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I've read not to bother with Decentraleyes. The dependencies are often out of date which mean you'll hit 3rd party CDNs anyway. Unless its coverage is 100℅, it's less than useless for privacy as the hit pattern to CDNs might even make you stand out.
Privacy Badger is also redundant if you have uBO.
Good to know! I had it for data saving since I was on a metered connection, but that's no longer the case. Will get rid of it. Might still be useful on Android though, no? As for Privacy Badger, I mostly use it for getting rid of embedded widgets like those weird third-party comments on articles and such.
LocalCDN is a fork of Decentraleyes that still actively maintained and updated. But this kind of extension is getting less and less effective now that a huge proportion of websites minify and bundles their assets as part of their deployment process. For example, Lemmy uses Bootstrap but LocalCDN can't replace it with local copy because Lemmy bundle their Bootstrap assets into minified js and css bundles.