Sponsorblock. Makes YouTube, even with Premium, a lot more enjoyable.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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What does it do?
Members of the community highlight built in sponsored segments and the extension/addon allows you to skip over them.
It automatically skips sponsorship segments
can't live without:
- uBlock (goes without saying)
- Startpage Privacy (I've also used Privacy Badger, giving this one a try and it seems to work well)
- Vimium (browse using vim shortcuts)
- New Window Without Toolbar (does what it says; opens the current page in a new window without any toolbar at all, nice minimal look)
- New Tab Override (so new tabs land on my personal landing page, not the Firefox home or blank)
That's it really, my needs are simple.
Also, TIL about "I don't care about cookies" so I'm tempted to install that, but I do sort of care about cookies... but I also clear them relatively frequently, so it's probably fine.
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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)
What in the world was "eat the shorts"?
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Feedbro for RSS and LibRedirect for popular service redirects to other frontends
- PrivacyBadger
- Consentomatic
- Bitwarden
- something for mouse gestures
- Sponsorblock
- YouTube enhancement suite (not sure about the name)
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.
Some of my favorite Firefox extensions:
uBlock Origin: The best ad blocker you can get.
Imagus: Enlarges images and displays linked images when you hover over them.
Multi-Account Containers: Allows you to create containers to completely isolate specific sites.
KeePassXC-Browser: Browser integration for KeePassXC password manager.
SponsorBlock: Skips sponsored video segments on youtube.
Hide Youtube-Shorts: Hides those annoying vertical videos on youtube.
Enhancer for Youtube: Lots of extra configuration options and controls for youtube.
umatrix. ..underappreciated imo.
take a shot for everytime sum1 mentions ublock.
get $100 dollars everytime sum1 mentions umatrix.
im still broke but wasted AF!
FoxScroller, I like to scroll pages while practicing music, which always impresses people. Gesturefy, gotta have those mouse gestures. With a tiny Windows program called NeatMouse I can do it all with the keyboard, too. Kinda off topic. Imagus, what is this clicking and opening crap? SessionSync is good for saving your tabs. Fun to see what you were wasting time on 5 years ago.
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Consent-O-Matic
DDG Privacy Essentials Coin Mining Blocker Enhancer for YouTube Turbo Download Manager Ghostery uBlock Origin Surfshark VPN Extension Privacy Badger
- 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
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.
I use Grammarly, Facebook Container and uBlock Origin.
Facebook Container keeps facebook from spying on your internet traffic
uBlock Origin
Read Aloud
FB Purity
Facebook Container
SAML-tracer (for work)
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