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What browser extensions do you use that you'd recommend to others?

Do you contribute to any FOSS browser extension projects?

Are there any non-FOSS extensions that you wish had a sufficient FOSS alternative?

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[–] alex@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox user here.

  • Bitwarden password manager
  • Bypass Paywalls Clean
  • Clear URLs remove URL trackers
  • Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results to hide some unwanted websites from search results
  • Open in VLC™ media player, useful for some weird streams
  • Push to Kindle sends any text article to PDF or to your ereader (not only Kindle)
  • Recipe Filter filters recipe pages on blogs and just gets the actual ingredients & instructions
  • Redirector for a few paywalls where I use a specific proxy
  • RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - as I use Inoreader for following RSS feeds
  • Sci Hub Injector adds sci-hub links to many science publishing websites for easy access
  • Shinigami Eyes highlights trans-friendly and transphobic social media users or websites
  • uBlock Origin
  • ViolentMonkey for userscripts

Extensions to be helpful to other people:

  • Picket Line Notifier tells you if the website you are visiting has workers on strike - useful especially for ecommerce & news publishers
  • Snowflake is not noticeable for me, but allows other people to use my network as a Tor node or something idk
  • Wayback Machine archives every page I visit on the Internet Archive.

Fediverse extensions:

  • FediAct allows me to boost, reply to, follow, etc. on any Mastodon instance without having to open the right link in my own instance. I wish there was something like this for Lemmy and Peertube.
  • Fedishare allows for one-click sharing to several Fediverse platforms, including Lemmy and Mastodon
  • PeerTubeify tries to check if a YouTube video you're watching is also on PeerTube

Youtube extensions:

  • Auto HD / 4k / 8k pour YouTube™ - I use it for the environment, so default quality is 480px (because usually I watch the videos on a small side window so it doesn't change the visible quality)
  • Clickbait Remover for YouTube - replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video and makes all titles normally named, no all caps
  • DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - removes the homepage & sidebar on videos to avoid rabbit holes
  • SponsorBlock auto-skips sponsored segments, intros, credit rolls, etc. on YouTube videos
[–] noodlejetski@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

uBO, of course. note: you guys don't need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google

[–] KaSPer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

+1 for Consent-O-Matic.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox:

  • uBlock Origin (uBO) - The internet is basically unusable without this. {GPLv3}
  • Dark Reader - I like using dark themes and I hate when I get blasted with a light theme when I visit a site. This keeps that to a minimum. {MIT}
  • Firefox Multi-Account Containers - It's nice to keep things separated. {Mozilla Public License Version 2.0}
  • Consent-O-Matic - Automatically marks my saved cookie preferences on consent pop ups. This is a great tool to help counter to the dark patterns related to GDPR, but it isn't perfect. {MIT}
  • NoScript - I don't like giving blanket permission to run JavaScript in my browser. This let's me choose. {GPLv3}
  • Wayback Machine by Internet Archive - Archives the sites I visit automatically and provides a one click option to visit an archived version of a URL that returns 404. {Proprietary | I don't know of any alternatives}
  • Tampermonkey - There are a few very useful scripts that I run periodically. Tampermonkey keeps them organized and easy to run. {Proprietary | I don't know of any alternatives}
  • Reddit Enhancement Suite - I got a lot of value from this extension over the years, but I don't know how much value it has going forward for me {GPLv3}