- MarkDownload is wonderful
- FoxyGestures: Pull left to go back, scribble 'Z' to close a tab
- Omnivore: Read stuff later
- CORS Everywhere
- Tab Containers
- Container Proxy (I could never get the built-in Tab Container function to work, this just lets me set certain tabs to hit the proxy)
- uBlock Origin, naturally
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AdGuard Extra
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AdNauseam (uBlock Origin fork)
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Bitwarden
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Clickbait Remover for Youtube
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Custom Scrollbars
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Don't accept image/webp
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Enhancer for Youtube
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Proton VPN
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RES
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Return Youtube Dislike
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Sponsorblock
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Thumbnail Rating Bar for Youtube
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Tree Style Tab
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Translate Web Pages
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uBlacklist (no more deviantart trash in image search)
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Redditsave (probably won't need this anymore since i moved here)
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vidIQ Vision for Youtube (information on screen pleases me)
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Violentmonkey
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Youtube-shorts block
and thanks to the based commenters here, learned there were some userscripts for kbin and got the Dark Reader extension
behind! - makes it easy to access images hidden under layout tricks
Better Youtube+ - adds a few extra buttons such as download to youtube videos
Bypass Paywalls - as it says on the tin
Cookiebro - autodeletes all non-whitelisted cookies ten minutes after creation
Greasemonkey - enables userscripts, specifically:
Anti-Adblock Killer - as it says on the tin
EmuParadise Download Workaround - Nintendo made them hide the links, this shows them. May not be relevant anymore, haven't used it in a while
Old Wikipedia Layout - edits all wikipedia links to include ?useskin=vector so it doesn't use the garbage new layout
Redirect Twitter to Nitter - as it says on the tin, turns all twitter links to corresponding nitter links
Simple Youtube Age Restriction Bypass - as it says on the tin
Privacy Badger - EFF tracker blocker
Return Youtube Dislike - as it says on the tin
SponsorBlock for Youtube - uses crowdsourced timestamps to block in-video youtube ads
uBlock Origin - basic/main adblocker
On Firefox:
- uBlock Origin
- DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
- Privacy Badger
- SponsorBlock (skips the promotional parts of YouTube videos)
- Youtube shorts block
- 1Password
- Dark Reader
- Don't Fuck With Paste
- Facebook Container
- Bypass Paywalls
- Disable HTML5 Autoplay
- Ghostery
- Old Reddit Redirect
Augmented Steam
Bitwarden
ClearURLs
Cookie AutoDelete
Decentraleyes
Disconnect for Facebook
Don't touch my tabs!
Enhancer for Youtube
Flagfox
Link Cleaner
NoScript
Privacy Badger
RES
Skip Redirect
Tree Style Tab
uBlock Origin
Undo Close Tab Button
View Image
My list for Firefox:
- Always on Top
- Display #Anchors
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
- Regex Search
- Simple Tab Groups
- Stylus
- uBlock Origin
I use Firefox and the arkenfox user.js, which is not an extension, but helps with privacy. For the extensions, though, they are as follows:
- uBlock Origin // on medium mode (Check out what blocking modes are if you don't know them already)
- LibRedirect // to redirect to more privacy respecting frontends
- Skip Redirect // for increased privacy in terms of redirects
- Smart Referer // on strict mode. I use this as I have set network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy to 0 as 2 was a little too strict for me
I think more extensions than these would probably hurt my setup. I have followed the advice from the arkenfox wiki. Check it out if you want to look into a more private and secure Firefox configuration. Also feel free to criticize or ask questions about my setup :)
Firefox:
UBlock Origin
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin
Decentraleyes
Brave:
UBlock Origin
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin
I dont use HTTPS Everywhere anymore because its included in Firefox and Brave!
Edit: I only use Brave to do my school homework because firefox messes with the website we use sometimes.
Browser: Firefox, gonna name stuff i don't see mentioned yet
'Multi Account Containers' + 'Container Tabs Sidebar' + 'Switch Container' + 'Temporary Containers' + ~~'don't care about cookies'~~ 'Consent-o-matic'
basically allows you to easily have multiple accounts on websites while also making sure everything stays contained to its own bubble, and anything I don't have a dedicated container for gets a temporary container that deletes the cookies after a bit ~~in order for me to both not care about cookies and also not get any cookies.~~ at this point mostly because I don't like accidentally having an account on a non-contained instance
ff2mpv - easily launch videos in mpv, requires a bit of setup
Image Search Options - finding the source of most drawings, spotting which anime a clip is from etc
Yomichan for quick access to locally installed dictionaries (for Japanese in this case)
Toggle Clipboard
The only one I use that wasn't mentioned yet is unpaywall, for finding scientific articles in open databases.
- uBlock Origin
Important. I've added the Bypass Paywalls-filter as well, which makes browsing a lot more pleasant.
- SponsorBlock
I will not watch ads, not even one.
- I still don't care about cookies
This removes most of the annoyance of cookie banners and consent dialogs
- Redirect AMP to HTML
AMP sucks, rather not even see it
- Libredirect
A recent favorite - I started using this as Twitter on web was becoming increasingly unusable, and Nitter is a fine alternative. Now I use it for Twitter, TikTok, Imgur, Medium and Reddit.
On Firefox:
- uBlock Origin
- Bitwarden
- Decentraleyes
- Terms of Service; Didn't Read
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
- Facebook Container
- Consent-O-Matic
- Don't Track Me Google
...and the add-ons not related to privacy:
- 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)
- Zhongwen
- New Xkit
- Earth View from Google Earth
- Palette Creator
- Save to Notion
- Send to Outline
- Web to EPUB
I use most of these on Brave Browser, too.
- AdNauseam (for cases when other extensions miss something)
- Bypass Paywalls
- Decentraleyes
- Don't touch my tabs! (rel=noopener)
- Don't track me Google
- Forget Me Not
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Old Reddit Redirect
- Redirector (to use the Vector theme on MediaWiki instances)
- uBlock Origin
- uMatrix
- User-Agent Switcher and Manager
Here are the plugins I use:
- React Developer Tools (useful for developing with React)
- Ublock Origin
- Return Youtube Dislike
- SponsorBlock
- Grepper (shows convenient code snippets when I Google stuff)
- Cold Turkey Blocker (I use this to to block websites/apps when I need to focus)
- Shinigami Eyes (highlights queer friendly and anti queer subreddits/users/facebook pages/group differently)
I have these extensions pinned:
- uBlock Origin
- Firshot (takes screenshots of website with scrolling)
- Google Translate
- Wolfram Alpha
- Tampermonkey (let's me write/add scripts to websites)
- Just a clock (I hide my windows startbar so having a little clock always displayed is nice)
And my remaining extensions are:
- Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
- BetterTTV
- Chrome Remote Desktop
- Confetti Snippets (adds copy button to code on Stack Overflow)
- DeArrow (Crowdsourced titles and thumbnails to remove clickbait from YouTube)
- Enhanced Steam
- Google Docs Offline
- ~~HTTPS Everywhere (changes http links to https)~~
- JSONVue (formats and makes json collapsible)
- Lighthouse (tests website performance)
- Netflix Extended
- Reddit Enhancement Suite
- Refined Prime Video
- Resource Override (let's me replace requested web resources with local versions of those files)
- Return YouTube Dislikes
- Save All Resources
- ShareX
- SponsorBlock
- SteamDB
- Tab to Window/Popup (adds keyboard shortcuts to between normal browser windows and the popup windows that don't waste space with a title bar, useful for vertically split window layouts)
- uBlacklist (block sites from Google search results)
- View Image (returns view image option to Google Images)
- WAVE Evaluation Tool (tests website accessibility)
Here's my list. Using OperaGX.
- Bitwarden
- Buster
- Consent-O-Matic
- Dark Reader
- FastForward
- Picture-in-Picture
- Stylus
- TamperMonkey
- The Stream Detector
- uBlock Origin
- Session Buddy
- Return YouTube Dislike
- Looper for YouTube
- UBO
- DDG Privacy Essentials
- LocalCDN
- Cookie AutoDelete
- TamperMonkey
- LibRedirect
- Keyboard Privacy
- Bitwarden
- FoxyProxy
- DuckDuckGo
- AdBlocker Ultimate
- Privacy Badger
- LocalCDN