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My list: The essential one: Ublock Origin of course; surfing the web without it is next to impossible today. -A bit less essential but very helpful: HTTPS Everywhere: forces the browser to connect to secure pages anyway. Privacy Badger: by the EFF. Blocks trackers. uMatrix: NoScript on steroids. Allows to turn off parts of the web page with deep granularity (filter by domain and type of data). Needs "training", not f…
Video Speed Controller lets you speed up any HTML5 video. No more sitting through videos at 1x speed! Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/ Even for a site like YouTube that has built-in speed control settings, it's still useful since (1) you can make the speed exceed 2x and (2) you can use keyboard shortcuts to tune…
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.
I kind of object to this because it's directly messing with creators' efforts. Obviously I'm not telling people not to use it, but I think it's worth thinking about the channels/creators you enjoy - especially if they've been demonetized by Youtube.
> Kind of annoying having to whitelist every website I visit on NoScript these days but worth it imho In case you didn't already know, uBO does integrate a script blocker, with the advantage over NoScript that it supports per-site rules. I wrote a Twitter thread about this as an introduction a while ago: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1379819815657996290 >. Also, a negative interference when using another script…
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The legislation has the right heart, but its wording is problematic and leaves up too much on interpretation, so most sites who technically wouldn't need it just default to a cookie banner to be 'on the safe side'. Combine that with the zealots (I've had an user complain about the absence of a cookie banner on a site that clearly did not need one), them potentially becoming a lawsuit initiator, and you got the mess y…
Yes. Moreover this law, while good intentioned, seems like a somewhat misplaced effort against tracking. Cookie tracking is easy to disable and not really worrysome. The elephant on the room is google play services tracking all android users with no way to disable it. Now, that should be forbidden by law.
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…
uBlock has a cookie list for consent banners
Video Speed Controller lets you speed up any HTML5 video. No more sitting through videos at 1x speed! Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/ Even for a site like YouTube that has built-in speed control settings, it's still useful since (1) you can make the speed exceed 2x and (2) you can use keyboard shortcuts to tune…
> Speed up the video playback rate. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7631406?hl=en
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
(like Refined Github https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github#install)
* ublock origin - doesn't need introduction * forget me not - cleans cookies * stylus - some sites are too bright * clearURLs - remove tracking from urls * I don't care about cookies - also gets rid a lot of popup annoyances * skip redirect - avoid going through 3rd party to get to a link * redirector - redirect sites to nitter, teddit, bibliogram, etc I also use firefox containers.
seems to be out of date. a more up to date version would be "privacy redirect".
Shutup removes comments from sites. It’s made the web much more pleasant.