LibRedirect. Excellent one, that.
Im using Firefox/a fork of it - please note that many of the below mentioned extensions either only exist for Firefox or don’t work well with Chromium browsers due to manifest V3.
- UBlock Origin
- I still don’t care about cookies
- CanvasBlocker
- Multi account containers
- Dark Reader
- FlagFox
- (Bitwarden)
Id replace „still dont care about cookies“ with consent-o-magic. It actually deselects tracking cookies instead of ignoring/acknowleding them
Thanks for the tip!
FlagFox
This one is really useful, thanks!
uBO, Facebook container, Bitwarden, Privacy Badger. People say uBO already covers Privacy Badger but I like keeping it there because of the replace widget feature.
Metamask, excellent extension.
I try to use a minimum for performance reasons. My big three are uBlock Origin, Dark Reader and a password manager.
Tree style tabs
If only it was easier to remove the default tabs from firefox so you don’t have duplicate tabs. I recently had problems getting the userCSS to do its thing, trying different directories. In the end the problem however was that I tried to link it with a symbolic link which for some reason doesn’t work.
It’s easy. I’ve had that removed in my config for over a decade
I got it work too but wouldn’t call it easy. My process involves going to about:config to enable some variable that has a super long name. Then find out where the profiles are saved and remember not to use the “cached” directory version which I always end up on first. Then selecting one of the cryptic profile names and creating some specific directory structure and copying or linking (but no soft linking) my config there.
A simple checkbox in the settings would be nice, or another browser extension. Or is there an easier process?
Outside of what has already been mentioned, I still don’t care about cookies and cookie autodelete in tandem. The first accepts cookies. The second deletes them when you are done.
Cookie autodelete is useless if you use Firefox on strict mode.
Or use Consent-o-matic to not accept cookies
surfingkeys - extension which add vim keybindings for control your browser without mouse
I really only run 3 addons in Firefox currently. Chrome is the same but without UBlock.
- UBlock Origin
- BitWarden
- Streetpass for Mastodon
Sponsorblock for YouTube. It automatically skips over parts of videos where they try to get you to play Raid Shadow Legends.
This + DeArrow. DeArrow replaces clickbaity titles and thumbnails with better titles submitted by the community. I wouldn’t ever use youtube without it again. With this setup I don’t even want to watch most videos anymore, which is a good thing, because let’s be real, youtube is a big waste of time.
let’s be real, youtube is a big waste of time
I see people say this a lot, especially on the fediverse, and it makes me wonder why people think youtube is a “waste of time” when youtube’s uses are what the user makes of it.
I primarily use youtube for learning things. There are so many thousands of hours of useful, educational content on youtube that I find the suggestion that the entire platform is useless clickbait to be reductive and disingenuous.
Sure, there are channels I watch for typical mind-numbing content like Let’s Plays and such, but I wouldn’t suggest that youtube is wholly a waste of time just because there’s plenty of mindless content on it.
Just like Reddit or Lemmy, I can create an account and subscribe to a bunch of dumb shitposting communities, but I can also subscribe to a bunch of interesting hobbyist/intrigue communities.
How to reduce time on Youtube or make it more enjoyable
- avoid shorts completely (revanced)
- avoid reaction videos
- avoid any video which has someone with a mouth open or just making a ridiculous face
- avoid videos with clickbaity thumbnails/titles (duh) no matter how much you like the creator
- avoid videos which have “watch till the end” in the title
- [Important] watch channels with moderate number of subs and views
If you are being intentional about its use, then you can get a lot out of it. But for some, maybe even most, YouTube is a distraction.
Reminder to support creators in other ways if you’re going to use this.
You know creators get paid for the sponsor right? Not for if people watch that part or not.
A main reason youtube is so successful as an advertising product is their detailed metrics. Virtually every sponsor will want to see each video’s metrics which show retention during different parts of the video. It would be the same as putting the ad at the end of an hour long video; if they see a huge drop off where almost no one sees the ad, they may decide the creator didn’t fulfill their end of the contract, or pay them proportionally to the retention during the ad.
Thing is, the way a company determines if a sponsorship is working is by using offer codes. If no one is using an offer code, the company is going to assume that that sponsorship isn’t working out and might terminate the deal.
Not my problem,I’m never sitting through ads/shilling ever again
I have premium so they’re already getting my money.
Yeah, that’s fair.
I use ublock origin, sponsorblock, dearrow and I’m never turning them off
I’m still of the mind that I can just fast forward through those sections. It’s not particularly egregious or annoying imo. Just hit that right arrow a few times and boom.
My list of extensions
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Imagus - displays bigger image when hovered over (Imagus Mod recommended);
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Sponsor Block - Skips promotions on YT videos;
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TOS;DR - summarizes TOS and Privacy Policies;
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Cookie Autodelete - erases cookies when you close a tab, can make you log out regularly if you don’t put an website on a whitelist, though.
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Dark Reader - changes the page CSS and creates a dark mode version of any page, while it isn’t always 100% perfect, it has many useful configurations, like whitelisting websites OR words on them, changing to a light mode, but less bright version of it, setting up the time that it activates, and a few more.
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Open tabs next to current/Always Right - What the names says, 2 different extensions, but on Chrome I prefer to combine them.
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Wayback Machine - has an option to auto archive, can bring you to oldest or newest versions of websites and links.
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Search Image - gives you 6 or so options to search for an image online, kind of combines with Imagus.
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uBlock Origin - the best ad blocker so far, browsers with built in adblock use it.
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Privacy Badger - blocks hidden trackers once it sees then on 3 different websites
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WhatFont - displays the font name in a popup, this is more a personal thing, but I enjoy it.
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Anti fingerprinting extensions can possibly help.
This is a long list, but these are one of the extensions that I have and I most value, there are some otherb too, but those are more aesthetic than anything.
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ToS;DR (Terms of Service; Didn’t Read). It gives pages a rating based on their terms of service. It also provides you with a plain-english breakdown of the terms of a site/service.
it’s a pretty controversial opinion that’s practically impossible to regulate but I think purposefully making TOS/Legal stuff harder to read solely to get away with stuff that the user would disagree with should be illegal
Imo, ToS;DR isn’t, and shouldn’t be, a replacement for a proper legal document. A proper legal document will contain all of the necessary definitions for clarity, and will word things accurately to cover all possible loopholes. ToS;DR simply provides a sort of point-form summary of the main rules and points that a person should be aware of in a very basic and quick-to-digest manner.
Imagus feels like in an alternate universe it could be default browser behavior. When you hover over an image it will expand to full resolution and then you can press buttons to open in new tab, download, zoom in, etc.
Works on pretty much any website and is nice if the website has sized the images too small or if your eyesight is less than great.this looks interesting, gonna give it a go
Detrumpify
Kill Sticky is a really good one, makes even the most bloated websites readable.
uBlock can do this as well, ticking the annoyances options
Not really, uBO blocks some known stuff like cookie notices while Kill Sticky removes every fixed element on a webpage. It’s actually more similar to Reader View.
