yuuunikkiThe "essential" firefox addons/scripts/ublock filters etc?
LibRedirect - A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and other websites to alternative privacy friendly frontends YouTube → Invidious , Piped , Piped-Material , CloudTube , PokeTube , FreeTube , Yattee YouTube Music → Beatbump , Hyperpipe Twitter → Nitter TikTok → ProxiTok Reddit → Libreddit , Teddit Imgur → Rimgo Pixiv → PixivFE
robolemmyAfter ublock origin, this is my favorite extension. Redirecting youtube to freetube is the greatest thing ever
what does freetube even do? can i still log in and view my subscriptions?
wonderfulvoltaireYou can import your subscriptions using the Google takeout feature. Tutorial on freetube’s website.
im still wondering what freetube does over the regular youtube website
Interstellar_1It’s free, open source, you can download videos, and it doesn’t track you or try to intentionally make the viewing experience worse.
So is it a website or a program you download?
Freetube is a desktop program. I use it and it’s so much better than going to the YouTube page.
Other than a couple of neat features, basically it allows you to have the youtube account features, without having an account.
Locally you tell him what channels you care for, and it fetches your homepage for you, without all the strings attached to google doing that within your account and, hence, knowing exactly what kind of person you are.
Sounds more inconvenient to download a while program to visit a website I can just visit in a Firefox tab with the addons I have downloaded
The main reason one would consider freetube or other similar alternative is for privacy. If that doesn’t matter to you then just stick to the website.
Are you, like, manually writing down on paper the 0s and 1s of the software you use?
Personally it takes me 20 seconds top to “download a whole program”.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸No ads, no tracking, no proprietary software. Built-in SponsorBlock and DeArrow as well as a download feature.
Dude, thank you, I was so pissed about reddit links in search ergines I had to click because I needed the info they contained.
Now I can fight.
Actually, you can use any SearXNG instance as your search engine, most of which already redirect their results to privacy focused frontends. Like searx.tiekoetter.com.
RobotToaster- Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- F.B Purity - Cleans up Facebook
- Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin
- Joshi Koukousei Captcha Service
- Return YouTube Dislike
- SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
- Wayback Machine
- xIFr
Joshi Koukousei Captcha Service
Wtf is this?
SLaSZTLooks like an AI-driven captcha solver for 4chan. The reviews mention something about not having to buy a pass so I guess 4chan charges to get around the captchas. Lol.
Yup, they’re also pretty annoying captchas.
I thought it might solve captchas on all websites.
- F.B Purity - Cleans up Facebook
There’s no cleaning that shit up.
Finally someone that mentions an Enable Right Click extension. There’s a few out there but I use “Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy” as well.
On top of return youtube dislike & sponsorblock I will highly recommend BlockTube, it optionally removes shorts, the video pause and & popup asking if you’re still there, and a few other things. I’ve tried the “remove youtube loudness normalization” option but volume is just all over the place no matter what.
Of course these are specific to youtube and not essential for anyone who uses an alternative
FleppensteynYou can disable right click hijacking with dom.event.contextmenu.enabled in about:config, I don’t think you need an extension for that
SkimmerYou don’t even need to do that, all you have to do is hold shift when you right click, and hijacking.
Enable right click, that sounds like something I need, it’s a bit stupid how often I want to right click something and I can’t
Snot FlickermanBypass Paywalls Clean got pulled from the Firefox repository but you can still sideload it from github.
Dark Reader. Not invulnerable to sudden blinding at night, I’d say one site in 200 seems to sneak through. But imo it beats all other dark mode addons I tried and certainly the default dark mode.
Ublock origin
Privacybadger
Cookiebro
Anti-adblock killer userscript
Sponsorblock
NixArent privaxy badger cookiebro and anti Adblock killer pointless if you use ublock origin with the cookie and anti adblock lists enabled?
Banzai51uBlock Origin
Bitwarden
Bitwarden
As a violin/piano player, librescore script
As a person who can’t stand table tea spoons and other not precise units of measurements, a script that converts all those voodoo units into metric
From addons also would like to add that add-on that adds a flag to a site
Translation add-on
Also, I don’t use a password manager add-on, hotkeying is just so much nicer
These are not really “essential”, just telling everyone some things i’m enjoying 😋
As a person who can’t stand table tea spoons and other not precise units of measurements
American recipes: add 12 oz of whatever.
Me: Weight or volume!!!
If liquid, volume. If else likely weight.
I’m aware. Semi-liqud fluids are the tricky ones, like beans.
Usually in my experience they specify canned beans or dry beans, dry ones I assume are weight.
I agree with you that tablespoons are not the best metric but I would rather want to know if a recipe was telling me to use an imprecise measurement or a precise one. If it says to add 10g of something it was probably tested with that; if it says use 3 tablespoons, usually I can basically add as much or as little as I like (within reason). Anyway, you actually lose a bit of info on the amount of precision specified
I personally measure everything, and it should be especially important for people making recipes
A good recipe is the one to make the exact or a very close copy of the dish, not an approximately dish alike
Especially if you make something precise like soap, cheese, and other stuff. Gladly soap makers started using grams for lye… Yes until not a long ago people were using spoons for lye 🫠
Could you elaborate on librescore script please? How do I get it how does it work. I searched and only got the website librescore
github.com/LibreScore/dl-librescore
There are many ways to use it, but I personally use the user script with tempermonkey(or greasemonkey)
So:
Install Tampermonkey Note: If you already installed an old version of the script called "musescore-downloader", "mcsz downloader", or "musescore-dl", please uninstall it from the Tampermonkey dashboard Go to the latest dl-librescore.user.js file Press the Install button
ITT: Everyone suggesting non-essential extensions. The only essential one is uBlock Origin. Everything else is optional and depends on the user.
Adnauseum - same as unlock but also clicks on every ad (or any % of ads) to give useless data
May as well fight back
depends on the user still
L_AcaciaYou are easier to track with Adnauseum
Adnauseum clicks are easily detected and filtered out. Google stopped this nonsense a long time ago. As others have said, it also makes it dead simple to track you.
If anything adding those extensions would just make you easier to fingerprint, right?
Depends if it directly interacts with a webpage or not, but most likely yes. Also just adds attack surface and consumes extra resources, so its generally a good practice to keep extensions to a minimum and only use what you need.
If you want to see dark mode everywhere: DarkReader
Note that it will slow down page render times
I find this one fairly useless nowadays, maybe except for a couple websites. But even Wikipedia nowadays has a native dark mode.
I disable it wherever native dark mode is supported but damn if I’m gonna blast my eyes with a white background awhen I’m browsing after 10pm
Even native dark mode isn’t dark enough for me. I want black so I have it enabled on top of native dark mode.
NightoftheLemmyDarkReader is absolutely essential for me. A lot of websites I visit don’t have a dark mode and end up burning my retinas at night.
- useragent switcher
- custom search engine adders are good if you use multiple search engines
Doesn’t Firefox have the second one built in?
i couldnt figure out how to. i know you can right click the url of a website to add as a search engine, but this only works if the website supports it, and many dont. you can also import/export search engines from a file
You can go into settings and select the search engine you want, you can also remove the ones you don’t want.
i get that, but i dont think you can add new ones in settings. and the settings files are cryptic to me
Huh, I don’t get what you are saying. I can just add a search engine by clicking “add new search” (or sth like that) entering a name and a URL.
i cant find where that is? what version of firefox r u on? im on Firefox 119, and its the same on Librewolf. in about:preferences > search
Hm, I thought I saw it in the desktop app, too, but apparently it’s managed differently over there. You click on “find more search engines” which leads to the add-on store (version 119). On mobile it’s different.
ah i see. i did know about it being on mobile. very strange they cant add a simple feature to the desktop version, but im sure theres a reason