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Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
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#22Bypass paywalls clean Ublock origin Decentraleyes Bitwarden Also, turn on the privacy.resistFingerprinting flag in Firefox about:config.
Bypass paywalls clean seems really nice. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#23I only use extensions with low permissions:
* Twitter to Nitter https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...
* Remove YouTube Suggestions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-youtub...
* Reddit to Teddit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-ted...
I enable:
* strict tracking protection
* privacy.resistFingerprinting
* First party isolation
I'm considering using libreJS.
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#24not mentioned yet: Switch to audible tab - button that jumps through all the tabs that are currently playing audio (optionally also through tabs you have muted). Very helpful for either a) finding the tab with the conf call again or b) quickly finding whatever suddenly makes noise
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#25I 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
HTTPS Everywhere is going away next year. For more details see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywh...
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#26Unmentioned so far:
* Form History Control (rip Lazarus Forms Recovery, Seth plz come back & open source it). https://stephanmahieu.github.io/fhc-home/Manual/manual/
* Multi-Account Containers in Firefox. Absolutely critical to mixing work/personal computing. I used to use profiles to split stuff up but harder to maintain. (oops already mentioned)
* React Developer Tools. Apollo Developer Tools. Instrumental to my development work.
* ViolentMonkey. Before Chrome finally blows up freedom & expression on the web: ViolentMonkey is a pretty good userscripting tool. https://violentmonkey.github.io/
* Open in Sci-hub. I came very close to weaping out loud when I found that these papers I have forever clicked on & wanted are easily within reach. I now have access to humankind's wisdom. https://roiarthurb.github.io/Side-Auto_Sci-Hub/
* Hypothesis. The greatest most pro-web tool humanity has ever imagined, by orders of magnitude. https://web.hypothes.is/start/
* Web Scrobbler. I love knowing what I listened to. Works great with usual suspects. So so results with individual online fm radio stations. https://web-scrobbler.com/
I really want to get good at a vimbrowser extension. Ideally just using a real vim session. I use Dark Reader all the time & it's amazing, just fantastic. I want a replacement for Share-a-holic that I trust, that let's me bookmark/send-to across multiple services (pocket, pinboard primarily); I don't trust share-a-holic. "Switch to audible tab" is useful in critical moments, which thankfully are not often. Extensions I'd like to find & get good at: semantic web extractors/breadcrumbers.
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#27Unpinterested makes google image search a lot more usable, to the point that I get frustrated whenever I use image search on my phone now.
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#28Calm Twitter: it hides the number of likes and the trending stuff.
This greatly reduces the urge to get into Twitter arguments, and the aggravation the site induces, making it a pleasant pastime rather than a hate-inducing machine.
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#29I 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.
Newer versions of firefox and other major browsers have a HTTPS Only mode now, which removes the need for HTTPS Everywhere and it will be deprecated -> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/electronic-frontier-.... You can enable HTTPS Onlu mode on firefox under settings -> Privacy & Security
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#30Sponsorblock 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.
For desktop users I suggestion trying FreeTube which also has this feature