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What are the browser add ons that you use and why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago (1 children)

In Firefox I have:

uBlock Origin: For blocking ads
uMatrix: for blocking all kinds of stuff and to see what kind of connections each site uses (usually a ton)
HTTPS Everywhere: to have https everywhere. According to @Jojonintendo this is already integrated into Firefox though, so I might delete it.
Cookie Autodelete: pretty self-explanatory.
Decentraleyes: to prevent websites from loading unnecessary resources.
Privacy Redirect: mostly used to open Youtube links in Freetube, but also to redirect Reddit and Twitter links to libredd.it and Nitter respectively, when needed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Decentraleyes is dead, swap it for LocalCDN, an actively maintained fork.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Really? Their repo seems to be fairly active, though.

https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

LocalCDN supports more CDN resources and other features that Decentraleyes didn't implement yet. P.S. It works better in Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Good to know. I'll be switching to LocalCDN then. I honestly wasn't aware Decentraleyes had a fork.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Must be recent then. It was stopped for a big while. Either way, as the other commenter said, LocalCDN supports more stuff and works better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

This kind of extensions don't need several commits every week, for example updating a software once per month could mean that it's more stable and has less bugs than one that updates every day. About the feature though, you're right, localCDN does block a lot more CDN requests

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

You make a good point yeah. However, I believe it went radio silent for a considerable amount of time. Not a big deal though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Decentraleyes is not dead, it's feature scope is just more narrow, meaning it's reached "product maturity" quicker.

Think of it as running Debian stable vs Arch Linux - Debian isn't dead it just progresses at a slower and more stable pace than Arch. Slow & steady gives you tremendous stability at the cost of missing out on a few features.

Some people, like myself, prefer stability over fancy new features. I've tried LocalCDN, but found it interfered with a lot more websites than Decentraleyes, which is a "set and forget" addon. Not to say the LocalCDN project is bad; its not, its great and I would like to switch back to it at some point; but in my testing, it's not something I would set for my parents, and found it more of a hassle for myself so I switched back to Decentraleyes.