Are there any addons as essential as uBlockOrigin? : firefox

[–] slazer2au 69 points 2 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] slazer2au 12 points 2 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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[–] nebulaone 5 points 2 months ago

Nice, I will definitely try this. Thanks.

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[–] Kelly 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you spend any time on YouTube sponsor block is handy

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

Also DeArrow to replace the obnoxious thumbnails.

[–] IamLost 10 points 2 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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[–] nebulaone 5 points 2 months ago

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

[+] noroute 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] nebulaone 8 points 2 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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[–] Iceblade02 41 points 2 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 2 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.

[–] Iceblade02 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] mechoman444 5 points 2 months ago

I just use different browsers. For example I use waterfox for all my ordinary browsing stuff. Social media, email work.

And I use Firefox when I want to watch 8 cam girls at the same time while searching for weird Japanese vomit porn.

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

Dark reader. Dont wanna burn my eyes

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] nebulaone 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought you could disable that in the settings.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Firefox prevents autoplay automatically.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yep, apprently since 2019. I never knew.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 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 2 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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[–] lorkano 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] Jumi 13 points 2 months ago

Sponsorblock for YouTube

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 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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[–] ooli 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The second addon I install on new device: CookieAutoDelete https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/

It delete cookie. And you just clic and add exception for the website you want to stay loged in

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 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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[–] CrayonRosary 11 points 2 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.

[–] nebulaone 9 points 2 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 2 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.

[–] CrayonRosary 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] xploit 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 2 months ago (1 children)

Bitwarden

[–] nebulaone 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I prefer offline password managers like KeepassXC.

[–] LeafOnTheWind 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Keep ass XC?

[–] nebulaone 9 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] SomeGuy69 9 points 2 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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[–] manmachine 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] maniajack 9 points 2 months ago

Privacy Badger, comes from the EFF.

OneTab is pretty great for tab addicts

[–] sir_pronoun 7 points 2 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 2 months ago

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

[–] nebulaone 5 points 2 months ago

Same, that would be huge. I hope someday the EU will force websites to fulfill "do not track" requests.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 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] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so

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[–] Fetus 5 points 2 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.

[–] nebulaone 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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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