While browser extensions are often suggested as a method to improve your privacy, they could make things way worse. I linked an article about the anti-fingerprint extensions however, every extension that you installed on your browser make you stand out more.

This happens even with adblocker extensions. First of all, enumeration badness it’s not a good approach against tracking, that’s why Tor browser doesn’t use any adblocker.

Site-specific or filter-based addons such as AdBlock Plus, Request Policy, Ghostery, Priv3, and Sharemenot are to be avoided. We believe that these addons do not add any real privacy to a proper implementation of the above privacy requirements, and that development efforts should be focused on general solutions that prevent tracking by all third parties, rather than a list of specific URLs or hosts.

Trying to resort to filter methods based on machine learning does not solve the problem either: they don’t provide a general solution to the tracking problem as they are working probabilistically. Even with a precision rate at 99% and a false positive rate at 0.1% trackers would be missed and sites would be wrongly blocked

Source.

Moreover, every site visited can detect every change you made including blocked domains and so, instead of achieve privacy you’ll stand out more. If you’re going to use and adblocker it’d be a good idea using only the standard filters.

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    4 years ago

    since most of the websites need to use use ads & trackers in order to cover the fees.

    Most ad companys do not pay for tor views/clicks some not even for conversions. And you definitely want to block the ones that track conversions.