What are your favorite browser extensions?
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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?
Firefox user here.
Extensions to be helpful to other people:
Fediverse extensions:
Youtube extensions:
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.
uBlock Origin - as ad and script blocker
Dark Reader - for dark mode on every site
Sidebery - for tab management
I use the following ones (on Firefox), except for uBO the others are just for conveniency:
One I haven't seen mentioned yet is DownThemAll.
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.
I used to use DownThemAll way back, but I'm not sure what I'd use it for now. What are you downloading?
uBlacklist seems like it could be very useful.
Mostly if I find an open directory with stuff I like. Also it has come in handy downloading maps from government websites.
That makes sense. Thanks!
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.
Firefox:
uBlock Origin, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Bitwarden, and SponsorBlock for YouTube are my favorite ones.
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.
@JshKlsn @admin I agree with ya. Sometimes I actually wanna hear what product they are talking about but it's incredibly hard.
Channels like rctestflight frequently mention multiple products they use in their builds but people block that for some reason.. like what's the point of it?
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.