SponsorBlock. An absolute necessity if you watch youtube on desktop. It skips host-read sponsors in videos, as well as other stuff you might want to skip like intro animations and Interaction Reminders ("don't forget to like and subscribe!").
I love skip to highlight, and I hate interaction reminders more than sponsored ads or ads. I especially hate the ones that tell you to like and subscribe at the very beginning when you haven't even seen the video to even decide if this is something you actually want to add to your feed or even liked.
It's so obnoxious. Without sponsorblock I'd be just exiting out a lot of videos.
Block tube is also something I've come to love, since there's some popular channels that always clutter search results even if you don't watch their videos. So removing them makes results more relevant instead of having to keep looking down the list for other channel videos.
Block tube
I mainly use that to remove sharts from my YT experience. I hate them so f'ing much
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There's also DeArrow by the same developer that made SponsorBlock. It converts clickbait titles and thumbnails to be descriptive rather than being clickbaity and sensational.
Oh I didn't realize that actually converted titles too. That's amazing.
Rigjt until it begs for money
Begs? Bad take. It's the developer's full time job to make those two extensions. They don't materialise out of thin air, someone has to dedicate themself to developing it, hosting the servers which store and send the information, managing the community around them, fixing bugs. That stuff isn't free. The servers alone cost hundreds of dollars per month. If you value the utility that it gives you then paying a small amount for the server cost and the developer's time is completely fair.
edit: oh and also dearrow is usable entirely for free. The payment is basically optional.
"don't forget to like and subscribe!"
what's the issue with that?
They're normally not that short and I hate being asked to do the same thing a thousand times.
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Yep. Big youtubers should stop doing that when they have achieved decent growth. But nope.
I don't like being told what to do. And everyone does it so it becomes an incredibly over done catch phrase. I'll decide on my own if I want to like or subscribe, and I hate it when they ask at the beginning of the video. At that point they are telling you to blindly do it.
I agree with saying it at the beginning of the video but I don't mind when it's said at the end. If I'm still there I clearly enjoyed it and might want to consider subscribing.
I think in general I have a really bad attitude towards engagement interactions, since I was well aware of the cliche recommended sales people tactics that any of those techniques rub me the wrong way. I prefer more grounded deliveries that don't leave me with the impression of a sales encounter.
Stylus: Redesign your favorite websites with Stylus, an actively developed and community driven userstyles manager.
Tampermonkey: Tampermonkey is the world's most popular userscript manager.
Advanced
Request Control: An extension for controlling requests. See also Redirector, not as powerful, but much more user friendly.
Modify Header Value (HTTP Headers): Add, modify or remove a header for any request on desired domains. I use this one to force sites to load only the image when opening images in new tabs.
Cookie AutoDelete: Control your cookies! This WebExtension is inspired by Self Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Keep the ones you trust (forever/until restart) while deleting the rest. Containers Supported
uBlock Origin: Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
uMatrix: [EDIT-WARNING: as pointed by @sovietknuckles@hexbear.net, uMatrix it's not longer maintainedsince 2021] Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.
Use ViolentMonkey it's open source and actively developed for Firefox, while TamperMonkey is originally developed for chrome
Thanks for the advice!
Sadly, I knew about that too late and I'm a heavy user of Tampermonkey. It would be painful to migrate now :(.
Thanks for adding the links, you the mvp
What's the difference between uBlock origin and uMatrix?
I cannot answer that properly, I don't really understand them enough. I will add some copy-pasted answer on bottom. But, from a user perspective my experience is:
uBlock origin: blocks a lot of (but not all) unwanted stuff without breaking (almost) anything. When some page does not work, tt's very uncommon that uBlock origin is the cause.
uMatrix: blocks (almost) all unwanted stuff, but it breaks many pages by default. If a page does not work, the first thing I look at is uMatrix.
NoScript (and similar): It's been some time since I used it (so those who are more familiar, please correct me if I'm wrong). What I remember is that it was even more strict than uMatrix. Something like uMatrix allows by default everything from the same domain as the URL but NoScript does not.
So I would recommend uBlock origin always and uMatrix only if you are ok with some micro-management page-by-page.
Here it's a copy-paste of the answer from the first link in the google search ublock umatrix differences:
While it's true that uMatrix and uBlock Origin have overlapping functionality (and are written by the same person), they have different purposes and focuses. uBlock Origin's focus is blocking ads and other undesired things as an out of the box experience with little configuration needed. uMatrix's focus is on exerting tight and highly specific control over what resources a page is allowed to load and use, including Javascript and cookies (and requires a lot of configuration).
People still use uMatrix? gorhill archived the uMatrix repo/stopped maintaining it in 2021.
Oh, I had forgotten, I'm going to add a warning to my comment thanks for noticing!
When I was aware of that, I expected it to break at some point. But I didn't find a proper replacement... and it still seems to be working fine.
Thank you for this list! I found several add-ons I never knew I was missing
Thanks! These seem useful. I've only used a couple add-ons from your list. Time to try them out now.
Besides the one super-obvious (uBlockOrigin), my favorite single one would be Tab Center Reborn, which together with the styling from Firefox Vertical Tabs pretty accurate recreates the superb vertical tabs of MS Edge.
And on a desktop screen, I can't imagine going back to horizontal tabs that waste the previous vertical space I got.
Try Tree style tabs I hate having to use edge/chrome at work because the tabs are so bad.
Tried that, I thought it was cumbersome and a solution desperately looking for a problem, tbh. I never once in my life had the thought that my tabs need to be in a multi-tier structure. I'm not someone to collect thousands of tabs though.
I should also add that your second part makes no sense: Chrome doesn't have the vertical tabs Edge has and that this setup recreates.
I find it great as it groups your thought processes. You Google something and it opens a group for that, then you read something in one of the search result tabs and need to go to some links there/Google more stuff - that's now grouped under it so you can easily find things for that thought track. Once you are done, you can close all the tabs in one go.
As far as I'm aware you can't nest groups in edge? I'm trying now and can't even reliably create a group and it scrolls randomly when trying to move tabs around.
That final part is my point - as far as I'm aware the other browsers have nothing as powerful as this. May need to check if there is anything new though.
it groups your thought processes
TreeStyleTabs is awesome at this. The customisations on this are also deep.
I think Opera launched a similar features called 'Tab Islands', I've not tried it yet, though it seems they are not as powerful as this extension.
Tab Center Reborn
How is it different from TreeStyleTabs? I'll give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation.
I wish firefox just copied Vivaldi in terms of tabs, groupings tilings, just do it.
I really like consent-o-matic on firefox. You can set your cookie level to (dis)allow, and it goes through them automatically when you land on a site.
There is "i dont care about cookies", but I do care, I dont want your cookies and I dont want to go through your dark patterns!
I don't get it. So, it will save my cookies, keeping my logins are safe. But it will reject the site's cookies that they want to store for trackers?
Exactly, if that's what you set it to. Opting out is made extremely hard on many sites. This addon fixes that
DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock. It's suggestions for the title and thumbnail are crowdsourced as opposed to being randomised in the case of ClickBait Remover.
Dearrow costs money now though.
I dont like clcikbait thumbnails.. but.. i dont wanna pay to replace them with a random screenshot from the video
WTF? Until very, VERY recently it was a free extension.
This shouldn't be allowed. But I understand that maintaining something as big as this requires a budget.
What a shame. I only used it of a day and kinda ditched it afterwards, since it's not available on Revanced on mobile and I hoped it would be.
here you go FL82g-00f9a
I did know know that DeArrow was a paid service.
Ublock for sure it's the best and only add-on i use
I don't think any ad blocker can match what uBlock can do so efficiently.
Also, if you browse YouTube on your PC, then SponsorBlock & DeArrow are must haves.
These are the ones I cannot live without/use everyday:
I have a few others installed that have already been mentioned plenty of times like SponsorBlock, uBlockOrigin. Not using an ad filter these days is like fucking a stranger without a condom, you're just asking for super syphilis.
There's the Multi-Container mention. Best native extension you could ever use. Can't recommend it enough, alongside many other mentions.
firefox has native container support now you shouldn't be using container extensions anymore
I honestly didn't even notice that! Disabled the extension and tested things out, it looks like there's no automatic "open this website in container X" option without using the extension. If I'm wrong I must have missed it. That's another main part of my workflow, basically have sharepoint sites for the various 365 accounts (one for the company I work for, others for clients), that way it always uses the correct account for each instance as an example.
No, the extension is supposed to give you advanced controls in managing your container workflow.
Are containers like 'Profiles' on Chrome? Like different users can have different profiles to separate their browsing sessions on one browser.
Containers are like single-website sandboxes instead of regular tabs. You can have a separate container for Facebook, for example. You can let it have the cookies it wants, but it can't access anything outside of that container. So to facebook, it looks like they're the only site you ever visit.
Are these containers saved for later use when I restart the browser? Or do I have to create a new container and login again?
- Mutli-Account Containers add another capability: different cookies for the same site in different containers, like being logged to two different accounts on one site in different containers - and that is saved between sessions.
and that is saved between sessions.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll check this feature out.
didn't LTT drop PIA because they go bought by some big company?
As far as I can remember and tell from searching around at the moment, they dropped effectively all VPN sponsorships.
Its worth noting you dont have to selfhost bitwarden. You can just run it through their servers. I do that and it works perfectly fine
I know I could have gone that path, but I'm a techie at heart who loves pushing buttons, sometimes having to get myself out of a mess I created.
It's a hobby to self host things for me. Given that I host it in a docker container also means I'm yet to break it.
I think the self host option also gives you a few more features than the free bitwarden official host option?
There's also DeArrow by the same developer that made SponsorBlock. It converts clickbait titles and thumbnails to be descriptive rather than being clickbaity and sensational.
ublock obviously should be installed on Firefox by default. But I seem to have a host of privacy add-ons that break few-to-no websites.
Privacy Possum , which blocks certain tracking headers/js. Privacy Badger by the EFF is an acceptable alternative but I've personally found it doesn't block quite as much.
NoScript Honestly my favourite addon of all time. You can operate in block-everything mode and just allow javascript/HTML5 from sites you trust, or if you're lazy then just operate in allow-everything mode and every now and then set crummy sites to untrusted (looking at you google tag manager). In block-everything-by-default mode, this add-on will break some sites, but the UI is so easy it's a couple of clicks to trust all the sites in a tab and auto-refresh.
Be warned - If you're not privacy conscious, you might cry from seeing the hundreds of sites that are running javascript on your machine without asking.
User-Agent Switcher Really easy add-on to just leave on and misdirect sites. Never caused me a single problem, and in fact is useful when sites (looking at you Microsoft Teams) claim they don't work in Firefox and refuse to load but actually work fine if you use this addon and pretend to be Chrome.
Sponsorblock kicks ass. 30 hours of ads skipped in half a year.
uBlock Origin: On medium mode. Honestly, the internet mostly sucks without this excellent extension.
Dark Reader: Easy on your eyes and prolongs battery life on OLED displays.
Redirector: This allows you to be in full control of which sites/urls you redirect and to where. As it allows the use of regex, you're even able to create your own 'bangs'. For example I used !x as a bang to redirect me to my favorite SearXNG instance. Kinda neat.
Aside from the usual security & blocking, there is
How does the image created by PassLok Image Steganography work on the receiver's end? Do they need to have the same extension installed?
Thanks for the U-a Switch heads-up.
They don't need the extension if they can reach the webpage and don't mind eavesdroppers. It means I can pack much more into my bio if it's packed into my avatar instead.
Aye, another saved post in my Lemmy account.
There are some awesome suggestions made by people here. Never heard before extensions that may come handy someday, that would otherwise require third party apps to do the same task.
Also, save the following two posts as well. I didn't notice similar posts were already created earlier.
Blocktube. Simple and advanced blocking of videos on youtube. Worth getting. Also stops youtube from auto pasuing after having watched a while.
Consent-o-matic. Set your preferences and it will automatically click those specific preferences when you visit a website, where it recognizes the cookie accept popup. No more need to click accept all, to move on. (It does not know all types of cookie pop ups, but it knoes the ones used by a large chunk of websites)
Imagus. Mouse over an image and this extension will attempt to show it (on your mouse location) in larger size. This works great for various things. News articles, social media etc. It can even do it for video and gifs. It can be annoying in some cases but.. ive gotten used to it. I used to use it on reddit. Just mouse over the posts titles and the pic would pop up. And as said before, super nice for articles and photo albums etc
Sideberry, its like Tree Style Tabs but IMO is much more configurable and refined. It's honestly changed the way I use browsers, being able to bookmark entire trees of tabs, toggle between tab sets, and manually load/unload trees and groups. I legitimately worry about the extension api changing and disallowing it.
Thanks for suggesting Sidebery. I've used TreeStyleTabs before. I'll give Sidebery a try now.
i use TST and i'm happy with it... but you got me curious, time to create another profile and configure it :)
Thanks for sharing this one, I really like the sidebar for tabs it makes it a lot easier to organize things.
Neat, when I installed it, it automatically brought in my existing tab tree and pinned tabs from Tree Style Tabs
Cannot say whether someone has already said it or not, but Flagfox. I like to know if possible whether or not a site is hosted in certain countries or just might be curious sometimes as to where the site server is located.
This is neat. It has other handy features too.
From its description:
Site safety and malware checks
Finding similar sites and reviews
Automatic translation to your language
Diagnostics like pings and traceroutes
Whois and DNS information
Page code validation
Quick URL shortening
Also, an important distinction: It shows the country where the server is located rather than what the nationality of the domain name is.
tree style tabs / sidebery. it's life changing to be able to organize your tabs and actually read the titles.
Yep, the grouping of tabs in TreeStyleTabs is very handy & convenient.
uBlock origin of course
Dark Reader
Open in Reader View, which allows me to open a link directly in reader view. This can actually bypass some login walls surprisingly enough.
Activate Reader View, which allows me to force a website to render in reader view even if the browser decides not to show the icon in the address bar.
LocalCDN which hosts some CDN resources locally (it's a more frequently updated fork of Decentraleyes)
Open With, which allows me to open a url in another browser or another command. I mainly use it for feeding urls to yt-dlp.
Web Archives, which allows me to open a link in Archive.org among other archive services.
LibRedirect, which allows me to open links in privacy frontends (up-to-date fork of Privacy Redirect)
For mobile only,
OldLander, which makes old.reddit.com more usable in mobile. I started having issues with almost every teddit instance once the API changes came in, so I decided to bypass the frontends and use reddit directly.
ublock origin
I've been using IPvFoo on all my PCs since I wrote it for Chrome 12 years ago. Recently I made it fully Firefox compatible. It's useful if you have IPv6 and want to see which websites are on board, though it's a bit depressing if your ISP only offers IPv4.
I've found it particularly interesting on Lemmy, because it connects to such a wide variety of independent servers:
Nice tool. I've recently started learning about what these networking terms mean. Basic stuff like like what different types of IP addresses there are, how the Internet works, etc. etc. I'll check it out.
Dark Reader alone might be the only reason I'm willing to ditch Chrome for FF in Android lol.
Clickbait Remover for Youtube makes that site a lot more pleasant. It'll replace all thumbnails with a screenshot from early in the video, and un-capitalize all titles to make them consistent.
He has highlighted the differences between the two in the description:
Unlike Clickbait Remover, DeArrow's main purpose is for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails
When a crowdsourced title is not available, DeArrow will auto-format it according to your setting, but does it in a more sophisticated way than Clickbait Remover. Instead of only setting all words to lower case, or capitalizing every word, DeArrow supports casing systems such as "Title Case" and "Sentence case". These will still allow acronyms and proper names to remain capitalized.
When a crowdsourced thumbnail is not available, DeArrow by default shows a screenshot at a random timestamp in the video. Clickbait Remover's thumbnails use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails, and while they are seemingly random, they are chosen by a machine learning algorithm to favor faces with expressions, and other overstimulating features. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. DeArrow will also check the SponsorBlock database to ensure the randomized thumbnail is not inside of a sponsor segment.
If only there was a Revanced patch for that.
Alternative Thumbnails is a feature available in the latest ReX patches.
SponsorBlock profile:
Profile Picture > Settings > Sponsor Block > (scroll all the way down) > Import/Export > (select and copy all the text) > (save this copied text in a text file OR pin it in your keyboard's clipboard) > (Now Go to new app and paste in Import)
I switched from ReVanced Extended (RVX) to ReX using my exported settings. Doing it this way makes switching APKs a breeze.
Ok, I don't think we are using the same client because I definitely don't have a profile picture, I am using this version.
I just realized i have no FF extensions active. Ive just been rawdogging the internet this whole time.
I don't think I've seen this mentioned, likely because it's a simple, non-privacy extension.
Reading List. It works like bookmarks, but it is targeted at news articles and other things you want to read but don't necessarily want to "forever save".
Damn! Neat tool. Hopefully this will help me declutter my Bookmarks. Also, how's it different than Pocket offered by Mozilla?
Not sure, this is the first I'm hearing of Pocket. I'll have to check it out.
It's made by Mozilla. The same devs that make Firefox. The articles you see below the search bar in the homepage when you first install Firefox are suggested by Pocket.
Don't Track Me Google - prevents google from replacing its search results and other links with redirect URLs
Vimium - Vim style keybinds to navigate pages
Three comments down and there is the guy with vim keybindings.
Chameleon, great privacy tool, but can break some crappy sites, unless you can configure it so it doesn't.
ScrollAnywhere, a mobile like scrolling with middle mouse button. I find it more efficient and intuitive.
Ublock ofc
(Forgot name), an addon that lets you skip link shorteners with ads.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Chameleon, great privacy tool, but can break some crappy sites
Well, user agent switch, will switch your user agent, but that is not the answer ponly feature of chameleon. It sets your referer pcolicy, cookie policy, spoofs some data and restricts certain APIs etc.
Other addons I use as well would be audio equalizer, which allows me to change volume more precisely and ofc eq my sound. To that also screwmycode.in which changes the pitch together with speed, so you can make nightcore music easily and eq some bass back into it with the previous addon.
Nobody can forget amazing conteiners addons, like temporary containers, multi account containers and facebook container. They can revolutionise your workflow.
Other then addons, you can also set up profiles, to which you can create shortcuts, which is cumbersome, but works really well.
Also, firefox has a nice amount of CSS themes to apply onto it, making it look like a completely different browser.
Tree Style Tabs is a must for me. It makes the tab/tab goup functionality in other browsers feel awful.
+1 for TreeStyleTabs!
Tab Session Manager
Is there anything that disables / stops sticky videos when scrolling on mobile?
I get pissed off when I'm reading a news article, scroll down, and their headline video (often just an ad) clips itself to the top 1/3 of the screen.
Well ublock origin. If it does not block it rigjt away, you can actually try to manually add a rule.
AdNauseam.
An AdBlocker that also creates a trail of Garbage Data to make users less valuable for Advertisers and Data Collection
AdNauseam
Do you prefer that over ublock origin?
I use both simultaneously + Ghostery and it works great.
Most of those Addons are for me to not go insane or blind.
How do you use no script these days, are you turning it on after visiting a page, or whitelisting when things don't work?
I whitelist after visiting a page, if it breaks majorly so I can't use it. And often I only need to allow the main page's scripts and maybe video., img. or cdn. subdomains.
There's nothing that explains it on its description page. Based on comments on its page (translated to English), my wild guess is: it's making people laugh while reading news somehow by changing names of politicians in the news articles.
Thanks for the other suggestions too.
Damn, I just noticed I accidentally wrote in german, I didn't even notice the post is in english lol. To Germans it would make sense, as it's exactly what you noticed; it just changes Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauers name to something funny, she's an ex-defense minister of Germany.
LOL.
Why specifically her though. Although, the idea is neat. Does it generate random funny names?
Well, it's based on an apparently pretty large set of funny names for her, thought of by r/ich_iel etc.
Firefox already has HTTPS Everywhere functionality built in these days
True, and according to some sources on the FF forum the builtin is better. I just installed it years ago and mostly forgot lol
Aside from the popular ublock origin I'd get Sponsor Block. Too bad my mobile version doesn't support it.
ReVanced has sponsorblock
Lots of great extensions have been listed already, but here's one that I haven't seen mentioned yet and I really like: https://unhook.app/
Nice! UnHook removes YouTube recommended videos, related videos, comments, video suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending tab & comments
Others have already mentioned some excellent vertical tab add-ons, so I'll post Tabs Aside, which is a super convenient way to save and load a window full of tabs. Saves having like 20 windows open with different stuff you don't want to lose.
Neat, I'll try this. I don't think the others save entire browser windows. So, maybe this has a different use.
Tab Stash.
uBlock Origin and Mouse Gestures.
Literally all I have ever used. I love mouse gestures so much because of Opera. I was using that for a bit before I discovered Firefox back in the day.
You should go through the suggestions made on this post. They are great. Maybe, sometime later I'll create a list and add it to this post's description later.
There are definitely people who don't know what adblockers are and the beauty of uBlock.
The Internet is not the same without it.
And Google is trying very hard to break this gem.
Ever since Twitch Now stopped working, I found Gumbo which is working really well.
I've not used either of those. I don't get it. Are these Third Party wrappers for Twitch or extensions that just push Twitch notifications?
Stylus has been a pretty newish one for me, been using it a lot to make Lemmy feeds wider and take up my entire screen
There's also a convert webp to anything extension that is really handy to have
Video download helper is cool too
I'm interested in both Stylus & Video DownloadHelper. For capturing video downloads i used to use IDM's extension. But it's not free to use. Now I'll have to give this a try.
Video download helper is a bit funny with youtube videos, iirc it adds a water mark to any you dl, as it wants you to donate, if you don't wanna donate just get ytdlp gui to get your YouTube videos
Video download helper works great for other videos that are sometimes hard to find the url of
Some of these are specialized tools, but to start, I make big, big use of dedicated containers, Google, Amazon, Reddit, Pixiv, Tumblr, and Discord. Sidebar note, uBlock Origin, NoScript, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Container Sidebar, Downloads Sidebar, Get RSS Feed URL, Pixiv Toolkit, FediShare, Tumblr - Post to Tumblr, Twitter Gif & Video Downloader, and Video Downloadhelper
SponsorBlock. An absolute necessity if you watch youtube on desktop. It skips host-read sponsors in videos, as well as other stuff you might want to skip like intro animations and Interaction Reminders ("don't forget to like and subscribe!").
I love skip to highlight, and I hate interaction reminders more than sponsored ads or ads. I especially hate the ones that tell you to like and subscribe at the very beginning when you haven't even seen the video to even decide if this is something you actually want to add to your feed or even liked.
It's so obnoxious. Without sponsorblock I'd be just exiting out a lot of videos.
Block tube is also something I've come to love, since there's some popular channels that always clutter search results even if you don't watch their videos. So removing them makes results more relevant instead of having to keep looking down the list for other channel videos.
I mainly use that to remove sharts from my YT experience. I hate them so f'ing much
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There's also DeArrow by the same developer that made SponsorBlock. It converts clickbait titles and thumbnails to be descriptive rather than being clickbaity and sensational.
Oh I didn't realize that actually converted titles too. That's amazing.
Rigjt until it begs for money
Begs? Bad take. It's the developer's full time job to make those two extensions. They don't materialise out of thin air, someone has to dedicate themself to developing it, hosting the servers which store and send the information, managing the community around them, fixing bugs. That stuff isn't free. The servers alone cost hundreds of dollars per month. If you value the utility that it gives you then paying a small amount for the server cost and the developer's time is completely fair.
edit: oh and also dearrow is usable entirely for free. The payment is basically optional.
what's the issue with that?
They're normally not that short and I hate being asked to do the same thing a thousand times.
Yep. Big youtubers should stop doing that when they have achieved decent growth. But nope.
I don't like being told what to do. And everyone does it so it becomes an incredibly over done catch phrase. I'll decide on my own if I want to like or subscribe, and I hate it when they ask at the beginning of the video. At that point they are telling you to blindly do it.
I agree with saying it at the beginning of the video but I don't mind when it's said at the end. If I'm still there I clearly enjoyed it and might want to consider subscribing.
I think in general I have a really bad attitude towards engagement interactions, since I was well aware of the cliche recommended sales people tactics that any of those techniques rub me the wrong way. I prefer more grounded deliveries that don't leave me with the impression of a sales encounter.
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Use ViolentMonkey it's open source and actively developed for Firefox, while TamperMonkey is originally developed for chrome
Thanks for the advice!
Sadly, I knew about that too late and I'm a heavy user of Tampermonkey. It would be painful to migrate now :(.
Thanks for adding the links, you the mvp
What's the difference between uBlock origin and uMatrix?
I cannot answer that properly, I don't really understand them enough. I will add some copy-pasted answer on bottom. But, from a user perspective my experience is:
So I would recommend uBlock origin always and uMatrix only if you are ok with some micro-management page-by-page.
Here it's a copy-paste of the answer from the first link in the google search ublock umatrix differences:
People still use uMatrix? gorhill archived the uMatrix repo/stopped maintaining it in 2021.
Oh, I had forgotten, I'm going to add a warning to my comment thanks for noticing!
When I was aware of that, I expected it to break at some point. But I didn't find a proper replacement... and it still seems to be working fine.
Thank you for this list! I found several add-ons I never knew I was missing
Thanks! These seem useful. I've only used a couple add-ons from your list. Time to try them out now.
Your are awesome for adding links too!
Besides the one super-obvious (uBlockOrigin), my favorite single one would be Tab Center Reborn, which together with the styling from Firefox Vertical Tabs pretty accurate recreates the superb vertical tabs of MS Edge.
And on a desktop screen, I can't imagine going back to horizontal tabs that waste the previous vertical space I got.
Try Tree style tabs I hate having to use edge/chrome at work because the tabs are so bad.
Tried that, I thought it was cumbersome and a solution desperately looking for a problem, tbh. I never once in my life had the thought that my tabs need to be in a multi-tier structure. I'm not someone to collect thousands of tabs though.
I should also add that your second part makes no sense: Chrome doesn't have the vertical tabs Edge has and that this setup recreates.
I find it great as it groups your thought processes. You Google something and it opens a group for that, then you read something in one of the search result tabs and need to go to some links there/Google more stuff - that's now grouped under it so you can easily find things for that thought track. Once you are done, you can close all the tabs in one go.
As far as I'm aware you can't nest groups in edge? I'm trying now and can't even reliably create a group and it scrolls randomly when trying to move tabs around.
That final part is my point - as far as I'm aware the other browsers have nothing as powerful as this. May need to check if there is anything new though.
TreeStyleTabs is awesome at this. The customisations on this are also deep.
I think Opera launched a similar features called 'Tab Islands', I've not tried it yet, though it seems they are not as powerful as this extension.
How is it different from TreeStyleTabs? I'll give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation.
I wish firefox just copied Vivaldi in terms of tabs, groupings tilings, just do it.
I really like consent-o-matic on firefox. You can set your cookie level to (dis)allow, and it goes through them automatically when you land on a site.
There is "i dont care about cookies", but I do care, I dont want your cookies and I dont want to go through your dark patterns!
I don't get it. So, it will save my cookies, keeping my logins are safe. But it will reject the site's cookies that they want to store for trackers?
Exactly, if that's what you set it to. Opting out is made extremely hard on many sites. This addon fixes that
@magoosh @Justly0250 I've just installed this so I'm hopefull it will work
clickbait remover for YouTube.. it replaces thumbnails with an actual frame from the video
Holy shit, I've dreamed of something like this existing, thanks!
@JetSetDorito & @ArtVandelay
DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock. It's suggestions for the title and thumbnail are crowdsourced as opposed to being randomised in the case of ClickBait Remover.
Dearrow costs money now though.
I dont like clcikbait thumbnails.. but.. i dont wanna pay to replace them with a random screenshot from the video
WTF? Until very, VERY recently it was a free extension. This shouldn't be allowed. But I understand that maintaining something as big as this requires a budget. What a shame. I only used it of a day and kinda ditched it afterwards, since it's not available on Revanced on mobile and I hoped it would be.
here you go FL82g-00f9a
I did know know that DeArrow was a paid service.
Ublock for sure it's the best and only add-on i use
I don't think any ad blocker can match what uBlock can do so efficiently.
Also, if you browse YouTube on your PC, then SponsorBlock & DeArrow are must haves.
These are the ones I cannot live without/use everyday:
I have a few others installed that have already been mentioned plenty of times like SponsorBlock, uBlockOrigin. Not using an ad filter these days is like fucking a stranger without a condom, you're just asking for super syphilis.
There's the Multi-Container mention. Best native extension you could ever use. Can't recommend it enough, alongside many other mentions.
firefox has native container support now you shouldn't be using container extensions anymore
I honestly didn't even notice that! Disabled the extension and tested things out, it looks like there's no automatic "open this website in container X" option without using the extension. If I'm wrong I must have missed it. That's another main part of my workflow, basically have sharepoint sites for the various 365 accounts (one for the company I work for, others for clients), that way it always uses the correct account for each instance as an example.
No, the extension is supposed to give you advanced controls in managing your container workflow.
Are containers like 'Profiles' on Chrome? Like different users can have different profiles to separate their browsing sessions on one browser.
Containers are like single-website sandboxes instead of regular tabs. You can have a separate container for Facebook, for example. You can let it have the cookies it wants, but it can't access anything outside of that container. So to facebook, it looks like they're the only site you ever visit.
Are these containers saved for later use when I restart the browser? Or do I have to create a new container and login again?
@Justly0250 @moody two things:
- Firefox has now, without extensions, "total cookie protection" that prevents one website to access another site's cookies (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/introducing-total-cookie-protection-standard-mode), so as far as tracking protection go, no extension needed
- Mutli-Account Containers add another capability: different cookies for the same site in different containers, like being logged to two different accounts on one site in different containers - and that is saved between sessions.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll check this feature out.
didn't LTT drop PIA because they go bought by some big company?
As far as I can remember and tell from searching around at the moment, they dropped effectively all VPN sponsorships.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/y1dcef/did_ltt_drop_pia_and_replace_them_with_nord/ (yes, it's reddit, some people might see it as a dirty word at this point, but still valid)
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1411170-thoughts-on-private-internet-access/
Its worth noting you dont have to selfhost bitwarden. You can just run it through their servers. I do that and it works perfectly fine
I know I could have gone that path, but I'm a techie at heart who loves pushing buttons, sometimes having to get myself out of a mess I created.
It's a hobby to self host things for me. Given that I host it in a docker container also means I'm yet to break it. I think the self host option also gives you a few more features than the free bitwarden official host option?
There's also DeArrow by the same developer that made SponsorBlock. It converts clickbait titles and thumbnails to be descriptive rather than being clickbaity and sensational.
ublock obviously should be installed on Firefox by default. But I seem to have a host of privacy add-ons that break few-to-no websites.
Be warned - If you're not privacy conscious, you might cry from seeing the hundreds of sites that are running javascript on your machine without asking.
And my personal silly couple ones:
I needed User-Agent Switcher a few days ago. But I'm glad I have it now!
Thanks for the suggestions.
Especially, User-Agent Switcher. A couple of weeks ago, I had to download Chrome Portable just to open a Teams link. F Microsoft!
Also, there's an alternative, Chameleon as suggested by Antimutt.
Aside from the usual security & blocking, there is
I've been looking for something that does exactly what Behind The Overlay Revival does, so thank you!
This looks very similar to Kill Sticky. If, by any chance, you have tried both, do you know what the differences are?
Thanks!
I haven't used Kill Sticky but they clearly look similar in effect.
Thanks. These seem useful utilities that may come handy. Also, an alternative to Chameleon is User-agent Switch as suggested by SootyChimney.
How does the image created by PassLok Image Steganography work on the receiver's end? Do they need to have the same extension installed?
Thanks for the U-a Switch heads-up.
They don't need the extension if they can reach the webpage and don't mind eavesdroppers. It means I can pack much more into my bio if it's packed into my avatar instead.
Aye, another saved post in my Lemmy account.
There are some awesome suggestions made by people here. Never heard before extensions that may come handy someday, that would otherwise require third party apps to do the same task.
Also, save the following two posts as well. I didn't notice similar posts were already created earlier.
Best Firefox Extensions? by MokMokFIsh
What are your favourite add-ons for Firefox? by t0fr
Blocktube. Simple and advanced blocking of videos on youtube. Worth getting. Also stops youtube from auto pasuing after having watched a while.
Consent-o-matic. Set your preferences and it will automatically click those specific preferences when you visit a website, where it recognizes the cookie accept popup. No more need to click accept all, to move on. (It does not know all types of cookie pop ups, but it knoes the ones used by a large chunk of websites)
Imagus. Mouse over an image and this extension will attempt to show it (on your mouse location) in larger size. This works great for various things. News articles, social media etc. It can even do it for video and gifs. It can be annoying in some cases but.. ive gotten used to it. I used to use it on reddit. Just mouse over the posts titles and the pic would pop up. And as said before, super nice for articles and photo albums etc
Sideberry, its like Tree Style Tabs but IMO is much more configurable and refined. It's honestly changed the way I use browsers, being able to bookmark entire trees of tabs, toggle between tab sets, and manually load/unload trees and groups. I legitimately worry about the extension api changing and disallowing it.
Thanks for suggesting Sidebery. I've used TreeStyleTabs before. I'll give Sidebery a try now.
i use TST and i'm happy with it... but you got me curious, time to create another profile and configure it :)
Thanks for sharing this one, I really like the sidebar for tabs it makes it a lot easier to organize things.
Neat, when I installed it, it automatically brought in my existing tab tree and pinned tabs from Tree Style Tabs
Cannot say whether someone has already said it or not, but Flagfox. I like to know if possible whether or not a site is hosted in certain countries or just might be curious sometimes as to where the site server is located.
This is neat. It has other handy features too. From its description:
Also, an important distinction: It shows the country where the server is located rather than what the nationality of the domain name is.
A link to FlagFox.
tree style tabs / sidebery. it's life changing to be able to organize your tabs and actually read the titles.
Yep, the grouping of tabs in TreeStyleTabs is very handy & convenient.
For mobile only,
ublock origin
I've been using IPvFoo on all my PCs since I wrote it for Chrome 12 years ago. Recently I made it fully Firefox compatible. It's useful if you have IPv6 and want to see which websites are on board, though it's a bit depressing if your ISP only offers IPv4.
I've found it particularly interesting on Lemmy, because it connects to such a wide variety of independent servers:
Nice tool. I've recently started learning about what these networking terms mean. Basic stuff like like what different types of IP addresses there are, how the Internet works, etc. etc. I'll check it out.
Link for those who want to try it: IPvFoo
A few of my favourites.
Dark Reader alone might be the only reason I'm willing to ditch Chrome for FF in Android lol.
Clickbait Remover for Youtube makes that site a lot more pleasant. It'll replace all thumbnails with a screenshot from early in the video, and un-capitalize all titles to make them consistent.
Nice Suggestion.
DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock.
He has highlighted the differences between the two in the description:
Unlike Clickbait Remover, DeArrow's main purpose is for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails
When a crowdsourced title is not available, DeArrow will auto-format it according to your setting, but does it in a more sophisticated way than Clickbait Remover. Instead of only setting all words to lower case, or capitalizing every word, DeArrow supports casing systems such as "Title Case" and "Sentence case". These will still allow acronyms and proper names to remain capitalized.
When a crowdsourced thumbnail is not available, DeArrow by default shows a screenshot at a random timestamp in the video. Clickbait Remover's thumbnails use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails, and while they are seemingly random, they are chosen by a machine learning algorithm to favor faces with expressions, and other overstimulating features. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. DeArrow will also check the SponsorBlock database to ensure the randomized thumbnail is not inside of a sponsor segment.
If only there was a Revanced patch for that.
Alternative Thumbnails is a feature available in the latest ReX patches.
ReX is a fork of the discontinued Revanced Extended project, which in itself was a fork of the official Revanced project.
I applied these patches using the Revanced Extended Manager on YouTube 18.33.37
Screenshots:
Here it is in action:
Dude this is dope, but I don't know if it is worth making the change for that feature alone, if I lose the patch of my YT again I'll try it!
I'm using the root way.
Thanks for the heads-up.
I've been trying this for 2 days now. I would say this works. The simple, boring thumbnails do not trick my brain into clicking the video.
You can export/import:
Applied patches from ReVanced managers:
Settings > Export patches selectionIn-app ReVanced settings:
Profile Picture > Settings > ReVanced Extended > Miscellaneous > Import/Export > Export settingsSponsorBlock profile:
Profile Picture > Settings > Sponsor Block > (scroll all the way down) > Import/Export > (select and copy all the text) > (save this copied text in a text file OR pin it in your keyboard's clipboard) > (Now Go to new app and paste in Import)I switched from ReVanced Extended (RVX) to ReX using my exported settings. Doing it this way makes switching APKs a breeze.
Ok, I don't think we are using the same client because I definitely don't have a profile picture, I am using this version.
I just realized i have no FF extensions active. Ive just been rawdogging the internet this whole time.
I don't think I've seen this mentioned, likely because it's a simple, non-privacy extension.
Reading List. It works like bookmarks, but it is targeted at news articles and other things you want to read but don't necessarily want to "forever save".
Damn! Neat tool. Hopefully this will help me declutter my Bookmarks. Also, how's it different than Pocket offered by Mozilla?
A link to Reading List.
Not sure, this is the first I'm hearing of Pocket. I'll have to check it out.
It's made by Mozilla. The same devs that make Firefox. The articles you see below the search bar in the homepage when you first install Firefox are suggested by Pocket.
adaptive-tab-bar-colour
Neat. Perfectly adapts to the colour of the website and also works with Dark Reader
at first i think it doesn't do anything, if you use containers like me, should activate the option "Dinamic color update"
I have this css theme https://github.com/Neikon/Fox11 and this is my config if some one is interested
It's amazing. I've wanted this for a very long time.
A couple that aren't already mentioned by others:
Three comments down and there is the guy with vim keybindings.
Chameleon, great privacy tool, but can break some crappy sites, unless you can configure it so it doesn't. ScrollAnywhere, a mobile like scrolling with middle mouse button. I find it more efficient and intuitive. Ublock ofc (Forgot name), an addon that lets you skip link shorteners with ads.
Thanks for the suggestions!
User-Agent Switch is an alternative.
Well, user agent switch, will switch your user agent, but that is not the answer ponly feature of chameleon. It sets your referer pcolicy, cookie policy, spoofs some data and restricts certain APIs etc. Other addons I use as well would be audio equalizer, which allows me to change volume more precisely and ofc eq my sound. To that also screwmycode.in which changes the pitch together with speed, so you can make nightcore music easily and eq some bass back into it with the previous addon.
Nobody can forget amazing conteiners addons, like temporary containers, multi account containers and facebook container. They can revolutionise your workflow.
Other then addons, you can also set up profiles, to which you can create shortcuts, which is cumbersome, but works really well.
Also, firefox has a nice amount of CSS themes to apply onto it, making it look like a completely different browser.
Tree Style Tabs is a must for me. It makes the tab/tab goup functionality in other browsers feel awful.
+1 for TreeStyleTabs!
Tab Session Manager
Is there anything that disables / stops sticky videos when scrolling on mobile?
I get pissed off when I'm reading a news article, scroll down, and their headline video (often just an ad) clips itself to the top 1/3 of the screen.
Well ublock origin. If it does not block it rigjt away, you can actually try to manually add a rule.
AdNauseam. An AdBlocker that also creates a trail of Garbage Data to make users less valuable for Advertisers and Data Collection
Do you prefer that over ublock origin?
I use both simultaneously + Ghostery and it works great.
In general:
Bypass Paywalls
Dark Reader
HTTPS Everywhere
I don't care about Cookies
Karrinator
KeePassXC Browser
NoScript
Simple Tab Groups
Tampermonkey
UBlock
UnloadTabs (Vor allem für Müll wie MS Teams)
User Agent Switcher and Manager
Vencord
Video Download Helper
For YouTube:
AutoReplay for YouTube
Disable YouTube Seek by Number
Return YouTube Dislike
SponsorBlock
Most of those Addons are for me to not go insane or blind.
How do you use no script these days, are you turning it on after visiting a page, or whitelisting when things don't work?
I whitelist after visiting a page, if it breaks majorly so I can't use it. And often I only need to allow the main page's scripts and maybe video., img. or cdn. subdomains.
What's Karrinator?
There's nothing that explains it on its description page. Based on comments on its page (translated to English), my wild guess is: it's making people laugh while reading news somehow by changing names of politicians in the news articles.
Thanks for the other suggestions too.
Damn, I just noticed I accidentally wrote in german, I didn't even notice the post is in english lol. To Germans it would make sense, as it's exactly what you noticed; it just changes Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauers name to something funny, she's an ex-defense minister of Germany.
LOL.
Why specifically her though. Although, the idea is neat. Does it generate random funny names?
Well, it's based on an apparently pretty large set of funny names for her, thought of by r/ich_iel etc.
Firefox already has HTTPS Everywhere functionality built in these days
True, and according to some sources on the FF forum the builtin is better. I just installed it years ago and mostly forgot lol
Aside from the popular ublock origin I'd get Sponsor Block. Too bad my mobile version doesn't support it.
ReVanced has sponsorblock
Lots of great extensions have been listed already, but here's one that I haven't seen mentioned yet and I really like: https://unhook.app/
Nice! UnHook removes YouTube recommended videos, related videos, comments, video suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending tab & comments
Others have already mentioned some excellent vertical tab add-ons, so I'll post Tabs Aside, which is a super convenient way to save and load a window full of tabs. Saves having like 20 windows open with different stuff you don't want to lose.
Neat, I'll try this. I don't think the others save entire browser windows. So, maybe this has a different use.
Tab Stash.
uBlock Origin and Mouse Gestures.
Literally all I have ever used. I love mouse gestures so much because of Opera. I was using that for a bit before I discovered Firefox back in the day.
You should go through the suggestions made on this post. They are great. Maybe, sometime later I'll create a list and add it to this post's description later.
@Justly0250
Firefox Multi-Account Containers:
sandbox tab containers to isolate sites.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
Temporary Containers:
Open tabs, websites, and links in automatically managed disposable containers
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/
Dark Background and Light Text:
dark mode all the things
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/dark-background-light-text/
Thanks! These containers extensions are awesome and I plan on using them. Some websites come to mind.
But, do you know if there is a way to recreate user Profiles in Firefox like Chrome does?
@Justly0250 i remember seeing something about it somewhere but i've never used anything like that
Chrome's Profiles are awesome. I'm looking for similar solutions in Firefox.
@Justly0250 you might not need it with containers
Hmm. I need to try containers then.
@Justly0250
uBlock
The Internet is not the same without it.
There are definitely people who don't know what adblockers are and the beauty of uBlock.
And Google is trying very hard to break this gem.
Ever since Twitch Now stopped working, I found Gumbo which is working really well.
I've not used either of those. I don't get it. Are these Third Party wrappers for Twitch or extensions that just push Twitch notifications?
Stylus has been a pretty newish one for me, been using it a lot to make Lemmy feeds wider and take up my entire screen
There's also a convert webp to anything extension that is really handy to have
Video download helper is cool too
I'm interested in both Stylus & Video DownloadHelper. For capturing video downloads i used to use IDM's extension. But it's not free to use. Now I'll have to give this a try.
Video download helper is a bit funny with youtube videos, iirc it adds a water mark to any you dl, as it wants you to donate, if you don't wanna donate just get ytdlp gui to get your YouTube videos
Video download helper works great for other videos that are sometimes hard to find the url of
Some of these are specialized tools, but to start, I make big, big use of dedicated containers, Google, Amazon, Reddit, Pixiv, Tumblr, and Discord. Sidebar note, uBlock Origin, NoScript, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Container Sidebar, Downloads Sidebar, Get RSS Feed URL, Pixiv Toolkit, FediShare, Tumblr - Post to Tumblr, Twitter Gif & Video Downloader, and Video Downloadhelper
This has already been recently discussed here.
I'm sorry. I should have looked in this community before posting. I forgot.
I found 2 similar threads. I'll leave the links here:
Best Firefox Extensions? by MokMokFIsh
What are your favourite add-omd for Firefox? by t0fr
Edit: Your link was not working for me. I don't know why. It's same as the 2nd link that I posted.