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 jacek » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 9:19 AM UTC

These are not that well known, but I highly recommend them (Firefox):

* Bypass Paywalls Clean - the name says it all - https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...

* Web Archives - easy access to cached websites, also useful for paywalls and sites heavy in JS - https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

* Vimium - use keyboard for browsing - https://github.com/philc/vimium

* SponsorBlock for YouTube - skip in-video ads - https://sponsor.ajay.app/

* Old Reddit Redirect - use old reddit design - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

* Reddit Enhancement Suite - https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

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

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Post by vadfa » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 9:22 AM UTC

Jaruzel wrote: post #89

My de-facto set of extensions: - uBlock Origin - Cookie AutoDelete - "I Don't Care About Cookies" (It auto-OKs cookie consent banners) - Archive.org's Wayback Machine (A must have in this era of link rot) Optional: - Tablist (easily lets me copy out all the URLs of open tabs for 'later') - User Agent Switcher (Needed less these days, but useful for exploring the DOM of mobile versions of sites) Additionally, I have w…

Cookie AutoDelete is a bad choice. The idea of it sounds good, but websites nowadays have lots of APIs to store information in your device, and Cookie AutoDelete doesn't delete all of them, which renders it completely pointless in my opinion.

Eventually what I did was configure my browser so it removes all cookies every time I quit it, which is more or less once a day. Also, I blocked third party cookies.

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

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Post by cheeaun » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 9:27 AM UTC

Don't see this mentioned here but recently I've been using this a lot: Kill-Sticky - Remove all elements with fixed or sticky positions https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-sticky/lekjlg...

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

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Post by habibur » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 9:29 AM UTC

- Javascript switcher

- YouTube in-video ad remover

I have only the above two active.

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

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Post by kome » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 9:33 AM UTC

Lordarminius wrote: post #48

kome wrote: post #44

I will write about Firefox extensions. Firefox is the only browser with some privacy potential. Chrome and Brave are spyware. * privacy / ads block: - uBlock Origin - Decentraleyes (against "free", centralized, content delivery): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes... - Disable-javascript (a simple javascript switch) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javas... - Twitter (a…

> ...Chrome and Brave are spyware. I understand Chrome, but Brave ? Care to expatiate ?

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html

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

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Post by kulikalov » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 9:33 AM UTC

habibur wrote: post #114

- Javascript switcher - YouTube in-video ad remover I have only the above two active.

Why not just pay a few bucks for YouTube premium to get rid of the ad? I’m not judging, just genuinely curious. I’m hesitant to invest in YouTube ads for my project, because I assume that majority of high worth customers pay for the premium and would not see my ads.

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

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Post by james-redwood » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 9:36 AM UTC

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned OneTab

https://www.one-tab.com/

With a click of a button, it throws all of your current tabs open into a single page (via hyperlinks), from which you have a lot of capability on what to do with them (open, open selected, bookmark, delete, etc)

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

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Post by nottorp » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 9:40 AM UTC

Everyone seems to mention privacy extensions. I'd also add some tab suspender extension to the list to save ram/cpu, especially on battery.

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

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Post by ihateolives » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 9:41 AM UTC

james-redwood wrote: post #117

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned OneTab https://www.one-tab.com/ With a click of a button, it throws all of your current tabs open into a single page (via hyperlinks), from which you have a lot of capability on what to do with them (open, open selected, bookmark, delete, etc)

Does it survive browser closing and reopening?

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

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Post by mkl » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 9:43 AM UTC

kartoshechka wrote: post #53

TomDavey wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In the same vein I'd recommend Sidebery https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery for tree style tabs. It has more sane defaults, even some animations, very accessible customization (e.g. you can theme every bit of bar in extension settings, not needing to go to chrome.css). It's also can be used as a basic browser "window manager", given that you can't split window into panes, but you can have multiple tab groups in one wi…

Can Sidebery import TreeStyleTabs tree data if I switch to it?