For what it’s worth i might have a lot of them already, just curious if I’m missing any
ITT: Everyone suggesting non-essential extensions. The only essential one is uBlock Origin. Everything else is optional and depends on the user.
Adnauseum - same as unlock but also clicks on every ad (or any % of ads) to give useless data
May as well fight back
You are easier to track with Adnauseum
depends on the user still
Adnauseum clicks are easily detected and filtered out. Google stopped this nonsense a long time ago. As others have said, it also makes it dead simple to track you.
If anything adding those extensions would just make you easier to fingerprint, right?
Depends, but yes in most cases. Also just adds attack surface and consumes extra resources, so its generally a good practice to keep extensions to a minimum and only use what you need.
LibRedirect - A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and other websites to alternative privacy friendly frontends YouTube → Invidious , Piped , Piped-Material , CloudTube , PokeTube , FreeTube , Yattee YouTube Music → Beatbump , Hyperpipe Twitter → Nitter TikTok → ProxiTok Reddit → Libreddit , Teddit Imgur → Rimgo Pixiv → PixivFE
After ublock origin, this is my favorite extension. Redirecting youtube to freetube is the greatest thing ever
what does freetube even do? can i still log in and view my subscriptions?
You can import your subscriptions using the Google takeout feature. Tutorial on freetube’s website.
im still wondering what freetube does over the regular youtube website
It’s free, open source, you can download videos, and it doesn’t track you or try to intentionally make the viewing experience worse.
So is it a website or a program you download?
Freetube is a desktop program. I use it and it’s so much better than going to the YouTube page.
Other than a couple of neat features, basically it allows you to have the youtube account features, without having an account.
Locally you tell him what channels you care for, and it fetches your homepage for you, without all the strings attached to google doing that within your account and, hence, knowing exactly what kind of person you are.
Sounds more inconvenient to download a whole program to visit a website I can just visit in a Firefox tab with the addons I have downloaded
The main reason one would consider freetube or other similar alternative is for privacy. If that doesn’t matter to you then just stick to the website.
No ads, no tracking, no proprietary software. Built-in SponsorBlock and DeArrow as well as a download feature.
Dark Reader. Not invulnerable to sudden blinding at night, I’d say one site in 200 seems to sneak through. But imo it beats all other dark mode addons I tried and certainly the default dark mode.
uBlock Origin
BitwardenSince no one is naming it:
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
This right there is the Firefox killer feature that Chrome can’t dream of right now, and that freaking no one knows it exists!
And temporary containers!
Don’t Fuck With Paste - for all those stupid websites that think pasting my email address from my clipboard extender (Ditto-cp) is somehow unreliable.
Can we stop them messing with a tab’s history ? Like aliexpress does
- Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- F.B Purity - Cleans up Facebook
- Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin
- Joshi Koukousei Captcha Service
- Return YouTube Dislike
- SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
- Wayback Machine
- xIFr
- F.B Purity - Cleans up Facebook
There’s no cleaning that shit up.
Joshi Koukousei Captcha Service
Wtf is this?
Looks like an AI-driven captcha solver for 4chan. The reviews mention something about not having to buy a pass so I guess 4chan charges to get around the captchas. Lol.
Yup, they’re also pretty annoying captchas.
I thought it might solve captchas on all websites.
Finally someone that mentions an
Enable Right Clickextension. There’s a few out there but I use “Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy” as well.On top of return youtube dislike & sponsorblock I will highly recommend BlockTube, it optionally removes shorts, the video pause and & popup asking if you’re still there, and a few other things. I’ve tried the “remove youtube loudness normalization” option but volume is just all over the place no matter what.
Of course these are specific to youtube and not essential for anyone who uses an alternative
You can disable right click hijacking with dom.event.contextmenu.enabled in about:config, I don’t think you need an extension for that
You don’t even need to do that, all you have to do is hold shift when you right click, and it circumvents any hijacking.
Bypass Paywalls Clean got pulled from the Firefox repository but you can still sideload it from github.
Enable right click, that sounds like something I need, it’s a bit stupid how often I want to right click something and I can’t
As a violin/piano player, librescore script
As a person who can’t stand table tea spoons and other not precise units of measurements, a script that converts all those voodoo units into metric
From addons also would like to add that add-on that adds a flag to a site
Translation add-on
Also, I don’t use a password manager add-on, hotkeying is just so much nicer
These are not really “essential”, just telling everyone some things i’m enjoying 😋
As a person who can’t stand table tea spoons and other not precise units of measurements
American recipes: add 12 oz of whatever.
Me: Weight or volume!!!
If liquid, volume. If else likely weight.
I’m aware. Semi-liqud fluids are the tricky ones, like beans.
Usually in my experience they specify canned beans or dry beans, dry ones I assume are weight.
I agree with you that tablespoons are not the best metric but I would rather want to know if a recipe was telling me to use an imprecise measurement or a precise one. If it says to add 10g of something it was probably tested with that; if it says use 3 tablespoons, usually I can basically add as much or as little as I like (within reason). Anyway, you actually lose a bit of info on the amount of precision specified
I personally measure everything, and it should be especially important for people making recipes
A good recipe is the one to make the exact or a very close copy of the dish, not an approximately dish alike
Especially if you make something precise like soap, cheese, and other stuff. Gladly soap makers started using grams for lye… Yes until not a long ago people were using spoons for lye 🫠
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if i block ads does ad nauseum even do anything?
While an interesting idea, there is no evidence that supports that Ad Nauseum adversely impacts reporting metrics. This is due to ad servers all determining click by different methods. It rarely ever aligns. It likely doesn’t impact user targeting either as your behavior still hasn’t really changed and clicks aren’t typically used for that purpose.
You’re better off just running UBlock Origin. Punishing advertisers doesn’t really make any sense anyway. The blame is really on publisher groups and their rampant greed. Auto-clicks just further that.
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If you want to see dark mode everywhere: DarkReader
Note that it will slow down page render times
DarkReader is absolutely essential for me. A lot of websites I visit don’t have a dark mode and end up burning my retinas at night.
I find this one fairly useless nowadays, maybe except for a couple websites. But even Wikipedia nowadays has a native dark mode.
Even native dark mode isn’t dark enough for me. I want black so I have it enabled on top of native dark mode.
I disable it wherever native dark mode is supported but damn if I’m gonna blast my eyes with a white background awhen I’m browsing after 10pm
NoScript. It can be a little more demanding of you as a user, (I often find myself enabling single scripts at a time until a web page will function properly) but the sense of security, privacy, and being left the hell alone is worth it.
besides uBlock Origin,
Consentomatic automatically declines cookie consent notices. works very well.
For me i am careful not to trust to many addons. Several addons have “turned against the user”. I trust gorhill and ublock origin. I only install verified by Firefox. Disable when not needed anymore.
Besides that i think Multu account containers cookieautodelete Bitwarden Treestyle tab
I also use vimium although it pains me or had access to everything, and it’s not verified. So it only runs in nonessential windows.
For better multi-account container support, you might want to look at Sidebery instead of Tree Style Tab.
Sideberry didn’t workout for me. The groups feature didn’t work as expected / wanted.
for ublock, i live and filter from imre. they’re fantastic.
Enhancer for YouTube. Video quality auto-select, fined-grained speed control, volume boost, shorts redirect, and a bunch of other features.
Definitely disable the ad blocker on “Enhancer for YouTube”. Only uBlock Origin is capable of handling the ads consistently. Had issues with them until i disabled it
isn’t that not working anymore?
Not sure about every feature, but the features I use still worked as of a couple hours ago. Should I be worried that it will break soon?
