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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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[–] noodlejetski@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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

[–] KaSPer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

+1 for Consent-O-Matic.

[–] Theorize3806@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Consent-O-Matic sounds really nice, thanks for sharing.

[–] FUsername@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] noodlejetski@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] alex@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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
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[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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}
[–] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I usually have a browser without NoScript, though, since a few sites I visit breaks with it enabled.

Can't praise uBlock Origin and Dark Reader enough, though. Also Privacy Badger/Possum and Decentraleyes (at least a few years ago).

[–] brie@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For searching web archives, there's the Web Archives addon (GPLv3). It just opens a search page though, and doesn't have the ability to automatically archive.

For userscripts I use Violentmonkey (MIT).

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I'll take a look at violentmonkey. Thanks for the pointer!

[–] menturi@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can second Firefox's containers. That has been my favorite feature Mozilla has implemented in Firefox and used with an add-on, of which there are a few. I've been using Containerise.

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[–] admin@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

uBlock Origin, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Bitwarden, and SponsorBlock for YouTube are my favorite ones.

[–] Iwamoto@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Sponsorblock really helps me, since I watch a lot of YT and even though I have Premium, I’m otherwise still getting ads

[–] TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

People also need to remember to open up uBlock Origin settings page:

  1. Check on the "I am an advanced user."
  2. Check all of the optional filter lists in Filter tab of uBlock Origin.
  3. Enjoy the internet without any ads at all. I never get ads on YouTube after this.
[–] JshKlsn@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I cannot stand SponsorBlock anymore. It's been abused so much, that any time any video even slightly mentions a brand, sponsor or not, it skips it.

I find that it breaks context in a lot of videos, and you end up missing important stuff. I especially find it to be true in LTT videos.

For me, SponsorBlock is disabled until they fix the abuse. There's a very clear difference between a SPONSOR and just mentioning an entity that exists on this planet.

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[–] SignalTelevision@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ArmoredGoat@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In addition to all good recommendations above, I also can recommend Vim Vixen or Vimium C.

These extensions enable you to control your browser with your keyboard with vim-like commands. If you are already using vim or want to use your keyboard more to comfortably navigate your system, it is a must-have :)

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[–] ozoned@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox:

  • uBlock Origin
  • Privacy Badger
  • DDG Privacy Essentials
  • Containerise
  • Temporary Containers
  • Bitwarden
  • LibRedirect
  • Owncast extension
  • Dark Mode
  • Video Speed Controller
  • Sponsorblock
  • Better Twitch TV
  • Terms of Service - Didn't Read
[–] alex@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Nice thanks, I'll try out LibRedirect!

[–] Gabino3503@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For privacy & security:

  • DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
  • uBlock Origin
  • Privacy Badger

For usability:

  • Wappalyzer - Technology profiler
  • Firefox Translations
  • Flagfox
  • Grammar & Spell Checker—LanguageTool
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[–] sqrtd@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

uBlock Origin, Clear URLs, Bitwarden, Dark Reader and Redirector

[–] DarkKronicle@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

uMatrix, which lets me choose which kinds of content (cookies, scripts, etc) from which domains are allowed in my browser. Regrettably, it is no longer maintained. I wonder if there's some alternative that is maintained?

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[–] vaelfonia@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

My favourites for Firefox:

  • uBlock Origin
  • Deadname Remover
  • Bitwarden
  • Return YouTube Dislike
  • SponsorBlock
[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On Safari I use AdGuard (because uBlock Origin is not available), Bitwarden and Zotero Connector.

On Firefox uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Zotero Connector, Cookie Autodelete, Libredirect and LocalCDN

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[–] Elbullazul@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Bitwarden, uBlock origin, wallabg (self-hosted read-it later), dark bg and light fg (simpler than dark reader) and redirector to redirect youtube/twitter/reddit links to private front-ends

[–] argentcorvid@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] curiousmind@qoto.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Nitrousoxide@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can also self-host a language tool instance and point the extension to that instead of their official instance.

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[–] nxtequal@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have got to use AdNauseum. It obsfuscates your browsing data, making it harder for companies to track you and give you targeted ads.

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[–] bblfrnz@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] aRubes@sloth.run 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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