I generally use the following:
- uBlock Origin
- SponsorBlock
- Honey
- Wayback Machine
- Netflix Watch List Manager
- Shadertoy plugin
- RES…
What does Lemmy use?
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uBlock Origin
Decentraleyes
Consent-o-matic
These are essential to me. Consent o matic automatically fills out cookie pop-ups by opting out of everything for you. Some of these cookie things take a while to process which shows how devious they are set up
just installed darkReader, my retinas are thanking me
Looking at the comments, interest in privacy and adblocking seem high. But the actual addons suggested here are often redundant or even worse, make you easier to track. Instead, take a look at the Arkenfox wiki, which is more or less the gold standard for browser privacy. Both LibreWolf and Mullvad Browser, practically the most privacy/anonymity oriented browsers out there, right behind Tor, either rely on it or stick very closely to it.
I highly recommend reading the entire wiki from the start. You dont have to do everything it says, obviously, but even if you dont do anything it will give you a better understanding of browser privacy. And lastly, do not use Chrome or any chromium based browser if you care about privacy and a free and open internet. Even if you only use a chromium based browser, you help increase googles monopoly.Thank you 00 and crius for introducing Mullvad. Been looking for a VPN that doesn’t lock you into any subscription plans.
Mullvad VPN is great! Though I was talking about the Mullvad Browser (which is great as well and integrates well with their VPN service).
An extra thumbs up for mullvad vpn from me. It’s a bit more costly than the mainstream ones but you don’t have to subscribe to any plan. Just pay month by month, absolutely no personal data needed.
I love these types of posts. From the outset they seem mundane, but they are discussion provoking and I’m able to learn of new things at the same time.
My list (Firefox) 🙃
- Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy
- Bitwarden
- Don’t Fuck With Paste
- I still don’t care about cookies
- SponsorBlock
- uBlock Origin
Some of you have a LOT of addons, jeez.
Edit: Updated to use the /still/ don’t care about cookies addon. Thanks @stepan@lemmy.fmhy.ml
Don’t Fuck With Paste
You don’t need an addon for this one. Search about:config for dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled and double click on the key (set it to false). It should take care of that for you.
Edit: Typo
Definitely installing the cookie one
Wasn’t I don’t care about cookies acquired by Avast or something? I don’t exactly remember why, but in response to something like that, community edition I still don’t care about cookies was created and I’m using it since then.
Good to know, I’ll check that out thanks!
Millenials to Snake People.
This is incredible, I have to try it. As a cloud to butt user I want to get a combo somewhere
- uBlock Origin
- Bypass Paywalls Plus
- I don’t care about Cookies
- Cookie AutoDelete
The Cookie addons work wonderfully together. IDCAC just accepts every cookie banner automatically, AutoDelete removes them after the tab was closed.
- uBlock Origin
- Privacy Badger
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Firefox Relay
- NoScript (off 99% of the time since it’s not really needed)
- RES (until reddit does some stupid shit and bans it or something so I can finally quit it entirely)
- TinEye Reverse Image Search
That’s basically it. But after reading a few comments I added:
- Consent-o-matic
- Decentraleyes
Uh. So after going through my list, it seems I use a lot. Don’t want to remove any of those, though :D
- Augmented Steam (Steam enhancement)
- Better History NG (History page like Vivaldi instead of the useless default Firefox history)
- BetterTTV (Twitch enhancement)
- Buster Captcha Solver (because Captchas are a cancer and bots are better at solving them, than humans)
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- Clickbait Remover for YouTube (randomizes YT thumbnails and normalizes titles)
- Copy Me That (Recipe scraper)
- Facebook Container & Multi-Account Container (The reason Firefox is the best Browser currently in existence)
- Firefox translations (local-only website translation)
- Language Tool (Grammarly alternative, less shady privacy policy, selfhostable)
- hn-friends (tagging people on HackerNews)
- Kagi Search (helper to easier use kagi even in private mode)
- KeePassXC-Browser (helper to connect the browser to the KeePassXC password manager)
- Nitter Redirect: Redirect twitter links to a customizable Nitter URL
- Reddit Enhancement Suite
- OctoLinker & Refined Github (Github enhancements)
- Refined Hacker News (HN enhancements)
- reveddit real-time (Notifications about shadowbanning/deletion and mod deletions)
- Stylus (Scripts to overwrite website styles)
- Tabliss (better new tab page)
- Toggle Animated Gif (easy button to enable gifs only when I want to, I hate animations)
- uBlock Origin & uMatrix (ad and third-party blocking)
- Video DownloadHelper
- Violentmonkey (run userscripts, like Tampermonkey but OSS and with no tracking)
- Vue.js devtools
- Consent-O-Matic (declines tracking consent, unlike “I don’t care about tracking/cookies”
Thanks for the Better History one. Firefox has such a garbage history function.
YW, I actually maintain the NG version, though I mostly just fixed some issues that arose because the original was unmaintained. At some point, I want to look into improving search-performance, but who knows when that will be :D
Firefox translations (local-only website translation)
Firefox translations is good, but i’d recommend linguist instead, its still on-device (if you switch to the local engine in its settings), but is more feature rich, and i’ve found it to provide higher quality translations.
Buster Captcha Solver
Theres also privacy pass for cloudfare’s captchas
Nitter Redirect
I’d use libredirect instead, achieves the same purpose but also works with a tonne of other services as well and not just twitter -> nitter redirects, but also reddit -> libreddit, youtube -> piped, etc.
Facebook Container & Multi-Account Container
The only usecase for containers are multiple accounts, not privacy/security, fission’s sandboxing already takes care of that on firefox.
You have a huge number of addons though, i’d try to limit the number of installed addons unless it provides a purpose which is absolutely essential, can’t most of these addons be replaced with userscripts in violentmonkey? At least that way it’s more confined, in that it has privileges over a specific website rather than the entire browser. Know that every addon is a risk, even if the addon itself isn’t malicious, it could have a security vulnerability to be exploited.
linguist
Ohh, that’s very cool, it even supports more languages
privacy pass
Besides “fuck you cloudflare”, I actually very rarely encounter their captchas.
libredirect
I knew it, but I also didn’t need any other redirects. Most it offers, I actually want my account features. Though, I guess I can now add reddit.
fission’s sandboxing already takes care of that on firefox
Can you expand? E.g. I sometimes (rarely, but it happens) have to disable tracking protection, wouldn’t containers help isolate real 3p-cookies?
can’t most of these addons be replaced with userscripts in violentmonkey
Probably, but I only maintain one of those extensions (and I don’t think it can be made as userscript), and have neither the time nor the interest in rewriting them, nor would I even be capable in most cases.> My current main instance was picked because they a) were not one of the biggest, but b) still seemed competent (they host a lot of different federated services)
- Audio Only for YouTube™
- Better Twitch Adblock
- BetterTTV
- Channel Blocker
- Dark Reader Gumbo: Twitch Companion
- HTTPS Everywhere
- LeechBlock NG
- MAL-Sync
- NoScript
- Return YouTube Dislike
- ScrewMyCode: Pitch control for YouTube
- Truffle
- uBlock Origin
- Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos
- Violentmonkey
- Bitwarden
- Sponser Block
- LibRedirect
- Decentraleyes
- Cookie Block
- NoScript
- UntrackUrls
- Firefox Containers
- TOS;DR
Not much myself to be honest.
- uBlock Origin, to make the web a bearable experience
- Yomichan for learning Japanese
And that’s it. I don’t really need much more.
I don’t see any love for sidebery here, sadge
We’re here! Handfuls of us!
Dozens even!!!
Holy shit. I admire the organisation and love the documentation, but holy addon, batman! thats a lot!
Lots of great recommendations in this thread. One I use and didn’t see mentioned yet is StreetPass. It automatically saves any Mastodon
rel="me"verification links you come across while browsing. I’ve found it very useful for finding interesting accounts to follow- uBlock Origin
- NoScript
- Bitwarden
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I previously used Privacy Badger, but I block basically everything with NoScript anyway, so it was redundant. I also used HTTPS Everywhere but you can enable that in most (all?) browsers now anyway, so you don’t need an extension any longer (the highest form of success for an extension). I also previously used LastPass, but I got out before they had their security issues, and importantly changed every password when I transitioned. On work computer I have the 1password extension.
NoScript is redundant when using uBlock Origin in advanced mode as well.
