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What are your favorite browser extensions? (beehaw.org)
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What browser extensions do you use that you'd recommend to others?

Do you contribute to any FOSS browser extension projects?

Are there any non-FOSS extensions that you wish had a sufficient FOSS alternative?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Firefox user here.

  • Bitwarden password manager
  • Bypass Paywalls Clean
  • Clear URLs remove URL trackers
  • Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results to hide some unwanted websites from search results
  • Open in VLC™ media player, useful for some weird streams
  • Push to Kindle sends any text article to PDF or to your ereader (not only Kindle)
  • Recipe Filter filters recipe pages on blogs and just gets the actual ingredients & instructions
  • Redirector for a few paywalls where I use a specific proxy
  • RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - as I use Inoreader for following RSS feeds
  • Sci Hub Injector adds sci-hub links to many science publishing websites for easy access
  • Shinigami Eyes highlights trans-friendly and transphobic social media users or websites
  • uBlock Origin
  • ViolentMonkey for userscripts

Extensions to be helpful to other people:

  • Picket Line Notifier tells you if the website you are visiting has workers on strike - useful especially for ecommerce & news publishers
  • Snowflake is not noticeable for me, but allows other people to use my network as a Tor node or something idk
  • Wayback Machine archives every page I visit on the Internet Archive.

Fediverse extensions:

  • FediAct allows me to boost, reply to, follow, etc. on any Mastodon instance without having to open the right link in my own instance. I wish there was something like this for Lemmy and Peertube.
  • Fedishare allows for one-click sharing to several Fediverse platforms, including Lemmy and Mastodon
  • PeerTubeify tries to check if a YouTube video you're watching is also on PeerTube

Youtube extensions:

  • Auto HD / 4k / 8k pour YouTube™ - I use it for the environment, so default quality is 480px (because usually I watch the videos on a small side window so it doesn't change the visible quality)
  • Clickbait Remover for YouTube - replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video and makes all titles normally named, no all caps
  • DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - removes the homepage & sidebar on videos to avoid rabbit holes
  • SponsorBlock auto-skips sponsored segments, intros, credit rolls, etc. on YouTube videos