I would love to find extensions that make me think “How did I live without this?”
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.
I love it but always had problems with active redirect nodes going bad
Try Redlib. I’m using it for quite some time now and never had a problem.
Privacy Badger, comes from the EFF.
OneTab is pretty great for tab addicts
I have compiled the best recommendations in a list: https://lemmy.world/post/14173277
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
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.
This was an amazing change as ClearURLs sometimes did mess with some sites.
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.
I often heard that Decentraleyes doesn’t actually do anything 99% of the time. I don’t know how true that is, though.
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.
I saw there has been a recent update to Decentraleyes. Not sure if this addresses the abandoned issue though. Trying out LOCALCDN instead…
@Kerb @nebulaone how trustworthy is #localcdn? #Decentraleyes is kind of confirmed by #Mozilla, they even recommend it
The source code is public ( https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN ) and it has a reasonable amount of stars. So I think it should be fine. No guarantees, though.
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/
uBlacklist is great for hiding horrid search results.
He thanks, finally rid of userbenchmark.com results.
I don’t think so
Hmm, hab ich mir schon fast gedacht. :)
As important? No.
But I also couldn’t cope without my AutplayStopper. I hate autoplaying content so much, especially on news sites.
Firefox prevents autoplay automatically.
Yep, apprently since 2019. I never knew.
I thought you could disable that in the settings.
Oh nice, must have missed that one.
DarkReader (https://darkreader.org/)
That is a good one. I would also recommend Midnight Lizard, which has more customization options, but uses more resources / is slower.
I second Midnight Lizard, the customization is very nice
I would yet like to find a good addon to block cookie banners reliably, and autoselect the most restrictive options
Same, that would be huge. I hope someday the EU will force websites to fulfill “do not track” requests.
Try I still don’t care about cookies. It works much better than C-O-M for me!
I’ve found Consent-O-Matic to be pretty good.
If you spend any time on YouTube sponsor block is handy
Also a great addon, though I use FreeTube, which has it built in.
Also DeArrow to replace the obnoxious thumbnails.
Omg what! I got to test this, sounds too good to be true. Thanks.
I kind of like seeing the annoying thumbnails cause I find it correlates pretty good to the content I want to avoid
Consent-o-matic. Auto decline gpdr popups.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/And fun fact, it’s developed by Danish researchers:
This add-on is built and maintained by workers at Aarhus University in Denmark. We are privacy researchers that got tired of seeing how companies violate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because the organisations that enforce the GDPR do not have enough resources, we built this add-on to help them out.
Nice, I will definitely try this. Thanks.
Isn’t there a filter set for this in uBlock already? Annoyances filter?
I believe it unlock just hides them and not very well.
This will actively opt out of everything for you.
Doesn’t the third party cookie blocking already do this?
They block collection but popups are still here and you have to press them on every page you go to
i tought they needed to be opted in for the tracking to be allowed to work?
I’ve had much better luck with I still don’t care about cookies. Maybe I was doing something wrong but C-O-M didn’t seem to do much for me.
This is awesome, thanks. Now that I have it installed I’d like to try it. Know any websites to test it out?
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))Highly recommend using the NewPipe app for youtube if you are on android.
I personally prefer staying in the browser.
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.
In the uBlock Origin Settings -> Filter Lists check lists named “annoyances” and “newsletters” or try other additional ones. That should help.
I actually check and recommend using all lists. This is especially useful when you use VPN. Also if you want more security use separate browser profile just for VPN.
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.
YouTube repeat button
Doesn’t that just do what right clicking over the video player and selecting Loop does?
You can add start and end, good for music videos. So you only repeat the part you need.