I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.

One of my favorites are

  • Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
  • uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
  • Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
  • Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

What extensions do you guys use?

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    •uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one •Privacy Badger - blocks trackers •Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

    You don’t need all of that at once. Privacy Badger and Ghostery are redundant with uBlock Origin and Total Cookie Protection. Source: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother.

    Also, Ghostery is kinda shady in terms of opt-out tracking and showing ads to its own users. I don’t know if they still do it, but my trust is already shattered and I see no reason to keep using Ghostery.

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      NoScript

      I’ve been faithful to firefox almost since it’s been out thanks to this. I can’t imagine being on the internet with everything on a website on by default

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        A few years back NoScript was often recommended. I used it for a while but I’m not sure I did it right.

        First time you go to a new website do you go through the process of allowing some scripts to make it usable?

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    I often use:

    Not on mobile, but desktop:

    • Enhancer for YouTube, I like it for having the “expand” making the screen bigger also cinema mode, toggling end cards off, boost volume — you can also take screenshots.

    • uBlock Origin, of course

    • SponsorBlock, which is a big extension that will auto skip sponsor readouts, selfpromos, and a lot of things YouTubers often do (sponsors, self promos, interaction reminders like liking and subscribing, intermissions, intros, previews, jokes, etc - you can choose to skip them or highlight them in the videos) it’s backed by community response, anyone with the extension can set up something to skip and share with everyone. Highly recommend if you’re tired of people pausing the video to talk about raycons or manscaped lol

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    Dark Reader: Especially late at night white page background just burns out my retinas, no idea how I ever managed before.

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      It seems to do weird things to some websites where for me it also leaves text dark/black

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        Sometimes it doesn’t work, especially when it is a particularly weird colour palette, but it gets it right most of the time. In that case it does have the options to make some adjustments or just turn it of for that particular site.

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        Sadly, even at the lowest brightness setting, with “extra dim” enabled, and the most intense blue blocking filter my phone will allow, most light colored backgrounds still illuminate the hell out of the room.

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    Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later

    Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you’re watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video

    Feedbro - RSS reader with filtering capabilities

    Redirector - auto-redirect specific URLs (for example, changing a YouTube Shorts url into a regular one, or changing Reddit links to always go to Old Reddit)

    Undo Close Tab Button - allows you to restore recently closed tabs including the tab’s history in the back button (max amount = browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo)

    Violentmonkey - using userscripts that allow you to change things on websites.

    YouTube Comment Reader - allows you to search through the comments of a video (by clicking on the addon in the Extension menu and then clicking on the “YouTube Comment Reader” at the top or the “X Comments” at the bottom of the tooltip)

    Page Shadow - allows you to use dark and light themes on sites that don’t have the option to change it.

    And if you’re like me and you find that some YT videos feel too slow but 1.25x is too fast, then you can use Enhancer for YouTube’s “Playback speed” feature to have smaller speed steps. Then you can hold ctrl and use the scrollwheel (while over the video) to change the video’s speed by the amount you chose (I use 0.05 speed variation, mostly changing to 1.05x or 1.10x)

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    Haven’t seen anyone mention Decentraleyes yet. Serves CDN assets locally to avoid CDNs as a vector for tracking or fingerprinting.

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    For me, it’s many of the ones people have already said, plus:

    • StreetPass (seriously cool - collects the mastodon profile of any website you visit where someone has set up the special link to their profile)
    • Video Speed Controller (gives you fine-grained control over video speed, e.g. watching video at 2.6x speed)
    • Privacy redirect (automatically redirects to various services, e.g. from Twitter to Nitter - can select a random instance each time)
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      That’s the same as Ublock Origin - Anoyances list, you don’t need a separate addon for that.

      Ublock Origin -> Settings -> External Filters -> Annoyances -> Tick all

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          I need to try consent I magic then because at least one website has had the banner blocked but didn’t let me move the screen or anything.

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      Use uBlock Origin’s wiki / rules for this instead. Reduces an add-on and achieves the same/better results!

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      Changing your user agent will not stop you being tracked. Browser fingerprinting can work with heaps of different signals, and is very difficult to block.

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        It means I’m being tracked for 30 seconds. So basically useless tracking.

        Chameleon doesn’t just change the user agent. It changes a bunch of stuff that’s used to break fingerprinting. Of course you have a fingerprint, but it constantly changes so that the data they collect is so short lived that its useless to them and therefore very useful to me.

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          You can try to fool it with a VPN, change country, etc but it doesn’t work. Fingerprinting is very strong these days.

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            That website is marketing bullshit. It doesn’t tell you if you fingerprint “ID” is unique. If can just spit out the same fingerprint for millions of users, and it looks impressive but its totally worthless as a fingerprint.

            Try again with some service that isn’t trying to sell you their product