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What are your favourite plugins that you think others are likely unaware of? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by khannie@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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So, not uBlock or whatever as everyone's aware of that.

Mine (all Firefox):

Video Speed Controller. LOVE this one. A tiny widget appears on any video showing current speed and you hit a key to +10% / -10% (I have mine mapped to [ and ]). You can also hide the little widget (v) if you're watching a movie etc.

Very handy for sites that don't support changing video speed or have limited options.

Quick cookie manager - Allows you to delete all cookies on a page that you've visited. Very handy when "reject all" leaves you with like 20 cookies anyway.

Netflux - 1080p Netflix on Linux. Can be a little fiddly at times but it does work.

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So, not uBlock or whatever as everyone’s aware of that.

Alas, not that many people know about it. If they were, they would not be using Chrome-based browsers as the new (& neutered) version of uBO for chrome is rather limited.

Beside uBO, I barely use any extension as it can do (well) so many things already beside blocking ads: fingerprinting, removing cookies popup and consent notifications, removing all the shit I don't want to see from most websites (looking at you, YT Shorts):

Dark Reader, because dark mode doesn't blind me ;)
The Qwant extension (my search engine, next to Kagi)
and three extensions just for YT: 'Improve YouTube!', 'Enhancer for YouTube' (to remove a lot of the crap YT insists on pushing to us) and 'SponsorBlock' (to remove video embedded ads).

Save the Qwant one, they all are in the 'recommended extensions' section on the Mozilla website. (edit: I think so, I have not checked)

On the browser I use for more personal/private stuff I don't have any extension beside uBo... I would not go on the Web, or barely on a few selected websites, without using uBO to be honest: every time I'm faced with a non uBO-protected browser I feel like dying. Too much tur... ads, I mean. It's just not tolerable.