Consent-O-Matic sounds really nice, thanks for sharing.
Consent-O-Matic sounds really nice, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the list. Had a stupid solution for what you use Consent-O-Matic for, and LibRedirect closes a gap bugging me for a while. I had no chance to try Buster yet, but I'm so looking forward to let software solve something grinding my gears with things software can solve better than software thinks.
Buster is a twisted work of a twisted genius. it uses accessibility version of captcha, which is based on recorded speech that you're supposed to listen to and transcribe. it "plays" the audio silently, and uses speech recognition software to solve it.
for extra twistiness, you can actually set it up to use Google's own speech recognition API.
He was in one of my instance lists on the extension, that's disgusting. Removed immediately. Even if you forget how disgusting his views are, how can you can you trust an instance that monitors activity and keeps track of what you're doing?
Bitwarden+ublock+libredirect
I see a lot of people using decentraleyes, no script, privacy badger, etc along ublock. Just wanna point out that these with ublock are generally redundant and actually increase your fingerprint.
You're right, preventing tracking and canvas fingerprinting ironically is in itself a fairly unique fingerprint. Although I'm not sure if not using decentraleyes is worth the tradeoff. It prevents hitting more third party sources altogether at the marginal cost of making you slightly more unique to the first party. Happy to learn more if I misunderstood.
Here is the arkenfox dev's thoughts on a lot of the popular extensions.
Thanks for the info. Lots of other good input in there as well!
Yeah I dropped most of them and only use NoScript and uBlock Origin now.
uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock
Bitwarden ❤️
Firefox user here.
Extensions to be helpful to other people:
Fediverse extensions:
Youtube extensions:
Yeah it's what the creator put as the official website of the plugin for some reason. Check Recipe Filter on the Firefox plugin page, you should be able to find it; the icon is a green card/newspaper thingy.
I have created a FOSS extension called SyncMarks to sync bookmarks and tabs. It's working with Firefox, Edge and Chromium and also on Kiwi on Android. You can sync your bookmarks independent from the browser and cross-browser. For example from Firefox to Edge or Chrome.
As a backend I would recommend my small php script which you can selhost. You only need PHP and a database like SQLite or MySQL. As fallback you can use any WebDAV share.
In addition to all good recommendations above, I also can recommend Vim Vixen or Vimium C.
These extensions enable you to control your browser with your keyboard with vim-like commands. If you are already using vim or want to use your keyboard more to comfortably navigate your system, it is a must-have :)
As a neovim user, I may need to try those out.
For privacy & security:
For usability:
What does Flagfox do?
Flagfox is an extension that displays a flag icon indicating the current web server's physical location.
Is that more of a curiosity for you or is there more reason to use it?
It is more of a curiosity for mine.
Firefox:
What do you like about Containerise? I've only used the Mozilla developed add-on
The Mozilla add-on is adequate and honestly probably better than Containerise in terms of UX. Containerise is simpler with fewer features, which could be a plus or a minus. I primarily use the add-on to automatically open a domain in a specified container and not much else, so it works for me.
Thanks for that comparison!
For searching web archives, there's the Web Archives addon (GPLv3). It just opens a search page though, and doesn't have the ability to automatically archive.
For userscripts I use Violentmonkey (MIT).
I'll take a look at violentmonkey. Thanks for the pointer!
I usually have a browser without NoScript, though, since a few sites I visit breaks with it enabled.
Can't praise uBlock Origin and Dark Reader enough, though. Also Privacy Badger/Possum and Decentraleyes (at least a few years ago).
uMatrix, which lets me choose which kinds of content (cookies, scripts, etc) from which domains are allowed in my browser. Regrettably, it is no longer maintained. I wonder if there's some alternative that is maintained?
Unfortunately the developer of NoScript couldn't justify the time spent on uMatrix. I really liked it but dropped it when it's maintenance was ended. I don't know of a good replacement but NoScript technically can do what uMatrix did but the NoScript interface is not convenient.
One that I love is jumpcutter. Speeds up silences and makes watching long lectures way nice.
If I get back to my PC I'll send a few more extensions I use.
OMG I didn't know I wanted this until I saw the demo!
Nice, I heard about this awhile ago but never installed it. I love making large annoying companies spend more money for essentially no on-boarding. Also, it is a simple way to make my online identity just a tiny bit more obscure.
I'll have to look into that. Between containers, NoScript and uBlock Origin I'm not sure where it fits in.
Simple Tab Groups for Firefox, I couldn't imagine using the internet without it. A bunch of Lemmy tabs filling up your tab bar and crowding out your normal tabs? Just make a new group and slap them over there, now all your other tabs are hidden in the other group and you can switch between them anytime.
I had one class where I needed like 10 tabs open all the time, I could just have them sitting in a different group so they didn't take up any space for my other tabs.
I have hundreds of tabs open.
One I haven't seen mentioned yet is DownThemAll.
DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images on a website and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable filters to get only what you really want.
Comes in really handy sometimes. (For Firefox / Chrome / Edge)
Another is uBlacklist, which allows you to blacklist domains from Google / Bing / DDG search results (like say, pinterest.*), also for Firefox / Chrome / Edge.
I used to use DownThemAll way back, but I'm not sure what I'd use it for now. What are you downloading?
uBlacklist seems like it could be very useful.
Mostly if I find an open directory with stuff I like. Also it has come in handy downloading maps from government websites.
FoxyProxy in addition to many aforementioned extensions. Tor and popular VPNs just don't work in my whereabouts, so, I have to use something more sophisticated like shadowsocks, for example, in order to circumvent government censorship and geoblocks.
I'm not sure what good it could do in the US but I'm happy it helps you, assuming you're using it in an ethically sound manner.
Privacy Badger
uBlock Origin
Web Scrobbler
goto letterboxd
Web Scrobbler
goto letterboxd
Why do these do?
Web Scrobbler: when I watch a music clip on youtube or other platforms, it is scrobbled on my last.fm account
goto letterboxd: when I'm on the imdb.com of a movie, I only have to click on the extension icon and I'm redirected to the letterboxd page of that movie
I'm not familiar with either of those services.
Firefox:
I'm on Firefox: uBlock Origin, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker (excellent tool if you use Amazon, I also use the cell app), Privacy Badger, AdNauseam, and Mullvad Browser Extension (I use their VPN on my PC and phone). Others that I have installed but am admittedly not as familiar with: Decentraleyes, and Web Archives.
Bitwarden, uBlock origin, wallabg (self-hosted read-it later), dark bg and light fg (simpler than dark reader) and redirector to redirect youtube/twitter/reddit links to private front-ends
@ericjmorey@beehaw.org @foss@beehaw.org
(These are mostly for :firefox:)
⦿Swift Selection Search
⦿Leechblock
⦿SimpleLogin by @simplelogin@fosstodon.org
⦿intention
⦿OCR image reader
You just made me absurdly happy! Turns out SimpleLogin is part of Proton, and the paid membership transfers from Proton to SL.
It's funny because a few days ago I was thinking that it was a shame Proton didn't offer disposable addresses.
@ArtVandelay @aRubes Indeed, we've been a part of Proton for over a year now. You can easily create a SimpleLogin account with an existing Proton account: https://proton.me/... or connect an existing SimpleLogin account with Proton Mail: https://proton.me/.... If you have a Proton Unlimited account, it includes the SimpleLogin Premium plan.
I hope you stay partnered with Proton for a long time. I'm from South America and paying for the Proton Unlimited plan is quite an expense for me. With the addition of SimpleLogin at no extra cost, it really added a much needed value and a reason to keep the subscription. So, thank you, from the bottom of my heart!
I cannot stand SponsorBlock anymore. It's been abused so much, that any time any video even slightly mentions a brand, sponsor or not, it skips it.
I find that it breaks context in a lot of videos, and you end up missing important stuff. I especially find it to be true in LTT videos.
For me, SponsorBlock is disabled until they fix the abuse. There's a very clear difference between a SPONSOR and just mentioning an entity that exists on this planet.
I definitely agree with SponsorBlock there when it's on its default settings, however I find that lots of those issues are solvable by utilizing it's pretty decent customizability. Being able to identify channels which have manageable sponsor spots and excluding them can limit lots of those issues and fine-tune what types of things get skipped automatically or manually can make it a lot more manageable and only auto-skipping the most egregious things.
Bad segments are definitely a problem. At least for the channels I watch, the sponsor segments tend to be well done, but for other categories there's often weird segments. Manual skip is still quite useful though.
I use the following ones (on Firefox), except for uBO the others are just for conveniency:
On LibreWolf and Brave, I use:
People really like their down votes on YouTube. I've rarely up votes or down votes any YouTube videos myself.
What does Ruffle do?
It's a Flash emulator. My school still uses Shockwave Flash files for interactive diagrams and suchlike.
@ericjmorey
I use @bitwarden and Language Tool.
you can also self-host a language tool instance and point the extension to that instead of their official instance.
On Safari I use AdGuard (because uBlock Origin is not available), Bitwarden and Zotero Connector.
On Firefox uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Zotero Connector, Cookie Autodelete, Libredirect and LocalCDN
Ublock Origin, Ghostery, Decentraleyes, and that duckkduckgothing are what I use to avoid the complete BS on most sites on firefox lately.
Doesn't uBlock Origin with the right filter lists make Ghostery redundant?
thanks for using Leebra!
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uBO, of course. note: you guys don't need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google
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