What are your favorite add-ons for Firefox?

3 years ago by t0fr to c/firefox

kionite231 76 points 3 years ago

Ublock origin ofc

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JubilantJaguar 47 points 3 years ago

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.

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FreeLunch 5 points 3 years ago

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

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JubilantJaguar 2 points 3 years ago

That one seems a bit beta right now. Vimium C works fine.

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aspitzer 3 points 3 years ago

Nice, thanks for the tip. Just disabled Dark Reader!

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gi1242 31 points 3 years ago
  • 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
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gabriele97 5 points 3 years ago

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

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FreeLunch 3 points 3 years ago

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

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gi1242 3 points 3 years ago

I started there. But then it migrated to pentadactyl, which i had trouble installing. Tridactyl was an improvement, and honestly would work great for me... But id already switched.....

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hal_5700X 23 points 3 years ago path: 0 2371851, hotness: undefined, score: 23, children: 0
PotatoKat 16 points 3 years ago

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)

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Flyswat 5 points 3 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.

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trclst 16 points 3 years ago path: 0 2367378, hotness: undefined, score: 16, children: 5
kostel_thecreed 12 points 3 years ago

No script is redundant with ublock origin on advanced mode.

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trclst 5 points 3 years ago

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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boerbiet 2 points 3 years ago

I have used noscript for a long time but after trying umatrix (from the ublock origin developer) I doubt I'm going back since this one feels more powerful. Maybe you want to give that one a try 🙂. I use it alongside ublock.

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trclst 5 points 3 years ago

as far as i know umatrix is unmaintained. so the default ublock + noscript seems the best combination.

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LynneOfFlowers 14 points 3 years ago

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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t0fr 2 points 3 years ago

I love Simple tab groups, great way to save tabs for later.

I'm also definitely going to give Consent-o-matic a try

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igorlogius 14 points 3 years ago
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Antimutt 5 points 3 years ago

😄Those contributions are something to brag about.

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igorlogius 3 points 3 years ago
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ace 14 points 3 years ago

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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Nalivai 3 points 3 years ago path: 0 2378629 2387142, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
Fibby 10 points 3 years ago

FYI- I was about to install "I don't care about cookies" when I noticed all the 1 star reviews. People saying its been purchased by Avast and is now data mining.

"I still don't care about cookies" is a community fork, does the same thing but isn't owned by a big company.

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Nalivai 5 points 3 years ago

Go damn it, why corporations are always ruining good things.
Thank you for the information

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Daefsdeda 1 point 3 years ago

Does consent-o-matic also rejects them or just accepts them?

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gherhartd 4 points 3 years ago

@Daefsdeda @ace you can choose what kind of cookies to accept and reject in the extension's settings.

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Daefsdeda 4 points 3 years ago

Thanks that is amazing

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dotdotdot 1 point 3 years ago

There was an imagus fork which is actively maintained

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t0fr 1 point 3 years ago

Wow, Consent-O-Matic sounds super interesting. I'm definitely going to give this one a try

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vort3 13 points 3 years ago

Vimium-C.

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

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FreeLunch 1 point 3 years ago

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

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vort3 2 points 3 years ago

Nope, when I was choosing an extension I guess many people told me that tridactyl is a bit buggy and not polished enough.

That was many years ago, I'm not sure what is the situation now.

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abc 13 points 3 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.
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jet 12 points 3 years ago

BlockTube

Noscript

Sponsorblock

ublacklist

ublock origin

violentmonkey

  • Simple Youtube Age Restriciton Bypass
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newcockroach 3 points 3 years ago

ads are really annoying arent they. What do you use on ur mobile device, the experience is quite limited there(hate those redirects to ad sites when you try to click any thing)

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jet 5 points 3 years ago

Mull (a firefox privacy fork you can find on fdroid) plus ublock origin

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sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 3 years ago

I use Firefox, which supports uBlock Origin as well.

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library_napper 10 points 3 years ago

Chameleon - changes my browser fingerprint every 60 seconds

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SasquatchBanana 2 points 3 years ago

How does this compare to Privacy Badger?

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library_napper 1 point 3 years ago

Privacy badger just blocks things; it's not comparable to what Chameleon does.

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stebo02 1 point 3 years ago
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el_bhm 1 point 3 years ago

Digital Shadow is composed of multiple things. One is a browser fingerprint.

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ikidd 9 points 3 years ago

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

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fabiomzz 9 points 3 years ago

I still don't care about cookies

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clearedtoland 13 points 3 years ago

Okay but what extensions do you use? /s

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fabiomzz 4 points 3 years ago

That one it is called "I still don't care about cookies", also uBlock origin...

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Wooly 5 points 3 years ago

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.

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xigoi 6 points 3 years ago

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

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fabiomzz 1 point 3 years ago

Oh, I didn't knew that...

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clearedtoland 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah, I never got that to work properly so I’ve been using Hush on mobile and I Still Don’t Care About Cookies (grudgingly).

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lud 8 points 3 years ago

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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Xelnoc 1 point 3 years ago

Lord almighty my 8gb ram could never handle that

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true_blue 8 points 3 years ago
  • uBlock Origin (of course)
  • Tab Stash: It lets you organize your tabs into groups and keep the groups around in a sidebar that unloads them when you don't need them at the moment. Very helpful for someone like me who always has a bunch of tabs open.
  • uBlacklist: It lets you blacklist domains from showing up in search results. It supports different search engines. Every helpful to get rid of SEO spam sites and mirror sites.
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gordonthefatengine 8 points 3 years ago
  • Ublock Origin

  • Libredirect

  • Bypass Paywalls Clean

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Nomadin 8 points 3 years ago
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moitoi 5 points 3 years ago

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

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RandomTech 1 point 3 years ago

I have that list enabled, the pop-ups still hang around. I don't care about cookies tends to catch them. I don't know why there's a difference.

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FreeLunch 8 points 3 years ago
  • uBlock Origin
  • Tridactyl (vim like browsing)
  • consent-o-matic
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Ashiette 2 points 3 years ago

Can consent-o-matic refuse cookies ?

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xigoi 5 points 3 years ago

Yes.

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HR_Pufnstuf 2 points 3 years ago

This is the way.

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InFerNo 6 points 3 years ago

Decentraleyes, ublock origin, consent-o-matic

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NENathaniel 6 points 3 years ago

Bitwarden, AdGuard, DarkReader

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Hans_VL 6 points 3 years ago

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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DokPsy 3 points 3 years ago

You saying we can trust the Danes?!? Have you heard their language!?!

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craigevil 6 points 3 years ago

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B3_CHAD 6 points 3 years ago

ublock origin, fast forward, pushbullet.

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hitagi 5 points 3 years ago

uBlock Origin, Tridactyl, and Translate Web Pages.

User Agent Spoofer whenever I need it.

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DagingAnalog 5 points 3 years ago

Multi account container and temporary container.

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Antimutt 5 points 3 years ago

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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Wooly 2 points 3 years ago

It's very specific but I'd love an auto-skip intro add on for Plex like I have for Netflix.

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thedoginthewok 2 points 3 years ago

Plex has that feature built in. No idea if it's included in the free version though. It works by analyzing sound and it's pretty good.

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dditty 1 point 3 years ago

I love this feature in Plex so much it's why I basically watch all my tv shows on my Android tablet instead of my tv

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SevereLow 4 points 3 years ago

Ublock Origin Dark Reader Proton Pass Zotero Betterfox UserJS

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Antimutt 4 points 3 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

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FARTYSHARTBLAST 4 points 3 years ago

uBlock Origin

Deepl

Tineye

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gamey 3 points 3 years ago

Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, LocalCDN, Multi Account Container and Dark Reader.

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nido 3 points 3 years ago
  • Reopen closed Tabs

I often want to reopen a tab i recently closed, so this is very handy for me.

  • Languagetool

On the fly rule-based Spelling check. Works very good and in many languages. And the best: It's Open Source.

  • Facebook-, Google- and Microsoftcontainer

Uses the Firefox Tab-Container Fwature, to lock those companies in Tab-Groups just with themselves. I don't use Tab-Groups aside of that, so it comes in handy.

  • Firefox Translate

  • (Not really an extention, but still nice) Firefox Gnome Theme, for my personal machines and Firefox UI Fix for the machines at work to make Firefox look more at home on Linux and Windows.

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GlenTheFrog 8 points 3 years ago

Reopen closed Tabs

What's wrong with the built in shortcut of ctrl+alt+t?

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moitoi 4 points 3 years ago

People want to reopen the 3rd or 4th without opening the others.

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nido 1 point 3 years ago

This. Sometimes i want to reopen the last closed tabs. And generally, i use the mouse to do most things, i'm not used to most shortcuts.

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gothicdecadence 0 points 3 years ago

Some people want different things

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reddfugee 3 points 3 years ago

uBlock origin

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verity_kindle 2 points 3 years ago

Swisscows search engine, can't live without it

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EtherWhack 2 points 3 years ago

Behind the overlay

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preussischblau 2 points 3 years ago

I see a lot of the same addons here, as one would reasonably expect, but I'm surprised there's been no mention of uMatrix. Using uMatrix and denying most elements by default, you can manually allow scripts, media, etc. per domain and save those rules for pages you go to often. It gives you more granular control than simply choosing to allow/deny all third-party scripts, and you can see exactly what's going on under the hood.

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RandomTech 3 points 3 years ago

I used uMatrix for many years, that is until it was retired. Raymond Hill no longer maintains/updates the addon and the github was archived in July 2021. There are some forks but none appear to be in active development. Just be aware the version of uMatrix on addons.mozilla.org is now 2 years old and may not be blocking everything it claims to be.

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techognito 1 point 3 years ago

The ones I am unable to use a browser without:

Nice to haves:

I used to have plugins for reddit (like RES and old reddit redirect), but won't need them anymore.

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kariboka 3 points 3 years ago
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EmperorHenry 1 point 3 years ago
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AAA 0 points 3 years ago

NoScript, uBlock Origins, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere

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lud 4 points 3 years ago

I used NoScript for over a year until I gave up the insanity. Having to spend time whitelisting scripts on every site was way too much work and some stuff was just way harder to do, like banking and buying stuff.

Now I just blacklist a few scripts (like analytics) using unlock origin instead.

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glibg10b 3 points 3 years ago

uBlock Origin hard mode is great

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AAA 1 point 3 years ago

I understand the struggle. I just got used to deal with it, I guess.

Wouldn't want to miss it tho. Having to deal with a non-NoScripted-Internet is quite a no-go for me by now. (as ridiculous are it sounds)

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newcockroach 0 points 3 years ago

Hoxx vpn for those spicy and not allowed sites

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wuffish 0 points 3 years ago

@t0fr

uBlock
NoScript
ControlPanel for Twitter
Youtube Shorts Block
Enhancer for Youtube
Decentraleyes
ClearURLs
Mute Twitch Ads
TinEye

For themes: Foxkeh Cloud or Purple Sparkle.

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t0fr 1 point 3 years ago

What does Mute Twitch Ads do? Does it just mute ads? But not block them?

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VaryHeavy 0 points 3 years ago

@t0fr uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Firefox Translations

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