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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can't stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it's kinda wild to me that this isn't more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It's good for the same reasons!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In case you didn't know, the "I don't care about cookies" extension was recently sold to Avast. I don't know if anyone has seen them make any sketchy changes yet, but personally I didn't want to trust them and uninstalled it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, well, that's too bad. Thank you for pointing this out!

Apparently, there is now a debloated fork "I still don't care about cookies" but the last update was in February and the issues are all open.

Why fork?

This extension has been acquired by Avast and I simply don't trust Avast with my data. Additionally, having it on Github allows us to improve the code and add support for websites faster.

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

UPD: @[email protected] has mentioned a great alternative called Consent-O-Matic (MIT License)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So what would you recommend to replace it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You could try Consent-O-Matic. That’s what I use. It also doesn’t simply agree to everything like the other one but chooses the most privacy-friendly option instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ublock Origin has annoyance filters that you can enable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does this work for you? I have that filter enabled but it doesn't really catch everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently I just deal with the banners (as annoying as they are) and shed a tear at the state of the modern internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ublock origin has additional filters that block these. Check out the settings.