What browser extensions do you use that you’d recommend to others?

Do you contribute to any FOSS browser extension projects?

Are there any non-FOSS extensions that you wish had a sufficient FOSS alternative?

  • noodlejetski@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    uBO, of course. note: you guys don’t need ClearURLs with this list added.
    LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he’s a little homophobic shithead
    Buster for automatic captcha solving
    Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren’t necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
    Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google

    • FUsername@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Thank you for the list. Had a stupid solution for what you use Consent-O-Matic for, and LibRedirect closes a gap bugging me for a while. I had no chance to try Buster yet, but I’m so looking forward to let software solve something grinding my gears with things software can solve better than software thinks.

      • noodlejetski@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Buster is a twisted work of a twisted genius. it uses accessibility version of captcha, which is based on recorded speech that you’re supposed to listen to and transcribe. it “plays” the audio silently, and uses speech recognition software to solve it.

        for extra twistiness, you can actually set it up to use Google’s own speech recognition API.

    • curioushom@lemmy.one
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      You’re right, preventing tracking and canvas fingerprinting ironically is in itself a fairly unique fingerprint. Although I’m not sure if not using decentraleyes is worth the tradeoff. It prevents hitting more third party sources altogether at the marginal cost of making you slightly more unique to the first party. Happy to learn more if I misunderstood.

  • sudo_su@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    I have created a FOSS extension called SyncMarks to sync bookmarks and tabs. It’s working with Firefox, Edge and Chromium and also on Kiwi on Android. You can sync your bookmarks independent from the browser and cross-browser. For example from Firefox to Edge or Chrome.

    As a backend I would recommend my small php script which you can selhost. You only need PHP and a database like SQLite or MySQL. As fallback you can use any WebDAV share.

  • alex [they/them]@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Firefox user here.

    • Bitwarden password manager
    • Bypass Paywalls Clean
    • Clear URLs remove URL trackers
    • Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results to hide some unwanted websites from search results
    • Open in VLC™ media player, useful for some weird streams
    • Push to Kindle sends any text article to PDF or to your ereader (not only Kindle)
    • Recipe Filter filters recipe pages on blogs and just gets the actual ingredients & instructions
    • Redirector for a few paywalls where I use a specific proxy
    • RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - as I use Inoreader for following RSS feeds
    • Sci Hub Injector adds sci-hub links to many science publishing websites for easy access
    • Shinigami Eyes highlights trans-friendly and transphobic social media users or websites
    • uBlock Origin
    • ViolentMonkey for userscripts

    Extensions to be helpful to other people:

    • Picket Line Notifier tells you if the website you are visiting has workers on strike - useful especially for ecommerce & news publishers
    • Snowflake is not noticeable for me, but allows other people to use my network as a Tor node or something idk
    • Wayback Machine archives every page I visit on the Internet Archive.

    Fediverse extensions:

    • FediAct allows me to boost, reply to, follow, etc. on any Mastodon instance without having to open the right link in my own instance. I wish there was something like this for Lemmy and Peertube.
    • Fedishare allows for one-click sharing to several Fediverse platforms, including Lemmy and Mastodon
    • PeerTubeify tries to check if a YouTube video you’re watching is also on PeerTube

    Youtube extensions:

    • Auto HD / 4k / 8k pour YouTube™ - I use it for the environment, so default quality is 480px (because usually I watch the videos on a small side window so it doesn’t change the visible quality)
    • Clickbait Remover for YouTube - replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video and makes all titles normally named, no all caps
    • DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - removes the homepage & sidebar on videos to avoid rabbit holes
    • SponsorBlock auto-skips sponsored segments, intros, credit rolls, etc. on YouTube videos
  • ArgentCorvid [Iowa]@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is DownThemAll.

    DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images on a website and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable filters to get only what you really want.

    Comes in really handy sometimes. (For Firefox / Chrome / Edge)

    Another is uBlacklist, which allows you to blacklist domains from Google / Bing / DDG search results (like say, pinterest.*), also for Firefox / Chrome / Edge.

    • ericjmorey@beehaw.orgOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      I used to use DownThemAll way back, but I’m not sure what I’d use it for now. What are you downloading?

      uBlacklist seems like it could be very useful.

      • ArgentCorvid [Iowa]@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Mostly if I find an open directory with stuff I like. Also it has come in handy downloading maps from government websites. It’s more of a “handy to have” than “day to day use”

  • nxtequal@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    You have got to use AdNauseum. It obsfuscates your browsing data, making it harder for companies to track you and give you targeted ads.

    • ericjmorey@beehaw.orgOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’ll have to look into that. Between containers, NoScript and uBlock Origin I’m not sure where it fits in.

  • bblfrnz@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    FoxyProxy in addition to many aforementioned extensions. Tor and popular VPNs just don’t work in my whereabouts, so, I have to use something more sophisticated like shadowsocks, for example, in order to circumvent government censorship and geoblocks.

    • ericjmorey@beehaw.orgOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure what good it could do in the US but I’m happy it helps you, assuming you’re using it in an ethically sound manner.

  • ArmoredGoat@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    In addition to all good recommendations above, I also can recommend Vim Vixen or Vimium C.

    These extensions enable you to control your browser with your keyboard with vim-like commands. If you are already using vim or want to use your keyboard more to comfortably navigate your system, it is a must-have :)

  • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    On LibreWolf and Brave, I use:

    • uBlock Origin
    • Privacy Badger
    • BitWarden
    • Decentraleyes
    • Redirector
    • Facebook Container (LW only)
    • FoxyProxy (LW only; not FOSS)
    • AnonAddy
    • Load Progress Bar (LW only)
    • Xtreme Download Manager
    • SponsorBlock
    • Return YouTube Dislike (redundant, since I use CloudTube, but good to have nonetheless)
    • Facebook Container (LW only)
    • Ruffle
    • ClearURLs
    • FlagFox (LW only)
    • ericjmorey@beehaw.orgOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      People really like their down votes on YouTube. I’ve rarely up votes or down votes any YouTube videos myself.

      What does Ruffle do?

  • Gabino3503 [he/him]@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    For privacy & security:

    • DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
    • uBlock Origin
    • Privacy Badger

    For usability:

    • Wappalyzer - Technology profiler
    • Firefox Translations
    • Flagfox
    • Grammar & Spell Checker—LanguageTool
  • lalay721@feddit.it
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I use the following ones (on Firefox), except for uBO the others are just for conveniency:

    • Bitwarden
    • Gesturefy (for some time from early 2021 to late 2022 I used to use Vivaldi as my primary browser and now if I’m using a mouse, not having gestures in a browser feels odd…)
    • LibRedirect
    • Plasma Integration
    • uBlock Origin (middle mode and with some additional lists)
    • User-Agent Switcher and Manager (if I find a site that says it doesn’t work with Firefox).