I was hoping to receive a comment like this, since I rarely remove an addon once I installed it cause I keep thinking there must have been some reason why I did long ago.
Oh and I have a Pihole on top of all those blockers…
But I am confused about Cookie Autodelete. I know if I don’t whitelist a website then as soon as I close the tab I am no longer logged in if I go back, so it must be deleting cookies right?
More than I feel makes sense to post TBH. But a few important ones (for Firefox):
uBlock Origin Sidebery to get my tabs in a vertical tree; if you often have more than 10-15 tabs I really recommend this!
Bitwarden (password manager)
Checker Plus for Gmail + Checker Plus for Google Calendar, easy-access email/calendar in a small window, I very rarely actually go to gmail.com
Return YouTube Dislike
Tampermonkey for userscripts on Kbin
Video Speed Controller, I use numpad +/- to increase/decrease speed by 0.25x, works basically everywhere including YouTube
Firefox translations is good, but i’d recommend linguist instead, its still on-device (if you switch to the local engine in its settings), but is more feature rich, and i’ve found it to provide higher quality translations.
I’d use libredirect instead, achieves the same purpose but also works with a tonne of other services as well and not just twitter -> nitter redirects, but also reddit -> libreddit, youtube -> piped, etc.
Facebook Container & Multi-Account Container
The only usecase for containers are multiple accounts, not privacy/security, fission’s sandboxing already takes care of that on firefox.
You have a huge number of addons though, i’d try to limit the number of installed addons unless it provides a purpose which is absolutely essential, can’t most of these addons be replaced with userscripts in violentmonkey? At least that way it’s more confined, in that it has privileges over a specific website rather than the entire browser. Know that every addon is a risk, even if the addon itself isn’t malicious, it could have a security vulnerability to be exploited.
Also adguard dns filtering on my mobile devices. Would highly recommend panicbutton as a quick way to set a task aside without opening a new window and unhook to filter out the trash YouTube is shoveling onto the home page
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 alternatives
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 :)
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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
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I was hoping to receive a comment like this, since I rarely remove an addon once I installed it cause I keep thinking there must have been some reason why I did long ago.
Oh and I have a Pihole on top of all those blockers…
But I am confused about Cookie Autodelete. I know if I don’t whitelist a website then as soon as I close the tab I am no longer logged in if I go back, so it must be deleting cookies right?
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uBlock does so much more than one would think. Where’s a good list of all the additional capabilities / lists that go beyond just the ad-blocking?
AdGuard Extra
AdNauseam (uBlock Origin fork)
Bitwarden
Clickbait Remover for Youtube
Custom Scrollbars
Don’t accept image/webp
Enhancer for Youtube
Proton VPN
RES
Return Youtube Dislike
Sponsorblock
Thumbnail Rating Bar for Youtube
Tree Style Tab
Translate Web Pages
uBlacklist (no more deviantart trash in image search)
Redditsave (probably won’t need this anymore since i moved here)
vidIQ Vision for Youtube (information on screen pleases me)
Violentmonkey
Youtube-shorts block
and thanks to the based commenters here, learned there were some userscripts for kbin and got the Dark Reader extension
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More than I feel makes sense to post TBH. But a few important ones (for Firefox):
uBlock Origin
Sidebery to get my tabs in a vertical tree; if you often have more than 10-15 tabs I really recommend this!
Bitwarden (password manager)
Checker Plus for Gmail + Checker Plus for Google Calendar, easy-access email/calendar in a small window, I very rarely actually go to gmail.com
Return YouTube Dislike
Tampermonkey for userscripts on Kbin
Video Speed Controller, I use numpad +/- to increase/decrease speed by 0.25x, works basically everywhere including YouTube
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Firefox translations is good, but i’d recommend linguist instead, its still on-device (if you switch to the local engine in its settings), but is more feature rich, and i’ve found it to provide higher quality translations.
Theres also privacy pass for cloudfare’s captchas
I’d use libredirect instead, achieves the same purpose but also works with a tonne of other services as well and not just twitter -> nitter redirects, but also reddit -> libreddit, youtube -> piped, etc.
The only usecase for containers are multiple accounts, not privacy/security, fission’s sandboxing already takes care of that on firefox.
You have a huge number of addons though, i’d try to limit the number of installed addons unless it provides a purpose which is absolutely essential, can’t most of these addons be replaced with userscripts in violentmonkey? At least that way it’s more confined, in that it has privileges over a specific website rather than the entire browser. Know that every addon is a risk, even if the addon itself isn’t malicious, it could have a security vulnerability to be exploited.
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Thanks for the Better History one. Firefox has such a garbage history function.
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I also use a Chromebook, so I use these “native” extensions I developed.
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Thanks for the input. I’ll give ublock a try.
Just uBlock.
Not much myself to be honest.
And that’s it. I don’t really need much more.
I use…
use violentmonkey
Why are so few people using Tampermonkey? It’s so useful. Is there an alternative that I don’t know about?
Violentmonkey
Because it’s proprietary and borderline spyware.
Use ViolentMonkey.
-uBlock Origin
-Sponsorblock
-Unhook for youtube
-unpinterested
-panicbutton
Also adguard dns filtering on my mobile devices. Would highly recommend panicbutton as a quick way to set a task aside without opening a new window and unhook to filter out the trash YouTube is shoveling onto the home page
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:
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 :)
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