Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can’t stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it’s kinda wild to me that this isn’t more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It’s good for the same reasons!
Consent-O-Matic
Automatic handling of GDPR consent formsDuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
I mostly use this for the email protection (highly recommended!)ScrollAnywhere
Drag scrollbar with middlemouse button anywhere on the page.ScrollAnywhere is amazing. I’ve used BetterMouse on Mac for several months now and have grown accustomed to scrolling by click-dragging. Really wish there was some sort of similar app for Windows and Linux, but unfortunately I’ve spent hours searching and haven’t found anything.
Thanks, trying Consent-O-Matic now!
I shared one on reddit that replaces pictures of spiders with kittens and it was met with a pretty shocking amount of hatred and vitriol brought my way, so nervous to share it here. But still I thought it was nice.
Wait. No, share it. Please! 🥺
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spiders-kittens-image-replacer/
here it is for firefox. I think there’s one for chrome and for edge too
Thanks for sharing. Just added it! lol
Guys. It even works for Spider-Man.
I really appreciate you!
I had a similar one but for the former president. I still have it installed and it always confuses me for a second until I remember it.
Yo could share a link that. I’d love to see it in action when a prowl the cesspool that is r/politics on Reddit. XD.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-firefox-kittens-again/
That’s the one. May your day be brighter with more kittens while doomscrolling the news.
I almost destroyed a phone once when I scrolled down to an unexpected spider image, my fight or flight response kicked in, and I threw the phone across the room. So this sounds amazing!!
Man, fuck the haters. This sounds amazing and I’m seriously considering using it lol
from https://beehaw.org/comment/80030:
uBO, of course. note: you guys don’t need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he’s a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren’t necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google…I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he’s a little homophobic shithead
What? …alright let’s check the link.
Esmail is actively forbidding members or supporters of the LGBTQIA+ community to use their services via a TOS document.
Oh.
When you’re so drenched in queerphobia that you explicitly forbid the use of your services to LGBTQIA+ people and their ‘supporters’. Asbolutely normal and totally not deranged behavior.
Firefox Multi-Account Containers is one of my favorite extensions. Mixing work accounts and personal accounts in the same browser session but in different tabs has made my workflow much more efficient. You can force bind sites to a container so that you don’t accidentally use your personal account for anything workplace related.
This one. I need to use Farcebook occasionally and this allows me to stay logged in without getting tracked elsewhere. Same for my Google account.
Have you figured out a way to combine it with windows, such that each window has a designated container, and all tabs open in that container?
Dark Reader is amazing. Not just a great idea, but incredible execution.
It occasionally renders incorrectly, but yeah, I haven’t been able to find a dark-mode extension better than this!
I just assumed it would be terrible because it’s a hard problem to solve generally, but like 98% of the time I don’t even realize it’s on (and it’s really easy to turn off). It’s seriously incredible.
Other than Ublock Origin and Bitwarden, these are some of my favourites :
Temporary Containers is a new favourite of mine. It works just like container tabs, but the difference is that it deletes the history of that tab once it’s closed, similar to Incognito/Private instance.
Reddit Comments for Youtube - If a youtube video has been linked to reddit, then it basically gives a small box which lists all the subs the video has been linked to and shows you the comments. If you’re logged into reddit, then it will allow you to comment as well.
Keepa for Amazon. Let’s you track price history for any product, so you can see if a sale is actually a real sale or not.
Tab Session Manager - Basically lets you save tab sessions.
Enhancer for Youtube and Pockettube Subscription Manager - Gives various youtube enhancements.
Stylus - To style websites. I mainly use it to fix the youtube thumbnail and font size.
Lmao that’s my only use for stylus too. And like 5 years ago I changed the roblox logo to a cheez-it with stylus. I need to find more websites to use with it but last I checked the website to get themes was terribly slow. It’s been a fat minute though.
I’m using FF and I only have one extension, it’s ublock origin
I wish you’d recommended that commenters keep to “one extension per top-level comment,” making it easier to upvote the best ones 😅
Anyway, my “one pick” is definitely Tridactyl — a thorough, absurdly powerful poweruser-mode for FireFox based in Vi-like modal interaction.
Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos - This one simplifies the YouTube experience and helps you to spend less time watching videos endlessly.
if you replace the “youtube.com” with “piped.video” in the URL, you get all the videos with no ads, no tracking, and no distractions.
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- ublock origin
- privacy badger
- decentraleyes
- clear URLs
- facebook container
- https everywhere
- firefox multi-account containers
- dictionary anywhere
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LibRedirect Alternative open source frontends, very useful to survive on sites like Youtube, Twitter, Imgur etc.
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Voat - Reddit Comments on YouTube & Web Pages Not so useful any more, but you can read what Reddit communities have to say about websites
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Snowflake Fight cencorship
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Cookieautodelete is sooo underrated.
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So, let’s try to compile a list.
- “uBlock” does not need any kind of introduction. Most of the people who answered the thread use it anyway. But it is my favourite!
- “Language tool” to help me spell things properly, lol
- “I don’t care about cookies” to get rid of annoying GDPR-compliance banners
- “FoxyProxy” to easily switch between proxies
- “Vimium C” to navigate the web using vi-like shortcuts
- “SponsorBlock”. I don’t use YouTube as much nowadays but when I do, this add-on helps me skip in-video advertisements and irrelevant moments
- “Search by image”
- “Rikaichamp” is a great add-on for anyone who often needs to look up Japanese words
- “Runet Censorship Bypass” because censorship circumvention is not a crime in my country. Yet.
Honestly, I thought it will be shorter. It makes me appreciate the authors of all these add-ons even more. If it weren’t for their efforts, web browsing would be a much less enjoyable experience.
