if that ip's shared with a massive group of people and isn't your real one, but otherwise its still a perfectly valid addon.
That is not how it works. It modifies your fingerprint because its no longer requesting certain resources. Even one of the Tor developers points that out and it's why it's mentioned on https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother
Thank you so much for this great feedback! I will adjust my habits.
and there's a neat list that uses it for stripping a shitload of tracking parameters at https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt