Free and Open Source Software
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You have got to use AdNauseum. It obsfuscates your browsing data, making it harder for companies to track you and give you targeted ads.
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 Regrettably, it is no longer maintained.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?
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).
uBlock Origin, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Bitwarden, and SponsorBlock for YouTube are my favorite ones.
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.
@ericjmorey@beehaw.org @foss@beehaw.org
(These are mostly for :firefox:)
⦿Swift Selection Search
⦿Leechblock
⦿SimpleLogin by @simplelogin@fosstodon.org
⦿intention
⦿OCR image reader