A nice one i use is NighEye. I've forgotten what it feels like to have your retinas burned. Feels good
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- 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.
- uBlock Origin
Important. I've added the Bypass Paywalls-filter as well, which makes browsing a lot more pleasant.
- SponsorBlock
I will not watch ads, not even one.
- I still don't care about cookies
This removes most of the annoyance of cookie banners and consent dialogs
- Redirect AMP to HTML
AMP sucks, rather not even see it
- Libredirect
A recent favorite - I started using this as Twitter on web was becoming increasingly unusable, and Nitter is a fine alternative. Now I use it for Twitter, TikTok, Imgur, Medium and Reddit.
- AdNauseam (for cases when other extensions miss something)
- Bypass Paywalls
- Decentraleyes
- Don't touch my tabs! (rel=noopener)
- Don't track me Google
- Forget Me Not
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Old Reddit Redirect
- Redirector (to use the Vector theme on MediaWiki instances)
- uBlock Origin
- uMatrix
- User-Agent Switcher and Manager
- MarkDownload is wonderful
- FoxyGestures: Pull left to go back, scribble 'Z' to close a tab
- Omnivore: Read stuff later
- CORS Everywhere
- Tab Containers
- Container Proxy (I could never get the built-in Tab Container function to work, this just lets me set certain tabs to hit the proxy)
- uBlock Origin, naturally
Bitwarden
Custom New Tab
Decentraleyes
OneTab
Privacy Badger
Proton VPN
uBlock Origin
- uBlock Origin
- I still don't care about cookies
- Simple Translate
- Tabliss
- Fast Forward
I use...
- uBlock Origin
- BlockTube
- Readwise highlighter
- Ruffle.rs
- RSS Preview
- 1Password
Ruffle.rs had not heard of....besides the nostalgia of Flash, what do you use it for?
Just that, really. It's a cool project and I wanna keep up with its progress.
-uBlock Origin
-Sponsorblock
-Unhook for youtube
-unpinterested
-panicbutton
Also adguard dns filtering on my mobile devices. Would highly recommend panicbutton as a quick way to set a task aside without opening a new window and unhook to filter out the trash YouTube is shoveling onto the home page
Browser: Firefox, gonna name stuff i don't see mentioned yet
'Multi Account Containers' + 'Container Tabs Sidebar' + 'Switch Container' + 'Temporary Containers' + ~~'don't care about cookies'~~ 'Consent-o-matic'
basically allows you to easily have multiple accounts on websites while also making sure everything stays contained to its own bubble, and anything I don't have a dedicated container for gets a temporary container that deletes the cookies after a bit ~~in order for me to both not care about cookies and also not get any cookies.~~ at this point mostly because I don't like accidentally having an account on a non-contained instance
ff2mpv - easily launch videos in mpv, requires a bit of setup
Image Search Options - finding the source of most drawings, spotting which anime a clip is from etc
Yomichan for quick access to locally installed dictionaries (for Japanese in this case)
Toggle Clipboard
Firefox:
UBlock Origin
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin
Decentraleyes
Brave:
UBlock Origin
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin
I dont use HTTPS Everywhere anymore because its included in Firefox and Brave!
Edit: I only use Brave to do my school homework because firefox messes with the website we use sometimes.
My list for Firefox:
- Always on Top
- Display #Anchors
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
- Regex Search
- Simple Tab Groups
- Stylus
- uBlock Origin
On Firefox:
- uBlock Origin
- DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
- Privacy Badger
- SponsorBlock (skips the promotional parts of YouTube videos)
- Youtube shorts block
- 1Password
- Dark Reader
- Don't Fuck With Paste
- Facebook Container
- Bypass Paywalls
- Disable HTML5 Autoplay
- Ghostery
- Old Reddit Redirect
behind! - makes it easy to access images hidden under layout tricks
Better Youtube+ - adds a few extra buttons such as download to youtube videos
Bypass Paywalls - as it says on the tin
Cookiebro - autodeletes all non-whitelisted cookies ten minutes after creation
Greasemonkey - enables userscripts, specifically:
Anti-Adblock Killer - as it says on the tin
EmuParadise Download Workaround - Nintendo made them hide the links, this shows them. May not be relevant anymore, haven't used it in a while
Old Wikipedia Layout - edits all wikipedia links to include ?useskin=vector so it doesn't use the garbage new layout
Redirect Twitter to Nitter - as it says on the tin, turns all twitter links to corresponding nitter links
Simple Youtube Age Restriction Bypass - as it says on the tin
Privacy Badger - EFF tracker blocker
Return Youtube Dislike - as it says on the tin
SponsorBlock for Youtube - uses crowdsourced timestamps to block in-video youtube ads
uBlock Origin - basic/main adblocker
The only one I use that wasn't mentioned yet is unpaywall, for finding scientific articles in open databases.
Vinegar on safari for iOS / macOS is probably the extension I find the most useful day to day. It replaces the usual YouTube video player with a standard html5 player. So no ads, and support for PiP.
On Firefox:
- uBlock Origin
- Bitwarden
- Decentraleyes
- Terms of Service; Didn't Read
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
- Facebook Container
- Consent-O-Matic
- Don't Track Me Google
...and the add-ons not related to privacy:
- 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)
- Zhongwen
- New Xkit
- Earth View from Google Earth
- Palette Creator
- Save to Notion
- Send to Outline
- Web to EPUB
I use most of these on Brave Browser, too.