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?
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 GoogleHe was in one of my instance lists on the extension, that’s disgusting. Removed immediately. Even if you forget how disgusting his views are, how can you can you trust an instance that monitors activity and keeps track of what you’re doing?
Thank you for the list. Had a stupid solution for what you use Consent-O-Matic for, and LibRedirect closes a gap bugging me for a while. I had no chance to try Buster yet, but I’m so looking forward to let software solve something grinding my gears with things software can solve better than software thinks.
Buster is a twisted work of a twisted genius. it uses accessibility version of captcha, which is based on recorded speech that you’re supposed to listen to and transcribe. it “plays” the audio silently, and uses speech recognition software to solve it.
for extra twistiness, you can actually set it up to use Google’s own speech recognition API.
That’s a bit like shoving their annoying puzzles up their own
arseKI.
Consent-O-Matic sounds really nice, thanks for sharing.
+1 for Consent-O-Matic.
I have created a FOSS extension called SyncMarks to sync bookmarks and tabs. It’s working with Firefox, Edge and Chromium and also on Kiwi on Android. You can sync your bookmarks independent from the browser and cross-browser. For example from Firefox to Edge or Chrome.
As a backend I would recommend my small php script which you can selhost. You only need PHP and a database like SQLite or MySQL. As fallback you can use any WebDAV share.
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
Bitwarden+ublock+libredirect
I see a lot of people using decentraleyes, no script, privacy badger, etc along ublock. Just wanna point out that these with ublock are generally redundant and actually increase your fingerprint.
Yeah I dropped most of them and only use NoScript and uBlock Origin now.
You’re right, preventing tracking and canvas fingerprinting ironically is in itself a fairly unique fingerprint. Although I’m not sure if not using decentraleyes is worth the tradeoff. It prevents hitting more third party sources altogether at the marginal cost of making you slightly more unique to the first party. Happy to learn more if I misunderstood.
Thanks for the info. Lots of other good input in there as well!
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Web Scrobbler
goto letterboxdWhy do these do?
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I’m not familiar with either of those services.
FoxyProxy in addition to many aforementioned extensions. Tor and popular VPNs just don’t work in my whereabouts, so, I have to use something more sophisticated like shadowsocks, for example, in order to circumvent government censorship and geoblocks.
I’m not sure what good it could do in the US but I’m happy it helps you, assuming you’re using it in an ethically sound manner.
uBlock Origin - as ad and script blocker
Dark Reader - for dark mode on every site
Sidebery - for tab management
uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock
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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.
OMG I didn’t know I wanted this until I saw the demo!
On LibreWolf and Brave, I use:
- uBlock Origin
- Privacy Badger
- BitWarden
- Decentraleyes
- Redirector
- Facebook Container (LW only)
- FoxyProxy (LW only; not FOSS)
- AnonAddy
- Load Progress Bar (LW only)
- Xtreme Download Manager
- SponsorBlock
- Return YouTube Dislike (redundant, since I use CloudTube, but good to have nonetheless)
- Facebook Container
- Ruffle
- ClearURLs
- FlagFox
People really like their down votes on YouTube. I’ve rarely up votes or down votes any YouTube videos myself.
What does Ruffle do?
It’s a Flash emulator. My school still uses Shockwave Flash files for interactive diagrams and suchlike.
You have got to use AdNauseum. It obsfuscates your browsing data, making it harder for companies to track you and give you targeted ads.
I’ll have to look into that. Between containers, NoScript and uBlock Origin I’m not sure where it fits in.
Nice, I heard about this awhile ago but never installed it. I love making large annoying companies spend more money for essentially no on-boarding. Also, it is a simple way to make my online identity just a tiny bit more obscure.
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).
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For privacy & security:
- DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
- uBlock Origin
- Privacy Badger
For usability:
- Wappalyzer - Technology profiler
- Firefox Translations
- Flagfox
- Grammar & Spell Checker—LanguageTool
What does Flagfox do?
Flagfox is an extension that displays a flag icon indicating the current web server’s physical location.
Is that more of a curiosity for you or is there more reason to use it?
It is more of a curiosity for mine.
