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[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 77 points 2 years ago

Ublock origin ofc

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Ublock Origin and Vimium C. That's it.

I used Dark Reader until last week, when I discovered a native Firefox setting that does the job better: Settings > Language and appearance > Colors > Manage > set background to Black and override to Always.

No more white flashes, EVER (yes, I tried absolutely everything but on some sites there was nothing to be done, even with every possible CSS hack). And no more add-on speed penalty (to be fair it was small, and Dark Reader is still an amazing tool).

Now the web looks pretty ugly but it is fast and always dark. White flashes banished FOREVER.

[–] FreeLunch@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you try Tridactyl for vim like browsing? Is Vimium C better?

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[–] gi1242@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  • Ublock origin: block ads
  • Vimium: browse with vim like keystrokes
  • Firenvim: edit text areas in neovim
  • Dark reader: dark colors on webpages
  • Containers: isolate browsing data
[–] gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top 7 points 2 years ago

The vim related extensions works for real? 😱 I need to try them ASAP!

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[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] PotatoKat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I absolutely love Tree Style Tabs. I usually have a ton of tabs open (middle mouse click is my best friend) and that helps me keep it all organized, and quickly close all the ones I don't need anymore. I also did a change in the profile settings for Firefox to get rid of the normal tabs so now I only have the tree ones. (I don't really remember how I did that though, it was ages ago and involved editing some files in appdata)

[–] Flyswat@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

It involves editing the user chrome CSS or whatever it's called.

In addition to Tree Style Tabs, I use Tree Style Tab Mouse Wheel which eases navigation and Simple Tab Groups which also helps with organising the browsing sessions.

[–] trclst@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No script is redundant with ublock origin on advanced mode.

[–] trclst@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Would you please let me know how do i get the same "all scripts are blocked" and allowlist specific domains only like in noscript? As far as i know ublock enable/disable javascript for whole website not subdomains. I could be wrong. And noscript have xss protection.

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[–] LynneOfFlowers@midwest.social 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Tree style tabs, which gives vertical tabs that you can arrange in a hierarchy to keep related ones together

Simple tab groups, which lets you have multiple sets of open tabs you can switch between (can you tell I have a problem with too many tabs?)

Unstick!, which when clicked removes any sticky elements, i.e. parts of the page that stay on your screen while you scroll. It's great for removing all the bars and obstructions to reading that pages like to put in your way. For some reason I have to click it twice for it to work

Read aloud, a good text to speech extension to read pages or parts of pages to you. It can be used with cloud based neural voices from Google and Amazon with some setup

Consent-o-matic, which gets rid of the cookie consent popups for you and it's configurable as to which types of cookies it will refuse or consent to for you

SponsorBlock for YouTube, which can auto skip sponsor reads and various other kinds of segments you select to be skipped

A few short months ago I would have said RES but, well 🤷‍♀️

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[–] abc@lemmus.org 14 points 2 years ago
  • uBlock Origin: Blocks ads, annoying popups and cookie banners.
  • Bitwarden: For password management and logins.
  • SponsorBlock: Skips sponsors and self-promotions on YouTube. A huge time-saver.
[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 13 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I see some of these have already been mentioned, but they do deserve repeating;

  • µBlock Origin - blocks ads, and does it well.
  • Privacy Badger - blocks trackers, rewrites some tracking URLs, etc.
  • Multi-Account Containers - for those places where you want to keep tabs separate, giving each container its own cookies/session/etc.
  • Consent-O-Matic - automatically handles a lot of pages that shove annoying (and often technically GDPR-illegal due to lacking a quick "reject all" button) consent forms in your face.
  • Imagus - shows linked images on hover, including support for galleries and scrolling through all the images contained.
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[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Vimium-C.

Well, it goes right after UBlock Origin, which was mentioned many times already.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

BlockTube

Noscript

Sponsorblock

ublacklist

ublock origin

violentmonkey

  • Simple Youtube Age Restriciton Bypass
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[–] fabiomzz@feddit.it 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I still don't care about cookies

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay but what extensions do you use? /s

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[–] Wooly@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I recently learnt that it just auto accepts them so I stopped using, ublock has settings to actually block cookies which seems to work well, more tricky to enable though.

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

You can try Consent-O-Matic, which you can configure to reject cookies.

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[–] Nomadin@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Awesome thread!

Indispensable: UBlock Origin, Bitwarden

Handy: Tab Stash, I Don't Care About Cookies, Dark Reader

Testing (based on thread): Consent-O-Matic and SponsorBlock

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For I don't care about cookies, uBO has a list for that.

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[–] FreeLunch@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  • uBlock Origin
  • Tridactyl (vim like browsing)
  • consent-o-matic
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[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Chameleon - changes my browser fingerprint every 60 seconds

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Bitwarden, KDE Connect, Plasma Integration, ublock (of course), foxy gestures

[–] lud@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use:

  • uBlock origin (of course) (also on my phone)
  • Web archives (also on my phone)
  • ClearURLs (also on my phone)
  • Consent-O-Matic
  • Bitwarden
  • Search by image
  • Enhancer for YouTube™
  • SponsorBlock
  • Return YouTube Dislike
  • Augmented Steam
  • Dark reader
  • Tree Style Tab
  • Feedbro
  • User-Agent Switcher and Manager
  • Disable WebRTC

And probably a few more I don't remember.

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[–] craigevil@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago
[–] gordonthefatengine@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago
  • Ublock Origin

  • Libredirect

  • Bypass Paywalls Clean

[–] B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

ublock origin, fast forward, pushbullet.

[–] DagingAnalog@lemmy.my.id 6 points 2 years ago

Multi account container and temporary container.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Decentraleyes, ublock origin, consent-o-matic

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Bitwarden, AdGuard, DarkReader

[–] Hans_VL@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Consent o matic it automatically fills out the gdpr boxes with your preferences. And it is developed by a danish university, so seems pretty safe. :)

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[–] Antimutt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

All of this may beg the question: What add-ons would we like to see?

One that doesn't exist is QOI Viewer that would render the Quite OK image format into a png for Firefox to display.

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[–] hitagi@ani.social 5 points 2 years ago

uBlock Origin, Tridactyl, and Translate Web Pages.

User Agent Spoofer whenever I need it.

[–] reddfugee@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

uBlock origin

[–] SevereLow@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Ublock Origin Dark Reader Proton Pass Zotero Betterfox UserJS

[–] Antimutt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

the ones that I actively use: Rotate and Zoom Image; Image extract; SVG Export; Simple mass downloader; PassLok Image Steganography; Color Changer; Save Screenshot; Behind the Overlay Revival

those that work in the background: Redirect AMP to HTML; Chameleon; JPEG XL Viewer; + the usual blockers & security

[–] FARTYSHARTBLAST@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

uBlock Origin

Deepl

Tineye

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