Are there any addons as essential as uBlockOrigin?
I would love to find extensions that make me think "How did I live without this?"
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I would love to find extensions that make me think "How did I live without this?"
Consent-o-matic. Auto decline gpdr popups.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
Isn’t there a filter set for this in uBlock already? Annoyances filter?
I believe it unlock just hides them and not very well.
This will actively opt out of everything for you.
Doesn't the third party cookie blocking already do this?
They block collection but popups are still here and you have to press them on every page you go to
Ublock with the annoyances filters enabled hides most of them perfectly, and if the website uses some obscure toolkit/creates its own banner you can always remove it using the content selector
Hence, there is no need for the the extension mentioned in the parent comment
And fun fact, it's developed by Danish researchers:
Nice, I will definitely try this. Thanks.
This is awesome, thanks. Now that I have it installed I'd like to try it. Know any websites to test it out?
Enable the plugin while using private mode and see how it handles Google, YouTube and a random news site.
I've had much better luck with I still don't care about cookies. Maybe I was doing something wrong but C-O-M didn't seem to do much for me.
If you spend any time on YouTube sponsor block is handy
Also DeArrow to replace the obnoxious thumbnails.
I kind of like seeing the annoying thumbnails cause I find it correlates pretty good to the content I want to avoid
Omg what! I got to test this, sounds too good to be true. Thanks.
Also a great addon, though I use FreeTube, which has it built in.
That is a good one. I would also recommend Midnight Lizard, which has more customization options, but uses more resources / is slower.
I second Midnight Lizard, the customization is very nice
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.
It almost is; the scaffolding is there but the addon is needed to turn the feature on.
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.
Dark reader. Dont wanna burn my eyes
I use this one, great one
Started using this one recently and am loving it
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.
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 use and appreciate it!
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.
You can set it up
Map Men also have great ad reads
As important? No.
But I also couldn't cope without my AutoplayStopper. I hate autoplaying content so much, especially on news sites.
I thought you could disable that in the settings.
Oh nice, must have missed that one.
Firefox prevents autoplay automatically.
Yep, apprently since 2019. I never knew.
ClearURLs is nice, it makes links a lot shorter and removes all the tracking junk from it. I also can't live without SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike
You can achieve ClearURLs directly in uBlock Origin.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#removeparam
Can also add lists to your filters to assist. "Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool" and "ClearURLs for uBo" are the ones I am aware of.
This was an amazing change as ClearURLs sometimes did mess with some sites.
Thanks, I needed this 🌻
If you wanna go full degen then "Bypass Paywalls Clean" bypasses Paywalls on the websites with articles. Also "Old Reddit Redirect" is a must if you occasionally open page because it removes this stupid mobile app popup and goes around NSFW login requirement
Make sure you use the updated fork!
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Is there any working link?
Hey, sorry for taking so long to get back to you! It looks like the forked version is having issues with hosting on GitLab. :( As a temporary measure, they're publishing just the releases on GitHub. Here is some more info.
Sponsorblock for YouTube
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.
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.
Didn't knew of this one. That a a great one
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?
Decentraleyes prevents loading common scripts from big name CDNs. Requesting a script from a google-owned CDN with your google cookies and the current URL as the referrer is a way to spy on you.
Decentraleyes loads these common scripts from it's own cache instead.
I often heard that Decentraleyes doesn't actually do anything 99% of the time. I don't know how true that is, though.
aparently you know more than we here.
i had to look it up,
but aparently Decentraleyes isnt being maintained and grew more useless as the time went on.
aparently localCDN is a better mantained alternative.
Thanks for the tip. From the localCDN description:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/
@Kerb @nebulaone how trustworthy is #localcdn? #Decentraleyes is kind of confirmed by #Mozilla, they even recommend it
The source code is public ( https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN ) and it has a reasonable amount of stars. So I think it should be fine. No guarantees, though.
I saw there has been a recent update to Decentraleyes. Not sure if this addresses the abandoned issue though. Trying out LOCALCDN instead..
I still like my NoScript, sometimes I just take it as an indicator of who makes shitty sites.
If I end up on a site that's completely blank and it isn't important for me to interact with it, Ieave.
Surprisingly even news sites often load better than most others with NoScript disabling everything on them, I guess at the end of the day they still really need people to read them otherwise they'd become completely irrelevant?
I've seen complaints (Reddit I think?)that it just makes it cumbersome to do stuff when there are cascading lists of domain opening as you enable one, but if you're the kind of person that permanently whitelists all of them at that point, I don't think any amount of add-ons are going to save you, but I do like puzzles so I don't mind figuring out what needs to be toggled for site to work.
The big downside is making payments on sites with silly amounts of 3rd parties involved (Im looking at you Costco), but it's a bit better than it used to be when there was concern about getting charged twice, now it's more like...don't get charged and wonder why they didn't process your payment.
Edit: is it NoScript or ublockorigin that blocks ads on prime video? It's one or the other which is nice if you're watching something on pc rather than TV, I guess I should test.
Ublock works fine for prime
Thanks for the info, I definitely have to consider an alternative like that in the future.
For the time being I tend to just enable 1 domain at a time temporarily and see if shit works, if it doesn't, disable it again. It works ok, as I've gotten used to seeing a specific few domains or commonalities between the payment type ones. But yeah probably similar to you I keep very few things allowed by default globally and have even begun reducing them lately.
If it's a really big hassle atm I'll revert to chrome (didn't have to yet) since those fuckers already have my card details anyway, but luckily I don't really do all that much shopping online so not a huge issue....the most common thing I do is top up my travel card for local transport and I use it like once a month, so that probably tells you a lot.
Privacy Badger, comes from the EFF.
OneTab is pretty great for tab addicts
SingleFile is very good for saving full pages with all their content as, well, a single html file.
Bitwarden
I prefer offline password managers like KeepassXC.
Keep ass XC?
Yes exactly, if you don't have it installed your buttocks will be removed.
I still don't care about cookies, Simple translate and Hoverzoom+. Sidebery is great too if you want a custom Firefox. Honorable mentioned, YouTube repeat button.
You can add start and end, good for music videos. So you only repeat the part you need.
Probably.
I'm a huge fan of AdNauseam, and TrackMeNot.
I would yet like to find a good addon to block cookie banners reliably, and autoselect the most restrictive options
I've found Consent-O-Matic to be pretty good.
Same, that would be huge. I hope someday the EU will force websites to fulfill "do not track" requests.
Try I still don't care about cookies. It works much better than C-O-M for me!
next to ublock i also use Decentraleyes
(further protection aganst tracking,
probably a bit less mobile usage,
and otherwise 0 impact)
video background play fix
(prevents youtube from stopping if my smartphone is locked)
ublacklist
(prevents sites you hate from appearing in your google search results (mostly fandom.com for me))
Highly recommend using the NewPipe app for youtube if you are on android.
I personally prefer staying in the browser.
You want Tubular for Android TV though as newpipe doesn't work on it. Navigation is not great on Android TV, specifically on a video that's playing but you get used to it.
I don't think so
Hmm, hab ich mir schon fast gedacht. :)
While we're on the subject, does anyone know of a way to block those scroll triggered pop-ups that are everywhere these days? You know the ones, you get a little bit down a page, then:
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JOIN OUR MAILING LIST TO FOLLOW US ON OUR JOURNEY
Any help is greatly appreciated.
In the uBlock Origin Settings -> Filter Lists check lists named "annoyances" and "newsletters" or try other additional ones. That should help.
You can try PopUpOFF. It's not perfect and can be over-aggressive at hiding legitimate popups but it's worth a try.
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.
Behind the Overlay.
I have compiled the best recommendations in a list: https://lemmy.world/post/14173277
I still don't care about cookies
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/swift-selection-search/
"Swiftly access your search engines in a popup panel when you select text in a webpage."
I have this one, very similar. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/right-click-search/
Oooh very nice ty
Tab Center Reborn (and some css to hide the top tab bar) for sidebar tabs.
How it compares ro TreeStyleTabs?
I don't want to say its name, cause I worry (maybe unnecessarily) about making it a target, but there's a downloader for YouTube that's the only extension I've ever paid for.
You could have just used yt-dlp (open source): https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases
uBlacklist is great for hiding horrid search results.
He thanks, finally rid of userbenchmark.com results.