Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by karaterobot » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 5:12 AM UTC

Sponsorblock for Youtube: users mark segments of videos that have sponsored content, and the extension skips over them. It also skips past introductions and interaction reminders.

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by decrypt » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 5:13 AM UTC

Dark Reader, 1Password, uBlock Origin, Stylus, SpeedUp, CSS Scan, Privacy Redirect, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. These are must-use for me, both in terms of personal life and work.

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by acheron » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 5:15 AM UTC

tehnub wrote: post #9

- uBlock Origin for FF and Chrome. For Safari (on both macOS and iOS) I use wipr. - Dark Reader

+ to Dark Reader. Can’t stand most websites without it. Not sure how we switched from a dark screen to wanting everybody to stare into a bright lightbulb all day, but I’m glad things are finally going back.

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by whitepoplar » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 5:17 AM UTC

Vimium! (x1000)

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by TomDavey » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

nathanaldensr wrote: post #2

I stopped using NoScript because the micromanagement of domain names simply took too much time. I rely on Pi-hole to fill that gap somewhat. To answer your question (Firefox on desktop and mobile): - uBlock Origin - Privacy Badger - HTTPS Everywhere - Enhancer for YouTube - Multi-account Containers - Owl

Also on Firefox. It appears that I'm not as privacy/security conscious as are most in this thread, but I heartily second HTTPS Everywhere.

However, the single Firefox extension that's indispensable to me is Tree Style Tabs. See: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab.

Is it possible (for a Web page hoarder like me) to organize and access 500+ tabs across seven Firefox windows? You betcha it is, with Tree Style Tabs.

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by keithnz » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

Vimium, uBlock Origin, Violent Monkey

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by enriquto » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 5:23 AM UTC

nichos wrote: post #3

I can't live without this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a... Blocks the "consent to cookies" modal sites are required to have thanks to some terrible legislation.

Nice extension. But I'd say that the legislation is alright, it's these sites that are terrible. They put these modals because they want to.

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by treenurse » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 5:23 AM UTC

invokestatic wrote: post #8

dartharva wrote: post #6

Bypass paywalls clean Ublock origin Decentraleyes Bitwarden Also, turn on the privacy.resistFingerprinting flag in Firefox about:config.

resistFingerprinting has kind of a nasty side effect of making every website think you are in UTC. I put up with it, but I’m sure others may find it annoying.

Ah, this explains why Uber Eats gives me ETA in UTC...

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by rohfle » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 5:23 AM UTC

uBlacklist by iorate (Firefox / Chrome) - hides google / ddg search results from unwanted domains (medium and pinterest) and highlights others (wikipedia and github)

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by johnxie » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 5:23 AM UTC

uBlock Origin, Stylus, and Dark Reader.