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What browser extensions do you use?

I generally use the following:

  • uBlock Origin
  • SponsorBlock
  • Honey
  • Wayback Machine
  • Netflix Watch List Manager
  • Shadertoy plugin
  • RES....

What does Lemmy use?

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  • Looking at the comments, interest in privacy and adblocking seem high. But the actual addons suggested here are often redundant or even worse, make you easier to track. Instead, take a look at the Arkenfox wiki, which is more or less the gold standard for browser privacy. Both LibreWolf and Mullvad Browser, practically the most privacy/anonymity oriented browsers out there, right behind Tor, either rely on it or stick very closely to it.
    I highly recommend reading the entire wiki from the start. You dont have to do everything it says, obviously, but even if you dont do anything it will give you a better understanding of browser privacy. And lastly, do not use Chrome or any chromium based browser if you care about privacy and a free and open internet. Even if you only use a chromium based browser, you help increase googles monopoly.

  • I'm using Firefox:

    1. uBlock
    2. Darkreader
    3. Privacy Badger
    4. NoScript
    5. uMatrix
    6. Bookmark Dupes
    7. CanvasBlocker
    8. ClearURLs
    9. YT Enhancer
    10. FF Relay
    11. Open in Private Mode
    12. Open Tabs Next to Current
    13. Secure Password Generator
    14. Toggle web custom fonts
  • Firefox:
    UBlock Origin
    DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin
    Decentraleyes

    Brave:
    UBlock Origin
    DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin

    I dont use HTTPS Everywhere anymore because its included in Firefox and Brave!

    Edit: I only use Brave to do my school homework because firefox messes with the website we use sometimes.

  • Here are the plugins I use:

    • React Developer Tools (useful for developing with React)
    • Ublock Origin
    • Return Youtube Dislike
    • SponsorBlock
    • Grepper (shows convenient code snippets when I Google stuff)
    • Cold Turkey Blocker (I use this to to block websites/apps when I need to focus)
    • Shinigami Eyes (highlights queer friendly and anti queer subreddits/users/facebook pages/group differently)
  • Browser: Firefox, gonna name stuff i don't see mentioned yet


    'Multi Account Containers' + 'Container Tabs Sidebar' + 'Switch Container' + 'Temporary Containers' + 'don't care about cookies' 'Consent-o-matic'
    basically allows you to easily have multiple accounts on websites while also making sure everything stays contained to its own bubble, and anything I don't have a dedicated container for gets a temporary container that deletes the cookies after a bit in order for me to both not care about cookies and also not get any cookies. at this point mostly because I don't like accidentally having an account on a non-contained instance

    ff2mpv - easily launch videos in mpv, requires a bit of setup

    Image Search Options - finding the source of most drawings, spotting which anime a clip is from etc

    Yomichan for quick access to locally installed dictionaries (for Japanese in this case)
    Toggle Clipboard

  • More than I feel makes sense to post TBH. But a few important ones (for Firefox):

    uBlock Origin
    Sidebery to get my tabs in a vertical tree; if you often have more than 10-15 tabs I really recommend this!
    Bitwarden (password manager)
    Checker Plus for Gmail + Checker Plus for Google Calendar, easy-access email/calendar in a small window, I very rarely actually go to gmail.com
    Return YouTube Dislike
    Tampermonkey for userscripts on Kbin
    Video Speed Controller, I use numpad +/- to increase/decrease speed by 0.25x, works basically everywhere including YouTube

  • I have these extensions pinned:

    • uBlock Origin
    • Firshot (takes screenshots of website with scrolling)
    • Google Translate
    • Wolfram Alpha
    • Tampermonkey (let's me write/add scripts to websites)
    • Just a clock (I hide my windows startbar so having a little clock always displayed is nice)

    And my remaining extensions are:

    • Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
    • BetterTTV
    • Chrome Remote Desktop
    • Confetti Snippets (adds copy button to code on Stack Overflow)
    • DeArrow (Crowdsourced titles and thumbnails to remove clickbait from YouTube)
    • Enhanced Steam
    • Google Docs Offline
    • HTTPS Everywhere (changes http links to https)
    • JSONVue (formats and makes json collapsible)
    • Lighthouse (tests website performance)
    • Netflix Extended
    • Reddit Enhancement Suite
    • Refined Prime Video
    • Resource Override (let's me replace requested web resources with local versions of those files)
    • Return YouTube Dislikes
    • Save All Resources
    • ShareX
    • SponsorBlock
    • SteamDB
    • Tab to Window/Popup (adds keyboard shortcuts to between normal browser windows and the popup windows that don't waste space with a title bar, useful for vertically split window layouts)
    • uBlacklist (block sites from Google search results)
    • View Image (returns view image option to Google Images)
    • WAVE Evaluation Tool (tests website accessibility)
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