Technology

Definetely libredirect. It redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to privacy friendly frontends.

umatrix. ..underappreciated imo.
take a shot for everytime sum1 mentions ublock.
get $100 dollars everytime sum1 mentions umatrix.
im still broke but wasted AF!

Question: Does anyone know what security and privacy extensions are considered redundant in light of recent Firefox improvements in the past few years?

For example, I saw several people recommend Privacy Badger for example. I thought I heard somewhere that was considered not needed now. I do not know for sure so am frankly confused by this and some of the other extensions which I too use to use.

For me I have kind of stopped using most security/privacy extensions except uBlockOrigin and then just configuring Firefox rather tightly. Not sure if this is best approach or not. On one hand every extension increases the attack surface and the uniqueness of the browser so there is a point about less is better, on the other hand some may be useful too.

Thoughts? Thanks.

SingleFile ! Best method of keeping pages for offline use !

Dark Reader, because dark mode rocks.

Consent-O-Matic, it declines all cookie banners for you (or accepts you can decide it in the settings)

Other than Ublock Origin and Bitwarden, these are some of my favourites :

Temporary Containers is a new favourite of mine. It works just like container tabs, but the difference is that it deletes the history of that tab once it's closed, similar to Incognito/Private instance.

Reddit Comments for Youtube - If a youtube video has been linked to reddit, then it basically gives a small box which lists all the subs the video has been linked to and shows you the comments. If you're logged into reddit, then it will allow you to comment as well.

Keepa for Amazon. Let's you track price history for any product, so you can see if a sale is actually a real sale or not.

Tab Session Manager - Basically lets you save tab sessions.

Enhancer for Youtube and Pockettube Subscription Manager - Gives various youtube enhancements.

Stylus - To style websites. I mainly use it to fix the youtube thumbnail and font size.

I shared one on reddit that replaces pictures of spiders with kittens and it was met with a pretty shocking amount of hatred and vitriol brought my way, so nervous to share it here. But still I thought it was nice.

Another for Ublock Origin

Youtube Enhancer

Imagus [enlarges images, great for my old tired eyeballs]

Ad Observer (run by Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University, it examines any ads you DO get to look for patterns in how advertising is being used to influence people on social media.)

To Google Translate (Highlight something and send it straight to a Translate page)

I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+

It gets quite extensive for me by now

• uBlock Origin
• Consent-O-Matic
• Dark Reader
• Bitwarden
• Tab Session Manager

• SponsorBlock for Youtube
• Return Youtube Dislike
• Clickbait Remover for Youtube
• Auto HD / 4k / 8k for YouTube

• Alternate Player for Twitch.tv

• Augmented Steam
• Show Great on Deck on Steam
• alike03's Subscription Info on Steam

• Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker

And a few additional ones for selfhosted apps like FreshRSS Checker

I'm using FF and I only have one extension, it's ublock origin

I use Grammarly, Facebook Container and uBlock Origin.
Facebook Container keeps facebook from spying on your internet traffic

LibRedirect: redirect Website links to alternative frontends like Nitter, invidious, rimgo etc. - couldn't live without it especially on mobile where using Twitter without the app is really obnoxious

CookieAutoDelete combined with 'I still don't care about cookies': delete cookies the moment you close the tab if not whitelisted, also remove cookie notices and accept all cookies.

Nano Gestures: mouse gestures for navigating websites

For Lemmy:

Stylus. And then find Lemmy scripts on UserStyles.world to install into Stylus and you can change the look and feel for Lemmy to make it more like Reddit, or whatever. I currently use a combination of 'Better Lemmy' and 'Old reddit-ish Lemmy'.

For general browsing:

uBlock Origin for ads

Privacy Badger for tracking

For YouTube:

Enhancer for YouTube

uBlock Origin
Read Aloud
FB Purity
Facebook Container
SAML-tracer (for work)

Tree Style Tabs for Firefox gets installed on every Desktop install I use.

Disconnect

ReviewMeta.com

Consent-O-Matic

DDG Privacy Essentials Coin Mining Blocker Enhancer for YouTube Turbo Download Manager Ghostery uBlock Origin Surfshark VPN Extension Privacy Badger

I physically can't use a browser without Vimium anymore.

Sponsorblock. Makes YouTube, even with Premium, a lot more enjoyable.

can't live without:

• uBlock (goes without saying)
• Startpage Privacy (I've also used Privacy Badger, giving this one a try and it seems to work well)
• Vimium (browse using vim shortcuts)
• New Window Without Toolbar (does what it says; opens the current page in a new window without any toolbar at all, nice minimal look)
• New Tab Override (so new tabs land on my personal landing page, not the Firefox home or blank)

That's it really, my needs are simple.

Also, TIL about "I don't care about cookies" so I'm tempted to install that, but I do sort of care about cookies... but I also clear them relatively frequently, so it's probably fine.

Mine's Redirector. I use it to force redirection of some URLs, for example:

• Redirecting an amp URL to a non-amp
• Redirecting the URL of a small-scaled image to the URL of the original size
• Redirecting a mobile site to its desktop equvalent (e.g. Wikipedia)
• When I was using Reddit, I also used this extension to force all links to go to old.reddit.com

I think I use too many on Firefox ahahah

Ads and privacy
UBlock Origin (AdBlocker)
Privacy Badger (Blocks some trackers)
ClearURLs (removes tracking elements from URLs)
DeleteNonio (in my country, all newspapers are trying to force you to sign up for this service with an annoying popup)
Don't Track me Google (removes tracking from Google search result links)
Startpage.com (search engine)
Firefox Multi-Account containers/Facebook Container (so cookies cannot be accessed between all sites freely)

Reddit
Old Reddit Redirect (I really don't want the new design)
Reddit Enhancement Suite (nice features to have)
LeechBlock NG (to block Reddit during the blackout. See you next week...maybe)

YouTube
Enhancer for YouTube (some QoL features)
SponsorBlock for YouTube (skip sponsor parts in videos)
YouTube Auto Like (auto likes the videos you watch, depending on what you decide in the settings)
Youtube NonStop (no more "Video Paused. Continue Watching?")

QoL
Rikaichamp (translate Japanese on hover)
Augmented Steam (to check prices between stores, mostly)
Dark Reader (turn dark mode for select websites)
Firefox Translations (website translation, like Chrome and Edge have)
LanguageTool (to help me write fewer mistakes)
Metrification (convert imperial to metric on the fly)
Tampermonkey (to add some useful scripts to sites you want)

Visual
Firefox Color (to customize the theme)
Tabliss (new tab page)
Wide Github (change repos to be full width)
Stylus (add custom CSS to sites you want)

• uBlock Origin is pretty self-explanatory
• Highlighter + Notes helps my ADHD a lot by letting me highlight important phrases in big blocks of texts, especially any articles or posts I might be reading and replying to
• Archive Page for archive.today is also self-explanatory, I like using it to create permalinks or de-paywalled links to news articles

I run Firefox

• AdNauseam (One step further than uBlock Origin, it actively clicks everything that missed my DNS blocks)
• Bitwarden
• Decentraleyes
• Enhance-O-Tron for Plex (For some reason some videos in my library have black bars hard coded into them. I could probably re-encode them to get rid of the bars, but this add-on just hides the bars at a button click. It's only a problem for monitors wider than 16:9)
• Enhancer for Youtube (TM) (Automatically expand the canvas out to the full screen and a bunch of other stuff.)
• Facebook Container (I don't use facebook, but the containers are nice to keep shit separated)
• Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker
• NoScript
• Redirect AMP to HTML
• ShareX ( I have workflows that automatically store stuff into my nextcloud and setup share links)
• SponsorBlock for Youtube - Skip Sponsorships
• Stylus

I had stuff for Reddit... but since I've moved off the platform, that's been nixed. And for those of you using the cookie accepting apps... Why not just block the element with uBlock?