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yuunikki @lemmy.world

1y ago

What addons/scripts,etc do you consider necessary for firefox?

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Ublock origin, consent o matic
- I would flip origin for Adnausem. It is built on top of unlock origin and it will click on the ads behind the scene and messes your digital footprint.
  
  I love that, what a great idea!
- Tried consent-o-matic yesterday, it saved me a bunch of clicks and F12s to ~~hide~~ remove cookies popups that always covers my screen.. thanks!

uBlock Origin and I don't care about cookies. They're essential for me.
- Just so you know IDCAC was bought by Avast, which is being bought by Norton/Symantec. There's "I still don't care about cookies" or the built in uBlock cookie banner options as a replacement.

uBlock origin - block ad
Dark reader - add dark mode to every website
Tridactyl - keyboard navigation
Bitwarden - password manager
YouTube enhancer - add improvement to YT
SponsorBlock - block sponsor segment in YT video
Base16 theme - have gruvboxdark theme
- You nearly tricked me to install a vim plugin. I'd never be able to exit my browser again! /s
  
  you say it like it's a bad thing
- Commenting to go back to this later
  
  You could save the original comment instead of

Apart from what others mentioned I'd suggest installing DeArrow, from the maker of SponsorBlock. It gets rid of clickbait titles and thumbnails on YouTube.
- But then where will I get to see an overexposed background image, some all caps text, and a portrait of someone with their mouth open, all at once?
  
  You can click the dearrow button next to all thumbnails to see the original title and image.
- DeArrow
  OMG This makes Youtube useable!!! Honestly, it just relieved so much anxiety for me.

People have already covered the great ones so I will mention one of the more obscure.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/
- Holy shit. Been looking for an addon like this

Ublock origin (Adblocker)
Sponsor Block(YouTube sponspor skip)
Clickbait remove (remove those awful thumbnails)
Bitwarden Password Manager
Clearurls (clean trackers in url)
Bonus
Decenteraleyes
- What about ghostery? I just started using it and I really like it, but, I just started using it :-)
  
  I have heard that Ghostery was sponsored by the ad industry to collect data. Been a while though.
  Try ublock matrix for an alternative.
- Clearurls sounds divine. I'm always deleting that extra bs.

uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock

The only add-on that I consider necessary is uBO (with advanced settings).
All others are very good to have installed, in fact I use many of them, but I can live on just fine without them.

uBlock Origin
Dark Reader
Return YouTube Dislike
SponsorBlock
Skip Redirect or Fast Forward
- Dark reader screws up some sites for me, I prefer "dark background and light text" cuz it's more comprehensive and you can customize the asset colors

uBO and noscript

Unlock origin, fast forward, dark reader, turbo downloader 3, sponsor block and terms of service; didn't read.

Bypass for ublock for getting past paywalls

UBO (lots of links already in this thread)
LocalCDN
Linguist Translator - use the Bergamot engine for total privacy
ClearURLs

Ublock origin is a requirement for all browsers, not just firefox. So definitely that one.

Bitwarden, cookie autodelete

Just uBlock.

Outside of already mentioned:
Throttle Tabs – hides and closes tabs beyond a limit
LibRedirect – redirects to alternative frontends of sites (for example youtube)
Firefox Translations – offline translations
Web Archives

I keep coming back to Firefox cuz no other browser has as good of a dark mode addon as "dark background and light text"

A user Agent switcher, saml tracer

tab group add ons
- as an addon for all the others

uBlock Origin simply required. Dark Reader is nice to have but not required.

NoScript, uBlock Origin and Dark mode. (But I prefer the experimental darkmode setting in Vivaldi) Those are essential to me.
Panorama view is close to essential, I wish I found a tab stack alternative that works with it. (Haven't looked yet, Vivaldi is my current main browser, until Fifefox can get tames in the same way)

uBlock Origin and Dark Reader.

I miss Session Manager
- What is it

I use Privacy Badger to just help block trackers and stuff, I think Firefox has this built in though now

uMatrix
Firefox Multi Account Containers
Video Speed Controller
Cookie AutoDelete
- uMatrix is unfortunately discontinued. It's successor is uBlock origin. I learned that some month ago and switched fully to UBO.
  There is an good article in the Github documentation from UBO, that can activate similar features like uMatrix.
  Blocking mode: Medium mode

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