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Or a fork of Firefox like fennec

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[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little bit of an extensions hoarder, which is bad for fingerprinting 😣, but I seriously do use the extra ones.

Vital:

uBlock - obviously, some people even suggest to only use this extension and nothing else to reduce fingerprinting. Make sure to enable those filters! Also check out the advanced mode, eliminates the need for NoScript.

Not Vital But Really Good To Have:

LibRedirect - Never worry again about visiting the original social media site, you can immediately be redirected to a proxy version of the site that doesn't stalk you. Great when I'm forced to click a Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, etc. link. Unfortunately, some proxy services are dead (Instagram, Tiktok, Invidious is always under threat, etc.)

Bitwarden - Password manager

Dark Reader - Nice, especially on fingerprint resisting browsers like Librewolf that don't let your browser/sites see your system settings to automatically pick the dark mode of a website. Have singed my eyes a couple times.

For Language Learners (like me):

Yomitan - The GOAT of tools, a popup dictionary that can be used to instantly look up the definition of a word in your target language, and connects with Anki, a flashcard app. I use it for making vocabulary cards from Japanese media I consume. Literally all the other resources are meant to be paired with this.

Asbplayer - Lets you add subtitles to whatever media you're streaming and makes the text selectable. Paired with Yomitan, you can easily make Anki flashcards from the TV/Movies/Videos you watch.

Lap Clipboard Inserter - By using a clipboard extension with Textractor, you can hook a game/visual novel and auto-copy all the game text to a webpage, which can be paired with Yomitan (you guessed it!) to look up words. You have to turn it on for individual pages, so don't worry about it constantly stalking you.

Neat, But Random:

Mastodon Streetpass - Helps you figure out if a person is on Mastodon by looking for a custom link on their site. Collects a list of them and tells you the date that it found the account. Basically just browse as usual and it will passively collect a list.

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 6 points 18 hours ago

uBlock Origin Firefox Multi-Account Contaniners (and then use them) If you use some kind of webmail like google, hotmail, yahoo, then: Webmail Ad Blocker Remove FBclid and UTM

Optional Dark Reader Enhancer for Youtube

[–] simpolomeo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

ublock origin and umatrix, anything else only makes you more fingerprintable

[–] Zoma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

i fkin love noscript it pairs well with ublock origin

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 19 hours ago

I don't think NoScript is a good idea in 2025. It breaks virtually all websites.

uBlock Origin + cookie banner filters should be enough

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

NoScript breaks every site and does little good.

[–] simpolomeo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

breaking websites is a good thing actually, as it disables any and all javascript and webgl tracking (and you can unbreak a website anyway if you really need javascript for it to function)

It's more that I have to re-enable scripts on most websites, so it's not giving me much benefit.

[–] Carol2852@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

What advantage does it have compared to extended mode of ublock? I used NoScript years ago but switched to ublock to block scripts and resources.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago

It's not about privacy per se but Tridactyl "A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl." because, like Userscripts - Tampermonkey, you can basically redesign any website.

A basic privacy oriented solution I made was using autocmd https://tridactyl.xyz/build/static/docs/modules/_src_excmds_.html#autocmd to redirect YouTube content to my local https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local and that works even with embeds.

[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

uBlock Origin

Sponsorblock

Multi account containers

Password manager like Bitwarden

Bypass Paywalls Clean

[–] leo_boehm@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

Do not use cloud password managers. If you can, self host your bitwarden instance.

My suggestion is KeePass (XC on PC and DX on mobile) with syncthing. It's very flexible and useful for stuff beyond passwords, like ids, notes, emails etc

I'm partial to this one

[–] WQMan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Surprised no one posted this link: https://awesome-privacy.xyz/security-tools/browser-extensions

Great resource btw, check out the website for other tools.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 days ago (5 children)
  • ublock origin, first last and if necessary only extension you really need
  • dark reader
  • youtube shorts block - converts shorts links into regular video player with actual fucking seek/volume controls
  • youtube sponsor block - I pay for my bandwidth, I decide what gets downloaded.
  • privacy badger
[–] revanite@lemmy.zip 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You don't need privacy badger anymore if you have ublock

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago

Huh, I didn't realize. I've had it installed forever, I guess I didn't realize. Oh well, I just switched back to Brave and I don't even have uBO installed anymore and it's been fine.

[–] freeman@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Youtube Unhook lets you disable specific parts of the website: Shorts, Recommendations, Comments, and lets you redirect from startpage to subscriptions like in the olden days.

Bring back the dislike button or something like that for YT.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Shorts are the only thing that really annoyed me, I don't mind recommendations or comments, and I just keep a tab open on my subs page all the time anyway.

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[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Apart from those already mentioned I need Sidebery

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 71 points 2 days ago (7 children)

uBlock Origin is the must have.
Personally I also use Dark Reader, NoScript, View Page Source and User-Agent Switcher.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

NoScript is duplicative with ublock medium mode, I am amazed people are still using it. It hasn’t been relevant for 5+ years by my estimation. Why use two addons when one you’re already using does it better?

https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

Roughly similar to using Adblock Plus with many filter lists + NoScript with 1st-party scripts/frames automatically trusted.

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[–] faberfedor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Library extension. Go to as page selling a book (Amazon, Powell's, etc.) and the extension will show you if you're local library has the book, how many copies, and if they're available for checkout. You can then click through and put a hold on the book.

Great cure for impulse buying of books. I've read more and bought less since using it.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

Wow! Brilliant! Unfortunately my local library is not in their catalogue. They do have a public catalog and even a way to get online books, also with search capabilities, so hopefully they can find a way to integrate. I submitted their data to the extension maintainers.

[–] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

uBlock Origin and nothing else. The more extensions, the more unique you're fingerprint will be and the bigger your attack surface.

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[–] nukeforyou@lemm.ee 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Dont forget SponsorBlock if you spend any time on youtube

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sponsorblock is magic. I don't know how it doesn't have trolls ruining it.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Users voting on whether a segment is good or bad. I always give a thumbs up to the segments that were well-defined and a thumbs-down to segments that cut off half a sentence unnecessarily etc.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago

I've never seen the option to vote, maybe it's easier on desktop. I'm on revanced

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[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Category "how the hell isn't this included by default" :

  • Copy Plain Text: Adds an option in the right click menu to copy the selected text as plain text, without formatting
  • Copy Link Text : Adds an option in the right click menu to copy the text of a link
  • Markdown Reader: Show formatted markdown. I tried several extensions for this and this is the one I prefer personally. It has an index panel on the left which is sooo useful.

Category "Preserving your mental health online" :

  • uBlock Origin: You really need to block those ads
  • Consent-O-Matic: Never see a cookie pop-up again in your life (it auto accepts or refuse in your place).
  • SponsorBlock: Skips Youtube sponsorships. You can define which ones you want to skip and which you want to watch (paid ads, self promo, etc)
  • Return Youtube Dislike: Show the number of dislikes on videos. It's not a real number, it's extrapolated based on how many people with the app have clicked dislike.
  • Youtube No Translate: Keeps titles, descriptions and audio tracks in their original language

Category "Usefull" :

  • KeePassXC-Browser: To access your password database from your browser
  • Whatever fingerprinting protection you can find (Canvas, Fonts, WebGL, etc.. half those I used have been pulled, haven't found a replacement for all of them)

Category "Would be nice if..." :

  • A user agent switcher... if you want all websites to block you πŸ˜‘
  • NoScript: Block javascript and create custom rules to allow it only when and where you want. Or the reverse. It was great a few years ago but I've stopped using it because websites require allowing more and more otherwise nothing works and it's hell can we cancel javascript please?
  • Dark Reader: Dark mode for all websites. Can make some websites unreadable, but you can turn it off for that website. Makes everything much slower though so I don't use it.
[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Pro-tip: you may not need Consent-O-Matic. There are uBlock Origin cookie banner filters that you can enable (even though they break some websites, even if it's rare)

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

Thanks, that's nice to know!

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

But Consent-O-Matic does not break websites (very rarely so), so it's better than uBlock in that specific area.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

BTW for plain text, ctrl+shift+V pastes as plain text.

For copying link text if you hold alt and drag you can select text without activating the link, then ctrl+C as usual.

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[–] JustVik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

JShelter and Decentraleyes. And uBlock Origins, but it's already popular without me. :)

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago

Ooh damn I didn't know about that, nice. I see JShelter is NLNet funded, makes perfect sense.

Thanks for sharing, trying!

[–] revanite@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

Why Decentraleyes and not LocalCDN (which I believe is more updated)?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Those two are an absolute must for me.

[–] Entertain529@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For android mobile I use Ironfox.

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

Its a fork of the now discontinued Mull browser.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've tried it a few times but tend to fall back to Fennec. While Librewolf on desktop is restrictive by design, it also still allows you tweak the settings to your liking (with some scolding). Ironfox felt much more locked down to me, and if a site was completely broken, I couldn't do anything about it in the settings.

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

Huh? You can totally change the advanced settings (about:config) for Ironfox. I literally had to do that a few months ago to get a certain feature working for an extension I use cause some javascript and SCP settings were disabled for privacy/security.

Now, I completely understand why you wouldn't want to spend hours tweaking settings and reading Mozilla's source code forms to get stuff to work, so if that's the reason for switching then I get it. But you can absolutely change the config settings, unlike vanilla Android Firefox which doesn't enable about:config

[–] oaklandnative@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I went on the same path. I was surprised how many sites were broken in IronFox.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know the mobile browser space is just weird overall, especially Firefox forks, but it definitely stood out to me. Things that work totally fine in Librewolf out-of-the-box were totally busted, and most settings are inaccessible.

I'm still keeping an eye on it though, as Fennec leaves a lot to be desired, and using a chromium-based browser like Vanadium won't do it for me because I rely so much on the cross-platform sync functions.

[–] Boredlookingape@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

also to add Iron fox is slow as hell. I personally use cromite.

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Ohhh, I loved Mull. Good to hear someone forked it.

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