Do not send me Chrome addons. I do not care that you have a worse version of uBlock
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.
- 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.
i heard darkreader scrapes the pages you visit for ai
you guys ever heard of this?
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.
apart from all the adblocking and privacy stuff, gesturify is one of my favourites. i got used to mouse gestures back when opera was still good and happily kept using them in vivaldi. if it wasn’t for this addon, i probably wouldn’t have been able to switch, when google enforced their manifest v3 bullshit.
streaming enhanced is another great one. it automatically skips intro and outro of shows, so you don’t have to fumble around with whatever remote you use. It also shows imdb ratings, so it’s easier to avoid stinkers, that the services are trying to push.
finally, i’d like to mention comet. i know we hate Reddit here, but usually reddit comments are still better than youtube comments.
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.
On desktop I really like Vimium. It enables keyboard navigation on basically any site
popup blocker (strict)
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
uBo has never worked on twitch for me, even with custom filters people say work (probably a me issue) so I’ll through out Purple Ads Blocker TTV LOL PRO. I only ever have 1 activated at a time. 1 will work for awhile and the twitch will change something and the one I’m using stops working so I switch to the other.
I have to go on there I usually open it in Xtra Android app and the systemwide/dns adblockers get it
Firefox multi account containers and temporary containers
Killer combo
What do they do?
Firefox just implemented profiles so long as you have separate emails ( cough yopmail)
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.
JShelter?
V important tool
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
Tridactyl
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.
Not to encourage people to use reddit, but we’re you using old.reddit? I don’t have pop-ups and I didnt have to use a email to sign up
