Technology

Firefox: uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Simple Tab Groups, New Tab Suspender, SponsorBlock for YouTube.

• bitwarden
• simplelogin
• proton vpn

I just use these three.

Pushbullet - send stuff from my phone to my browser, or vice versa.

Camelizer - camelcamelcamel popup for Amazon browsing. CCC displays a price/time graph and lets you set alerts for when something is below a target price.

Youtube Playback Speed Control - I watch YT at 2x speed usually, sometimes 4x. This adds fine control and keyboard shortcuts for that.

One i done see mentioned is OneTab. Allows me to take large groups of tabs and dump them to a text file, which I can also use to restore groups of tabs. It allows me to close entire browsers full of tabs but keep the links to prevent firefox from getting out of hand with ram consumption.

I think uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and Dark Reader are my favs.

Does anyone know of an extension that let's you view privated subs on Reddit? I'm tired of the not being able to access important info because of the blackouts. If anyone knows of an extension or a TamperMonkey script please let me know!

For Lemmy:

Stylus. And then find Lemmy scripts on UserStyles.world to install into Stylus and you can change the look and feel for Lemmy to make it more like Reddit, or whatever. I currently use a combination of 'Better Lemmy' and 'Old reddit-ish Lemmy'.

For general browsing:

uBlock Origin for ads

Privacy Badger for tracking

For YouTube:

Enhancer for YouTube

Mandatory:

• Dark Reader for dark mode anywhere, and Invert Colors for the occasions when a site is not usable with Dark Reader.
• Ublock Origin of course, but I also still use uMatrix because even several years after it stopped being maintained, it's STILL unmatched by any other addon in the content-blocker category. The granularity of being able to specifically allow scripts or frames or images or cookies from specific third-party domains or subdomains either everywhere or only on certain first-party domains, with a very intuitive visual grid (matrix) and subdomain selection, is incredible. I still don't understand why it's deprecated.
• Tree Style Tab and the related Tab Unloader. I forget things exist if they aren't right in front of me, so if I have any intention of coming back to a site or a workflow, I need those tabs somewhere in front of me, tucked away in a tree waiting for me to get back to them. I regularly have between 100-200 tabs open. Being able to unload performance-heavy tabs without restarting the whole browser also helps a lot.
• Bitwarden because if you aren't using some kind of password manager, do you even care about security?
• Translate Web Pages because not everything I want to read is in English

Nice to haves:

• Tranquility Reader, because the browser's built-in Reader View often shits itself and doesn't work, particularly on social media text posts. This lets me select the page contents I want it to grab in case the automated picker fails. It's still a bit janky though; if anyone has a more polished alternative, I'd like to hear about it!
• Enhancer For YouTube, Sponsorblock, and Return YouTube Dislike
• stutter For when I feel like speed-reading
• Toolbox for Google Play Store

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.

Something that I recently started to use is Raindrop.io. It's a cloud bookmark organizer and I find it really useful. And the extension is also really good with lots of features. I think it's odd that people don't know/talk about it!

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.

For me it's definitely uBlock, tridactyl & tree style tabs

Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos - This one simplifies the YouTube experience and helps you to spend less time watching videos endlessly.

-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.

I physically can't use a browser without Vimium anymore.

• uBlock Origin
• Sidebery

library extension forever until the end of time

Facebook container is one i use that blocks facebook tracking with tracking pixels for example.

Besides ad/tracking blockers, my #1 is a dimmer. Helps the eyes! lol. Especially at night.

Consent-O-Matic, it declines all cookie banners for you (or accepts you can decide it in the settings)

Anyone have some favorites related to Lemmy or Mastodon? I've seen a couple that claim to make following and subscribing easier on other instances but I'm not sure if they are trustworthy.

Ublock origin Adguard Aguard Extra Bitwarden Privacy badger Tampermonkey Dark reader Sponsorblock

I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+