Hereâs a list of those I have installed:
- uBlock Origin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
- Consent-O-Matic https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
- SponsorBlock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
- Youtube-shorts block https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-block/
- ClearURLs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/ (no longer needed since last update afaik)
- Proton Pass https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/proton-pass/ (or bitwarden if you use a password manager)
- Bypass Paywalls Clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
- LibRedirect https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/
- Firefox Relay https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-relay/
- SteamDB https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/steam-database/
Description says it plays then in the normal video screen. Donât see the point, maybe someone can fill me in.
Shorts are weird. They donât respond to keyboard controls like K for play/pause, arrow keys to scrub and change volume, you canât actually scrub at all. Iâm pretty sure you canât see what channel posted them or when? Play them in the regular window and voila, normals ass YouTube video. Just short.
The shorts are usually in vertical and narrow for a phone so I suspect it changes that?
You can also do it with some simple rules in uBlock Origin. https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
You donât need an addon for blocking YouTube Shorts, you can also just use these uBlock Origin rules https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
Clean urls breaks a lot of things so I donât use it anymore. You can delete trackers if need be by yourself (usually everything after ârefâ or everything after â?â
I would also like to add:
Ublock Origin with Javascript enable by default in settings
Container Tabs
Tree Style tabs
Bitwarden
Simplelogin
Privacy Badger
Dark Background and Light Text
Tampermonkey (use to redirect to old reddit to view without JS using ublock)
Some that havenât been mentioned yet:
- Behind The Overlay (removes simple login banners/paywalls/anything that blocks the content)
- Donât Fuck With Paste (for those sites that think itâs fun to override or even disable copy and/or paste)
Greasemonkey/TampermonkeyViolentmonkey
Stop suggesting Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey. Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data, and Greasemonkey hasnât been updated since 2021. Use Violentmonkey, itâs completely FOSS and up-to-date.
No problem. Unfortunately Tampermonkey is recommended in many articles, guides, blog posts, etc. because people are unaware of what it does. Violentmonkey should be far more popular, so users stop downloading proprietary crap, simply because itâs the best known userscript extension.
Hey Iâm also using Violentmonkey and always recommend it over other options. But your comment got me wondering and Iâve checked. Turns out Greasemonkey actually dropped a new version a month ago. Not that this changes anything for me, just wanted to correct the statement.
Iâm certain that I saw somewhere that the last update was from January 2021, I canât find that anymore though, my bad.
Which greasemonkey scripts do you use? Iâve never used it but have heard itâs a good one to have (also, itâs been recommended several times on here)
If you want to use userscripts, definitely install Violentmonkey instead of Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey, as Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data and Greasemonkey hasnât been updated in years
As a college student, my must have plugins are
- DarkReader
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
- Sponsorblock
- TWP - Translate Web Pages
and the goat itself, >!uBlock Origin!<
I find DarkReader to be pretty slow. You might want to look at Stylus. It works on a per site basis but itâs much faster.
Some that I use:
Dark Mode
I donât like having a light screen.
- Dark Reader. This does a pretty technically-impressive-to-me job of making reasonable dark versions of pages. Itâs not perfect â there are a handful of sites that it needs to be toggled off for, makes something hard to read â but Iâm amazed that it does the job it does.
- Blank Dark Tab: Replace the new tab with a blank page matching Firefoxâs built-in dark mode
Privacy/Anti-Tracking/Ad-blocking
- uBlock Origin. Ad blocker.
- Privacy Badger. Targets cross-site tracking, EFF project.
- Decentraleyes. Targets CDN tracking.
Paywalls
Some paywalls can be bypassed.
Tweaking Frameworks
- Stylus: Doesnât do anything on its own, but permits collections of third-party themes to be applied to websites to fix annoyances.
- Greasemonkey. This doesnât do anything on its own, but it permits people to publish little modifications to be applied to webpages, permits for a lot of little scripts that fix annoyances on websites. There were a number of useful scripts that I used on Reddit.
Misc
- Edit with Emacs. Permits opening the contents of a textarea in an external emacs instance. Nice for things like, say, writing a large lemmy post in Markdown. I vaguely recall that, at least some years back, there was a way to embed a version of vim in Firefox textareas, so if vimâs your cup of tea, that might be interesting, if itâs still around.
- Instance Assistant for Lemmy and Kbin. A variety of quality-of-life fixes for lemmy and kbin. Lets one open a given lemmy/kbin post on their local instance if they wind up viewing a page on a remote instance.
- Reddit Enhancement Suite. If you still use Reddit, this has an enormous collection of quality-of-life improvements for Reddit.
EDIT: I donât know if this is the embedded vim that I recall, but Firenvim seems to do roughly the same thing, if not.
EDIT2: Thereâs also some âoverlay removerâ plugin that can bypass a number of obnoxious overlays that I use on my desktop, but I donât have it installed on this machine. I think that itâs Behind the Overlay.
Decentraleyes. Targets CDN tracking.
The Arkenfoxâs wiki says not to use it.
Privacy Badger. Targets cross-site tracking, EFF project.
Does uBlock Origin with itâs filter lists and Firefoxâs Total Cookie Protection make Privacy Badger pointless to use?
