JShelter and Decentraleyes. And unlock Origins, but it's already popular without me. :)
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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- ublock origin, first last and if necessary only extension you really need
- dark reader
- youtube shorts block - converts shorts links into regular video player with actual fucking seek/volume controls
- youtube sponsor block - I pay for my bandwidth, I decide what gets downloaded.
- privacy badger
Youtube Unhook lets you disable specific parts of the website: Shorts, Recommendations, Comments, and lets you redirect from startpage to subscriptions like in the olden days.
Bring back the dislike button or something like that for YT.
Doesn't Firefox have reader mode with dark mode built in? Don't get me wrong, I find that functionality indispensable, but I didn't think it required a plugin.
Maybe? shrug I didn't look too hard, I stumbled across someone talking about dark reader and was like 'I must have this in my life.'
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ublock origin, nutensor(umatrix), twp, bypass paywalls clean, dark reader, vimfx
For android mobile I use Ironfox.
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
Its a fork of the now discontinued Mull browser.
uBlock Origin is the must have.
Personally I also use Dark Reader, NoScript, View Page Source and User-Agent Switcher.
NoScript is duplicative with ublock medium mode, I am amazed people are still using it. It hasn’t been relevant for 5+ years by my estimation. Why use two addons when one you’re already using does it better?
https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode
Roughly similar to using Adblock Plus with many filter lists + NoScript with 1st-party scripts/frames automatically trusted.
Because I'm used to noscript, I've tried using uBlock in stricter than default settings but found it hard to get into their flag system.
I do not trust 1st party by default in noscript and am pleasantly surprised anytime a site works without js.
The why is browser fingerprinting. Which Google started using as of January to track everyone.
https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/
So if you go to ANY page with Google trackers, even in private mode, Google knows.
But having two addons will make your fingerprint even larger. So your argument doesn't explain why you should use two addons instead on one that does it both.
No, you use one as the backup. That's why I said use JShelter, but if a site breaks beyond use, switch IPs and then reload with NoScript instead to be more selective of what is blocked and what's not. That way I can still block Cloudflare and Google and Apple and still let the actual site load. And JScreep seems (for me, YMMV) to treat each as distinct fingerprints.
IMO if you know you can have multiple fingerprint profiles anyway based on which combo of extensions you use that do roughly the same job, that's a net benefit.
Dark reader is getting my browser slow lately. Is it just me?
It also happened to me. Now I am using Page Shadow.
I’ll give that a go thanks
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uBlock Origin and nothing else. The more extensions, the more unique you're fingerprint will be and the bigger your attack surface.
Category "how the hell isn't this included by default" :
- Copy Plain Text: Adds an option in the right click menu to copy the selected text as plain text, without formatting
- Copy Link Text : Adds an option in the right click menu to copy the text of a link
- Markdown Reader: Show formatted markdown. I tried several extensions for this and this is the one I prefer personally. It has an index panel on the left which is sooo useful.
Category "Preserving your mental health online" :
- uBlock Origin: You really need to block those ads
- Consent-O-Matic: Never see a cookie pop-up again in your life (it auto accepts or refuse in your place).
- SponsorBlock: Skips Youtube sponsorships. You can define which ones you want to skip and which you want to watch (paid ads, self promo, etc)
- Return Youtube Dislike: Show the number of dislikes on videos. It's not a real number, it's extrapolated based on how many people with the app have clicked dislike.
- Youtube No Translate: Keeps titles, descriptions and audio tracks in their original language
Category "Usefull" :
- KeePassXC-Browser: To access your password database from your browser
- Whatever fingerprinting protection you can find (Canvas, Fonts, WebGL, etc.. half those I used have been pulled, haven't found a replacement for all of them)
Category "Would be nice if..." :
- A user agent switcher... if you want all websites to block you 😑
- NoScript: Block javascript and create custom rules to allow it only when and where you want. Or the reverse. It was great a few years ago but I've stopped using it because websites require allowing more and more otherwise nothing works and it's hell can we cancel javascript please?
- Dark Reader: Dark mode for all websites. Can make some websites unreadable, but you can turn it off for that website. Makes everything much slower though so I don't use it.
BTW for plain text, ctrl+shift+V pastes as plain text.
For copying link text if you hold alt and drag you can select text without activating the link, then ctrl+C as usual.
I had no idea about the second one! I still like having a context menu option, right click + E seems much less of a hassle than selecting the text and copying, but it's nice to know you can select part of a link! How did I never notice that you could in 20 years? 😅
Yeah alt+select doesn't work 100% of the time too so the extension sounds nice lol
Many commenters mentioned ublock, but don't forget to enable additional filters for shit like cookie banners or other annoyances
- ublock origin
- dark reader
- firenvim
- vimium
- containers
Dont forget SponsorBlock if you spend any time on youtube
Sponsorblock is magic. I don't know how it doesn't have trolls ruining it.
Users voting on whether a segment is good or bad. I always give a thumbs up to the segments that were well-defined and a thumbs-down to segments that cut off half a sentence unnecessarily etc.
I've never seen the option to vote, maybe it's easier on desktop. I'm on revanced
I suggest FreeTube
For keeping cookies in bento boxes:
Those two are an absolute must for me.
What do people think about "I still don't care about cookies"?
I have no evidence to back this up, but I've seen lots of reports that suggest if you just hide the consent form, you're assumed to have accepted all of the cookies. This is why Consent-o-Matic is preferable.
- uBlock Origin
- NoScript
- JShelter
- CSS Exfil Protection
- Libredirect
- Indie Wiki Buddy
I also sometimes use the IceCat extensions, too:
- LibreJS
- LibrifyJS
- Reveal hidden HTML
- Searxes' Third-party Request blocker
- Workarounds for nonfree JS
Jshelter is good. You know it works because many shady websites won't even load bx they are big bad they can't finger print you lol
Ublock origin and privacy badger
To support independent Wikis
- Indie Wiki Buddy
For those who are multilingual that are annoyed at websites autotranslating via a shitty ai
- Reddit Untranslate
- Youtube Anti Translate
To make Youtube better
- SponsorBlock
- YouTube Row Fixer
- Hide Youtube-Shorts
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No one mentioned Privacy Badger yet. Is there something I don't know?
Most people will tell you that it's been made obsolete now since (1) it doesn't use behavioural analysis to detect trackers anymore, it just uses a pre-defined list of trackers to block (2) browsers (especially firefox) now have built-in tracker blocking (3) ublock origin blocks trackers by default anyway.
I don't think it hurts to still use it, just as a belt and braces approach, but I suppose it's possible it makes your browser fingerprint more unique.
Interesting. Fingerprinting is a good point, although I've switched to a combo of Vivaldi and Librewolf browsers so they're already fairly unique unfortunately.
uBlock Origin is a lot better.
Privacy Badger can actually be detrimental because it makes you more unique while adding basically nothing useful.
I like how Privacy Badger replaces tracking icons/widgets. I’m guessing uBO just removes them outright? I haven’t really bothered to check the differences.
Yes ublock will just completely block/remove all tracking and annoyances, plus whatever other filters you enable.
ublock origin, dark background and light text
Remove YouTube Suggestions (assuming you still use the YouTube client directly).
Also, Tampermonkey, to install single-site scripts that you can customize and with more limited permissions.
Depends on the user.
For me it's uBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie AutoDelete and Binnen-I be gone
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