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What are your favorite browser extensions? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ericjmorey@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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What browser extensions do you use that you'd recommend to others?

Do you contribute to any FOSS browser extension projects?

Are there any non-FOSS extensions that you wish had a sufficient FOSS alternative?

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[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Firefox:

uBlock Origin (uBO) - The internet is basically unusable without this. {GPLv3}
Dark Reader - I like using dark themes and I hate when I get blasted with a light theme when I visit a site. This keeps that to a minimum. {MIT}
Firefox Multi-Account Containers - It's nice to keep things separated. {Mozilla Public License Version 2.0}
Consent-O-Matic - Automatically marks my saved cookie preferences on consent pop ups. This is a great tool to help counter to the dark patterns related to GDPR, but it isn't perfect. {MIT}
NoScript - I don't like giving blanket permission to run JavaScript in my browser. This let's me choose. {GPLv3}
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive - Archives the sites I visit automatically and provides a one click option to visit an archived version of a URL that returns 404. {Proprietary | I don't know of any alternatives}
Tampermonkey - There are a few very useful scripts that I run periodically. Tampermonkey keeps them organized and easy to run. {Proprietary | I don't know of any alternatives}
Reddit Enhancement Suite - I got a lot of value from this extension over the years, but I don't know how much value it has going forward for me {GPLv3}

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

uMatrix, which lets me choose which kinds of content (cookies, scripts, etc) from which domains are allowed in my browser. Regrettably, it is no longer maintained. I wonder if there's some alternative that is maintained?

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[–] aRubes@sloth.run 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@ericjmorey@beehaw.org @foss@beehaw.org

(These are mostly for :firefox:)

⦿Swift Selection Search
⦿Leechblock
⦿SimpleLogin by @simplelogin@fosstodon.org
⦿intention
⦿OCR image reader

[–] admin@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

uBlock Origin, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Bitwarden, and SponsorBlock for YouTube are my favorite ones.

[–] JshKlsn@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I cannot stand SponsorBlock anymore. It's been abused so much, that any time any video even slightly mentions a brand, sponsor or not, it skips it.

I find that it breaks context in a lot of videos, and you end up missing important stuff. I especially find it to be true in LTT videos.

For me, SponsorBlock is disabled until they fix the abuse. There's a very clear difference between a SPONSOR and just mentioning an entity that exists on this planet.

[–] Kryostar@mastodon.online 1 points 2 years ago

@JshKlsn @admin I agree with ya. Sometimes I actually wanna hear what product they are talking about but it's incredibly hard.

Channels like rctestflight frequently mention multiple products they use in their builds but people block that for some reason.. like what's the point of it?

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