Do not send me Chrome addons. I do not care that you have a worse version of uBlock
Adnauseam Silently click-spams ads to drain their bandwidth, with the purpose of making the horrible advertising business unprofitable.
Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours’ and adtech’s bandwidth.
Wasting resources isn’t a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.
A minor amount of bytes is not “wasting resources”. It is wasting ad revenue.
It’s both, and not a small amount of bytes.
It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low
Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better
This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google
Indeed. This in turn devalues ads by dropping their conversion rate. Thus people won’t use Google services anymore.
this is built on ublock origin, so if your using it get rid of ublock origin as well.
These are pretty good
I’ll throw out a few.
Wouldn’t chameleon make you just as trackable unless you’re also switching your vpn every time you switch user agents?
In general user agents dont do much although i didnt scrutinize chamrlron. You could use a foxyproxy tab. I generally use the super generic kind of antifingerprinting options w foxyproxy, but presumably they would work together
- BlockTube: Allows you to block YouTube Channels and Video as using “Do Not Recommend Channel” doesn’t exactly work
- Bitwarden - Loves the auto-fill feature
- uBlacklist - More easier to block URL result on various search engine. Only use it as I can’t be arsed tried to learn how to manually make filter on uBlock and want something that I can block Daily Mail on my search with just a click. It’s just the job done so happy to use it.
- Cookie Autodelete
- I don’t care about cookies
Best underrated combo.
I head that “I don’t care about cookies” got bought by Avast or something and had some spyware in it or something (can’t quite remember I looked into it a while back).
I think there’s another version called “I still don’t care about cookies” that avoids that.
I hadn’t heard that, thanks, I’ll check it out.
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I like to use mouse gestures since the time Opera had its own engine. So basically the Gesturefy add-on for Firefox is a must for me.
The rocker gestures are nice for laptops and trackpads but has been made obsolete by multitouch gestures.
On desktop I really like Vimium. It enables keyboard navigation on basically any site
Tree style tabs
Makes it simultaneously easier to open a billion pages but also manages them nicely
I prefer Sidebery to Tree Style Tabs
I tried this one of the tree tab addons, that may have been it, but it actually had a noticeable performance cost - made me sad :(
Now that hq finally added the fucking vertical tab sidebar I use that
i heard darkreader scrapes the pages you visit for ai
you guys ever heard of this?
apart from all the adblocking and privacy stuff, gesturify is one of my favourites. i got used to mouse gestures back when opera was still good and happily kept using them in vivaldi. if it wasn’t for this addon, i probably wouldn’t have been able to switch, when google enforced their manifest v3 bullshit.
streaming enhanced is another great one. it automatically skips intro and outro of shows, so you don’t have to fumble around with whatever remote you use. It also shows imdb ratings, so it’s easier to avoid stinkers, that the services are trying to push.
finally, i’d like to mention comet. i know we hate Reddit here, but usually reddit comments are still better than youtube comments.
Gesturify looks really cool, can you share with us your use cases?
Consent-o-matic: automatically rejects cookie banners, even the most annoying ones.
ublock origin has a filter that takes care of cookie banners too. most are gone and it’s glorious.
Just removing the banners may default sites to having cookies on. This actually gles through the banner and turns everything off.
I-dont-care-about-cookies is my favorite variant of this, since it also rejects the Cookies itself on top automatically where possible. Exceptions can be made if wanted.
That one was compromised. The good fork is “I still don’t care about cookies”.
This sounds fantastic!
popup blocker (strict)
The first thing I add after an ad blocker on a fresh Firefox install will always be Shinigami Eyes: a crowd-sourced system for marking transphobes and allies across the web.
