Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without

Post by dmd » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 4:57 PM UTC

Chirael wrote: post #18

mrweasel wrote: post #10

That’s an insane amount of extensions, most of which seems to deal with fixing “broken” website or at least make them tolerable. Reader mode is a little surprising, doesn’t Chrome have that built in?

Google makes money from websites showing ads, so making a reader mode readily available would be counter to that. There used to be a hacky way to approximate reader mode in Chrome [1] but not sure if that still works. Just another reason to favor Firefox over Chrome IMO. Google will always give only enough privacy options to give the veneer of supporting privacy, but never enough to truly allow it (e.g., anti-fingerp…

Post by jmnicolas » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 5:02 PM UTC

staycoolboy wrote: post #41

I recently deleted all of my extension off all three browsers (Chrome, Firefox, and Safari). The ad blocking on Firefox is almost as good as Ublock Origin. I found privacy badger to be largely useless. The only thing I miss is lastpass, but I've gotten used to having it run as a desktop app. Containers in Firefox were nice, but I've also gotten used to switching accounts. The fact that extensions get 100% access to e…

Post by supernova87a » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

rosstex wrote: post #11

>Grammarly Are we cool with them now or are they still stealing your data? I'm not up to date

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

xahrepap wrote: post #2

I can't live without Tree Style Tabs[0] in Firefox. It's The Thing that finally got me to switch back to FF and I will never look back. 0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Post by random_dork1 » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 6:36 PM UTC

surround wrote: post #24

Nano Defender hasn’t been necessary in my experience. uBlock Origin can circumvent anti-adblock measures by itself. I’m skeptical of Grammarly from a privacy standpoint. It seems to be an internet-enabled keylogger.