Library extension. Go to as page selling a book (Amazon, Powell's, etc.) and the extension will show you if you're local library has the book, how many copies, and if they're available for checkout. You can then click through and put a hold on the book.
Great cure for impulse buying of books. I've read more and bought less since using it.
uBlock Origin
Sponsorblock
Multi account containers
Password manager like Bitwarden
Bypass Paywalls Clean
JShelter and Decentraleyes. And unlock Origins, but it's already popular without me. :)
Youtube Unhook lets you disable specific parts of the website: Shorts, Recommendations, Comments, and lets you redirect from startpage to subscriptions like in the olden days.
Bring back the dislike button or something like that for YT.
Shorts are the only thing that really annoyed me, I don't mind recommendations or comments, and I just keep a tab open on my subs page all the time anyway.
Doesn't Firefox have reader mode with dark mode built in? Don't get me wrong, I find that functionality indispensable, but I didn't think it required a plugin.
Maybe? shrug I didn't look too hard, I stumbled across someone talking about dark reader and was like 'I must have this in my life.'
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ublock origin, nutensor(umatrix), twp, bypass paywalls clean, dark reader, vimfx
uBlock Origin is the must have.
Personally I also use Dark Reader, NoScript, View Page Source and User-Agent Switcher.
NoScript is duplicative with ublock medium mode, I am amazed people are still using it. It hasn’t been relevant for 5+ years by my estimation. Why use two addons when one you’re already using does it better?
https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode
Roughly similar to using Adblock Plus with many filter lists + NoScript with 1st-party scripts/frames automatically trusted.
Because I'm used to noscript, I've tried using uBlock in stricter than default settings but found it hard to get into their flag system.
I do not trust 1st party by default in noscript and am pleasantly surprised anytime a site works without js.
The why is browser fingerprinting. Which Google started using as of January to track everyone.
https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/
So if you go to ANY page with Google trackers, even in private mode, Google knows.
But having two addons will make your fingerprint even larger. So your argument doesn't explain why you should use two addons instead on one that does it both.
No, you use one as the backup. That's why I said use JShelter, but if a site breaks beyond use, switch IPs and then reload with NoScript instead to be more selective of what is blocked and what's not. That way I can still block Cloudflare and Google and Apple and still let the actual site load. And JScreep seems (for me, YMMV) to treat each as distinct fingerprints.
IMO if you know you can have multiple fingerprint profiles anyway based on which combo of extensions you use that do roughly the same job, that's a net benefit.
Dark reader is getting my browser slow lately. Is it just me?
It also happened to me. Now I am using Page Shadow.
I’ll give that a go thanks
For android mobile I use Ironfox.
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
Its a fork of the now discontinued Mull browser.
Ohhh, I loved Mull. Good to hear someone forked it.
uBlock Origin and nothing else. The more extensions, the more unique you're fingerprint will be and the bigger your attack surface.
Category "how the hell isn't this included by default" :
Category "Preserving your mental health online" :
Category "Usefull" :
Category "Would be nice if..." :
BTW for plain text, ctrl+shift+V pastes as plain text.
For copying link text if you hold alt and drag you can select text without activating the link, then ctrl+C as usual.
I had no idea about the second one! I still like having a context menu option, right click + E seems much less of a hassle than selecting the text and copying, but it's nice to know you can select part of a link! How did I never notice that you could in 20 years? 😅
Yeah alt+select doesn't work 100% of the time too so the extension sounds nice lol
Dont forget SponsorBlock if you spend any time on youtube
Sponsorblock is magic. I don't know how it doesn't have trolls ruining it.
Users voting on whether a segment is good or bad. I always give a thumbs up to the segments that were well-defined and a thumbs-down to segments that cut off half a sentence unnecessarily etc.
I've never seen the option to vote, maybe it's easier on desktop. I'm on revanced
I suggest FreeTube
Many commenters mentioned ublock, but don't forget to enable additional filters for shit like cookie banners or other annoyances
For keeping cookies in bento boxes:
Those two are an absolute must for me.
I also sometimes use the IceCat extensions, too:
Jshelter is good. You know it works because many shady websites won't even load bx they are big bad they can't finger print you lol
What do people think about "I still don't care about cookies"?
I have no evidence to back this up, but I've seen lots of reports that suggest if you just hide the consent form, you're assumed to have accepted all of the cookies. This is why Consent-o-Matic is preferable.
Ublock origin and privacy badger
To support independent Wikis
For those who are multilingual that are annoyed at websites autotranslating via a shitty ai
To make Youtube better
No one mentioned Privacy Badger yet. Is there something I don't know?
Most people will tell you that it's been made obsolete now since (1) it doesn't use behavioural analysis to detect trackers anymore, it just uses a pre-defined list of trackers to block (2) browsers (especially firefox) now have built-in tracker blocking (3) ublock origin blocks trackers by default anyway.
I don't think it hurts to still use it, just as a belt and braces approach, but I suppose it's possible it makes your browser fingerprint more unique.
Interesting. Fingerprinting is a good point, although I've switched to a combo of Vivaldi and Librewolf browsers so they're already fairly unique unfortunately.
uBlock Origin is a lot better.
Privacy Badger can actually be detrimental because it makes you more unique while adding basically nothing useful.
I like how Privacy Badger replaces tracking icons/widgets. I’m guessing uBO just removes them outright? I haven’t really bothered to check the differences.
Yes ublock will just completely block/remove all tracking and annoyances, plus whatever other filters you enable.
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