Do not send me Chrome addons. I do not care that you have a worse version of uBlock
CAD Cookie Auto Delete
I use a bunch of YouTube enhancing extensions.
SponsorBlock. so very, very good. First user into a video after it drops, who has this extension, marks the portion of it that is the YouTuber’s ad read / sponsor segment. Extension auto-skips it for every user who watches after. Saves a lot of time.
Multiselect for YouTube. Just what it sounds like, you can select multiple videos at once to add or delete from playlists, instead of doing them one at a time.
PlayerTube. Use approximations of player UIs from bygone years. I’m partial to 2013 myself.
Return YouTube Dislike and YouTube Shorts Block. Self explanatory from titles.
Others (non-YT) I use…
Change Case. I watch my keyboard and not my screen whilst typing, and this just lets me quickly flip large chunks of unnoticed caps-lock text back to normal once I discover it, rather than having to retype it all.
Simple Translate. Quickly run highlighted text through a translator on the right click menu.
The first thing I add after an ad blocker on a fresh Firefox install will always be Shinigami Eyes: a crowd-sourced system for marking transphobes and allies across the web.
SteamDB makes Steam actually usable
In no particular order;
- Unpaywall - for research papers tries to find legal and free copies of them
- Stylus - overwrite style on a per-website basis (I use the Compact Subscriptions style on YouTube, for example)
- uBlacklist - additional to uBlock that deletes some URLs from search results (such as an anti-AI list, or Pinterest from image search)
- Surmount - jumps over paywalled news articles using archive.ph
Firefox multi account containers and temporary containers
Killer combo
What do they do?
Firefox just implemented profiles so long as you have separate emails
Container tabs
It’s like how different browsers can be logged in to different accounts with the same webmail at the same time, but all in the tabs instead.
Temporary containers
Basically a new incognito window in each new tab.
They play nicely together, my usual setup is temporary containers for regular browsing and a pop up asking me which user I’m logging in as - in that specific tab - when visiting sites I’m regularly logging in to.
It’s basically having website cookies completely isolated in the same profile. You can also create containers for each website automatically so they can’t talk to each other. If you like having multiple emails from the same provider open, you can do that without logging out or making a new Firefox profile, so it’s like having all your settings and add-ons with the website flexibility of another profile.
Surprised no one has Simple Tab Groups. Maybe the Tree Style Tabs ecosystem is more popular, I haven’t tried it. It’s just a 2-level hierarchy instead of a tree, but it serves me well. I have one tab group for each class I have at university, plus some other ones for interests like lean 4 or minecraft, and two for other compulsory online services like banking and travel planning. The Add-On combines saving the hassle of reopening tabs with reducing the work looking through the open ones.
i do exactly that in bookmarks, bonus for being something exportable. at this point why not get a better bookmarks addons?
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.
That one was compromised. The good fork is “I still don’t care about cookies”.
ublock origin has a filter that takes care of cookie banners too. most are gone and it’s glorious.
Just removing the banners may default sites to having cookies on. This actually gles through the banner and turns everything off.
This sounds fantastic!
On desktop I really like Vimium. It enables keyboard navigation on basically any site
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 >:( ]
Hmm interesting, would librewolf kill that alrdy?
I use librewolf, and I still get the notifications from port authority. Maybe that means librewolf wasn’t doing it, or port authority just detects that it’s supposed to happen even if librewolf has already stopped it.
Sounds like jshelter, i doubt i need it but it definitely does something because it breaks websites even more, cheers
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)
is easier to automate for things like providing bots with changed social media credentials
Tbh, sounds a bit like a cursed use case for a password manager, but I am curious how you set that up.
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.
- BlockTube: Allows you to block YouTube Channels and Video as using “Do Not Recommend Channel” doesn’t exactly work
- Bitwarden - Loves the auto-fill feature
- uBlacklist - More easier to block URL result on various search engine. Only use it as I can’t be arsed tried to learn how to manually make filter on uBlock and want something that I can block Daily Mail on my search with just a click. It’s just the job done so happy to use it.
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.
Seconded for Tampermonkey.
Specifically recommend their Youtube Age Verification Bypass script. Cause they ain’t gettin my ID lol
Something like this for Facebook? Fuck Facebook, but Facebook marketplace murdered craigslist. That and the legal troubles that for some reason dont apply to Facebook.
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.
i heard darkreader scrapes the pages you visit for ai
you guys ever heard of this?
