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What are your favourite extensions? (self.firefox)

submitted 3 months ago by filister to c/[email protected]

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I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.

One of my favorites are

Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

What extensions do you guys use?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

For me, it's many of the ones people have already said, plus:

StreetPass (seriously cool - collects the mastodon profile of any website you visit where someone has set up the special link to their profile)
Video Speed Controller (gives you fine-grained control over video speed, e.g. watching video at 2.6x speed)
Privacy redirect (automatically redirects to various services, e.g. from Twitter to Nitter - can select a random instance each time)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Privacy redirect is unmaintained, not updated for 3 years, switch to LibRedirect

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

Thank you for taking the time to write this, LibRedirect is so much better!

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

Does privacy redirect automatically know if the instance is healthy? Or does it sometimes redirect you to a invidious or nitter or libreddit instance that's broken?

Because if this thing is health-aware, the. It would save me so much time.

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

Unfortunately, I think it just picks randomly. I have had times where it has redirected me to an instance that is down. That said, if you have an instance you know is stable, it does give you a drop-down to always redirect to a specific one.