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SponsorBlock. An absolute necessity if you watch youtube on desktop. It skips host-read sponsors in videos, as well as other stuff you might want to skip like intro animations and Interaction Reminders (“don’t forget to like and subscribe!”).
I love skip to highlight, and I hate interaction reminders more than sponsored ads or ads. I especially hate the ones that tell you to like and subscribe at the very beginning when you haven’t even seen the video to even decide if this is something you actually want to add to your feed or even liked.
It’s so obnoxious. Without sponsorblock I’d be just exiting out a lot of videos.
Block tube is also something I’ve come to love, since there’s some popular channels that always clutter search results even if you don’t watch their videos. So removing them makes results more relevant instead of having to keep looking down the list for other channel videos.
Block tube
I mainly use that to remove sharts from my YT experience. I hate them so f’ing much
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Oh I didn’t realize that actually converted titles too. That’s amazing.
“don’t forget to like and subscribe!”
what’s the issue with that?
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They’re normally not that short and I hate being asked to do the same thing a thousand times.
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Yep. Big youtubers should stop doing that when they have achieved decent growth. But nope.
I don’t like being told what to do. And everyone does it so it becomes an incredibly over done catch phrase. I’ll decide on my own if I want to like or subscribe, and I hate it when they ask at the beginning of the video. At that point they are telling you to blindly do it.
I agree with saying it at the beginning of the video but I don’t mind when it’s said at the end. If I’m still there I clearly enjoyed it and might want to consider subscribing.
I think in general I have a really bad attitude towards engagement interactions, since I was well aware of the cliche recommended sales people tactics that any of those techniques rub me the wrong way. I prefer more grounded deliveries that don’t leave me with the impression of a sales encounter.
Usability
- Kill Sticky: Kill off the annoying floating things blocking the website you’re trying to see.
- Tranquility Reader: Like native “reader view” but compatible with other addons and more options.
- Scroll Zoom: Zoom web pages with the left or right mouse button and the scroll wheel.
Image / Video
- Image Max URL: Finds larger/original versions of images (supporting 8800+ websites), including a powerful image popup feature
- Invert Image: The add-on inverts color of an image or color of any part of a page. Changes white color to black, for comfortable night time reading.
- Save webP as PNG or JPEG: Convert any image (WebP, AVIF, etc.) to PNG or JPEG (with choice of quality) for downloading.
- TinEye Reverse Image Search: Click on any image on the web to search for it on TinEye.
- Video Speed Controller: Speed up, slow down, advance and rewind any HTML5 video with quick shortcuts.
- Enhancer for YouTube™: Take control of YouTube and boost your user experience!
Tools
- EPUBReader: Read ePub files right in Firefox. No additional software needed!
- WebStickies: (Persistent) Sticky notes for the Internet
RSS
- RSSHub Radar: RSSHub Radar is a spin-off of RSSHub that helps you quickly discover and subscribe to RSS and RSSHub for your current site.
- RSSPreview: Preview RSS feeds in-browser
Customization
- Stylus: Redesign your favorite websites with Stylus, an actively developed and community driven userstyles manager.
- Tampermonkey: Tampermonkey is the world’s most popular userscript manager.
Advanced
- Request Control: An extension for controlling requests. See also Redirector, not as powerful, but much more user friendly.
- Modify Header Value (HTTP Headers): Add, modify or remove a header for any request on desired domains. I use this one to force sites to load only the image when opening images in new tabs.
- Cookie AutoDelete: Control your cookies! This WebExtension is inspired by Self Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Keep the ones you trust (forever/until restart) while deleting the rest. Containers Supported
- uBlock Origin: Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
- uMatrix: [EDIT-WARNING: as pointed by @sovietknuckles@hexbear.net, uMatrix it’s not longer maintained since 2021] Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.
Use ViolentMonkey it’s open source and actively developed for Firefox, while TamperMonkey is originally developed for chrome
Thanks for the advice!
Sadly, I knew about that too late and I’m a heavy user of Tampermonkey. It would be painful to migrate now :(.
Thanks for adding the links, you the mvp
What’s the difference between uBlock origin and uMatrix?
I cannot answer that properly, I don’t really understand them enough. I will add some copy-pasted answer on bottom. But, from a user perspective my experience is:
- uBlock origin: blocks a lot of (but not all) unwanted stuff without breaking (almost) anything. When some page does not work, tt’s very uncommon that uBlock origin is the cause.
- uMatrix: blocks (almost) all unwanted stuff, but it breaks many pages by default. If a page does not work, the first thing I look at is uMatrix.
- NoScript (and similar): It’s been some time since I used it (so those who are more familiar, please correct me if I’m wrong). What I remember is that it was even more strict than uMatrix. Something like uMatrix allows by default everything from the same domain as the URL but NoScript does not.
So I would recommend uBlock origin always and uMatrix only if you are ok with some micro-management page-by-page.
Here it’s a copy-paste of the answer from the first link in the google search ublock umatrix differences:
Chris’s Wiki :: blog/web/UBlockOriginAndUMatrix
While it’s true that uMatrix and uBlock Origin have overlapping functionality (and are written by the same person), they have different purposes and focuses. uBlock Origin’s focus is blocking ads and other undesired things as an out of the box experience with little configuration needed. uMatrix’s focus is on exerting tight and highly specific control over what resources a page is allowed to load and use, including Javascript and cookies (and requires a lot of configuration).
People still use uMatrix? gorhill archived the uMatrix repo/stopped maintaining it in 2021.
Oh, I had forgotten, I’m going to add a warning to my comment thanks for noticing!
When I was aware of that, I expected it to break at some point. But I didn’t find a proper replacement… and it still seems to be working fine.
Thank you for this list! I found several add-ons I never knew I was missing
Thanks! These seem useful. I’ve only used a couple add-ons from your list. Time to try them out now.
Your are awesome for adding links too!
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Thanks!
Links for convenience:
I will definitivaly use the last 2 ones. I don’t usually need to mass download images, but it’s good to know the Bazzacuda one exists!
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One question… do you know if it works with videos?
I don’t see anything on the addon page, but it seems weird because the use case is very similar.
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I think I don’t undestand it properly.
What I meant is: if I have some tabs with one video URL* in each of them, it seems trivial to just automate a “click download” for each one of them.
* I mean plain MP4 normal URLs with no tricks, like imgur MP4 URLS:
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Besides the one super-obvious (uBlockOrigin), my favorite single one would be Tab Center Reborn, which together with the styling from Firefox Vertical Tabs pretty accurate recreates the superb vertical tabs of MS Edge.
And on a desktop screen, I can’t imagine going back to horizontal tabs that waste the previous vertical space I got.
Try Tree style tabs I hate having to use edge/chrome at work because the tabs are so bad.
Tried that, I thought it was cumbersome and a solution desperately looking for a problem, tbh. I never once in my life had the thought that my tabs need to be in a multi-tier structure. I’m not someone to collect thousands of tabs though.
I should also add that your second part makes no sense: Chrome doesn’t have the vertical tabs Edge has and that this setup recreates.
I find it great as it groups your thought processes. You Google something and it opens a group for that, then you read something in one of the search result tabs and need to go to some links there/Google more stuff - that’s now grouped under it so you can easily find things for that thought track. Once you are done, you can close all the tabs in one go.
As far as I’m aware you can’t nest groups in edge? I’m trying now and can’t even reliably create a group and it scrolls randomly when trying to move tabs around.
That final part is my point - as far as I’m aware the other browsers have nothing as powerful as this. May need to check if there is anything new though.
it groups your thought processes
TreeStyleTabs is awesome at this. The customisations on this are also deep.
I think Opera launched a similar features called ‘Tab Islands’, I’ve not tried it yet, though it seems they are not as powerful as this extension.
Tab Center Reborn
How is it different from TreeStyleTabs? I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation.
I wish firefox just copied Vivaldi in terms of tabs, groupings tilings, just do it.
I really like consent-o-matic on firefox. You can set your cookie level to (dis)allow, and it goes through them automatically when you land on a site.
There is “i dont care about cookies”, but I do care, I dont want your cookies and I dont want to go through your dark patterns!
I don’t get it. So, it will save my cookies, keeping my logins are safe. But it will reject the site’s cookies that they want to store for trackers?
Exactly, if that’s what you set it to. Opting out is made extremely hard on many sites. This addon fixes that
@magoosh @Justly0250 I’ve just installed this so I’m hopefull it will work
clickbait remover for YouTube… it replaces thumbnails with an actual frame from the video
Holy shit, I’ve dreamed of something like this existing, thanks!
DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock. It’s suggestions for the title and thumbnail are crowdsourced as opposed to being randomised in the case of ClickBait Remover.
Ublock for sure it’s the best and only add-on i use
I don’t think any ad blocker can match what uBlock can do so efficiently.
Also, if you browse YouTube on your PC, then SponsorBlock & DeArrow are must haves.
These are the ones I cannot live without/use everyday:
- Bitwarden (I self host a vaultwarden instance)
- Facebook Container
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers (Makes using services like Office365 with multiple accounts at the same time much easier)
- Private Internet Access
- Return YouTube Dislike
- Redirect AMP to HTML
I have a few others installed that have already been mentioned plenty of times like SponsorBlock, uBlockOrigin. Not using an ad filter these days is like fucking a stranger without a condom, you’re just asking for super syphilis.
There’s the Multi-Container mention. Best native extension you could ever use. Can’t recommend it enough, alongside many other mentions.
firefox has native container support now you shouldn’t be using container extensions anymore
I honestly didn’t even notice that! Disabled the extension and tested things out, it looks like there’s no automatic “open this website in container X” option without using the extension. If I’m wrong I must have missed it. That’s another main part of my workflow, basically have sharepoint sites for the various 365 accounts (one for the company I work for, others for clients), that way it always uses the correct account for each instance as an example.
No, the extension is supposed to give you advanced controls in managing your container workflow.
Are containers like ‘Profiles’ on Chrome? Like different users can have different profiles to separate their browsing sessions on one browser.
Containers are like single-website sandboxes instead of regular tabs. You can have a separate container for Facebook, for example. You can let it have the cookies it wants, but it can’t access anything outside of that container. So to facebook, it looks like they’re the only site you ever visit.
Are these containers saved for later use when I restart the browser? Or do I have to create a new container and login again?
@Justly0250 @moody two things:
- Firefox has now, without extensions, “total cookie protection” that prevents one website to access another site’s cookies (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/introducing-total-cookie-protection-standard-mode), so as far as tracking protection go, no extension needed- Mutli-Account Containers add another capability: different cookies for the same site in different containers, like being logged to two different accounts on one site in different containers - and that is saved between sessions.
and that is saved between sessions.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll check this feature out.
didn’t LTT drop PIA because they go bought by some big company?
As far as I can remember and tell from searching around at the moment, they dropped effectively all VPN sponsorships.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/y1dcef/did_ltt_drop_pia_and_replace_them_with_nord/ (yes, it’s reddit, some people might see it as a dirty word at this point, but still valid)
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1411170-thoughts-on-private-internet-access/
ublock obviously should be installed on Firefox by default. But I seem to have a host of privacy add-ons that break few-to-no websites.
- Privacy Possum , which blocks certain tracking headers/js. Privacy Badger by the EFF is an acceptable alternative but I’ve personally found it doesn’t block quite as much.
- NoScript Honestly my favourite addon of all time. You can operate in block-everything mode and just allow javascript/HTML5 from sites you trust, or if you’re lazy then just operate in allow-everything mode and every now and then set crummy sites to untrusted (looking at you google tag manager). In block-everything-by-default mode, this add-on will break some sites, but the UI is so easy it’s a couple of clicks to trust all the sites in a tab and auto-refresh.
Be warned - If you’re not privacy conscious, you might cry from seeing the hundreds of sites that are running javascript on your machine without asking.
- User-Agent Switcher Really easy add-on to just leave on and misdirect sites. Never caused me a single problem, and in fact is useful when sites (looking at you Microsoft Teams) claim they don’t work in Firefox and refuse to load but actually work fine if you use this addon and pretend to be Chrome.
- Sponsorblock kicks ass. 30 hours of ads skipped in half a year.
And my personal silly couple ones:
- Wikipedia Vector Skin because I’m an old fuddy duddy and I like old Wikipedia.
- Cat-In-Tab because I’m also an old fuddy-duddy that likes whimsy sometimes. This is just silly but I like it.
I needed User-Agent Switcher a few days ago. But I’m glad I have it now!
- uBlock Origin: On medium mode. Honestly, the internet mostly sucks without this excellent extension.
- Dark Reader: Easy on your eyes and prolongs battery life on OLED displays.
- Redirector: This allows you to be in full control of which sites/urls you redirect and to where. As it allows the use of regex, you’re even able to create your own ‘bangs’. For example I used !x as a bang to redirect me to my favorite SearXNG instance. Kinda neat.
Aye, another saved post in my Lemmy account.
There are some awesome suggestions made by people here. Never heard before extensions that may come handy someday, that would otherwise require third party apps to do the same task.
Also, save the following two posts as well. I didn’t notice similar posts were already created earlier.
Sideberry, its like Tree Style Tabs but IMO is much more configurable and refined. It’s honestly changed the way I use browsers, being able to bookmark entire trees of tabs, toggle between tab sets, and manually load/unload trees and groups. I legitimately worry about the extension api changing and disallowing it.
Thanks for suggesting Sidebery. I’ve used TreeStyleTabs before. I’ll give Sidebery a try now.
i use TST and i’m happy with it… but you got me curious, time to create another profile and configure it :)
Thanks for sharing this one, I really like the sidebar for tabs it makes it a lot easier to organize things.
Neat, when I installed it, it automatically brought in my existing tab tree and pinned tabs from Tree Style Tabs
Cannot say whether someone has already said it or not, but Flagfox. I like to know if possible whether or not a site is hosted in certain countries or just might be curious sometimes as to where the site server is located.
This is neat. It has other handy features too. From its description:
- Site safety and malware checks
- Finding similar sites and reviews
- Automatic translation to your language
- Diagnostics like pings and traceroutes
- Whois and DNS information
- Page code validation
- Quick URL shortening
Also, an important distinction: It shows the country where the server is located rather than what the nationality of the domain name is.
A link to FlagFox.
tree style tabs / sidebery. it’s life changing to be able to organize your tabs and actually read the titles.
Yep, the grouping of tabs in TreeStyleTabs is very handy & convenient.
- uBlock origin of course
- Dark Reader
- Open in Reader View, which allows me to open a link directly in reader view. This can actually bypass some login walls surprisingly enough.
- Activate Reader View, which allows me to force a website to render in reader view even if the browser decides not to show the icon in the address bar.
- LocalCDN which hosts some CDN resources locally (it’s a more frequently updated fork of Decentraleyes)
- Open With, which allows me to open a url in another browser or another command. I mainly use it for feeding urls to yt-dlp.
- Web Archives, which allows me to open a link in Archive.org among other archive services.
- LibRedirect, which allows me to open links in privacy frontends (up-to-date fork of Privacy Redirect)
For mobile only,
- OldLander, which makes old.reddit.com more usable in mobile. I started having issues with almost every teddit instance once the API changes came in, so I decided to bypass the frontends and use reddit directly.
Clickbait Remover for Youtube makes that site a lot more pleasant. It’ll replace all thumbnails with a screenshot from early in the video, and un-capitalize all titles to make them consistent.
Nice Suggestion.
DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock.
He has highlighted the differences between the two in the description:
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Unlike Clickbait Remover, DeArrow’s main purpose is for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails
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When a crowdsourced title is not available, DeArrow will auto-format it according to your setting, but does it in a more sophisticated way than Clickbait Remover. Instead of only setting all words to lower case, or capitalizing every word, DeArrow supports casing systems such as “Title Case” and “Sentence case”. These will still allow acronyms and proper names to remain capitalized.
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When a crowdsourced thumbnail is not available, DeArrow by default shows a screenshot at a random timestamp in the video. Clickbait Remover’s thumbnails use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails, and while they are seemingly random, they are chosen by a machine learning algorithm to favor faces with expressions, and other overstimulating features. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. DeArrow will also check the SponsorBlock database to ensure the randomized thumbnail is not inside of a sponsor segment.
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If only there was a Revanced patch for that.
Alternative Thumbnails is a feature available in the latest ReX patches.
ReX is a fork of the discontinued Revanced Extended project, which in itself was a fork of the official Revanced project.
I applied these patches using the Revanced Extended Manager on YouTube 18.33.37
Screenshots:
Here it is in action:
Dude this is dope, but I don’t know if it is worth making the change for that feature alone, if I lose the patch of my YT again I’ll try it!
I’m using the root way.
Thanks for the heads-up.
I’ve been trying this for 2 days now. I would say this works. The simple, boring thumbnails do not trick my brain into clicking the video.
if I lose the patch of my YT again
You can export/import:
- Applied patches from ReVanced managers:
Settings > Export patches selection - In-app ReVanced settings:
Profile Picture > Settings > ReVanced Extended > Miscellaneous > Import/Export > Export settings - SponsorBlock profile:
Profile Picture > Settings > Sponsor Block > (scroll all the way down) > Import/Export > (select and copy all the text) > (save this copied text in a text file OR pin it in your keyboard's clipboard) > (Now Go to new app and paste in Import)
I switched from ReVanced Extended (RVX) to ReX using my exported settings. Doing it this way makes switching APKs a breeze.
Ok, I don’t think we are using the same client because I definitely don’t have a profile picture, I am using this version.
- Applied patches from ReVanced managers:
