Technology

I use...

• uBlock Origin
• BlockTube
• Readwise highlighter
• Ruffle.rs
• RSS Preview
• 1Password

Just uBlock.

• AdGuard Extra

• AdNauseam (uBlock Origin fork)

• Bitwarden

• Clickbait Remover for Youtube

• Custom Scrollbars

• Don't accept image/webp

• Enhancer for Youtube

• Proton VPN

• RES

• Return Youtube Dislike

• Sponsorblock

• Thumbnail Rating Bar for Youtube

• Tree Style Tab

• Translate Web Pages

• uBlacklist (no more deviantart trash in image search)

• Redditsave (probably won't need this anymore since i moved here)

• vidIQ Vision for Youtube (information on screen pleases me)

• Violentmonkey

• Youtube-shorts block

and thanks to the based commenters here, learned there were some userscripts for kbin and got the Dark Reader extension

behind! - makes it easy to access images hidden under layout tricks

Better Youtube+ - adds a few extra buttons such as download to youtube videos

Bypass Paywalls - as it says on the tin

Cookiebro - autodeletes all non-whitelisted cookies ten minutes after creation

Greasemonkey - enables userscripts, specifically:

 Anti-Adblock Killer - as it says on the tin

 EmuParadise Download Workaround - Nintendo made them hide the links, this shows them. May not be relevant anymore, haven't used it in a while

 Old Wikipedia Layout - edits all wikipedia links to include ?useskin=vector so it doesn't use the garbage new layout

 Redirect Twitter to Nitter - as it says on the tin, turns all twitter links to corresponding nitter links

 Simple Youtube Age Restriction Bypass - as it says on the tin

Privacy Badger - EFF tracker blocker

Return Youtube Dislike - as it says on the tin

SponsorBlock for Youtube - uses crowdsourced timestamps to block in-video youtube ads

uBlock Origin - basic/main adblocker

• uBlock Origin
• I still don't care about cookies
• Simple Translate
• Tabliss
• Fast Forward

On Firefox:

• uBlock Origin
• DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
• Privacy Badger
• SponsorBlock (skips the promotional parts of YouTube videos)
• Youtube shorts block
• 1Password
• Dark Reader
• Don't Fuck With Paste
• Facebook Container
• Bypass Paywalls
• Disable HTML5 Autoplay
• Ghostery
• Old Reddit Redirect

I use Firefox and the arkenfox user.js, which is not an extension, but helps with privacy. For the extensions, though, they are as follows:

• uBlock Origin // on medium mode (Check out what blocking modes are if you don't know them already)
• LibRedirect // to redirect to more privacy respecting frontends
• Skip Redirect // for increased privacy in terms of redirects
• Smart Referer // on strict mode. I use this as I have set network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy to 0 as 2 was a little too strict for me

I think more extensions than these would probably hurt my setup. I have followed the advice from the arkenfox wiki. Check it out if you want to look into a more private and secure Firefox configuration. Also feel free to criticize or ask questions about my setup :)

My list for Firefox:

• Always on Top
• Display #Anchors
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• Regex Search
• Simple Tab Groups
• Stylus
• uBlock Origin

Firefox:
UBlock Origin
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin
Decentraleyes

Brave:
UBlock Origin
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin

I dont use HTTPS Everywhere anymore because its included in Firefox and Brave!

Edit: I only use Brave to do my school homework because firefox messes with the website we use sometimes.

• MarkDownload is wonderful
• FoxyGestures: Pull left to go back, scribble 'Z' to close a tab
• Omnivore: Read stuff later
• CORS Everywhere
• Tab Containers
• Container Proxy (I could never get the built-in Tab Container function to work, this just lets me set certain tabs to hit the proxy)
• uBlock Origin, naturally

-uBlock Origin

-Sponsorblock

-Unhook for youtube

-unpinterested

-panicbutton

Also adguard dns filtering on my mobile devices. Would highly recommend panicbutton as a quick way to set a task aside without opening a new window and unhook to filter out the trash YouTube is shoveling onto the home page

The only one I use that wasn't mentioned yet is unpaywall, for finding scientific articles in open databases.

https://beehaw.org/comment/308270

• uBlock Origin

Important. I've added the Bypass Paywalls-filter as well, which makes browsing a lot more pleasant.

• SponsorBlock

I will not watch ads, not even one.

• I still don't care about cookies

This removes most of the annoyance of cookie banners and consent dialogs

• Redirect AMP to HTML

AMP sucks, rather not even see it

• Libredirect

A recent favorite - I started using this as Twitter on web was becoming increasingly unusable, and Nitter is a fine alternative. Now I use it for Twitter, TikTok, Imgur, Medium and Reddit.

On Firefox:

• uBlock Origin
• Bitwarden
• Decentraleyes
• Terms of Service; Didn't Read
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• Facebook Container
• Consent-O-Matic
• Don't Track Me Google

...and the add-ons not related to privacy:

• 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)
• Zhongwen
• New Xkit
• Earth View from Google Earth
• Palette Creator
• Save to Notion
• Send to Outline
• Web to EPUB

I use most of these on Brave Browser, too.

• AdNauseam (for cases when other extensions miss something)
• Bypass Paywalls
• Decentraleyes
• Don't touch my tabs! (rel=noopener)
• Don't track me Google
• Forget Me Not
• HTTPS Everywhere
• Old Reddit Redirect
• Redirector (to use the Vector theme on MediaWiki instances)
• uBlock Origin
• uMatrix
• User-Agent Switcher and Manager

Augmented Steam
Bitwarden
ClearURLs
Cookie AutoDelete
Decentraleyes
Disconnect for Facebook
Don't touch my tabs!
Enhancer for Youtube
Flagfox
Link Cleaner
NoScript
Privacy Badger
RES
Skip Redirect
Tree Style Tab
uBlock Origin
Undo Close Tab Button
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