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  • Cannot say whether someone has already said it or not, but Flagfox. I like to know if possible whether or not a site is hosted in certain countries or just might be curious sometimes as to where the site server is located.

    • This is neat. It has other handy features too. From its description:

      • Site safety and malware checks
      • Finding similar sites and reviews
      • Automatic translation to your language
      • Diagnostics like pings and traceroutes
      • Whois and DNS information
      • Page code validation
      • Quick URL shortening

      Also, an important distinction: It shows the country where the server is located rather than what the nationality of the domain name is.

      A link to FlagFox.

  • Clickbait Remover for Youtube makes that site a lot more pleasant. It'll replace all thumbnails with a screenshot from early in the video, and un-capitalize all titles to make them consistent.

    • Nice Suggestion.

      DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock.

      He has highlighted the differences between the two in the description:

      • Unlike Clickbait Remover, DeArrow's main purpose is for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails
      • When a crowdsourced title is not available, DeArrow will auto-format it according to your setting, but does it in a more sophisticated way than Clickbait Remover. Instead of only setting all words to lower case, or capitalizing every word, DeArrow supports casing systems such as "Title Case" and "Sentence case". These will still allow acronyms and proper names to remain capitalized.
      • When a crowdsourced thumbnail is not available, DeArrow by default shows a screenshot at a random timestamp in the video. Clickbait Remover's thumbnails use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails, and while they are seemingly random, they are chosen by a machine learning algorithm to favor faces with expressions, and other overstimulating features. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. DeArrow will also check the SponsorBlock database to ensure the randomized thumbnail is not inside of a sponsor segment.

    • If only there was a Revanced patch for that.

  • I don't think I've seen this mentioned, likely because it's a simple, non-privacy extension.

    Reading List. It works like bookmarks, but it is targeted at news articles and other things you want to read but don't necessarily want to "forever save".

  • uBlock Origin and Mouse Gestures.

    Literally all I have ever used. I love mouse gestures so much because of Opera. I was using that for a bit before I discovered Firefox back in the day.

    • You should go through the suggestions made on this post. They are great. Maybe, sometime later I'll create a list and add it to this post's description later.

  • Some of these are specialized tools, but to start, I make big, big use of dedicated containers, Google, Amazon, Reddit, Pixiv, Tumblr, and Discord. Sidebar note, uBlock Origin, NoScript, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Container Sidebar, Downloads Sidebar, Get RSS Feed URL, Pixiv Toolkit, FediShare, Tumblr - Post to Tumblr, Twitter Gif & Video Downloader, and Video Downloadhelper

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