Yeah I just find the title very weird, to me it makes more sense to choose a search engine because it respects your privacy than to "support European companies"

I hadn't read the "Need help choosing?" part of the picture, so still oupsie on my part 😅 I wish it mentioned that it's decentralized... but considering it's aimed at people using Google, I guess that'd be like trying to convert people from twitter/reddit to mastodon/lemmy by geeking out about decentralization and ActivityPub. No one cares, aside from the people who are already using it 😅

yeah I wish decentralized search engines were more common

How about just NOT supporting companies? Having an European company control what gets shown to you is not much of an improvement over having an American one do it...

There are decentralized search engines like SearXNG

which ones? I wasn't aware there were new ones

Thanks, I feel a lot better about my potato-grade laptop now 😁

How could anyone take him seriously BEFORE?

I had no idea about the second one! I still like having a context menu option, right click + E seems much less of a hassle than selecting the text and copying, but it's nice to know you can select part of a link! How did I never notice that you could in 20 years? 😅

Future uBlock/NewPipe users

Thanks for educating people about the usefulness of adblockers, YouTube ❤️

I think Youtube Anti Translate only works on video titles and descriptions? There's Youtube No Translate which does the same and also keeps the audio track in the original language so you don't get a shitty AI dub

Category "how the hell isn't this included by default" :

• Copy Plain Text: Adds an option in the right click menu to copy the selected text as plain text, without formatting
• Copy Link Text : Adds an option in the right click menu to copy the text of a link
• Markdown Reader: Show formatted markdown. I tried several extensions for this and this is the one I prefer personally. It has an index panel on the left which is sooo useful.

Category "Preserving your mental health online" :

• uBlock Origin: You really need to block those ads
• Consent-O-Matic: Never see a cookie pop-up again in your life (it auto accepts or refuse in your place).
• SponsorBlock: Skips Youtube sponsorships. You can define which ones you want to skip and which you want to watch (paid ads, self promo, etc)
• Return Youtube Dislike: Show the number of dislikes on videos. It's not a real number, it's extrapolated based on how many people with the app have clicked dislike.
• Youtube No Translate: Keeps titles, descriptions and audio tracks in their original language

Category "Usefull" :

• KeePassXC-Browser: To access your password database from your browser
• Whatever fingerprinting protection you can find (Canvas, Fonts, WebGL, etc.. half those I used have been pulled, haven't found a replacement for all of them)

Category "Would be nice if..." :

• A user agent switcher... if you want all websites to block you 😑
• NoScript: Block javascript and create custom rules to allow it only when and where you want. Or the reverse. It was great a few years ago but I've stopped using it because websites require allowing more and more otherwise nothing works and it's hell can we cancel javascript please?
• Dark Reader: Dark mode for all websites. Can make some websites unreadable, but you can turn it off for that website. Makes everything much slower though so I don't use it.

Errrm... sorry to ask, but when was it NOT broken? When has the US government ever existed to serve you?