So, not uBlock or whatever as everyone’s aware of that.
Mine (all Firefox):
Video Speed Controller. LOVE this one. A tiny widget appears on any video showing current speed and you hit a key to +10% / -10% (I have mine mapped to [ and ]). You can also hide the little widget (v) if you’re watching a movie etc.
Very handy for sites that don’t support changing video speed or have limited options.
Quick cookie manager - Allows you to delete all cookies on a page that you’ve visited. Very handy when “reject all” leaves you with like 20 cookies anyway.
Netflux - 1080p Netflix on Linux. Can be a little fiddly at times but it does work.
Couple simple ones, but maybe not as known as they could be:
- Mouse gestures: right-click and draw very simple line patterns to issue dozens of various browser commands.
- Search by Image: convenient shortcut to reverse-image search via up to 8 different useful services.
- uMatrix: security plugin that lets me specifically block / enable javascripts for any site across 8 different categories of functionality. Sort of like an ad-blocker wielding a scalpel, it lets me enable just enough to allow me to reap a site’s goodness, while automatically shutting down any other fringe stuff it may want to do.
So, not uBlock or whatever as everyone’s aware of that.
Alas, not that many people know about it. If they were, they would not be using Chrome-based browsers as the new (& neutered) version of uBO for chrome is rather limited.
Beside uBO, I barely use any extension as it can do (well) so many things already beside blocking ads: fingerprinting, removing cookies popup and consent notifications, removing all the shit I don’t want to see from most websites (looking at you, YT Shorts):
- Dark Reader, because dark mode doesn’t blind me ;)
- The Qwant extension (my search engine, next to Kagi)
- and three extensions just for YT: ‘Improve YouTube!’, ‘Enhancer for YouTube’ (to remove a lot of the crap YT insists on pushing to us) and ‘SponsorBlock’ (to remove video embedded ads).
Save the Qwant one, they all are in the ‘recommended extensions’ section on the Mozilla website. (edit: I think so, I have not checked)
On the browser I use for more personal/private stuff I don’t have any extension beside uBo… I would not go on the Web, or barely on a few selected websites, without using uBO to be honest: every time I’m faced with a non uBO-protected browser I feel like dying. Too much tur… ads, I mean. It’s just not tolerable.
TTV LOL PRO - Adblocker for Twitch specifically (Varying success)
UserAgent Switcher - Website ever complain that you’re not using Chrome/Edge? Make it think you are!
Consent-o-matic - Pissed off unchecking all those ‘legitimate interest’ cookies notices? This does it for you automatically so you can ignore it.
On mobile, will ad links later on.
With Consent-o-maticit it specifically declines the popups. Not just hides them.
That’s magnificent. I use Firefox Focus on mobile as my default and it automatically does this for major sites but this sounds great.
I advocate for a fork of uBlock: adnauseam. It’s a bit financially adversarial which I deeply enjoy, at the cost of using a bit of data. In theory if it built up enough users, advertisers would stop buying clickable ads all together.
Oh I love this idea. Make the data junk to all of those bastards!
Oh, you mean browser plugins. I was like, “uh, my immersion blender, I guess”
I was thinking audio plugins. “I like Ratatouille very much thanks”
