Do not send me Chrome addons. I do not care that you have a worse version of uBlock
Tabby. A tab manager, but I mainly use it to search for tabs.
Sidebery
CAD Cookie Auto Delete
Tree style tabs
Makes it simultaneously easier to open a billion pages but also manages them nicely
I prefer Sidebery to Tree Style Tabs
I tried this one of the tree tab addons, that may have been it, but it actually had a noticeable performance cost - made me sad :(
Now that hq finally added the fucking vertical tab sidebar I use that
I’ll throw out a few.
Wouldn’t chameleon make you just as trackable unless you’re also switching your vpn every time you switch user agents?
Consent-o-matic: automatically rejects cookie banners, even the most annoying ones.
I-dont-care-about-cookies is my favorite variant of this, since it also rejects the Cookies itself on top automatically where possible. Exceptions can be made if wanted.
That one was compromised. The good fork is “I still don’t care about cookies”.
This sounds fantastic!
ublock origin has a filter that takes care of cookie banners too. most are gone and it’s glorious.
Just removing the banners may default sites to having cookies on. This actually gles through the banner and turns everything off.
Multi-account containers. Let’s you have 2 different Gmail accounts open at once. Also I try to silo different parts of my life to prevent tracking.
Noscript and tampermonkey too.
Seconded for Tampermonkey.
Specifically recommend their Youtube Age Verification Bypass script. Cause they ain’t gettin my ID lol
I understand that you might want to run your own JavaScript and not others’ JavaScript, but I had a brief laugh at listing “no JavaScript” and “MOAR JAVASCRIPT” together.
Sponsor Block–Skips some YouTube ads.
Language Tool–keeps me from making stupid grammar errors.
Cookie Quick Manager–you can lock cookies and other stuff.
Bitwarden.
Yep and selfhosting it is a great option as well
Oh for sure I raise you Keepass’s addon but they have the same use case with minor differences (Keepass is easier to automate for things like providing bots with changed social media credentials)
is easier to automate for things like providing bots with changed social media credentials
Tbh, sounds a bit like a cursed use case for a password manager, but I am curious how you set that up.
Markdown here
Oooo, PopUpOff
Haven’t had to deal with annoying “LeGiTiMaTe iNtErEsT” cookie pop-ups for nearly a year. Honestly forgot they existed until I needed to deactivate it to briefly log back into my reddit account recently (I swear that entire website’s UI is just malware at this point).
Their website is also surprisingly gorgeous. I was surprised since most app makers usually don’t put much effort into something people are probably only gonna see once, if they even have one at all. It’s so well put together.
Not to encourage people to use reddit, but we’re you using old.reddit? I don’t have pop-ups and I didnt have to use a email to sign up
Snowflake - help others bypass censors
Port authority - stops port scanning of your local network [and I found out how many fucking assholes do this. My own employer freaking does it >:( ]
Hmm interesting, would librewolf kill that alrdy?
I use librewolf, and I still get the notifications from port authority. Maybe that means librewolf wasn’t doing it, or port authority just detects that it’s supposed to happen even if librewolf has already stopped it.
The one I want to point out the most is WebScrapbook, which is alternative to SingleFile. It can either snapshot the current DOM or the document source (handy for PDFs), can use proper directory structure and provides full-text search over the stored pages.
It has support for separate server should you want to keep the files outside browser storage or share an instance between several browsers. I use this with text browser as renderer to make summarizing pages into VimWiki easier.
Unfortunately it can’t do sync between instances, that’s something I wanted to add to it but I’m currently juggling way too many other projects.
Then there’s Feed Previews for getting those RSS/ATOM feeds where they still exist so I can avoid using the browser, or worse, getting notifications through antisocial media. (-:
Web Archives is making access to webpage archives much more convenient. Especially useful when dredging through old academic research pages full of link rot, or using TOR and getting locked out constantly.
For managing tabs I’m sticking with the venerable Tree Style Tabs together with few handy plugins like TST: Colored Tabs and TST: Unload Tabs.
While I prefer keyboard control for most things, and certainly Tridactyl goes the furthest from existing addons, it just can’t really handle all the screens as it was possible with the XPI addons. sheds a tear
For content blocking it’s the run of the mill uBlock with JS disabled by default (F8 mapped to selectively enable it on a page) and LocalCDN which has rule generator for whitelisting locally provided resources in uBlock.
And because some sites are broken mess and don’t work even with conservative Firefox setup I’ve had to use Allow CORS once or twice.
Non-addon bonus: Searx-NG has a CSV output which can be integrated with tools like rofi or dmenu so you can do web searches outside web browser and easily pick the result.
In no particular order;
- Unpaywall - for research papers tries to find legal and free copies of them
- Stylus - overwrite style on a per-website basis (I use the Compact Subscriptions style on YouTube, for example)
- uBlacklist - additional to uBlock that deletes some URLs from search results (such as an anti-AI list, or Pinterest from image search)
- Surmount - jumps over paywalled news articles using archive.ph
Adnauseam Silently click-spams ads to drain their bandwidth, with the purpose of making the horrible advertising business unprofitable.
this is built on ublock origin, so if your using it get rid of ublock origin as well.
Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours’ and adtech’s bandwidth.
Wasting resources isn’t a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.
A minor amount of bytes is not “wasting resources”. It is wasting ad revenue.
It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low
Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better
This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google













