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TTV LOL PRO - Adblocker for Twitch specifically (Varying success)
UserAgent Switcher - Website ever complain that you're not using Chrome/Edge? Make it think you are!
Consent-o-matic - Pissed off unchecking all those 'legitimate interest' cookies notices? This does it for you automatically so you can ignore it.
On mobile, will ad links later on.
With Consent-o-maticit it specifically declines the popups. Not just hides them.
That's magnificent. I use Firefox Focus on mobile as my default and it automatically does this for major sites but this sounds great.
I have Consent-O-Matic on Firefox (PC) and it doesn't seem to do anything.
Have you set it up in the options menu? It'll ask what you want to consent to and want you don't want to consent to etc, then it'll just do it's thing from then.
I haven't seen a cookie consent form in months, it's great.
Oh, you mean browser plugins. I was like, "uh, my immersion blender, I guess"
..you call your blender a "plugin"? Like as a synonym for "appliance"? I've never heard that
I believe they plug it in.
Lemmy instance assistant https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/
Basically helps find posts and communities on your home instance
WebToEpub - convert Web Novels (and other web pages) into an EPUB for offline reading. Works with many sites, including: 1. ArchiveOfOurOwn.org 2. FanFiction.net. 3. royalroadl.com
etc...
Works well, although I would recommend supporting the official release or giving the authors some sort of $$. Its helped archive a couple of old comics, stories, and fan fictions of terrible quality ;).
So, not uBlock or whatever as everyone’s aware of that.
Alas, not that many people know about it. If they were, they would not be using Chrome-based browsers as the new (& neutered) version of uBO for chrome is rather limited.
Beside uBO, I barely use any extension as it can do (well) so many things already beside blocking ads: fingerprinting, removing cookies popup and consent notifications, removing all the shit I don't want to see from most websites (looking at you, YT Shorts):
Save the Qwant one, they all are in the 'recommended extensions' section on the Mozilla website. (edit: I think so, I have not checked)
On the browser I use for more personal/private stuff I don't have any extension beside uBo... I would not go on the Web, or barely on a few selected websites, without using uBO to be honest: every time I'm faced with a non uBO-protected browser I feel like dying. Too much tur... ads, I mean. It's just not tolerable.
Maybe not that unknown, but:
Vimium - lets you control the browser by keyboard. It uses vim keys for navigation, but I think it's useful for non vim users too because it also has a mode that adds text 'hints' for all the links on the page so you can click them by typing (I'm not describing it well so just check it out)
Couple simple ones, but maybe not as known as they could be:
It hides undesirable results in a variety of search engines. Just note that only Google is enabled by default and you'll need to manually subscribe to some lists to get started.
Oh that sounds like a great one. Thanks.
I advocate for a fork of uBlock: adnauseam. It's a bit financially adversarial which I deeply enjoy, at the cost of using a bit of data. In theory if it built up enough users, advertisers would stop buying clickable ads all together.
Bypass paywalls clean d
Maybe it's not news to anyone, but I can't live without Imgur. Point to a pic, it expands, that's it. Can't imagine surfing the internet and having to click on everything I want to see. Monstrous.
Imgur no longer exists in the UK which sucks. We can't see anything hosted on it either.
