What are your favorite browser extensions? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ericjmorey@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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What browser extensions do you use that you'd recommend to others?

Do you contribute to any FOSS browser extension projects?

Are there any non-FOSS extensions that you wish had a sufficient FOSS alternative?

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[-] nxtequal@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You have got to use AdNauseum. It obsfuscates your browsing data, making it harder for companies to track you and give you targeted ads.

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[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

uMatrix, which lets me choose which kinds of content (cookies, scripts, etc) from which domains are allowed in my browser. Regrettably, it is no longer maintained. I wonder if there's some alternative that is maintained?

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[-] lalay721@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

I use the following ones (on Firefox), except for uBO the others are just for conveniency:

Bitwarden
Gesturefy (for some time from early 2021 to late 2022 I used to use Vivaldi as my primary browser and now if I'm using a mouse, not having gestures in a browser feels odd...)
LibRedirect
Plasma Integration
uBlock Origin (middle mode and with some additional lists)
User-Agent Switcher and Manager (if I find a site that says it doesn't work with Firefox).

[-] admin@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Bitwarden, and SponsorBlock for YouTube are my favorite ones.

[-] JshKlsn@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I cannot stand SponsorBlock anymore. It's been abused so much, that any time any video even slightly mentions a brand, sponsor or not, it skips it.

I find that it breaks context in a lot of videos, and you end up missing important stuff. I especially find it to be true in LTT videos.

For me, SponsorBlock is disabled until they fix the abuse. There's a very clear difference between a SPONSOR and just mentioning an entity that exists on this planet.

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[-] aRubes@sloth.run 0 points 1 year ago

@ericjmorey@beehaw.org @foss@beehaw.org

(These are mostly for :firefox:)

⦿Swift Selection Search
⦿Leechblock
⦿SimpleLogin by @simplelogin@fosstodon.org
⦿intention
⦿OCR image reader