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Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can't stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it's kinda wild to me that this isn't more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It's good for the same reasons!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Another for Ublock Origin

Youtube Enhancer

Imagus [enlarges images, great for my old tired eyeballs]

Ad Observer (run by Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University, it examines any ads you DO get to look for patterns in how advertising is being used to influence people on social media.)

To Google Translate (Highlight something and send it straight to a Translate page)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sponsorblock. Makes YouTube, even with Premium, a lot more enjoyable.

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

Members of the community highlight built in sponsored segments and the extension/addon allows you to skip over them.

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

Bypass Paywalls Clean - It allows me to read articles on a huge number of sites without having to login or pay. I already have access to news sites I care about through legitimate means but for the sake of being able to quickly read something, this extension cannot be beat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Outside of ones already stated: Facebook Container is great. I have to use FB for work, so it's good to keep is separated from the rest of my browsing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
-Vimium (install and hit the letter 'f' key. You will immediately understand the appeal if you are a keyboard jockey)
-A Userscript handler (Violentmonkey)
-Dark Reader
-Save to Pocket (I have a Kobo ereader, this extension is a must for reading on the go)
-Bitwarden
-Ublock if the browser doesn't have baked in Ad blocks.

I love reading the responses to this question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you explain how you use Pocket with your Kobo e-reader? Which model do you have? I have a Kobo Libra H2O and have never thought to use it for anything other than books I've checked out from the library.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
  • PrivacyBadger
  • Consentomatic
  • Bitwarden
  • something for mouse gestures
  • Sponsorblock
  • YouTube enhancement suite (not sure about the name)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm on Vivaldi so I don't know how many of these are available to Firefox. Leaving out all the obvious ones like adblocker, password manager, userscripts, etc.

Privacy Pass; do less captchas. Every time you solve a captcha, it stores a few "tokens" in your browser, essentially verifying you as human extra times at once. The next few times you encounter the same brand of catcha, your browser will "spend" one of those tokens to automatically be treated as high confidence, skipping the captcha.

Bot Sentinel; puts a little score next to people's names on Twitter, showing how often they've been reported to the Bot Sentinel site for various things like spam, trolling, or hatespeech; it's nice to know at a glance when you just shouldn't engage with someone.

Jiffy Reader; when it's enabled, hilights the first couple letters of every word, which is great for ADHD because it makes your automatic reflex be to look at each word one at a time, rather than skim the whole section.

Teleparty; watch netflix, etc, with friends, with a little built-in chatroom

Trim; show IMDB/Rotten Tomato ratings on netflix, etc, thumbnails; a real minor tweak, but I'm a big fan

Beyond20 and the VTT Enhancement Suite; specialized D&D addons that made playing online so much easier during the pandemic. Beyond20 pipes your character sheet macro rolls from D&D Beyond directly into Roll20, and VTTES adds all sorts of bonus functionality to Roll20.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

umatrix. ..underappreciated imo.
take a shot for everytime sum1 mentions ublock.
get $100 dollars everytime sum1 mentions umatrix.
im still broke but wasted AF!

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

Chrome:

Safari:

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

Sponsorblock is really cool! thank you!

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

Disconnect ReviewMeta.com Consent-O-Matic DDG Privacy Essentials Coin Mining Blocker Enhancer for YouTube Turbo Download Manager Ghostery uBlock Origin Surfshark VPN Extension Privacy Badger

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • uBlock Origin is pretty self-explanatory
  • Highlighter + Notes helps my ADHD a lot by letting me highlight important phrases in big blocks of texts, especially any articles or posts I might be reading and replying to
  • Archive Page for archive.today is also self-explanatory, I like using it to create permalinks or de-paywalled links to news articles
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

helps my ADHD

Only barely related, but have you ever tried JiffyReader? It highlights the first segment of each word, which is supposed to help ADHDers focus on each word instead of skimming over whole sentences/paragraphs/pages at once. It does help me like, some.

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

Gestures. Hover zoom images. Tab tree view.

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

Fakespot - analyzes online store reviews, removes bots and readjusts the score away from fake scores to actual mean score

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

web of trust, or mywot. puts a little sign next to every link telling you if they're trustworthy. fucken game changer. botsight is a great one for twitter. and buzzkill, well, kills buzzfeed

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