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What extensions would you absolutely recommend to someone who use Firefox? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Or a fork of Firefox like fennec

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[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 days ago (4 children)

            
              ublock origin, first last and if necessary only extension you really need
dark reader
youtube shorts block - converts shorts links into regular video player with actual fucking seek/volume controls
youtube sponsor block - I pay for my bandwidth, I decide what gets downloaded.
privacy badger

[–] revanite@lemmy.zip 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You don't need privacy badger anymore if you have ublock

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

Huh, I didn't realize. I've had it installed forever, I guess I didn't realize. Oh well, I just switched back to Brave and I don't even have uBO installed anymore and it's been fine.

[–] freeman@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Youtube Unhook lets you disable specific parts of the website: Shorts, Recommendations, Comments, and lets you redirect from startpage to subscriptions like in the olden days.

Bring back the dislike button or something like that for YT.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Shorts are the only thing that really annoyed me, I don't mind recommendations or comments, and I just keep a tab open on my subs page all the time anyway.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't Firefox have reader mode with dark mode built in? Don't get me wrong, I find that functionality indispensable, but I didn't think it required a plugin.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe? shrug I didn't look too hard, I stumbled across someone talking about dark reader and was like 'I must have this in my life.'

[–] turdburglar@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

i’m turd burglar and i approve this message