Do not send me Chrome addons. I do not care that you have a worse version of uBlock
I’ll throw out a few.
Wouldn’t chameleon make you just as trackable unless you’re also switching your vpn every time you switch user agents?
Firefox multi account containers and temporary containers
What do they do?
Firefox just implemented profiles so long as you have separate emails
Container tabs
It’s like how different browsers can be logged in to different accounts with the same webmail at the same time, but all in the tabs instead.
Temporary containers
Basically a new incognito window in each new tab.
They play nicely together, my usual setup is temporary containers for regular browsing and a pop up asking me which user I’m logging in as - in that specific tab - when visiting sites I’m regularly logging in to.
It’s basically having website cookies completely isolated in the same profile. You can also create containers for each website automatically so they can’t talk to each other. If you like having multiple emails from the same provider open, you can do that without logging out or making a new Firefox profile, so it’s like having all your settings and add-ons with the website flexibility of another profile.
Killer combo
uBo has never worked on twitch for me, even with custom filters people say work (probably a me issue) so I’ll through out Purple Ads Blocker TTV LOL PRO. I only ever have 1 activated at a time. 1 will work for awhile and the twitch will change something and the one I’m using stops working so I switch to the other.
Oooo, PopUpOff
Haven’t had to deal with annoying “LeGiTiMaTe iNtErEsT” cookie pop-ups for nearly a year. Honestly forgot they existed until I needed to deactivate it to briefly log back into my reddit account recently (I swear that entire website’s UI is just malware at this point).
Their website is also surprisingly gorgeous. I was surprised since most app makers usually don’t put much effort into something people are probably only gonna see once, if they even have one at all. It’s so well put together.
Not to encourage people to use reddit, but we’re you using old.reddit? I don’t have pop-ups and I didnt have to use a email to sign up
Snowflake - help others bypass censors
Port authority - stops port scanning of your local network [and I found out how many fucking assholes do this. My own employer freaking does it >:( ]
Hmm interesting, would librewolf kill that alrdy?
I use librewolf, and I still get the notifications from port authority. Maybe that means librewolf wasn’t doing it, or port authority just detects that it’s supposed to happen even if librewolf has already stopped it.
Tabby. A tab manager, but I mainly use it to search for tabs.
In no particular order;
- Unpaywall - for research papers tries to find legal and free copies of them
- Stylus - overwrite style on a per-website basis (I use the Compact Subscriptions style on YouTube, for example)
- uBlacklist - additional to uBlock that deletes some URLs from search results (such as an anti-AI list, or Pinterest from image search)
- Surmount - jumps over paywalled news articles using archive.ph
Privacy Badger
Tabs aside.
Nothing you can’t do with bookmarks, but it’s a much nicer interface.
Is that basically like OneTab?
Sort of? Never used OneTab but it looks like a single list. Tabs aside breaks up tab sets into sessions / windows.
Onetab does this too
Sponsor Block–Skips some YouTube ads.
Language Tool–keeps me from making stupid grammar errors.
Cookie Quick Manager–you can lock cookies and other stuff.
Markdown here
Tree style tabs
Makes it simultaneously easier to open a billion pages but also manages them nicely
I prefer Sidebery to Tree Style Tabs
I tried this one of the tree tab addons, that may have been it, but it actually had a noticeable performance cost - made me sad :(
Now that hq finally added the fucking vertical tab sidebar I use that
- Cookie Autodelete
- I don’t care about cookies
Best underrated combo.
I head that “I don’t care about cookies” got bought by Avast or something and had some spyware in it or something (can’t quite remember I looked into it a while back).
I think there’s another version called “I still don’t care about cookies” that avoids that.
I hadn’t heard that, thanks, I’ll check it out.
Tridactyl
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.
