What browser extensions do you use?
What browser extensions do you use?
I generally use the following:
- uBlock Origin
- SponsorBlock
- Honey
- Wayback Machine
- Netflix Watch List Manager
- Shadertoy plugin
- RES....
What does Lemmy use?
just installed darkReader, my retinas are thanking me
uBlock Origin
Decentraleyes
Consent-o-matic
These are essential to me. Consent o matic automatically fills out cookie pop-ups by opting out of everything for you. Some of these cookie things take a while to process which shows how devious they are set up
Looking at the comments, interest in privacy and adblocking seem high. But the actual addons suggested here are often redundant or even worse, make you easier to track. Instead, take a look at the Arkenfox wiki, which is more or less the gold standard for browser privacy. Both LibreWolf and Mullvad Browser, practically the most privacy/anonymity oriented browsers out there, right behind Tor, either rely on it or stick very closely to it.
I highly recommend reading the entire wiki from the start. You dont have to do everything it says, obviously, but even if you dont do anything it will give you a better understanding of browser privacy. And lastly, do not use Chrome or any chromium based browser if you care about privacy and a free and open internet. Even if you only use a chromium based browser, you help increase googles monopoly.I love these types of posts. From the outset they seem mundane, but they are discussion provoking and I'm able to learn of new things at the same time.
My list (Firefox) 🙃
- Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy
- Bitwarden
- Don't Fuck With Paste
- I still don't care about cookies
- SponsorBlock
- uBlock Origin
Some of you have a LOT of addons, jeez.
Edit: Updated to use the /still/ don't care about cookies addon. Thanks @stepan@lemmy.fmhy.ml
- Bitwarden
- Sponser Block
- LibRedirect
- Decentraleyes
- Cookie Block
- NoScript
- UntrackUrls
- Firefox Containers
- TOS;DR
Not much myself to be honest.
- uBlock Origin, to make the web a bearable experience
- Yomichan for learning Japanese
And that's it. I don't really need much more.
- uBlock Origin
- Privacy Badger
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Firefox Relay
- NoScript (off 99% of the time since it's not really needed)
- RES (until reddit does some stupid shit and bans it or something so I can finally quit it entirely)
- TinEye Reverse Image Search
That's basically it. But after reading a few comments I added:
- Consent-o-matic
- Decentraleyes
- uBlock Origin
- Bypass Paywalls Plus
- I don't care about Cookies
- Cookie AutoDelete
The Cookie addons work wonderfully together. IDCAC just accepts every cookie banner automatically, AutoDelete removes them after the tab was closed.
- uBlock Origin
- Startpage
- Firefox Relay
Lots of great recommendations in this thread. One I use and didn't see mentioned yet is StreetPass. It automatically saves any Mastodon
rel="me"verification links you come across while browsing. I've found it very useful for finding interesting accounts to followuBlock Origin
Dark Reader
Return Dislikes for YouTubeMost other needs can be configured with Firefox whether it be css stuff like dark scroll bars or browser behaviour. The fewer add-ons the better.
- Audio Only for YouTube™
- Better Twitch Adblock
- BetterTTV
- Channel Blocker
- Dark Reader Gumbo: Twitch Companion
- HTTPS Everywhere
- LeechBlock NG
- MAL-Sync
- NoScript
- Return YouTube Dislike
- ScrewMyCode: Pitch control for YouTube
- Truffle
- uBlock Origin
- Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos
- Violentmonkey
- uBlock Origin
- NoScript
- Bitwarden
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I previously used Privacy Badger, but I block basically everything with NoScript anyway, so it was redundant. I also used HTTPS Everywhere but you can enable that in most (all?) browsers now anyway, so you don't need an extension any longer (the highest form of success for an extension). I also previously used LastPass, but I got out before they had their security issues, and importantly changed every password when I transitioned. On work computer I have the 1password extension.
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 Googlealso make sure to check the "do not bother" list here: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
I use Firefox and the arkenfox user.js, which is not an extension, but helps with privacy. For the extensions, though, they are as follows:
- uBlock Origin // on medium mode (Check out what blocking modes are if you don't know them already)
- LibRedirect // to redirect to more privacy respecting frontends
- Skip Redirect // for increased privacy in terms of redirects
- Smart Referer // on strict mode. I use this as I have set network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy to 0 as 2 was a little too strict for me
I think more extensions than these would probably hurt my setup. I have followed the advice from the arkenfox wiki. Check it out if you want to look into a more private and secure Firefox configuration. Also feel free to criticize or ask questions about my setup :)
Just uBlock.
- Adguard (Adblocker)
- ProWritingAid (Grammar Checker)
- Volume Master (Boosts tab audio)
- Chrome Remote Desktop (Obvious)
- Honey & Rakuten (Coupons and Cashback)
I also use a Chromebook, so I use these "native" extensions I developed.
- CrosKeys (Launcher, Clipboard Manager, Scripting, basically a Rofi replacement)
- CrosPaper (Wallpaper/Screensaver Manager)
- CrosManager (System Manager)
Audio Only for YouTube™ Better Twitch Adblock BetterTTV Channel Blocker Dark Reader Gumbo: Twitch Companion HTTPS Everywhere LeechBlock NG MAL-Sync NoScript Return YouTube Dislike ScrewMyCode.in: Pitch control for YouTube Truffle uBlock Origin Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos Violentmonkey
A bunch of other key extensions already listed, but what I don't see that I use often is redirector. It lets you put in regex patterns to redirect window locations to another destination. For example I've used it to redirect any
reddit.comlink toold.reddit.com, use it to remove tracking parameters from URLS, redirectyoutubetoyewtube, etc.For sake of the thread though, here's a short list I have on all systems
- Redirector
- Ublock Origin
- Firefox multi containers
- Bitwarden
- Ghunt companion
- Leech block
- Noscript
Used to have
- RES
- Modtoolbox
- Privacy Badger
- HTTPS everywhere
My must haves:
- Bitwarden
- Dark reader
- Ublock origin
- Video speed controller
- Ublock Origin: to block ads of course
- SponsorBlock: to skip youtube sponsor spots and begging for likes and dislikes and leave a comment and ring the notification bell. Or skip straight to high lights.
- FireFox Multiaccount Container: For separate containers to keep accounts isolated from each other
- old reddit reddit: will be looking for a teddit.net redirect now
- Reddit Enhancement Suite: when used with reddit was my best friend
Simple Tab Groups helps me alot for organizing windows and tabs for certain topics
FediFollow is great for following people on other instances without much copy/paste work
My list for Firefox:
- Always on Top
- Display #Anchors
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
- Regex Search
- Simple Tab Groups
- Stylus
- uBlock Origin
- MarkDownload is wonderful
- FoxyGestures: Pull left to go back, scribble 'Z' to close a tab
- Omnivore: Read stuff later
- CORS Everywhere
- Tab Containers
- Container Proxy (I could never get the built-in Tab Container function to work, this just lets me set certain tabs to hit the proxy)
- uBlock Origin, naturally
- uBlock
- Malwarebytes Browser Guard
- Bitwarden
- DDG
- Privacy Badger
- Grammarly
- RES
All in Firefox. :)
Firefox:
UBlock Origin
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin
DecentraleyesBrave:
UBlock Origin
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials PluginI dont use HTTPS Everywhere anymore because its included in Firefox and Brave!
Edit: I only use Brave to do my school homework because firefox messes with the website we use sometimes.
-uBlock Origin
-Sponsorblock
-Unhook for youtube
-unpinterested
-panicbutton
Also adguard dns filtering on my mobile devices. Would highly recommend panicbutton as a quick way to set a task aside without opening a new window and unhook to filter out the trash YouTube is shoveling onto the home page
I use...
- uBlock Origin
- BlockTube
- Readwise highlighter
- Ruffle.rs
- RSS Preview
- 1Password
On Firefox:
- uBlock Origin
- Bitwarden
- Decentraleyes
- Terms of Service; Didn't Read
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
- Facebook Container
- Consent-O-Matic
- Don't Track Me Google
...and the add-ons not related to privacy:
- 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)
- Zhongwen
- New Xkit
- Earth View from Google Earth
- Palette Creator
- Save to Notion
- Send to Outline
- Web to EPUB
I use most of these on Brave Browser, too.
A nice on i use is NighEye. I've forgotten what it feels like to have your retinas burned. Feels good
- AdNauseam (for cases when other extensions miss something)
- Bypass Paywalls
- Decentraleyes
- Don't touch my tabs! (rel=noopener)
- Don't track me Google
- Forget Me Not
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Old Reddit Redirect
- Redirector (to use the Vector theme on MediaWiki instances)
- uBlock Origin
- uMatrix
- User-Agent Switcher and Manager
The only one I use that wasn't mentioned yet is unpaywall, for finding scientific articles in open databases.
More than I feel makes sense to post TBH. But a few important ones (for Firefox):
uBlock Origin
Sidebery to get my tabs in a vertical tree; if you often have more than 10-15 tabs I really recommend this!
Bitwarden (password manager)
Checker Plus for Gmail + Checker Plus for Google Calendar, easy-access email/calendar in a small window, I very rarely actually go to gmail.com
Return YouTube Dislike
Tampermonkey for userscripts on Kbin
Video Speed Controller, I use numpad +/- to increase/decrease speed by 0.25x, works basically everywhere including YouTube- uBlock Origin
Important. I've added the Bypass Paywalls-filter as well, which makes browsing a lot more pleasant.
- SponsorBlock
I will not watch ads, not even one.
- I still don't care about cookies
This removes most of the annoyance of cookie banners and consent dialogs
- Redirect AMP to HTML
AMP sucks, rather not even see it
- Libredirect
A recent favorite - I started using this as Twitter on web was becoming increasingly unusable, and Nitter is a fine alternative. Now I use it for Twitter, TikTok, Imgur, Medium and Reddit.
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AdGuard Extra
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AdNauseam (uBlock Origin fork)
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Bitwarden
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Clickbait Remover for Youtube
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Custom Scrollbars
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Don't accept image/webp
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Enhancer for Youtube
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Proton VPN
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RES
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Return Youtube Dislike
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Sponsorblock
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Thumbnail Rating Bar for Youtube
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Tree Style Tab
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Translate Web Pages
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uBlacklist (no more deviantart trash in image search)
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Redditsave (probably won't need this anymore since i moved here)
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vidIQ Vision for Youtube (information on screen pleases me)
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Violentmonkey
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Youtube-shorts block
and thanks to the based commenters here, learned there were some userscripts for kbin and got the Dark Reader extension
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Here are the plugins I use:
- React Developer Tools (useful for developing with React)
- Ublock Origin
- Return Youtube Dislike
- SponsorBlock
- Grepper (shows convenient code snippets when I Google stuff)
- Cold Turkey Blocker (I use this to to block websites/apps when I need to focus)
- Shinigami Eyes (highlights queer friendly and anti queer subreddits/users/facebook pages/group differently)
Browser: Firefox, gonna name stuff i don't see mentioned yet
'Multi Account Containers' + 'Container Tabs Sidebar' + 'Switch Container' + 'Temporary Containers' +
'don't care about cookies''Consent-o-matic'
basically allows you to easily have multiple accounts on websites while also making sure everything stays contained to its own bubble, and anything I don't have a dedicated container for gets a temporary container that deletes the cookies after a bitin order for me to both not care about cookies and also not get any cookies.at this point mostly because I don't like accidentally having an account on a non-contained instanceff2mpv - easily launch videos in mpv, requires a bit of setup
Image Search Options - finding the source of most drawings, spotting which anime a clip is from etc
Yomichan for quick access to locally installed dictionaries (for Japanese in this case)
Toggle ClipboardI have these extensions pinned:
- uBlock Origin
- Firshot (takes screenshots of website with scrolling)
- Google Translate
- Wolfram Alpha
- Tampermonkey (let's me write/add scripts to websites)
- Just a clock (I hide my windows startbar so having a little clock always displayed is nice)
And my remaining extensions are:
- Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
- BetterTTV
- Chrome Remote Desktop
- Confetti Snippets (adds copy button to code on Stack Overflow)
- DeArrow (Crowdsourced titles and thumbnails to remove clickbait from YouTube)
- Enhanced Steam
- Google Docs Offline
HTTPS Everywhere (changes http links to https)- JSONVue (formats and makes json collapsible)
- Lighthouse (tests website performance)
- Netflix Extended
- Reddit Enhancement Suite
- Refined Prime Video
- Resource Override (let's me replace requested web resources with local versions of those files)
- Return YouTube Dislikes
- Save All Resources
- ShareX
- SponsorBlock
- SteamDB
- Tab to Window/Popup (adds keyboard shortcuts to between normal browser windows and the popup windows that don't waste space with a title bar, useful for vertically split window layouts)
- uBlacklist (block sites from Google search results)
- View Image (returns view image option to Google Images)
- WAVE Evaluation Tool (tests website accessibility)