DJ PutlerFavorite Firefox addon that isn't just ublock, darkreader, etc? I throw out Singlefile but you probably have that
TheFeatureCreatureBitwarden.
Oh for sure I raise you Keepass’s addon but they have the same use case with minor differences (Keepass is easier to automate for things like providing bots with changed social media credentials)
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TrackinDaKrakenSponsor Block–Skips some YouTube ads.
Language Tool–keeps me from making stupid grammar errors.
Cookie Quick Manager–you can lock cookies and other stuff.
Tabby. A tab manager, but I mainly use it to search for tabs.
Multi-account containers. Let’s you have 2 different Gmail accounts open at once. Also I try to silo different parts of my life to prevent tracking.
Noscript and tampermonkey too.
Seconded for Tampermonkey.
Specifically recommend their Youtube Age Verification Bypass script. Cause they ain’t ever gettin my ID lol
UltraGiGaGiganticSomething like this for Facebook? Fuck Facebook, but Facebook marketplace murdered craigslist. That and the legal troubles that for some reason dont apply to Facebook.
g0d0fm15ch13fTree style tabs
Makes it simultaneously easier to open a billion pages but also manages them nicely
I’ll throw out a few.
Wouldn’t chameleon make you just as trackable unless you’re also switching your vpn every time you switch user agents?
Tabby. A tab manager, but I mainly use it to search for tabs.
d-RLY?I think all of these also have Chrome versions, but still better on FF due to being able to install (or side-load if not listed or not whitelisted for mobile) onto the mobile version. The day I learned how to get non-whitelisted ones to install and install from xpi was game over for bothering with other mobile browsers.
- FastStream for downloading videos from YT and a lot of other sites (I daily use it for grabbing stuff on Twitter)
- Bypass Paywalls Clean for the obvious
- Watch on Odysee for seeing if a YT channel also uploads to Odysee to go watch there if possible and at least give my view there
- SponsorBlock for being able to skip hard-coded ads from the uploads and other sections of YT videos
- DeArrow for being able to view titles for YT videos that are more reflective of content
- Wayback Machine for saving pages to Archive.org along with saving them to my account on there.
- Privacy Possum for more aggressive blocking of tracking (though it does require remembering it is on if a site breaks as it will block things that uBO isn’t the cause of the issue)
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_deleted_I head that “I don’t care about cookies” got bought by Avast or something and had some spyware in it or something (can’t quite remember I looked into it a while back).
I think there’s another version called “I still don’t care about cookies” that avoids that.
SorteKaninConsent-o-matic: automatically rejects cookie banners, even the most annoying ones.
vext01I-dont-care-about-cookies is my favorite variant of this, since it also rejects the Cookies itself on top automatically where possible. Exceptions can be made if wanted.
That one was compromised. The good fork is “I still don’t care about cookies”.
☂️-Adnauseam Silently click-spams ads to drain their bandwidth, with the purpose of making the horrible advertising business unprofitable.
this is built on ublock origin, so if your using it get rid of ublock origin as well.
Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours’ and adtech’s bandwidth.
Wasting resources isn’t a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.
geneva_convenienceA minor amount of bytes is not “wasting resources”. It is wasting ad revenue.
theneverfoxIt’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low
Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better
This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google
Indeed. This in turn devalues ads by dropping their conversion rate. Thus people won’t use Google services anymore.
I love Indie Wiki Buddy, it auto redirects fandom links to the newer official independent wikis for things that have them (minecraft is one example). God I hate fandom so much truly the worst wiki experience.
Maybe this counts as a “worse version of uBlock” but I use AdNauseam, which in addition to blocking all the ads, it registers as clicking them too, which fucks up their tracking and costs them money. I remember seeing somewhere that the ad blocking itself was based on uBlock, but I couldn’t find it on the extention page so i may have imagined it.
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I like to use mouse gestures since the time Opera had its own engine.
So basically the Gesturefy add-on for Firefox is a must for me.
DrDystopiaThe rocker gestures are nice for laptops and trackpads but has been made obsolete by multitouch gestures.
nuTensor. Paired with uBO it’s easily the best browser firewall system.
Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later
Domain Volume Control / Better Volume Booster - allow you to set default volume per-domain (note that unfortunately, in the 1st one the set volume gets changed when you change the volume through a site’s player, and the 2nd one currently causes an issue on Nightly with unpaused videos)
Playback speed - allows you to change the speed of videos/audio on any site, even only by x0.01 at a time (you can also change the buttons that appear when you click on the addon in the toolbar/addons menu to have specific speeds readily available) (note that it doesn’t change the pitch of the audio)
- Specifically for YouTube you can also use an addon like Improve YouTube. To configure the feature click on the addon in the toolbar/addons menu > Shortcuts > Playback speed. To change the shortcut so that you hold Ctrl and use the mousewheel (while hovering over the video) click Ctrl and release it before using the mousewheel up or down accordingly (otherwise it acts as a zoom to the settings window)
Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you’re watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video
Feedbro - an RSS reader with filtering capabilities
EveryMuffinIsNowEncryptedTab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later
Can’t Firefox already do this though?
Right-click > Unload Tab on a tab.
It’s not for saving memory but to postpone a tab to check it later (for example to see new comments on a post, or if you don’t currently have time to read an article and want to read it tomorrow)
Snooze and Sleep are completely unrelated, naturally.
to see new comments on a post
But then loading an unloaded tab reloads the page, does it not? Or does it go strictly by the cached version? If it is the former, then it should load the newest comments.
It opens it again as a new/refreshed tab, though it does it automatically at the postponed time and so it’s more convenient than having to do it manually (especially when you snooze several tabs)
Oh I see so there really is no difference functionally aside from the fact that the native functionality is manual restoration while the addon functionality is automatic restoration?
Er…sorry. I guess what I meant by that is that from what you tell me it seems that there is virtually no difference between what the native “tab unloading” function is and what the addon’s “tab snooze” function is, that difference being that the former requires manually reactivating a tab while the latter can do it at a specific time/duration like an alarm clock.
Is that about right?
Right, though I believe that when you unload a tab it stays there? With the snooze thing it closes the tab and reopens later
Yes, it stays there.
That’s really cool that the snooze thing makes it go away!
FruitLipsTridactyl is a must for me. It’s as close to the Qutebrowser experience as I can find (especially with ‘:guiset none’) but I get to keep my ublock/sponsorblocks.
RoquetteQueenIs there any add-on for me to get YouTube on Firefox to behave more like the YouTube kids app? I’ve been trying to find a way to set up YouTube with an allowlist on my kids’ computer but for now I just have the entire site blocked. They don’t need YouTube but they watch educational videos on it at school and they want to watch them at home, too. Blocking individual channels is like playing whack-a-mole.