Do not send me Chrome addons. I do not care that you have a worse version of uBlock
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”.
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.
Adnauseam, based on ublock, but clicks obfuscates and clicks adds for you so google gets bad data
I use a bunch of YouTube enhancing extensions.
SponsorBlock. so very, very good. First user into a video after it drops, who has this extension, marks the portion of it that is the YouTuber’s ad read / sponsor segment. Extension auto-skips it for every user who watches after. Saves a lot of time.
Multiselect for YouTube. Just what it sounds like, you can select multiple videos at once to add or delete from playlists, instead of doing them one at a time.
PlayerTube. Use approximations of player UIs from bygone years. I’m partial to 2013 myself.
Return YouTube Dislike and YouTube Shorts Block. Self explanatory from titles.
Others (non-YT) I use…
Change Case. I watch my keyboard and not my screen whilst typing, and this just lets me quickly flip large chunks of unnoticed caps-lock text back to normal once I discover it, rather than having to retype it all.
Simple Translate. Quickly run highlighted text through a translator on the right click menu.
I think all of these also have Chrome versions, but still better on FF due to being able to install (or side-load if not listed or not whitelisted for mobile) onto the mobile version. The day I learned how to get non-whitelisted ones to install and install from xpi was game over for bothering with other mobile browsers.
- FastStream for downloading videos from YT and a lot of other sites (I daily use it for grabbing stuff on Twitter)
- Bypass Paywalls Clean for the obvious (this one is to the dev’s not github but same kind of site site as it has to be installed via xpi)
- Watch on Odysee for seeing if a YT channel also uploads to Odysee to go watch there if possible and at least give my view there
- SponsorBlock for being able to skip hard-coded ads from the uploads and other sections of YT videos
- DeArrow for being able to view titles for YT videos that are more reflective of content
- Wayback Machine for saving pages to Archive.org along with saving them to my account on there.
- Privacy Possum for more aggressive blocking of tracking (though it does require remembering it is on if a site breaks as it will block things that uBO isn’t the cause of the issue)
Fuck yeah, i swear by sponsor block, I’m truly ad free with that, but also skipping intros and stuff is nice.
Bitwarden.
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.
Yep and selfhosting it is a great option as well
apart from all the adblocking and privacy stuff, gesturify is one of my favourites. i got used to mouse gestures back when opera was still good and happily kept using them in vivaldi. if it wasn’t for this addon, i probably wouldn’t have been able to switch, when google enforced their manifest v3 bullshit.
streaming enhanced is another great one. it automatically skips intro and outro of shows, so you don’t have to fumble around with whatever remote you use. It also shows imdb ratings, so it’s easier to avoid stinkers, that the services are trying to push.
finally, i’d like to mention comet. i know we hate Reddit here, but usually reddit comments are still better than youtube comments.
Gesturify looks really cool, can you share with us your use cases?
My most used gesture is right click on link, then down and up to open it in a new background tab. imo the gesture is easier than finding that function in the context menu. always handy. when a page has multiple interesting links, that i want to look at after finishing the first page (e.g. youtube start page)
