Browser extensions

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According to the Web browsing section of the FAQ, it is not recommended to "achieve browser privacy and security through piling on browser extensions and modifications" does this mean adding a lot of extensions to your browser, or adding any at all?

On a slightly different not I remember reading somewhere that extensions can significantly decrease security as well. Is this something to be worried about in day to day usage. My threat model is not particularly strict and I effectively aim to minimize my footprint while not sacrificing too much usability.

I use uBlock lite and DarkReader on Chromium and no other extensions, is this fine? I assume DarkReader makes me a bit more unique and I could replace it with the flag in chromium, but I don't know which is "better", as I have not found many resources on this.

de0u

CutStandard8309 My threat model is not particularly strict [...]

A threat level is not the same thing as a threat model. To make productive decisions about tools it probably makes sense to first inventory what you want to protect from whom, e.g.: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/threat-modeling/

Using an intrusive web service with lots of browser extensions may not meaningfully impair the intrusive web site.

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I know what I want to protect and from who, this was more just an attempt to word it shortly.

It is more that I lack the technical expertise to make an educated decisions. I don't use any intrusive web services, at least none come to mind.