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Well damn. Thank you. Saving this! I have Ublock origin already. I’m excited about the other suggestions too!
Pinterest is half the fucking google image search. Bye! And the other half is shopping ads. Google can kiss my grits.
Use alternative front-end ends of the popular sites such as youtube , Twitter, medium , Google,etc you use to get a privacy enhanced, ad free, clutter free experience.
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
There's apps that can automatically redirect you to these alternative whenever you encounter their counterpart.
That looks cool! Saved. What apps could do the redirect? Would that be possible with an extension? That would be awesome.
Libredirect: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
Bonus : https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy
That libredirect plugin is awesome! Just tried it quickly on Quora and that works.
Should also be said that for various edge cases where a extension doesn't exist, uBlock's element selector function lets you get very granular with filtering things. If you know a bit of html/css, you can get creative with it and consistently hide just about any element you like across many different sites.
For example, recently I've been on a quest to de-rating all my favorite media sites and Google results, etc. No more wayward rotten tomatoes, metacritic, or imbd scores when I want to look up info on media unless I go looking for them on those websites. No addon that I'm aware of exists solely for this purpose, so I'm basically using uBlock to do it by using the element selector any time I see them. Some sites make this tricky, and any adjustment to the design of the page could break it, but the joy I get from being able to curate my web experience to exactly what I want to it to be can't be understated.
There's a list for that I believe
I wish kbin had a save feature; I'm replying so I can find this later 😆
On lemmy, you can click on the little ... at the bottom of the post and save bookmarks of posts and replies :)
You can always bookmark the direct link to this post :')
If you're on mobile I suggest using Pocket app to save interesting links, you can find the Android version here and iOS version here.
I like Ghostery too. It blocks cookies and trackers so I can just search for something without being bombarded by ads for it later.
Saving this comment. Thanks!
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? I should ignore ad content?
Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
That is an amazing list of helpful extensions, THANK YOU!
Thanks! Was looking for useful extensions. Saved!