I have compiled the best recommendations in a list: https://lemmy.world/post/14173277
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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SingleFile is very good for saving full pages with all their content as, well, a single html file.
Privacy Badger, comes from the EFF.
OneTab is pretty great for tab addicts
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.
I love it but always had problems with active redirect nodes going bad
Try Redlib. I'm using it for quite some time now and never had a problem.
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 evil^tm^ webpages I'm forced to visit (by giving them their own container).
I almost forget it isn't included in firefox by default.
I just use different browsers. For example I use waterfox for all my ordinary browsing stuff. Social media, email work.
And I use Firefox when I want to watch 8 cam girls at the same time while searching for weird Japanese vomit porn.
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.
Yeah, it's a very nice way to avoid bloat in the base browser tbh!
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.
Also has categories and options to auto skip or ask you to skip each catagory. A sponser is sponser. You can choose to also skip intros, recaps, end credits, self promotions (buy my shirt), or skip straight to the highlight of the video (great for the tutorial videos that are 5 minute back story and 10 second answer).
Also consider an extension made by the same person, DeArrow. This one crowd sources non click-bait titles and thumbnails (using a screenshot from the video).
Instead of "You won't belive they are keeping the technology to them selves" with a thumbnail of some dude, mouth wode open, pointing to a flying car next to some celeb.
You'll see "Bob talks about AI images and his theoriess that aliens are hired by the government to do the 'Ai' work." with a thumbnail showing some random dude streaming.
Ooo... That second one (DeArrow) sounds great.
I thought so too, but then I tried it and I really hated it. If you find yourself getting recommended a bunch of clickbaity videos, then maybe it would be something you’d like, but I tend to block those types of creators so I don’t really see them, so all dearrow ever did for me was make the titles and thumbnails of some of the videos I normally would watch really boring and bland. I trust someone like Tom Scott or Smartereveryday to not use their titles and thumbnails to lie to me to fool me into watching their videos, and since those were the only types of creators that were being affected by dearrow for me, I found it worse when seeing their videos in my recommended list. I personally don’t mind watching a video titled “Why Blue LEDS were really hard to create” instead of seeing something like “This video is about how different colored LEDS were created” with some bland screenshot showing an assembly line of lights or whatever.
It's not so much in my recommended feed as it is in the "gaming" sub-category. Anything that lets me filter out actual informative videos vs "dude is mad they made the protagonist a black lesbian" would be appreciated. There's so much of that shit in that category that I can't possibly filter it all by disliking a few videos or even blocking a few channels.
It would also just be funny to see all the "Can you beat X using just Y?" Have the addendum: "Yes." Added to the title.
I use and appreciate it!
You can set it up
Map Men also have great ad reads
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.
Thanks for the explanation, I might have to give it a shot.
The second addon I install on new device: CookieAutoDelete https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
It delete cookie. And you just clic and add exception for the website you want to stay loged in
Firefox supports this natively. Under "Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and Site Data" set the "Delete site data when Firefox is closed" checkbox, and use the "Manage Exceptions" button to add websites you want to allow.
I rather have the addon on my bar and clic it when I decide to add an exception
You might also want Consent-O-Matic which sets your cookie prefs for most sites automatically.
Ublock origin does this natively too.
Settings > filter lists > cookie notices
Thanks! Does it hide the prompt or set the settings?
Didn't knew of this one. That a a great one
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