What are your favorite browser extensions?

What browser extensions do you use that you'd recommend to others?

Do you contribute to any FOSS browser extension projects?

Are there any non-FOSS extensions that you wish had a sufficient FOSS alternative?

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Firefox user here.
Bitwarden password manager
Bypass Paywalls Clean
Clear URLs remove URL trackers
Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results to hide some unwanted websites from search results
Open in VLC™ media player, useful for some weird streams
Push to Kindle sends any text article to PDF or to your ereader (not only Kindle)
Recipe Filter filters recipe pages on blogs and just gets the actual ingredients & instructions
Redirector for a few paywalls where I use a specific proxy
RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - as I use Inoreader for following RSS feeds
Sci Hub Injector adds sci-hub links to many science publishing websites for easy access
Shinigami Eyes highlights trans-friendly and transphobic social media users or websites
uBlock Origin
ViolentMonkey for userscripts
Extensions to be helpful to other people:
Picket Line Notifier tells you if the website you are visiting has workers on strike - useful especially for ecommerce & news publishers
Snowflake is not noticeable for me, but allows other people to use my network as a Tor node or something idk
Wayback Machine archives every page I visit on the Internet Archive.
Fediverse extensions:
FediAct allows me to boost, reply to, follow, etc. on any Mastodon instance without having to open the right link in my own instance. I wish there was something like this for Lemmy and Peertube.
Fedishare allows for one-click sharing to several Fediverse platforms, including Lemmy and Mastodon
PeerTubeify tries to check if a YouTube video you're watching is also on PeerTube
Youtube extensions:
Auto HD / 4k / 8k pour YouTube™ - I use it for the environment, so default quality is 480px (because usually I watch the videos on a small side window so it doesn't change the visible quality)
Clickbait Remover for YouTube - replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video and makes all titles normally named, no all caps
DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - removes the homepage & sidebar on videos to avoid rabbit holes
SponsorBlock auto-skips sponsored segments, intros, credit rolls, etc. on YouTube videos

uBO, of course. note: you guys don't need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google
- +1 for Consent-O-Matic.

One I haven't seen mentioned yet is DownThemAll.
DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images on a website and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable filters to get only what you really want.
Comes in really handy sometimes. (For Firefox / Chrome / Edge)
Another is uBlacklist, which allows you to blacklist domains from Google / Bing / DDG search results (like say, pinterest.*), also for Firefox / Chrome / Edge.

One that I love is jumpcutter. Speeds up silences and makes watching long lectures way nice.
If I get back to my PC I'll send a few more extensions I use.

I use the following ones (on Firefox), except for uBO the others are just for conveniency:
Bitwarden
Gesturefy (for some time from early 2021 to late 2022 I used to use Vivaldi as my primary browser and now if I'm using a mouse, not having gestures in a browser feels odd...)
LibRedirect
Plasma Integration
uBlock Origin (middle mode and with some additional lists)
User-Agent Switcher and Manager (if I find a site that says it doesn't work with Firefox).

Firefox:
uBlock Origin (uBO) - The internet is basically unusable without this. {GPLv3}
Dark Reader - I like using dark themes and I hate when I get blasted with a light theme when I visit a site. This keeps that to a minimum. {MIT}
Firefox Multi-Account Containers - It's nice to keep things separated. {Mozilla Public License Version 2.0}
Consent-O-Matic - Automatically marks my saved cookie preferences on consent pop ups. This is a great tool to help counter to the dark patterns related to GDPR, but it isn't perfect. {MIT}
NoScript - I don't like giving blanket permission to run JavaScript in my browser. This let's me choose. {GPLv3}
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive - Archives the sites I visit automatically and provides a one click option to visit an archived version of a URL that returns 404. {Proprietary | I don't know of any alternatives}
Tampermonkey - There are a few very useful scripts that I run periodically. Tampermonkey keeps them organized and easy to run. {Proprietary | I don't know of any alternatives}
Reddit Enhancement Suite - I got a lot of value from this extension over the years, but I don't know how much value it has going forward for me {GPLv3}

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