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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • AdGuard Extra

  • AdNauseam (uBlock Origin fork)

  • Bitwarden

  • Clickbait Remover for Youtube

  • Custom Scrollbars

  • Don't accept image/webp

  • Enhancer for Youtube

  • Proton VPN

  • RES

  • Return Youtube Dislike

  • Sponsorblock

  • Thumbnail Rating Bar for Youtube

  • Tree Style Tab

  • Translate Web Pages

  • uBlacklist (no more deviantart trash in image search)

  • Redditsave (probably won't need this anymore since i moved here)

  • vidIQ Vision for Youtube (information on screen pleases me)

  • Violentmonkey

  • Youtube-shorts block

and thanks to the based commenters here, learned there were some userscripts for kbin and got the Dark Reader extension

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I basically only use: Ublock origin Privacy badger I don’t care about cookies Dark reader Decentralizes And some web scraping tool forgot the name

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My list for Firefox:

  • Always on Top
  • Display #Anchors
  • Firefox Multi-Account Containers
  • Regex Search
  • Simple Tab Groups
  • Stylus
  • uBlock Origin
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Augmented Steam
Bitwarden
ClearURLs
Cookie AutoDelete
Decentraleyes
Disconnect for Facebook
Don't touch my tabs!
Enhancer for Youtube
Flagfox
Link Cleaner
NoScript
Privacy Badger
RES
Skip Redirect
Tree Style Tab
uBlock Origin
Undo Close Tab Button
View Image

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here are the plugins I use:

  • React Developer Tools (useful for developing with React)
  • Ublock Origin
  • Return Youtube Dislike
  • SponsorBlock
  • Grepper (shows convenient code snippets when I Google stuff)
  • Cold Turkey Blocker (I use this to to block websites/apps when I need to focus)
  • Shinigami Eyes (highlights queer friendly and anti queer subreddits/users/facebook pages/group differently)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have these extensions pinned:

  • uBlock Origin
  • Firshot (takes screenshots of website with scrolling)
  • Google Translate
  • Wolfram Alpha
  • Tampermonkey (let's me write/add scripts to websites)
  • Just a clock (I hide my windows startbar so having a little clock always displayed is nice)

And my remaining extensions are:

  • Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
  • BetterTTV
  • Chrome Remote Desktop
  • Confetti Snippets (adds copy button to code on Stack Overflow)
  • DeArrow (Crowdsourced titles and thumbnails to remove clickbait from YouTube)
  • Enhanced Steam
  • Google Docs Offline
  • HTTPS Everywhere (changes http links to https)
  • JSONVue (formats and makes json collapsible)
  • Lighthouse (tests website performance)
  • Netflix Extended
  • Reddit Enhancement Suite
  • Refined Prime Video
  • Resource Override (let's me replace requested web resources with local versions of those files)
  • Return YouTube Dislikes
  • Save All Resources
  • ShareX
  • SponsorBlock
  • SteamDB
  • Tab to Window/Popup (adds keyboard shortcuts to between normal browser windows and the popup windows that don't waste space with a title bar, useful for vertically split window layouts)
  • uBlacklist (block sites from Google search results)
  • View Image (returns view image option to Google Images)
  • WAVE Evaluation Tool (tests website accessibility)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can force https on browser settings nowadays, at least for firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh now I see that it's built into chrome now as well; thanks for the info it's always nice to uninstall something that's no longer needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use Firefox and the arkenfox user.js, which is not an extension, but helps with privacy. For the extensions, though, they are as follows:

  • uBlock Origin // on medium mode (Check out what blocking modes are if you don't know them already)
  • LibRedirect // to redirect to more privacy respecting alternatives
  • Skip Redirect // for increased privacy in terms of redirects
  • Smart Referer // on strict mode. I use this as I have set network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy to 0 as 2 was a little too strict for me

I think more extensions than these would probably hurt my setup. I have followed the advice from the arkenfox wiki. Check it out if you want to look into a more private and secure Firefox configuration. Also feel free to criticize or ask questions about my setup :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

-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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Send help, they keep multiplying...

  • AdGuard Adblocker (has the most user friendly blacklist feature)
  • automaticDark (since Firefox's auto theme switching is iffy on Linux)
  • AutoScrolling
  • Bitwarden
  • CodeCopy
  • Dark Reader
  • Font Finder
  • Greasemonkey
  • Middle Click on Page Closes Tab
  • New Tab Tools
  • Popup Bookmarks
  • Ruffle
  • Self-Destructing Cookies
  • Simple Translate
  • SponsorBlock
  • Stylus

Misc:

  • Don't Accept image/webp
  • enhanced-h264ify
  • Google Direct
  • Old Reddit Redirect
  • Open in Steam
  • Plasma Integration
  • YouTube Control Fix

I'd like to replace some of them with Greasemonkey scripts, but that's a lot of work for a little bit of performance. Also, I didn't realize there was a Wayback Machine extension! Adding that right now, thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The only one I use that wasn't mentioned yet is unpaywall, for finding scientific articles in open databases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • 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
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