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I think the arkenfox project website has some good info on this. For a good privacy baseline, you basically only need to enable strict mode and download the ublock origin extension, then change some settings for the extension (e.g. add filter lists).
This is a switch I made yesterday, but instead of Chrome to Firefox, I switched from Vivaldi (Chrome, but kinda like old Opera) to Floorp (japanese fork of Firefox with focus on privacy and sane defaults).
I got Sponsorblock for YouTube, uBlock Origin for ads and Gesturify for those awesome mouse gestures (my main reason for using an Opera-like).
Sometimes, I use Tampermonkey for misc Scripts on different Pages, so I installed that aswell. But for now, no scripts for Tampermonkey, as I primarily focus on setting it up to be more like Vivaldi.
Other addons are Ghostery for more privacy and Session Buddy to prevent oopsies when playing around with Tabs and windows.
Floorp even has dark mode for bright pages already included in the box.
Based on what I’ve read here on Lemmy, people generally tend to recommend agaåinst Ghostery, check this for one example : https://lemm.ee/comment/4348493
Ublock Origin & Sponsorblock - for blocking ads
DarkReader - for making all websites “dark mode”
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Surprised noone mentioned NoScript yet. It requires a bit more user interaction. But if you are worried about privacy and maybe security, it is important to know who is running scripts on your machine.
NoScript is magic. I got it on whitelist so websites by default don’t get to use scripts. Turning uBlock Origin and NoScript off is an entirely different internet.
When I looked into it, it appeared uBlock origin already does what no script does when you turn on advanced mode and block 3rd party urls. (medium mode) Probably need to block first party to get quite there but that’s usually overkill.
Now sticking with medium mode, most sites need a bit of fixing like no script did, but it’s all done in uBlock.
ublock origin, noscript
i tried noscript and I didnt like having to manually authorize each site. it looks like it’d be useful in some situations
NoScript and umatrix are a pain when starting out. But once they are working can change your whole view of the web. Umatrix even has setting cloud saves so if you move PCs or reset in some way you don’t lose an that work.
I never cared for it. Broke a lot of sites and I never found it helpful.
The only extension I cannot live without other than an adblocker is Mouse Gestures.
This thread is full of good suggestions so here are a few that might not have been mentioned:
- Torrent Control - useful for sending magnet links directly to a variety of clients.
- Offline QR Code Generator - good for quickly sending all sorts of stuff to a phone or tablet.
- Better YouTube Shorts - depends if you like them, but this adds autoplay which I love
- TamperMonkey - extensions for your extensions! Usually site specific.
ublock origin with the annoyance list activated.
dark reader. It’s not perfect but I get most sites in a usable dark mode.
That’s mostly it.
Sponsorblock for YouTube.
Javascript disabler to get around many paywalls.
Same, all you really need. Maybe also password manager extensions for the added phishing protection
Yeah, I didn’t include my Enpass extension, as it’s more like a plug-in.
I also excluded TamperMonkey because I solely use it to sell my Steam cards and become filthy rich. Already 34 cents into my first million.
And last but not least: an extension that auto-upvotes YT videos from my subscribed channels because I’m too lazy to do it manually and YT can’t be bothered to assign a key to it.
In my experience enabling some of the annoyance lists broke several websites and it took a while to realise why. I do use the cookie consent list but no longer use any annoyance lists.
In my testing, dark reader made sites load much slower. Anyone else notice this?
Dark Reader is entirely client side, so it shouldn’t affect load times.
Render times may increase significantly though depending on cpu((/gpu?).
Yes, I suppose if their computer is a decade or two old, it might have an impact on their render times.
This is my experience as well. Noticable slowdown after installing it. But IMO, it’s still worth it.
it can make my google drive stuff take a couple extra seconds to realize whats happening
Nope, still fast on my machines
I still don’t care about cookies
Even after all this nonsense about getting bought by Avast?
I noticed an extra word and looked it up.
‘I Still Don’t Care About Cookies’ is a fork of ‘I Don’t Care About Cookies’. It’s not owned by Avast.
We love a good fork
Is there a way to do credit card autocomplete on the iOS app? It’s the only reason I haven’t made the switch
Bitwarden
You can also self host a “bitwarden” server that works with the official App if you wan to use the bitwarden pro features for free. It’s called vaultwarden
I run this. Can attest to its brilliance. Just want to point out though that its 2FA codes built in is inherently insecure. 2FA is meant as having multiple points of verification for enhanced security. By adding them all to Bitwarden you are again putting them all into a single point of verification / all eggs in 1 basket.
People have already mentioned the more popular ones
Apart from those, Id recommend Behind the Overlay- it’s an extension that removes a lot of unclosable popups on pages in a single click. Things like “disable your adblock” messages or websites that poorly gatekeep content behind a subscription.
- DeArrow - Crowdsource better YouTube titles and thumbnails, technically paid (1$), but you can request free access if you can’t/don’t want to pay
- Firefox Color - Basic theming
- LibRedirect - Redirect popular websites to privacy-respecting frontends (e.g. YouTube to Invidious, Twitter to Nitter, etc.)
- PronounDB - Add pronoun support to Twitter, Twitch, Github, and Discord.
- Return YouTube Dislike - The name says pretty much everything.
- Shinigami Eyes - Mark transphobic or trans-friendly accounts as such for others with the extension to see
- SponsorBlock for YouTube - Crowdsource sponsored segments in YouTube videos so you know what to skip past
- uBlock Origin - AdBlock, update the block lists regularly if you want to use it with YouTube
- User-Agent Switcher and Manager - Change what browser and OS websites think you’re using
- Vencord Web - Browser extension for the Discord client-mod Vencord, doesn’t work rn because Discord is redoing some stuff
Good list. Ublock Origin and Sponsorblock are basically essential for YouTube these days. DeArrow helps to.
Lemmy Instance Assistant It does things like if someone links a post and the link takes you to the post on another instance, it adds a button to show the post on your home instance. You can also right click on a page (say, an article on a news site) or image and choose the option to share it on lemmy, which creates a new post. It also has stuff to help you when you click a link to a community but the community is not federated to your server, or you can go to the list of communities on another instance and it will have links to take you to that community on your home instance. That sort of thing. Basically the beginnings of a RES for lemmy.
I also like Dictionary Anywhere, which lets you double click on a word to get a definition, a bit like the one Google one for Chrome.
There are also various container extensions such as a Facebook or Google one, that isolates those sites to attempt to prevent that activity being associated with your activity on other sites. It can be a little annoying to get used to but I use them. The annoying thing is that when you click say a google site from a search result on duckduckgo, it closes the duckduckgo tab and opens the site in a google container, but then you can’t click back to go back to the search results.
The general container tabs extension is good too. It keeps separate cookies per container. So say if you have 3 different microsoft accounts, you can create different containers. Then you can open a new tab in a specific container and it will remember the account you logged into last time in that specific container, but doesn’t affect other containers or tabs not in a container.
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It’s only beginning, it has nowhere near the features of RES, and mainly it helps with issues related to lemmy federation. But if there’s something you want, the dev is pretty open to new feature suggestions.
RES shouldn’t really be needed for Lemmy - it’s better to just directly upstream the changes, since it’s open source.
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