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Don't know else to shout this from the roof tops, but it's a biiiig deal in terms of browsing happiness: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/another-win-for-tracking-protec...

^ That blog post was written when my Firefox Nightly was what is v58 today.

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The tracking protection is even better with the newly released Duck Duck Go addon

That speed comes at the cost of delaying or breaking existing sites, fwiw

Such as?

IMHO, if the broken sites are broken because of their "need" to download trackers, intrusive ads, and any number of other dark-pattern based tools... we're better of with those sites broken.

Do these trackers actually add direct value for users? 99% don't, things like the Facebook like button and so forth shouldn't require I hit Facebook's server when loading the page initially.

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