Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can’t stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it’s kinda wild to me that this isn’t more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It’s good for the same reasons!

  • abrr1sz@beehaw.org
    7·
    1 year ago

    So, let’s try to compile a list.

    • “uBlock” does not need any kind of introduction. Most of the people who answered the thread use it anyway. But it is my favourite!
    • “Language tool” to help me spell things properly, lol
    • “I don’t care about cookies” to get rid of annoying GDPR-compliance banners
    • “FoxyProxy” to easily switch between proxies
    • “Vimium C” to navigate the web using vi-like shortcuts
    • “SponsorBlock”. I don’t use YouTube as much nowadays but when I do, this add-on helps me skip in-video advertisements and irrelevant moments
    • “Search by image”
    • “Rikaichamp” is a great add-on for anyone who often needs to look up Japanese words
    • “Runet Censorship Bypass” because censorship circumvention is not a crime in my country. Yet.

    Honestly, I thought it will be shorter. It makes me appreciate the authors of all these add-ons even more. If it weren’t for their efforts, web browsing would be a much less enjoyable experience.

    • Yoru_Sulfur@lemmy.davidbuckley.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      In case you didn’t know, the “I don’t care about cookies” extension was recently sold to Avast. I don’t know if anyone has seen them make any sketchy changes yet, but personally I didn’t want to trust them and uninstalled it

  • bermuda@beehaw.org
    6·
    1 year ago

    I shared one on reddit that replaces pictures of spiders with kittens and it was met with a pretty shocking amount of hatred and vitriol brought my way, so nervous to share it here. But still I thought it was nice.

  • Himawari@lemmy.4d2.org
    5·
    1 year ago

    Mine’s Redirector. I use it to force redirection of some URLs, for example:

    • Redirecting an amp URL to a non-amp
    • Redirecting the URL of a small-scaled image to the URL of the original size
    • Redirecting a mobile site to its desktop equvalent (e.g. Wikipedia)
    • When I was using Reddit, I also used this extension to force all links to go to old.reddit.com
  • gadabyte@beehaw.org
    5·
    1 year ago
    • ublock origin
    • privacy badger
    • decentraleyes
    • clear URLs
    • facebook container
    • https everywhere
    • firefox multi-account containers
    • dictionary anywhere
    • Rick@thesimplecorner.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      Decentraleyes … Nice! Never seen that one! I always suspected hosted libraries and the such come at a costs (like jQuery etc…).

  • nonsense@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago
    • Consent-O-Matic - Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
    • DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials - I mostly use this for the email protection
    • ScrollAnywhere - Drag scrollbar with middlemouse button anywhere on the page.
    • Notorious@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      ScrollAnywhere is amazing. I’ve used BetterMouse on Mac for several months now and have grown accustomed to scrolling by click-dragging. Really wish there was some sort of similar app for Windows and Linux, but unfortunately I’ve spent hours searching and haven’t found anything.

    • cthonctic@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      @VulcanSphere

      Count this as my vote as well. Take every other extension away (uBlock Origin excluded obv) but I simply can’t endure the eye-searing pain of the internet without Dark Reader.

      • Dymonika@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        The browsers have their own dark mode, in chrome://flags or edge://flags, but in my experience they don’t work as consistently, overall.

        • cthonctic@kbin.social
          0·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, you’re right. They try but it’s not the same.

          Before Dark Reader I used to make custom dark theme CSS for all the sites that I frequented heavily and spent so much time tweaking things so it came out “mostly right”.

          Dark Reader isn’t perfect all the time but the peace of mind it grants me is immeasurable:)

          • Dymonika@beehaw.org
            1·
            1 year ago

            Wait, what? You can force any website to comply with your own CSS? How (apart from manual Inspector edits every time)?

            • cthonctic@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              Yeah, there are extensions that enable injecting custom CSS. I’m using Stylus in Chrome (switched to that from Stylish about two years ago) and essentially you need to override the native CSS with lots of !important style declarations. Basically like Inspect Element but will load every time once the relevant website(s) is done loading.

              If the HTML classes and ids are straightforwards that’s fairly easy, like old.reddit for instance. But every time they change the classes you need to go in a manually tweak it. And once a site starts obfuscating their code it’s not worth the effort anymore.
              But it’s possible and for a while I honed my meager CSS skills by doing my own bespoke stylesheets. :)

    • ollien@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      LanguageTool is super cool because you can run it locally! I love it because of that, alone.

    • Hyperi0n@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Wow, I had no idea that kind of extension existed for YT. That would a must have for! Thank you!

    • squid010@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      LanguageTool

      I’ll have to look into that. I’ve always liked the idea of Grammarly, but it seemed like I was basically downloading a keylogger, which seemed… unwise, lol.

  • raphael@lemmy.mira.pm
    3·
    1 year ago

    It gets quite extensive for me by now

    • uBlock Origin
    • Consent-O-Matic
    • Dark Reader
    • Bitwarden
    • Tab Session Manager
    • SponsorBlock for Youtube
    • Return Youtube Dislike
    • Clickbait Remover for Youtube
    • Auto HD / 4k / 8k for YouTube
    • Augmented Steam
    • Show Great on Deck on Steam
    • alike03’s Subscription Info on Steam
    • Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker

    And a few additional ones for selfhosted apps like FreshRSS Checker

  • mccord@feddit.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    LibRedirect: redirect Website links to alternative frontends like Nitter, invidious, rimgo etc. - couldn’t live without it especially on mobile where using Twitter without the app is really obnoxious

    CookieAutoDelete combined with ‘I still don’t care about cookies’: delete cookies the moment you close the tab if not whitelisted, also remove cookie notices and accept all cookies.

    Nano Gestures: mouse gestures for navigating websites

  • mizmoose@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    Another for Ublock Origin

    Youtube Enhancer

    Imagus [enlarges images, great for my old tired eyeballs]

    Ad Observer (run by Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University, it examines any ads you DO get to look for patterns in how advertising is being used to influence people on social media.)

    To Google Translate (Highlight something and send it straight to a Translate page)

  • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    For Lemmy:

    Stylus. And then find Lemmy scripts on UserStyles.world to install into Stylus and you can change the look and feel for Lemmy to make it more like Reddit, or whatever. I currently use a combination of ‘Better Lemmy’ and ‘Old reddit-ish Lemmy’.

    For general browsing:

    uBlock Origin for ads

    Privacy Badger for tracking

    For YouTube:

    Enhancer for YouTube