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I did some tests and found that privacy badger adds a significant amount of load time. I couldn’t justify it for the minimal effect it has. If you use ublock with firefox’s protections and block third party cookies you are pretty good from a browser point of view.

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Interesting. I never really had a firm grasp on the overlap in functionality of ublock origin and privacy badger. I threw privacy badger in the mix at some point as I like the EFF and wanted to give it a whirl. I haven't noticed any sites loading slowly, but I'll do a comparison on some of the sites I use and see if it's slowing things down.

In my case it really made a difference. Close to 1 second in some cases even, which on a total of 3-4 seconds of course is a big deal.

A way to beef up your privacy protections might be to look at DNS filtering. I use dnscrypt-proxy with a blocklist. You can also put trackers in your hosts file in order to route them to 0.0.0.0. https://filterlists.com/ is a nice resource to start out at.

Also every additional extension makes you more fingerprintable.

A bit of a catch 22 - by protecting my privacy (unless I make myself unfingerprintable, which is very difficult) I make myself unique.

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