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I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.

One of my favorites are

  • Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
  • uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
  • Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
  • Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

What extensions do you guys use?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
  • Stylus - I use it to apply some css to make youtube thumbnails smaller because the new huge ones drive me insane
  • Plasma Integration - Pretty self explanatory, just makes firefox better integrated with plasma
  • SponsorBlock
  • UltraWideo - useful for weird content with baked in letterboxing or pillaring
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Chameleon. My user agent changes every 30 seconds. Makes attempts to track me basically useless.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The usual +

  • Stylus with a global dark user style

I think it's more performant and lightweight than dark reader. So I get more screentime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results

i still use google, so being able to filter out the blogspam and fandom slop is a godsend for usability

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Gesturefy: It brings the mouse gesture functionality known from Opera to Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

uBlock Origin and DarkReader

Recently got into using RSS feeds, so RSSHub Radar was quite useful
Search by Image is good too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
  • Ublock
  • Dark Reader
  • Libredirect
  • augmented steam
  • proton pass
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

uBlock Origin (this is the real one) uBlacklist (this blocks sites from your search results)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

For me, it's many of the ones people have already said, plus:

  • StreetPass (seriously cool - collects the mastodon profile of any website you visit where someone has set up the special link to their profile)
  • Video Speed Controller (gives you fine-grained control over video speed, e.g. watching video at 2.6x speed)
  • Privacy redirect (automatically redirects to various services, e.g. from Twitter to Nitter - can select a random instance each time)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does privacy redirect automatically know if the instance is healthy? Or does it sometimes redirect you to a invidious or nitter or libreddit instance that's broken?

Because if this thing is health-aware, the. It would save me so much time.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Must haves IMHO:

uBlock Origin Consent-o-Matic

Making life easier:

SponsorBlock Enhancer for YouTube DarkReader Multi Account Containers

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later

Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you're watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video

Feedbro - RSS reader with filtering capabilities

Redirector - auto-redirect specific URLs (for example, changing a YouTube Shorts url into a regular one, or changing Reddit links to always go to Old Reddit)

Undo Close Tab Button - allows you to restore recently closed tabs including the tab's history in the back button (max amount = browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo)

Violentmonkey - using userscripts that allow you to change things on websites.

YouTube Comment Reader - allows you to search through the comments of a video (by clicking on the addon in the Extension menu and then clicking on the "YouTube Comment Reader" at the top or the "X Comments" at the bottom of the tooltip)

Page Shadow - allows you to use dark and light themes on sites that don't have the option to change it.

And if you're like me and you find that some YT videos feel too slow but 1.25x is too fast, then you can use Enhancer for YouTube's "Playback speed" feature to have smaller speed steps. Then you can hold ctrl and use the scrollwheel (while over the video) to change the video's speed by the amount you chose (I use 0.05 speed variation, mostly changing to 1.05x or 1.10x)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I use these ones frequently:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Ublock Origin, NoScript, Chameleon, Libredirect, DarkReader, OneTab, Stack Overflow Prettifier, Classic Mode For Wikipedia, Vimium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
  • uBlock
  • Privacy Badger
  • Language tools (spell checker)
  • Mal-Sync (automatically updates Anime & Manga progress with MAL, AniList, Kitsu etc. Supports Netflix, Prime and some high seas website)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Fakespot for amazon/ebay reviews

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

Dark Reader: Especially late at night white page background just burns out my retinas, no idea how I ever managed before.

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