inlandempire, Here’s a list of those I have installed:
- uBlock Origin addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/ublock-origin/
- Consent-O-Matic addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/consent-o-matic/
- SponsorBlock addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/sponsorblock/
- Youtube-shorts block addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/youtube-shorts-block/
- ClearURLs addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/clearurls/ (no longer needed since last update afaik)
- Proton Pass addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/proton-pass/ (or bitwarden if you use a password manager)
- Bypass Paywalls Clean gitlab.com/…/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
- LibRedirect addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/libredirect/
- Firefox Relay addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/private-relay/
- SteamDB addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/steam-database/
Gigan, Oh my god there’s an add-on to block Youtube shorts?!?
someguy3, Description says it plays then in the normal video screen. Don’t see the point, maybe someone can fill me in.
HootinNHollerin, The shorts are usually in vertical and narrow for a phone so I suspect it changes that?
Trainguyrom, Youtube’s default player will now resize the viewport depending on the aspect ratio of the content, so I suspect it would do the same for vertical video
mcqtom, (edited ) Shorts are weird. They don’t respond to keyboard controls like K for play/pause, arrow keys to scrub and change volume, you can’t actually scrub at all. I’m pretty sure you can’t see what channel posted them or when? Play them in the regular window and voila, normals ass YouTube video. Just short.
Dehydrated, You can also do it with some simple rules in uBlock Origin. github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
technomad, Thanks for the list, and links. That was very helpful, and super easy.
WhyJiffie, But most of these are not must haves. Like, SteamDB?
inlandempire, (edited ) “a list of those i have installed” is probably not must have for you indeed 😅
Dehydrated, You don’t need an addon for blocking YouTube Shorts, you can also just use these uBlock Origin rules github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
inlandempire, Wow that’s great, thanks for sharing !!
Dehydrated, There are many addons you can replace with uBlock Origin
inlandempire, One add-on to rule them all
Dehydrated, It’s often actually the only addon I install in my browser. But usually I like to keep a few other things like LibRedirect, Dark Reader, Bitwarden and OneTab around.
Dehydrated, (edited ) I looked through your list and found 2 other addons that you can replace with uBO. The first is Consent-O-Matic, you can configure Firefox to automatically block all 3rd-party cookies and use the following lists in uBO to block the cookie popups and notices: “AdGuard/uBO - Cookie Notices” (It’s pre-installed in uBlock Origin, you just need to enable it in the settings) and this one: www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/
You can also replace the ClearURL addon with the “AdGuard URL Tracking Protection” list, it’s also pre-installed, just enable it.
You might gain a little bit of extra speed by disabling/removing those 2 unnecessary addons, and it will definitely minimize your browser fingerprint, making you less susceptible to tracking
Edit: You can also replace Bypass Paywalls Clean with this list: gitlab.com/magnolia1234/…/bpc-paywall-filter.txt. I also recommend this list in addition to the other one: raw.githubusercontent.com/…/antipaywall.txt. Also install Violentmonkey and this userscript: gitlab.com/magnolia1234/…/bpc.en.user.js
unabatedshagie, The antipaywall link leads to a 404 page.
Dehydrated, Fixed the link. GitLab is doing some weird stuff with links I guess.
inlandempire, (edited ) Man you took your personal time to give me additional advice, you really didn’t have to, i appreciate it, thank you so much ❤️
I believe Firefox now does what ClearURL advertises (removing tracking elements in URLs), but I’m not sure I’ll have to check again
Dehydrated, I enjoy helping people out, when I have some free time. Otherwise I would waste my time scrolling on Tiktok or Instagram Reels lol.
I believe Firefox now does what ClearURL advertises (removing tracking elements in URLs), but I’m not sure I’ll have to check again
Yes, they added such a feature in version 120 I believe, but I would still use the uBlock list. The performance impact is not noticeable at all, it doesn’t hurt. But the ClearURL extension is kinda unnecessary.
inlandempire, Good to know, thanks again!
pineapplelover, (edited ) Clean urls breaks a lot of things so I don’t use it anymore. You can delete trackers if need be by yourself (usually everything after “ref” or everything after “?”
I would also like to add:
Ublock Origin with Javascript enable by default in settings
Container Tabs
Tree Style tabs
Bitwarden
Simplelogin
Privacy Badger
Dark Background and Light Text
Tampermonkey (use to redirect to old reddit to view without JS using ublock)
fine_sandy_bottom, firefox has a built in function to “copy link without site tracking” now.
firefox also has total cookie protection which may (more may not) make Container Tabs kinda moot ?
2xsaiko, (edited ) Some that haven’t been mentioned yet:
- Behind The Overlay (removes simple login banners/paywalls/anything that blocks the content)
- Don’t Fuck With Paste (for those sites that think it’s fun to override or even disable copy and/or paste)
- Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey Violentmonkey
aarRJaay, Which greasemonkey scripts do you use? I’ve never used it but have heard it’s a good one to have (also, it’s been recommended several times on here)
Dehydrated, If you want to use userscripts, definitely install Violentmonkey instead of Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey, as Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data and Greasemonkey hasn’t been updated in years
aarRJaay, Thank you - I love how it can look at the site and suggest scripts - and you can’t go wrong with Opensource. Thank you.
Dehydrated, Stop suggesting Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey. Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data, and Greasemonkey hasn’t been updated since 2021. Use Violentmonkey, it’s completely FOSS and up-to-date.
rdri, Hey I’m also using Violentmonkey and always recommend it over other options. But your comment got me wondering and I’ve checked. Turns out Greasemonkey actually dropped a new version a month ago. Not that this changes anything for me, just wanted to correct the statement.
Dehydrated, I’m certain that I saw somewhere that the last update was from January 2021, I can’t find that anymore though, my bad.
rdri, No need to look for it, the changelog is right at the website and previous update was indeed in 2021.
Dehydrated, Exactly, I saw that on their website.
2xsaiko, Oh, I didn’t know that. Thanks!
Dehydrated, No problem. Unfortunately Tampermonkey is recommended in many articles, guides, blog posts, etc. because people are unaware of what it does. Violentmonkey should be far more popular, so users stop downloading proprietary crap, simply because it’s the best known userscript extension.
hal_5700X, (edited ) Basic Plugins:
- uBlock Origin
- Dark Reader
- Password Manager Bitwarden or KeePassXC-Browser. If you going to use KeePassXC. You need to download the manager itself.
Youtube
Random Ones
drawerair, (edited ) I didn’t know Fastforward. I won’t need to wait 10 s on 1 of those sites anymore. Thanks.
lledrtx, Surprised no one has mentioned VideoDownloadHelper yet - www.downloadhelper.net
I’ve used this since I was a kid and it made me really popular in high school lol. Everyone thought I was a hacker or something.
Mechanite, I used to use this but now I just use yt dlp since it seems to handle random stuff with more success and it’s just as easy to use
jenny_ball, this stopped working with archive.org right? it used to be so good with that.
Couldbealeotard, It’s gotten worse with a lot of things. JDownloader is much better now
leanleft, umatrix (or ublock or noscript)
chameleon
neatURL
foxyproxy
singlefile
Dehydrated, uBlock Origin can do everything that NeatURL does. Just enable the “AdGuard URL Tracking Protection” filter list in the settings.
leanleft, seems like a pretty good list raw.githubusercontent.com/…/filter.txt
Kolanaki, (edited ) uBlock Origin and some kind of mouse gesture with rocker commands extension. Those are the only two universal types I use. Everything else I can’t live with is pretty specific to my own usage to alter the function of specific websites (like RES for Reddit, but for other sites).
cashews_best_nut, Are you getting paid to post or are you just a terminally online Lemmy-addict? It’s not good for your mental health to be online this much.
Kolanaki, (edited ) Is it being silly online or simply reality that is really affecting my mental health?
https://yiffit.net/pictrs/image/73eed6fa-094a-4380-ab80-7b34cc0b8c6f.jpeg
Appoxo, (edited ) Dark Reader
uBlock OriginOptional:
TWP Translate (is better than the new feature)
Tabliss (Another take on the “new page” in chrome)
Mr_Blott, Is there a Deepl plugin? By far the most accurate translator I’ve used. Will check later
Appoxo, Just downloaded it to my work pc.
It has Google, Bing, Yandex and DeepL as translation integrations.
hal_5700X, Here you go, addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/deepl-translate/
macattack, Tabliss is very underrated. Nowadays, I rarely see my desktop background but always see the “new tab” and so “new tab” serves as the modern desktop background. I use great photos of my city but there are many categories in unsplash
jadelord, Better? Firefox Translations does it locally without sending data to the cloud. The languages it support are very few though
Appoxo, Feel like I have more and better control and quality of translation with TWP than with the local option.
If you prefer local, be my guest.
AceFuzzLord, For me, I cannot go without the flagfox extension on PC. Otherwise, I’d probably just be going over extensions everyone else has been beating like a dead horse.
cashews_best_nut, Can you explain why? I installed Flagfox and it’s interesting especially cos I used to be a web dev but I don’t get why you’d really need to have it? No offence I just wanna know if I’m missing some hidden feature! 😂
AceFuzzLord, I just use it because I like to see where a website’s server is supposedly located. No hiddeb features, just server location.
Zatore, I recommend:
- Ublock
- Sponsor Block for Youtube
- Return Youtube Dislike
- Hide Shorts for Youtube (I actually like shorts, but only on my phone)
- Stylus
- Decentraleyes
- Don’t Accept image/webp
- Rotate Image (rotates images in 90 degree increments)
cyberpunk007, Doesn’t ublock handle the sponsors on YouTube? I never see those.
killeronthecorner, It removes ads but doesn’t handle sponsored content that is included directly in the video
Dehydrated, Just wanted to mention that Piped has SponsorBlock and DeArrow built in. It’s also better for your privacy since you don’t connect to Google servers directly.
cyberpunk007, Maybe I’m thinking of revanced that is skipping the sponsors…
Dehydrated, Just wanted to mention that Piped has SponsorBlock and DeArrow built in. It’s also better for your privacy since you don’t connect to Google servers directly.
cyberpunk007, Is there a website for this on desktop or do I need to compile it and run it as an app
Dehydrated, There are multiple instances hosting Piped. You can look at the list of public instances and pick one you like: github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances
I also recommend the Libredirect addon, which automatically redirects all YouTube links to Piped.
On Android you can use LibreTube, which also uses Piped.
On iOS you can set up Yattee with this guide to use Piped. But you can also just use it in the browser if you like.
dhhyfddehhfyy4673, Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, NoScript imo. Some sites run an absolutely absurd amount of scripts and the majority are not required for the site to function. So at best, there's no value from letting them run.
tal, That used to be a must-have for me about 20 years back, but today, it just breaks too much on too many websites.
I could maybe see selectively-blacklisting particularly obnoxious websites, but I don’t think that whitelisting them is really practical today.
Dehydrated, I could maybe see selectively-blacklisting particularly obnoxious websites
That’s what uBlock Origin already kinda does for you. It’s not just an adblocker, it also blocks tracking JavaScript from various sites as well as a bunch of other crap.
tal, Mmmm…okay, but the parent comment I was responding to does have a point in that there are some benefits to blocking Javascript above and beyond just trying to deal with tracking. Like, if you’re on a laptop, there are sites that will burn a lot of CPU time – and hence battery life – doing nothing useful. Or, on an older machine, it can speed up page loading.
My issue is just that unless you’re going to turn it on yourself on a site-by-site basis, killing off Javascript breaks too much of the Web today. It was a viable option to just have on back when there was a meaningful portion of the world that didn’t have Javascript available and web developers designed pages to deal reasonably with its absence and you were willing to deal with flipping it off on specific sites to deal with the occasional breakage…but today, it’s a huge portion of the Web that doesn’t work without Javascript.
Dehydrated, No don’t get me wrong. uBO doesn’t block all JavaScript. It has lists with individual scripts that are known to be used for ads or tracking, and these get blocked. All the other scripts load as usual. This already improves website load times and probably also battery life. Another interesting solution for reducing CPU load may be DNS based blocking. That way, the CPU is not impacted at all, the browser tries to load the script but it just silently fails, because the DNS records for the tracking and advertisement servers won’t be provided.
GlitzyArmrest, (edited ) I prefer uBlock Origin on hard mode instead, personally. Of course it probably isn’t as through.
mlg, uBlock Origin
Optional: Dark Reader Wappalyzer if you want to see cool web info
cashews_best_nut, If you like Wappalyser you may like BuiltWith and WhatRuns. 👍
YourAvgMortal, Any extension to re-enable right click. It’s annoying when they try to block me from downloading a picture/video, copy pasting, or inspecting elements
Konstant, Someone mentioned Don’t Fuck with Paste
ilinamorato, You don’t need an extension. Shift+right click always overrides JavaScript.
Nei, (edited ) uBlockOrigin, DarkReader & ProtonPass
cashews_best_nut, ProtonPass
Bitwarden’s better. ;)
reattach, (edited ) Add custom URL redirects, e.g. automatically use Piped or Invideous instance instead of YouTube, use Nitter instead of Twitter, remove Google amp
Edit: I just found out about Libredirect from this post - seems like functionally the same thing I’m using Redirector for, but with rules built in.
macattack, (edited ) Yeah same. I initially used it for YouTube/Twitter but realized that it’s reinventing the wheel that libredirect already created, and doesnt have the same features like pinging instances or being able to cycle through instances if one goes down.
I still find redirector useful, but now use it for things like redirecting away from guilty pleasure websites or when my locally-hosted teddit doesn’t properly handle internal links.
ilinamorato, I had never thought about using Redirector to lock myself out of websites! That’s brilliant. I need to do that. Zero self control when I should be working.
notExactlyI20, (edited ) As a college student, my must have plugins are
- DarkReader
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
- Sponsorblock
- TWP - Translate Web Pages
and the goat itself, >!uBlock Origin!<
const_void, I find DarkReader to be pretty slow. You might want to look at Stylus. It works on a per site basis but it’s much faster.
notExactlyI20, Thank you for the suggestion, will take a look at it.
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