Yeah seems pretty shady to me, I’ll wait for a FOSS client for Lemmy. Maybe Infinity will come in clutch and make Infinity for Lemmy.
You may want to give Infinity for Reddit a try. Its UI look similar to Boost for Reddit without all the shady privacy issues; plus it’s FOSS.
Yeah Privacy Badger is redundant, Privacy Guides only recommends installing uBlock Origin and changing some settings in Firefox to decrease the uniqueness in your browser fingerprint.