Do not send me Chrome addons. I do not care that you have a worse version of uBlock
Consent-o-matic: automatically rejects cookie banners, even the most annoying ones.
I-dont-care-about-cookies is my favorite variant of this, since it also rejects the Cookies itself on top automatically where possible. Exceptions can be made if wanted.
This sounds fantastic!
Bitwarden.
Yep and selfhosting it is a great option as well
Oh for sure I raise you Keepass’s addon but they have the same use case with minor differences (Keepass is easier to automate for things like providing bots with changed social media credentials)
I think all of these also have Chrome versions, but still better on FF due to being able to install (or side-load if not listed or not whitelisted for mobile) onto the mobile version. The day I learned how to get non-whitelisted ones to install and install from xpi was game over for bothering with other mobile browsers.
- FastStream for downloading videos from YT and a lot of other sites (I daily use it for grabbing stuff on Twitter)
- Bypass Paywalls Clean for the obvious (this one is to the dev’s not github but same kind of site site as it has to be installed via xpi)
- Watch on Odysee for seeing if a YT channel also uploads to Odysee to go watch there if possible and at least give my view there
- SponsorBlock for being able to skip hard-coded ads from the uploads and other sections of YT videos
- DeArrow for being able to view titles for YT videos that are more reflective of content
- Wayback Machine for saving pages to Archive.org along with saving them to my account on there.
- Privacy Possum for more aggressive blocking of tracking (though it does require remembering it is on if a site breaks as it will block things that uBO isn’t the cause of the issue)
Fuck yeah, i swear by sponsor block, I’m truly ad free with that, but also skipping intros and stuff is nice.
Multi-account containers. Let’s you have 2 different Gmail accounts open at once. Also I try to silo different parts of my life to prevent tracking.
Noscript and tampermonkey too.
I understand that you might want to run your own JavaScript and not others’ JavaScript, but I had a brief laugh at listing “no JavaScript” and “MOAR JAVASCRIPT” together.
Seconded for Tampermonkey.
Specifically recommend their Youtube Age Verification Bypass script. Cause they ain’t gettin my ID lol
Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later
Domain Volume Control / Better Volume Booster - allow you to set default volume per-domain (note that unfortunately, in the 1st one the set volume gets changed when you change the volume through a site’s player, and the 2nd one currently causes an issue on Nightly with unpaused videos)
Playback speed - allows you to change the speed of videos/audio on any site, even only by x0.01 at a time (you can also change the buttons that appear when you click on the addon in the toolbar/addons menu to have specific speeds readily available) (note that it doesn’t change the pitch of the audio)
- Specifically for YouTube you can also use an addon like Improve YouTube. To configure the feature click on the addon in the toolbar/addons menu > Shortcuts > Playback speed. To change the shortcut so that you hold Ctrl and use the mousewheel (while hovering over the video) click Ctrl and release it before using the mousewheel up or down accordingly (otherwise it acts as a zoom to the settings window)
Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you’re watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video
Feedbro - an RSS reader with filtering capabilities
Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later
Can’t Firefox already do this though?
Right-click > Unload on a tab.
It’s not for saving memory but to postpone a tab to check it later (for example to see new comments on a post, or if you don’t currently have time to read an article and want to read it tomorrow)
Adnauseam Silently click-spams ads to drain their bandwidth, with the purpose of making the horrible advertising business unprofitable.
Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours’ and adtech’s bandwidth.
Wasting resources isn’t a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.
A minor amount of bytes is not “wasting resources”. It is wasting ad revenue.
It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low
Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better
This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google
Indeed. This in turn devalues ads by dropping their conversion rate. Thus people won’t use Google services anymore.
It’s both, and not a small amount of bytes.
this is built on ublock origin, so if your using it get rid of ublock origin as well.
Snowflake - help others bypass censors
Port authority - stops port scanning of your local network [and I found out how many fucking assholes do this. My own employer freaking does it >:( ]
Oooo, PopUpOff
Haven’t had to deal with annoying “LeGiTiMaTe iNtErEsT” cookie pop-ups for nearly a year. Honestly forgot they existed until I needed to deactivate it to briefly log back into my reddit account recently (I swear that entire website’s UI is just malware at this point).
Their website is also surprisingly gorgeous. I was surprised since most app makers usually don’t put much effort into something people are probably only gonna see once, if they even have one at all. It’s so well put together.
Tree style tabs
Makes it simultaneously easier to open a billion pages but also manages them nicely
I prefer Sidebery to Tree Style Tabs
I tried this one of the tree tab addons, that may have been it, but it actually had a noticeable performance cost - made me sad :(
Now that hq finally added the fucking vertical tab sidebar I use that
I’ll throw out a few.
Wouldn’t chameleon make you just as trackable unless you’re also switching your vpn every time you switch user agents?
Sponsor Block–Skips some YouTube ads.
Language Tool–keeps me from making stupid grammar errors.
Cookie Quick Manager–you can lock cookies and other stuff.
I love Indie Wiki Buddy, it auto redirects fandom links to the newer official independent wikis for things that have them (minecraft is one example). God I hate fandom so much truly the worst wiki experience.
Maybe this counts as a “worse version of uBlock” but I use AdNauseam, which in addition to blocking all the ads, it registers as clicking them too, which fucks up their tracking and costs them money. I remember seeing somewhere that the ad blocking itself was based on uBlock, but I couldn’t find it on the extention page so i may have imagined it.
Redirector - redirect pages to where you want them to go.
- make the youtube subscription feed the first thing you see / convert shorts without needing another addon
- fix stupid machine translated localizations of pages looking at you learn.microsoft.com or reddit does this too now
- overwrite / define custom duckduckgo search !bangs
- remove tracking parameters from urls
- etc…
Example Usage: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector?tab=readme-ov-file#examples
This extension is how I learned to love RegEx.
- Cookie Autodelete
- I don’t care about cookies
I head that “I don’t care about cookies” got bought by Avast or something and had some spyware in it or something (can’t quite remember I looked into it a while back).
I think there’s another version called “I still don’t care about cookies” that avoids that.
I hadn’t heard that, thanks, I’ll check it out.
Best underrated combo.
I like to use mouse gestures since the time Opera had its own engine. So basically the Gesturefy add-on for Firefox is a must for me.
