from https://beehaw.org/comment/80030:

uBO, of course. note: you guys don't need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google

Pushbullet - send stuff from my phone to my browser, or vice versa.

Camelizer - camelcamelcamel popup for Amazon browsing. CCC displays a price/time graph and lets you set alerts for when something is below a target price.

Youtube Playback Speed Control - I watch YT at 2x speed usually, sometimes 4x. This adds fine control and keyboard shortcuts for that.

Firefox: tridactyl, jumpcutter, sidebery (best tree tabs I can find), temporary containers, cookie remover

library extension forever until the end of time

Besides ad/tracking blockers, my #1 is a dimmer. Helps the eyes! lol. Especially at night.

For me it's definitely uBlock, tridactyl & tree style tabs

Some of my favorite Firefox extensions:

uBlock Origin: The best ad blocker you can get.
Imagus: Enlarges images and displays linked images when you hover over them.
Multi-Account Containers: Allows you to create containers to completely isolate specific sites.
KeePassXC-Browser: Browser integration for KeePassXC password manager.
SponsorBlock: Skips sponsored video segments on youtube.
Hide Youtube-Shorts: Hides those annoying vertical videos on youtube.
Enhancer for Youtube: Lots of extra configuration options and controls for youtube.

Anyone have some favorites related to Lemmy or Mastodon? I've seen a couple that claim to make following and subscribing easier on other instances but I'm not sure if they are trustworthy.

Firefox (I am not going to repeat the obvious ones that have been mentioned numerous times):

• IPvFoo: Display IP address information for website
• tabdetach: I always juggle around my windows. Being able to detach, attach and merge tabs without using the mouse is really useful.
• Cookie AutoDelete: Removes cookies unless whitelisted

Mandatory:

• Dark Reader for dark mode anywhere, and Invert Colors for the occasions when a site is not usable with Dark Reader.
• Ublock Origin of course, but I also still use uMatrix because even several years after it stopped being maintained, it's STILL unmatched by any other addon in the content-blocker category. The granularity of being able to specifically allow scripts or frames or images or cookies from specific third-party domains or subdomains either everywhere or only on certain first-party domains, with a very intuitive visual grid (matrix) and subdomain selection, is incredible. I still don't understand why it's deprecated.
• Tree Style Tab and the related Tab Unloader. I forget things exist if they aren't right in front of me, so if I have any intention of coming back to a site or a workflow, I need those tabs somewhere in front of me, tucked away in a tree waiting for me to get back to them. I regularly have between 100-200 tabs open. Being able to unload performance-heavy tabs without restarting the whole browser also helps a lot.
• Bitwarden because if you aren't using some kind of password manager, do you even care about security?
• Translate Web Pages because not everything I want to read is in English

Nice to haves:

• Tranquility Reader, because the browser's built-in Reader View often shits itself and doesn't work, particularly on social media text posts. This lets me select the page contents I want it to grab in case the automated picker fails. It's still a bit janky though; if anyone has a more polished alternative, I'd like to hear about it!
• Enhancer For YouTube, Sponsorblock, and Return YouTube Dislike
• stutter For when I feel like speed-reading
• Toolbox for Google Play Store

Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos - This one simplifies the YouTube experience and helps you to spend less time watching videos endlessly.

One on Firefox that's super helpful for work is Simple Tab Groups. It lets me keep plenty of tabs open without it turning into a disorganized mess. Better than Chrome's built-in tab organization, imo.

Something that I recently started to use is Raindrop.io. It's a cloud bookmark organizer and I find it really useful. And the extension is also really good with lots of features. I think it's odd that people don't know/talk about it!

I think I use too many on Firefox ahahah

Ads and privacy
UBlock Origin (AdBlocker)
Privacy Badger (Blocks some trackers)
ClearURLs (removes tracking elements from URLs)
DeleteNonio (in my country, all newspapers are trying to force you to sign up for this service with an annoying popup)
Don't Track me Google (removes tracking from Google search result links)
Startpage.com (search engine)
Firefox Multi-Account containers/Facebook Container (so cookies cannot be accessed between all sites freely)

Reddit
Old Reddit Redirect (I really don't want the new design)
Reddit Enhancement Suite (nice features to have)
LeechBlock NG (to block Reddit during the blackout. See you next week...maybe)

YouTube
Enhancer for YouTube (some QoL features)
SponsorBlock for YouTube (skip sponsor parts in videos)
YouTube Auto Like (auto likes the videos you watch, depending on what you decide in the settings)
Youtube NonStop (no more "Video Paused. Continue Watching?")

QoL
Rikaichamp (translate Japanese on hover)
Augmented Steam (to check prices between stores, mostly)
Dark Reader (turn dark mode for select websites)
Firefox Translations (website translation, like Chrome and Edge have)
LanguageTool (to help me write fewer mistakes)
Metrification (convert imperial to metric on the fly)
Tampermonkey (to add some useful scripts to sites you want)

Visual
Firefox Color (to customize the theme)
Tabliss (new tab page)
Wide Github (change repos to be full width)
Stylus (add custom CSS to sites you want)

Does anyone know of an extension that let's you view privated subs on Reddit? I'm tired of the not being able to access important info because of the blackouts. If anyone knows of an extension or a TamperMonkey script please let me know!

Sponsorblock. Makes YouTube, even with Premium, a lot more enjoyable.

uBlock Origin
Read Aloud
FB Purity
Facebook Container
SAML-tracer (for work)

For Lemmy:

Stylus. And then find Lemmy scripts on UserStyles.world to install into Stylus and you can change the look and feel for Lemmy to make it more like Reddit, or whatever. I currently use a combination of 'Better Lemmy' and 'Old reddit-ish Lemmy'.

For general browsing:

uBlock Origin for ads

Privacy Badger for tracking

For YouTube:

Enhancer for YouTube

I physically can't use a browser without Vimium anymore.

can't live without:

• uBlock (goes without saying)
• Startpage Privacy (I've also used Privacy Badger, giving this one a try and it seems to work well)
• Vimium (browse using vim shortcuts)
• New Window Without Toolbar (does what it says; opens the current page in a new window without any toolbar at all, nice minimal look)
• New Tab Override (so new tabs land on my personal landing page, not the Firefox home or blank)

That's it really, my needs are simple.

Also, TIL about "I don't care about cookies" so I'm tempted to install that, but I do sort of care about cookies... but I also clear them relatively frequently, so it's probably fine.

Another for Ublock Origin

Youtube Enhancer

Imagus [enlarges images, great for my old tired eyeballs]

Ad Observer (run by Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University, it examines any ads you DO get to look for patterns in how advertising is being used to influence people on social media.)

To Google Translate (Highlight something and send it straight to a Translate page)

These are my current favs for safari.

I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+

Chrome:

• Steam DB
• JSON Viewer

Safari:

• PiPifier
• Vinegar
• Sponsorblock
• Eat the shorts (no longer available)

Feedbro for RSS and LibRedirect for popular service redirects to other frontends