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uBlock Origin
Decentraleyes
Consent-o-matic
These are essential to me. Consent o matic automatically fills out cookie pop-ups by opting out of everything for you. Some of these cookie things take a while to process which shows how devious they are set up
just installed darkReader, my retinas are thanking me
Looking at the comments, interest in privacy and adblocking seem high. But the actual addons suggested here are often redundant or even worse, make you easier to track. Instead, take a look at the Arkenfox wiki, which is more or less the gold standard for browser privacy. Both LibreWolf and Mullvad Browser, practically the most privacy/anonymity oriented browsers out there, right behind Tor, either rely on it or stick very closely to it.
I highly recommend reading the entire wiki from the start. You dont have to do everything it says, obviously, but even if you dont do anything it will give you a better understanding of browser privacy. And lastly, do not use Chrome or any chromium based browser if you care about privacy and a free and open internet. Even if you only use a chromium based browser, you help increase googles monopoly.
Thank you 00 and crius for introducing Mullvad. Been looking for a VPN that doesn’t lock you into any subscription plans.
Mullvad VPN is great! Though I was talking about the Mullvad Browser (which is great as well and integrates well with their VPN service).
An extra thumbs up for mullvad vpn from me. It's a bit more costly than the mainstream ones but you don't have to subscribe to any plan. Just pay month by month, absolutely no personal data needed.
I love these types of posts. From the outset they seem mundane, but they are discussion provoking and I'm able to learn of new things at the same time.
My list (Firefox) 🙃
Some of you have a LOT of addons, jeez.
Don’t Fuck With Paste
You don't need an addon for this one. Search about:config for com.event.clipboardevents.enabled and double click on the key (set it to false). It should take care of that for you.
Millenials to Snake People.
This is incredible, I have to try it. As a cloud to butt user I want to get a combo somewhere
I use Firefox and the arkenfox user.js, which is not an extension, but helps with privacy. For the extensions, though, they are as follows:
I think more extensions than these would probably hurt my setup. I have followed the advice from the arkenfox wiki. Check it out if you want to look into a more private and secure Firefox configuration. Also feel free to criticize or ask questions about my setup :)
That's basically it. But after reading a few comments I added:
from https://beehaw.org/comment/80030:
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
also make sure to check the "do not bother" list here: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
Holy shit. I admire the organisation and love the documentation, but holy addon, batman! thats a lot!
The Cookie addons work wonderfully together. IDCAC just accepts every cookie banner automatically, AutoDelete removes them after the tab was closed.
Not much myself to be honest.
And that's it. I don't really need much more.
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I previously used Privacy Badger, but I block basically everything with NoScript anyway, so it was redundant. I also used HTTPS Everywhere but you can enable that in most (all?) browsers now anyway, so you don't need an extension any longer (the highest form of success for an extension). I also previously used LastPass, but I got out before they had their security issues, and importantly changed every password when I transitioned. On work computer I have the 1password extension.
Lots of great recommendations in this thread. One I use and didn't see mentioned yet is StreetPass. It automatically saves any Mastodon rel="me" verification links you come across while browsing. I've found it very useful for finding interesting accounts to follow
I used to have dozens of them, now only few:
Highly recommend Vimium in particular. Avoids repeat movements of switching between keyboard and mouse.
uBlock Origin
Dark Reader
Return Dislikes for YouTube
Most other needs can be configured with Firefox whether it be css stuff like dark scroll bars or browser behaviour. The fewer add-ons the better.
Important. I've added the Bypass Paywalls-filter as well, which makes browsing a lot more pleasant.
I will not watch ads, not even one.
This removes most of the annoyance of cookie banners and consent dialogs
AMP sucks, rather not even see it
A recent favorite - I started using this as Twitter on web was becoming increasingly unusable, and Nitter is a fine alternative. Now I use it for Twitter, TikTok, Imgur, Medium and Reddit.
Audio Only for YouTube™ Better Twitch Adblock BetterTTV Channel Blocker Dark Reader Gumbo: Twitch Companion HTTPS Everywhere LeechBlock NG MAL-Sync NoScript Return YouTube Dislike ScrewMyCode.in: Pitch control for YouTube Truffle uBlock Origin Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos Violentmonkey
A bunch of other key extensions already listed, but what I don't see that I use often is redirector. It lets you put in regex patterns to redirect window locations to another destination. For example I've used it to redirect any reddit.com link to old.reddit.com, use it to remove tracking parameters from URLS, redirect youtube to yewtube, etc.
For sake of the thread though, here's a short list I have on all systems
Used to have
uBlock Origin Dark Reader 'Adblocker for twitch' which half works
A nice one i use is NighEye. I've forgotten what it feels like to have your retinas burned. Feels good
I also use a Chromebook, so I use these "native" extensions I developed.
Simple Tab Groups helps me alot for organizing windows and tabs for certain topics
FediFollow is great for following people on other instances without much copy/paste work
My must haves:
Just uBlock.
I run pretty light