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

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Post by SahAssar »

luismartinezs wrote: post #145
SahAssar wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists Use a service like pinboard and they instead turn into a searchable archive of things you like, archived so that they don't disappear/change. Sorta like a curated personal search engine.

What's this pinboard service you mention?

https://pinboard.in/

It's run by idlewords here on HN, who also gives great talks and writes on https://idlewords.com/

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

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Post by loufe »

I've seen all of my used addons recommended by others but here's what hits it for me:

-SponsorBlock (incredible boost to Youtube tolerability)

-uBlock Origin (created and maintained by a Québecois!)

--Don't forget to addd annoyances and malware lists to configuration!

-Refined hacker news (small nice changes for the site).

-cookies auto-delete.

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

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Post by plibither8 »

loufe wrote: post #152

I've seen all of my used addons recommended by others but here's what hits it for me: -SponsorBlock (incredible boost to Youtube tolerability) -uBlock Origin (created and maintained by a Québecois!) --Don't forget to addd annoyances and malware lists to configuration! -Refined hacker news (small nice changes for the site). -cookies auto-delete.

Refined Hacker News [0] author here, thanks for the mention :)

[0]: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

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

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Post by squarefoot »

AkshitGarg wrote: post #123
ajvs wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Privacy Badger is unnecessary, it's a worse version of uBlock. Also HTTPS Everywhere can be replaced with the Force HTTPS option natively implemented in Firefox.

Not only firefox, but edge, chrome and safari too. EFF is deprecating HTTPS everywhere. See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywh...

Thanks to both of you, too late to edit the post unfortunately.

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

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Post by aigo »

jacek wrote: post #111

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 -…

How does 'bypass paywalls clean' differ from the 'original' one by github.com/iamadamdev?

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

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Post by vadfa »

glidergun wrote: post #137
vadfa wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/...

You can check the Application -> Storage tab of developer options and you will see that it does not remove everything.

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

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Post by Spionbil »

raffraffraff wrote: post #45

I stopped trying to whitelist sites. Now I just use cookie autodelete and container tabs. Full list: - Joplin web clipper - BitWarden - Firefox containers - Containerise (choose tab container based on domain name or url regex) - Cookie autodelete (in case I ever accidentally log into something in the wrong container, this cleans it up) I also modify the search bar so it only suggests locations from my bookmarks, and…

Bookmarks are still great as shortcuts via keywords & %s searches in pages that are otherwise clunky or don't support the kind of search you'd want to do.

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

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Post by zacharybk »

hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #98
ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox. They don't seem to have evolved at all in 20 years apart from the ability to sync them across devices.

> I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox. While I agree with you, since you added "in Firefox", actually Firefox lets me do more with my bookmarks than Chrome.

Firefox fixed this for you. They bought pocket and turned it into a paid product.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-po...

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

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Post by mrweasel »

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #148

Anyone else not use browser extensions for various reasons?

I do use a browser extensions, but nearly to the extend others apparently do.

For both Firefox and Safari I use exactly two extensions: Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials and Lastpass. I don't really see the point in maintaining a long list of extensions or try to customize the browser. Long term I believe it's easier to just learn to use and accept the browser as is.

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