Are there any addons as essential as uBlockOrigin? : firefox

[–] [email protected] 69 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Consent-o-matic. Auto decline gpdr popups.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t there a filter set for this in uBlock already? Annoyances filter?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I believe it unlock just hides them and not very well.

This will actively opt out of everything for you.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Nice, I will definitely try this. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you spend any time on YouTube sponsor block is handy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Also DeArrow to replace the obnoxious thumbnails.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I kind of like seeing the annoying thumbnails cause I find it correlates pretty good to the content I want to avoid

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Also a great addon, though I use FreeTube, which has it built in.

[+] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is a good one. I would also recommend Midnight Lizard, which has more customization options, but uses more resources / is slower.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Since it hasn't been mentioned - containers.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Essentially lets you keep have browser tabs with entirely separate cookies from each other (like if you opened it in a different browser). Helps me keep work and personal accounts apart, and also sandbox evil^tm^ webpages I'm forced to visit (by giving them their own container).

I almost forget it isn't included in firefox by default.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I almost forget it isn't included in firefox by default.

It almost is; the scaffolding is there but the addon is needed to turn the feature on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it's a very nice way to avoid bloat in the base browser tbh!

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Dark reader. Dont wanna burn my eyes

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you use YouTube...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/sponsorblock/

Invaluable add-on IMO.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Does it have exceptions? I watch Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik; the sponsored segments are usually the highest production value skits and are hilarious as fuck. Wouldn't want to block the new season of Knobbleberry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

On the desktop browser, SponsorBlock also has a "Whitelist Channel" -- it's near the top of the SponsorBlock popup. Open the popup and you can add any channel you know you want everything from, while silencing the rest. Great add-on, IMO.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

As important? No.

But I also couldn't cope without my AutoplayStopper. I hate autoplaying content so much, especially on news sites.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought you could disable that in the settings.

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[–] anguo 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Firefox prevents autoplay automatically.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yep, apprently since 2019. I never knew.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ClearURLs is nice, it makes links a lot shorter and removes all the tracking junk from it. I also can't live without SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can achieve ClearURLs directly in uBlock Origin.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#removeparam

Can also add lists to your filters to assist. "Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool" and "ClearURLs for uBo" are the ones I am aware of.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

If you wanna go full degen then "Bypass Paywalls Clean" bypasses Paywalls on the websites with articles. Also "Old Reddit Redirect" is a must if you occasionally open page because it removes this stupid mobile app popup and goes around NSFW login requirement

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Sponsorblock for YouTube

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

LibRedirect is pretty great. Everything from reddiot, fandom, youtube, imgur, google maps... (it's a long list)

has open source or alternatives that you get sent to instead of the big corpo tracking site. I love the fandom, reddit, and youtube redirects, because so many times I end up being linked to those. You can also turn off the redirect per site if you want, so if an invidious link (for example) just refuses to load, you can let youtube track you and see the video.

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[+] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Firefox supports this natively. Under "Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and Site Data" set the "Delete site data when Firefox is closed" checkbox, and use the "Manage Exceptions" button to add websites you want to allow.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Decentraleyes prevents loading common scripts from big name CDNs. Requesting a script from a google-owned CDN with your google cookies and the current URL as the referrer is a way to spy on you.

Decentraleyes loads these common scripts from it's own cache instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I often heard that Decentraleyes doesn't actually do anything 99% of the time. I don't know how true that is, though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

aparently you know more than we here.

i had to look it up,
but aparently Decentraleyes isnt being maintained and grew more useless as the time went on.

aparently localCDN is a better mantained alternative.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks for the tip. From the localCDN description:

Differences between LocalCDN and Decentraleyes

LocalCDN contains a big collection of frameworks and useful functions.

New: Sync extension settings with Firefox Sync or own server

Includes Rocket Loader, Findify, Vue.js, page.js, lozad, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Google Material Icons, React, Vue, Chart.js and much more. The list will be continuously updated.
Includes Font Awesome in different version (v3.x, v4.x, v5.x, v6.x)
Prepared rules for uBlock Origin/uMatrix/AdGuard and notifications if rule changes are necessary
Removes integrity/crossorigin attributes to replace more frameworks

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I still like my NoScript, sometimes I just take it as an indicator of who makes shitty sites.
If I end up on a site that's completely blank and it isn't important for me to interact with it, Ieave.
Surprisingly even news sites often load better than most others with NoScript disabling everything on them, I guess at the end of the day they still really need people to read them otherwise they'd become completely irrelevant?

I've seen complaints (Reddit I think?)that it just makes it cumbersome to do stuff when there are cascading lists of domain opening as you enable one, but if you're the kind of person that permanently whitelists all of them at that point, I don't think any amount of add-ons are going to save you, but I do like puzzles so I don't mind figuring out what needs to be toggled for site to work.

The big downside is making payments on sites with silly amounts of 3rd parties involved (Im looking at you Costco), but it's a bit better than it used to be when there was concern about getting charged twice, now it's more like...don't get charged and wonder why they didn't process your payment.

Edit: is it NoScript or ublockorigin that blocks ads on prime video? It's one or the other which is nice if you're watching something on pc rather than TV, I guess I should test.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

SingleFile is very good for saving full pages with all their content as, well, a single html file.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I still don't care about cookies, Simple translate and Hoverzoom+. Sidebery is great too if you want a custom Firefox. Honorable mentioned, YouTube repeat button.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bitwarden

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I prefer offline password managers like KeepassXC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Keep ass XC?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Yes exactly, if you don't have it installed your buttocks will be removed.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Privacy Badger, comes from the EFF.

OneTab is pretty great for tab addicts

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

next to ublock i also use Decentraleyes
(further protection aganst tracking,
probably a bit less mobile usage,
and otherwise 0 impact)

video background play fix
(prevents youtube from stopping if my smartphone is locked)

ublacklist
(prevents sites you hate from appearing in your google search results (mostly fandom.com for me))

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I would yet like to find a good addon to block cookie banners reliably, and autoselect the most restrictive options

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

I've found Consent-O-Matic to be pretty good.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I'm a huge fan of AdNauseam, and TrackMeNot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

While we're on the subject, does anyone know of a way to block those scroll triggered pop-ups that are everywhere these days? You know the ones, you get a little bit down a page, then:

SIGN UP FOR 10 PERCENT OFF

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST TO FOLLOW US ON OUR JOURNEY

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

In the uBlock Origin Settings -> Filter Lists check lists named "annoyances" and "newsletters" or try other additional ones. That should help.

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