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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] 2 points 1 year ago

Some of my favorite Firefox extensions:

uBlock Origin: The best ad blocker you can get.
Imagus: Enlarges images and displays linked images when you hover over them.
Multi-Account Containers: Allows you to create containers to completely isolate specific sites.
KeePassXC-Browser: Browser integration for KeePassXC password manager.
SponsorBlock: Skips sponsored video segments on youtube.
Hide Youtube-Shorts: Hides those annoying vertical videos on youtube.
Enhancer for Youtube: Lots of extra configuration options and controls for youtube.

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

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

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

What does it do?

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

Members of the community highlight built in sponsored segments and the extension/addon allows you to skip over them.

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

It automatically skips sponsorship segments

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

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

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

helps my ADHD

Only barely related, but have you ever tried JiffyReader? It highlights the first segment of each word, which is supposed to help ADHDers focus on each word instead of skimming over whole sentences/paragraphs/pages at once. It does help me like, some.

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

Chrome:

Safari:

PiPifier
Vinegar
Sponsorblock
Eat the shorts (no longer available)

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

What in the world was "eat the shorts"?

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

Sponsorblock is really cool! thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does anyone know of an extension that let's you view privated subs on Reddit? I'm tired of the not being able to access important info because of the blackouts. If anyone knows of an extension or a TamperMonkey script please let me know!

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

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.

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

Ps I don't care about cookies extension was recently sold to Avast.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/21/avast_buys_i_dont_care_about_cookies_addon/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ublock origin Adguard Aguard Extra Bitwarden Privacy badger Tampermonkey Dark reader Sponsorblock

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Besides ad/tracking blockers, my #1 is a dimmer. Helps the eyes! lol. Especially at night.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Facebook container is one i use that blocks facebook tracking with tracking pixels for example.

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

Ublock origin
Zhongwen learning tool
Zoom page we
Mailvelope
Youtube audio
Firefox multi-account containers
Imtranslator

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

FoxScroller, I like to scroll pages while practicing music, which always impresses people. Gesturefy, gotta have those mouse gestures. With a tiny Windows program called NeatMouse I can do it all with the keyboard, too. Kinda off topic. Imagus, what is this clicking and opening crap? SessionSync is good for saving your tabs. Fun to see what you were wasting time on 5 years ago.

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

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

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

Oooh, I need to check out SAML tracer. Thanks!

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

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

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

More comments at https://beehaw.org/post/432185

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

web of trust, or mywot. puts a little sign next to every link telling you if they're trustworthy. fucken game changer. botsight is a great one for twitter. and buzzkill, well, kills buzzfeed

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

These are all I use:

Edge on desktop:

Ublock Origin
DownThemAll
IDontCareAboutCookies

Safari on iOS:

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

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

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