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ublock origin with the annoyance list activated.
dark reader. It’s not perfect but I get most sites in a usable dark mode.
That’s mostly it.
Same, all you really need. Maybe also password manager extensions for the added phishing protection
Yeah, I didn’t include my Enpass extension, as it’s more like a plug-in.
I also excluded TamperMonkey because I solely use it to sell my Steam cards and become filthy rich. Already 34 cents into my first million.
And last but not least: an extension that auto-upvotes YT videos from my subscribed channels because I’m too lazy to do it manually and YT can’t be bothered to assign a key to it.
Sponsorblock for YouTube.
Javascript disabler to get around many paywalls.
In my testing, dark reader made sites load much slower. Anyone else notice this?
Dark Reader is entirely client side, so it shouldn’t affect load times.
Nope, still fast on my machines
it can make my google drive stuff take a couple extra seconds to realize whats happening
Ublock Origin
NoScript
Dark Reader
Sponsorblock
Bitwarden
everything else is down to preference.
Double upvote for bitwarden, since OP is switched browser, they defenetly need move all their passwords. No need to use built in Firefox manager. Don’t forget to use password export from Chrome.
ah nice I was wondering how to do that. got a lot of passwords in chrome
Used to use lastpass before they became paid. I haven’t even remembered that until I read your comment. Bitwarden is great.
Also browser password manager couldn’t be more unsafe…
honestly it’s fine if you’re generating different passwords for every service and you’re just storing the less important ones there for convenience.
Way too easy to get malware and it scans your whole pc for easy to aquire passwords.
If it’s safely encrypted, go for it but I suspect it isnt.
dark reader looks very useful, thanks!!
What’s the point if having NoScript AND uBlockOrigin? ubo does everything noscript does, but better
DeArrow for unsensationalizing YouTube titles and thumbnails
Firefox Multi-Account Containers
It does have some rather specific use cases but if you need it it’s amazing. Way better than chrome profiles imo
this!
Bypass Paywalls Clean is fantastic, need to install from xpi though
lol that installation was crazy simple! thanks!!
Also any sort of privacy redirector, specifically to go to nitter instead of xitter, is a must have
Something not so far mentioned is Tree Style Tab.
If you habitually have a lot of tabs open, you’ll probably know how annoying it is finding things when each page title has been condensed down to 4-5 characters. On widescreen displays (especially 16:9), vertical pixels are also a lot more precious, while horizontal ones are plentiful.
For me (3840×2160 display, 200% scale), its vertical tab sidebar fits about 30 tabs before needing a scrollbar, and you get a full width title for each and every one.
It can be a bit of an adjustment at first, but I’ve been using this since the pre-WebExtensions days (since around Firefox 4.0), it’s definitely one of my must-haves.
This changed my habitual way of working with browsers for the better, can’t recommend it enough. I’m using Sidebery though, not sure of the differences, but I really like its snapshot feature.
Can’t recommend TreeStyleTabs enough!
Not only does it trade off precious vertical space for plentiful horizontal space, but also the tabs get organized hierarchical, so when searching and opening multiple tabs , the tabs get grouped naturally
If you like Tree Style Tabs I’d also recommend trying Sideberry. Does the same thing but has some additional functionality.
Ublock Origin & Sponsorblock - for blocking ads
DarkReader - for making all websites “dark mode”
uBlock Origin/Dark Reader/Sponsorblock/KeepassXC
Ublock Origin
Enhanced Steam
TWP - Translate Wep Pages (works better than the native chrome version)
ytc filter (Youtube live chat filter. When general chat becomes spammy)
Tabliss (Better version of the chrome start page)
Camelizer (Amazon price history)
Return YT Dislike
Dark Reader (How could I forget that…)
Bitwarden (or password manager of your choice)Firefox now has it’s own inbuilt local translator. None of your information is sent collected and translation is very good.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/4572331
I even feel like TWP works better then the now native Firefox translation feature solely due to it allowing to translate any page by either selecting text and right clicking or by clicking on the icon in the adress bar. Firefox has the button as well but TWP let’s you choose the translation service (I believe it’s google, deepl and 1 or 2 other services)
Enhanced Steam
thanks! twp looks interesting!
My pleasure.
I even feel like TWP works better then the now native Firefox translation feature solely due to it allowing to translate any page by either selecting text and right clicking or by clicking on the icon in the adress bar.
Firefox has the button as well but TWP let’s you choose the translation service (I believe it’s google, deepl and 1 or 2 other services)
Ublock origin, bitwarden, dark background and light text, tridactyl
Honestly the less you can live with the better. For me essentials are always ublock for ads, imagus for better image viewing while browsing and simple translate because I deal with a lot of languages. Also containers is useful for work.
There’s the built-in Firefox translate now, though it currently only supports a handful of languages (more coming soon)
Wasn’t imagus found to be doing shady data collection?
First of all, install Betterfox, it is not an extension per se, but a set of custom settings. Betterfox offers a lot of fixes, including removed Mozilla telemetry, increased speed, smooth scrolling, privacy protections, etc.
I believe, Betterfox can also be used on Floorp (In case their website doesn’t work, here’s a Github link - https://github.com/Floorp-Projects), which is a Firefox-based browser with Vivaldi/Opera-like interface. Sounds neat, but i didn’t really test it yet.
In case you feel too lazy to install Betterfox/Arkenfox/other user.js modifications, you can use Librewolf instead. It is a version of Firefox with bundled Arkenfox and uBlock Origin.
uMatrix, uBlock Origin, and a mixture of add-ons from Dig Deeper’s list are a must for privacy. Also, i recommend reading his other blogposts about software, too. Especially this one
If configuring Redirector is too confusing for you, you can use LibRedirect, it can automatically redirect YouTube to Invidious and Piped, Fandom to Breezewiki, Google to SearX, Twitter to Nitter, and so on, so you won’t have to bother with popups and ads.
For password managers, use Bitwarden, if you want to have your passwords synced in the cloud, or KeepassXC, if you want to store them locally.
Block The Rich is a fun little extension for those who are tired of reading billionaire spam, but i did not test it.
Instance Assistant Is made to improve Lemmy and Kbin experience, but, once again, i did not test it.
Also, do not use Google, Bing, Yandex or Brave as your search engine, instead switch to DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and 4Get or SearX
Why disable telemetry?
Originally, i too, have thought that Mozilla’s telemetry would be limited to only technical aspects, such as crash reports. I mean, they are using privacy as their main selling point. But of course, that was a lie. Read this. You may think that only Spyware Watchdog and Dig Deeper dislike Mozilla, but no. By searching around, it’s possible to find information about this on countless sources. And again, why do projects like LibreWolf and Arkenfox exist, if Firefox’s tracking is not an issue?
Firefox makes unsolicited connections on startup, uses Google Analytics, and connects to their website when opening every single page. They are not leaking all of your data, like Opera and Chrome do, but such behaviour is very concerning. Why do they need to know how many times i have opened my bookmarks, or when i cleaned my browser history? Extremely suspicious, and on top of that it makes the browser a bit slower.
I believe that what happens on your PC, should stay on your PC, the pages you open in your browser, stay in the browser.
The article you sent me is totally absurd and shows a complete lack of understanding or will to understand.
Librewolf and Arkenfox exist for the exact same reason this article exists: unbridled paranoia. They are actually by fat less secure than Firefox because of the risk of a compromised build chain which is lesser for an established browser.
The first example of “phoning home” your article gives is merely the get request Firefox uses to check if you are online and redirect you to a login portal if you are on shared WiFi.
The article also then makes a complaint about Firefox making requests to the sites you visit most frequently, which maked absolutely no sense, because if you visit them so frequently that then end up in your new page, then what is the problem with Firefox preloading the content?
On Google analytics, it is not part of the browser, but just used on Mozilla’s website with an explicit exemption from Google not to use that data.
The “safebrowsing” requests are to download the list of known malware sites in order to keep you safe. They are not used for tracking.
The health report telemetry is the only thing that could be vaguely construed as actually being problematic, but it literally collects no personal data and is used to improve the browser.
Finally, the entire paragraph about pocket is bullshit: or course, if you create an account and start saving web pages to pocket then it is going to be stored on pocket’s servers… What would you expect? The solution is simple: Just don’t use pocket, nobody is forcing you to.
It is infuriating to see these lies repeatedly perpetuated online by people who have no understanding of what they are criticizing
None of the points mentioned even vaguely constitute a threat to user privacy.
To make matters worse they actually weaken users security by driving them to forks that risk them not recieving timely security updates.
As well as those others have already mentioned, I use:
Linguist is a translation extension that respects your privacy. If you switch to the Bergamot translator it acts in offline mode.
Redirector which allows you to set custom rules so you can redirect (for example) Twitter to Nitter, Instagram to PikUki and also rules to redirect pages that are behind paywalls via 12ft.io (or 1ft.io as 12ft is currently down) .
TamperMonkey a userscript manager. I don’t have loads of userscripts but I do have things like SocialFixer for making FB a bit better, Absolute Enable Right Click and Bandcamp Volume Bar.
ViolentMonkey as an open-source alternative for TamperMonkey.
Never heard of this - thank you very much! Easy to move scripts/settings too - export from tamper as zip - import zip into violent.
Firefox now comes with an offline translator for major languages across all platform.
Not “major”, just a small handful
Linguist looks useful, added it - thanks!!
Lemmy Instance Assistant It does things like if someone links a post and the link takes you to the post on another instance, it adds a button to show the post on your home instance. You can also right click on a page (say, an article on a news site) or image and choose the option to share it on lemmy, which creates a new post. It also has stuff to help you when you click a link to a community but the community is not federated to your server, or you can go to the list of communities on another instance and it will have links to take you to that community on your home instance. That sort of thing. Basically the beginnings of a RES for lemmy.
I also like Dictionary Anywhere, which lets you double click on a word to get a definition, a bit like the one Google one for Chrome.
There are also various container extensions such as a Facebook or Google one, that isolates those sites to attempt to prevent that activity being associated with your activity on other sites. It can be a little annoying to get used to but I use them. The annoying thing is that when you click say a google site from a search result on duckduckgo, it closes the duckduckgo tab and opens the site in a google container, but then you can’t click back to go back to the search results.
The general container tabs extension is good too. It keeps separate cookies per container. So say if you have 3 different microsoft accounts, you can create different containers. Then you can open a new tab in a specific container and it will remember the account you logged into last time in that specific container, but doesn’t affect other containers or tabs not in a container.
thanks!!
If LIA is anything like RES I am 100% on board.
It’s only beginning, it has nowhere near the features of RES, and mainly it helps with issues related to lemmy federation. But if there’s something you want, the dev is pretty open to new feature suggestions.
RES shouldn’t really be needed for Lemmy - it’s better to just directly upstream the changes, since it’s open source.
ublock origin, noscript
i tried noscript and I didnt like having to manually authorize each site. it looks like it’d be useful in some situations
NoScript and umatrix are a pain when starting out. But once they are working can change your whole view of the web. Umatrix even has setting cloud saves so if you move PCs or reset in some way you don’t lose an that work.
I never cared for it. Broke a lot of sites and I never found it helpful.
ublock was already mentioned couple of times. Additionally this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
If you are going to auto delete cookies then I suggest consent-o-matic to auto deny cookie popups.
Oh right, there is this one is also currently installed, but hidden and never interacted with.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/
Same functionality.
In most cases, the add-on just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it’s needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what’s easier to do). It doesn’t delete cookies.
Not to keen on it accepting the cookies on my behalf, the point is to not accept the cookie. Consent-o-matic will actively deny the requests.
