I would love to find extensions that make me think “How did I live without this?”
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Surprised nobody already suggested some kind of mouse gestures extension. I use foxy gestures and once you learn a few gestures (starting with closing a tab and undoing it) it becomes hard to live without it! Gesturefy is also a popular alternative.
Genuine question: How are gestures faster / more efficient than clicking a button, or using keyboard hotkeys? Or is this mainly for notebooks, tablets and smartphones?
Compared to clicking a button I would say a lot faster as you don’t have to move your mouse to start initiating your gestures. It’s maybe more marginal compared to a short key. Still your hand is already on the mouse ready to execute a gesture. Personally I find it really convenient and for me it’s the second most useful add-on after ublock. When using a browser on other computers that don’t have these I find it really tedious and I am shocked at how much ad there is.
LibRedirect is pretty great. Everything from reddiot, fandom, youtube, imgur, google maps… (it’s a long list)
has open source or alternatives that you get sent to instead of the big corpo tracking site. I love the fandom, reddit, and youtube redirects, because so many times I end up being linked to those. You can also turn off the redirect per site if you want, so if an invidious link (for example) just refuses to load, you can let youtube track you and see the video.
Consent-o-matic. Auto decline gpdr popups.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/Isn’t there a filter set for this in uBlock already? Annoyances filter?
I believe it unlock just hides them and not very well.
This will actively opt out of everything for you.
Doesn’t the third party cookie blocking already do this?
They block collection but popups are still here and you have to press them on every page you go to
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Sponsorblock for YouTube
If you spend any time on YouTube sponsor block is handy
Also DeArrow to replace the obnoxious thumbnails.
I kind of like seeing the annoying thumbnails cause I find it correlates pretty good to the content I want to avoid
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Bitwarden
I prefer offline password managers like KeepassXC.
Keep ass XC?
As important? No.
But I also couldn’t cope without my AutoplayStopper. I hate autoplaying content so much, especially on news sites.
I thought you could disable that in the settings.
Since it hasn’t been mentioned - containers.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
Essentially lets you keep have browser tabs with entirely separate cookies from each other (like if you opened it in a different browser). Helps me keep work and personal accounts apart, and also sandbox eviltm webpages I’m forced to visit (by giving them their own container).
I almost forget it isn’t included in firefox by default.
I almost forget it isn’t included in firefox by default.
It almost is; the scaffolding is there but the addon is needed to turn the feature on.
If you wanna go full degen then “Bypass Paywalls Clean” bypasses Paywalls on the websites with articles. Also “Old Reddit Redirect” is a must if you occasionally open page because it removes this stupid mobile app popup and goes around NSFW login requirement
“Bypass Paywalls Clean”
Make sure you use the updated fork!
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Is there any working link?
Hey, sorry for taking so long to get back to you! It looks like the forked version is having issues with hosting on GitLab. :( As a temporary measure, they’re publishing just the releases on GitHub. Here is some more info.
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B
- GitHub releases: https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/releases
If you use YouTube…
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/sponsorblock/
Invaluable add-on IMO.
Does it have exceptions? I watch Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik; the sponsored segments are usually the highest production value skits and are hilarious as fuck. Wouldn’t want to block the new season of Knobbleberry.
On the desktop browser, SponsorBlock also has a “Whitelist Channel” – it’s near the top of the SponsorBlock popup. Open the popup and you can add any channel you know you want everything from, while silencing the rest. Great add-on, IMO.
I still like my NoScript, sometimes I just take it as an indicator of who makes shitty sites.
If I end up on a site that’s completely blank and it isn’t important for me to interact with it, Ieave.
Surprisingly even news sites often load better than most others with NoScript disabling everything on them, I guess at the end of the day they still really need people to read them otherwise they’d become completely irrelevant?I’ve seen complaints (Reddit I think?)that it just makes it cumbersome to do stuff when there are cascading lists of domain opening as you enable one, but if you’re the kind of person that permanently whitelists all of them at that point, I don’t think any amount of add-ons are going to save you, but I do like puzzles so I don’t mind figuring out what needs to be toggled for site to work.
The big downside is making payments on sites with silly amounts of 3rd parties involved (Im looking at you Costco), but it’s a bit better than it used to be when there was concern about getting charged twice, now it’s more like…don’t get charged and wonder why they didn’t process your payment.
Edit: is it NoScript or ublockorigin that blocks ads on prime video? It’s one or the other which is nice if you’re watching something on pc rather than TV, I guess I should test.
The big downside is making payments on sites with silly amounts of 3rd parties involved
As a user of NoScript for many years, the easiest way to deal with this for me is to do my payments from a second browser. I have found LibreWolf to be really good as far as not blocking what it takes to do such a transaction but still blocking everything else very well.
I don’t like to use NoScript under purchasing/payment circumstances; multiple sites are often involved in payment processing and it’s too easy to break what I didn’t know was there under my usually very strict rules.
Sure, I could just turn off NoScript for a site I want to do a financial transaction on, but instead of dicking around with it anymore I just use a different browser because the upsides are so good.
Like online shopping: I shop on one browser, and login and pay on another, which also allows me to strip any unwanted affiliate links and tracking information from the URL when I do purchase something. I also get to see price differences between anonymous and logged in users, which is another game online retailers like to pay: logged off there is a low bait price, and logged in switches you to a higher price (Amazon does this by changing the recommended seller of an item; I just log in on the second browser and change it back, lol).
Any different browser with NoScript turned off and secondary blocking (uBlockOrigin, uMatrix, etc) enabled will serve the purpose, if you’re not interested in a puzzle one day.
ClearURLs is nice, it makes links a lot shorter and removes all the tracking junk from it. I also can’t live without SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike
You can achieve ClearURLs directly in uBlock Origin.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#removeparam
Can also add lists to your filters to assist. “Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool” and “ClearURLs for uBo” are the ones I am aware of.
This was an amazing change as ClearURLs sometimes did mess with some sites.
I don’t want to say its name, cause I worry (maybe unnecessarily) about making it a target, but there’s a downloader for YouTube that’s the only extension I’ve ever paid for.
You could have just used yt-dlp (open source): https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases
