What are your favorite browser extensions?
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?
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
+1 for Consent-O-Matic.
Consent-O-Matic sounds really nice, thanks for sharing.
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.
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.
Firefox user here.
Extensions to be helpful to other people:
Fediverse extensions:
Youtube extensions:
Is the link to Recipe Filter broken? I'm interested in that but it seems to just be a link to a reddit user.
Thanks for making this list! I haven't heard of a bunch of these and will check them out.
Firefox:
I usually have a browser without NoScript, though, since a few sites I visit breaks with it enabled.
Can't praise uBlock Origin and Dark Reader enough, though. Also Privacy Badger/Possum and Decentraleyes (at least a few years ago).
For searching web archives, there's the Web Archives addon (GPLv3). It just opens a search page though, and doesn't have the ability to automatically archive.
For userscripts I use Violentmonkey (MIT).
I'll take a look at violentmonkey. Thanks for the pointer!
uBlock Origin, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Bitwarden, and SponsorBlock for YouTube are my favorite ones.
Sponsorblock really helps me, since I watch a lot of YT and even though I have Premium, I’m otherwise still getting ads
People also need to remember to open up uBlock Origin settings page:
I cannot stand SponsorBlock anymore. It's been abused so much, that any time any video even slightly mentions a brand, sponsor or not, it skips it.
I find that it breaks context in a lot of videos, and you end up missing important stuff. I especially find it to be true in LTT videos.
For me, SponsorBlock is disabled until they fix the abuse. There's a very clear difference between a SPONSOR and just mentioning an entity that exists on this planet.
Bad segments are definitely a problem. At least for the channels I watch, the sponsor segments tend to be well done, but for other categories there's often weird segments. Manual skip is still quite useful though.
I definitely agree with SponsorBlock there when it's on its default settings, however I find that lots of those issues are solvable by utilizing it's pretty decent customizability. Being able to identify channels which have manageable sponsor spots and excluding them can limit lots of those issues and fine-tune what types of things get skipped automatically or manually can make it a lot more manageable and only auto-skipping the most egregious things.
uBlock Origin, Clear URLs, Bitwarden, Dark Reader and Redirector
For privacy & security:
For usability:
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.
Firefox:
Nice thanks, I'll try out LibRedirect!
One that I love is jumpcutter. Speeds up silences and makes watching long lectures way nice.
If I get back to my PC I'll send a few more extensions I use.
OMG I didn't know I wanted this until I saw the demo!
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 :)
As a neovim user, I may need to try those out.
Simple Tab Groups for Firefox, I couldn't imagine using the internet without it. A bunch of Lemmy tabs filling up your tab bar and crowding out your normal tabs? Just make a new group and slap them over there, now all your other tabs are hidden in the other group and you can switch between them anytime.
I had one class where I needed like 10 tabs open all the time, I could just have them sitting in a different group so they didn't take up any space for my other tabs.
I have hundreds of tabs open.
You have got to use AdNauseum. It obsfuscates your browsing data, making it harder for companies to track you and give you targeted ads.
Nice, I heard about this awhile ago but never installed it. I love making large annoying companies spend more money for essentially no on-boarding. Also, it is a simple way to make my online identity just a tiny bit more obscure.
I'll have to look into that. Between containers, NoScript and uBlock Origin I'm not sure where it fits in.
uMatrix, which lets me choose which kinds of content (cookies, scripts, etc) from which domains are allowed in my browser. Regrettably, it is no longer maintained. I wonder if there's some alternative that is maintained?
Unfortunately the developer of NoScript couldn't justify the time spent on uMatrix. I really liked it but dropped it when it's maintenance was ended. I don't know of a good replacement but NoScript technically can do what uMatrix did but the NoScript interface is not convenient.
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.
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.
On Safari I use AdGuard (because uBlock Origin is not available), Bitwarden and Zotero Connector.
On Firefox uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Zotero Connector, Cookie Autodelete, Libredirect and LocalCDN
Ublock Origin, Ghostery, Decentraleyes, and that duckkduckgothing are what I use to avoid the complete BS on most sites on firefox lately.
Doesn't uBlock Origin with the right filter lists make Ghostery redundant?
@ericjmorey
I use @bitwarden and Language Tool.
you can also self-host a language tool instance and point the extension to that instead of their official instance.
@Nitrousoxide
Good to know. However, I'm not technical enough to go through the self-hosting route (for now).
@ericjmorey@beehaw.org @foss@beehaw.org
(These are mostly for :firefox:)
⦿Swift Selection Search
⦿Leechblock
⦿SimpleLogin by @simplelogin@fosstodon.org
⦿intention
⦿OCR image reader
Bitwarden, uBlock origin, wallabg (self-hosted read-it later), dark bg and light fg (simpler than dark reader) and redirector to redirect youtube/twitter/reddit links to private front-ends
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.
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.
I'm on Firefox: uBlock Origin, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker (excellent tool if you use Amazon, I also use the cell app), Privacy Badger, AdNauseam, and Mullvad Browser Extension (I use their VPN on my PC and phone). Others that I have installed but am admittedly not as familiar with: Decentraleyes, and Web Archives.
I use the following ones (on Firefox), except for uBO the others are just for conveniency:
uBlock Origin - as ad and script blocker
Dark Reader - for dark mode on every site
Sidebery - for tab management
On LibreWolf and Brave, I use: