Here's a list of those I have installed:
Description says it plays then in the normal video screen. Don't see the point, maybe someone can fill me in.
Shorts are weird. They don't respond to keyboard controls like K for play/pause, arrow keys to scrub and change volume, you can't actually scrub at all. I'm pretty sure you can't 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?
Youtube's default player will now resize the viewport depending on the aspect ratio of the content, so I suspect it would do the same for vertical video
You can also do it with some simple rules in uBlock Origin. https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
You don't need an addon for blocking YouTube Shorts, you can also just use these uBlock Origin rules https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
I looked through your list and found 2 other addons that you can replace with uBO. The first is Consent-O-Matic, you can configure Firefox to automatically block all 3rd-party cookies and use the following lists in uBO to block the cookie popups and notices: "AdGuard/uBO - Cookie Notices" (It's pre-installed in uBlock Origin, you just need to enable it in the settings) and this one: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/
You can also replace the ClearURL addon with the "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" list, it's also pre-installed, just enable it.
You might gain a little bit of extra speed by disabling/removing those 2 unnecessary addons, and it will definitely minimize your browser fingerprint, making you less susceptible to tracking
Edit: You can also replace Bypass Paywalls Clean with this list: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/bpc-paywall-filter.txt. I also recommend this list in addition to the other one: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/llacb47/miscfilters/master/antipaywall.txt. Also install Violentmonkey and this userscript: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/#userscripts
Man you took your personal time to give me additional advice, you really didn't have to, i appreciate it, thank you so much ❤️
I believe Firefox now does what ClearURL advertises (removing tracking elements in URLs), but I'm not sure I'll have to check again
I enjoy helping people out, when I have some free time. Otherwise I would waste my time scrolling on Tiktok or Instagram Reels lol.
I believe Firefox now does what ClearURL advertises (removing tracking elements in URLs), but I'm not sure I'll have to check again
Yes, they added such a feature in version 120 I believe, but I would still use the uBlock list. The performance impact is not noticeable at all, it doesn't hurt. But the ClearURL extension is kinda unnecessary.
It's often actually the only addon I install in my browser. But usually I like to keep a few other things like LibRedirect, Dark Reader, Bitwarden and OneTab around.
Clean urls breaks a lot of things so I don't use it anymore. You can delete trackers if need be by yourself (usually everything after "ref" or everything after "?"
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)
firefox has a built in function to "copy link without site tracking" now.
firefox also has total cookie protection which may (more may not) make Container Tabs kinda moot ?
Some that haven't been mentioned yet:
Stop suggesting Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey. Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data, and Greasemonkey hasn't been updated since 2021. Use Violentmonkey, it's 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 it's the best known userscript extension.
Hey I'm also using Violentmonkey and always recommend it over other options. But your comment got me wondering and I've 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.
I'm certain that I saw somewhere that the last update was from January 2021, I can't find that anymore though, my bad.
No need to look for it, the changelog is right at the website and previous update was indeed in 2021.
Which greasemonkey scripts do you use? I've never used it but have heard it's a good one to have (also, it's 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 hasn't been updated in years
Thank you - I love how it can look at the site and suggest scripts - and you can't go wrong with Opensource. Thank you.
As a college student, my must have plugins are
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 it's much faster.
Some that I use:
Dark Mode
I don't like having a light screen.
Privacy/Anti-Tracking/Ad-blocking
Paywalls
Some paywalls can be bypassed.
Tweaking Frameworks
Misc
EDIT: I don't know if this is the embedded vim that I recall, but Firenvim seems to do roughly the same thing, if not.
EDIT2: There's also some "overlay remover" plugin that can bypass a number of obnoxious overlays that I use on my desktop, but I don't have it installed on this machine. I think that it's Behind the Overlay.
Decentraleyes. Targets CDN tracking.
The Arkenfox's wiki says not to use it.
Privacy Badger. Targets cross-site tracking, EFF project.
Does uBlock Origin with it's filter lists and Firefox's Total Cookie Protection make Privacy Badger pointless to use?
ClearURL (strips tracking elements from URLs)
If you use the "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" under Privacy in uBlock Origin. Also add Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool & ClearURLs for uBo. You don't need ClearURL.
You can add lists by going to Filter lists -> Import… at the bottom of the page -> C&P the URL in the box -> Apply Changes -> Done.
Any extension to re-enable right click. It’s annoying when they try to block me from downloading a picture/video, copy pasting, or inspecting elements
Makes most recipes appear as a modal dialog covering the stupid blogspam that the sites put up.
There's another one that I can't remember the name of on my desktop computer that allows you to block domains from web searches. Like pinterest.
Edit: it's uBlacklist
There are only *two must have extensions in Firefox:
Beyond that it’s all optional. Most things I used to use extensions to accomplish are now possible to accomplish using Firefox’s built in settings or using uBlock Origin.
There are a few other extensions I use that I consider useful but optional:
Add custom URL redirects, e.g. automatically use Piped or Invideous instance instead of YouTube, use Nitter instead of Twitter, remove Google amp
Edit: I just found out about Libredirect from this post - seems like functionally the same thing I'm using Redirector for, but with rules built in.
Yeah same. I initially used it for YouTube/Twitter but realized that it's reinventing the wheel that libredirect already created, and doesnt have the same features like pinging instances or being able to cycle through instances if one goes down.
I still find redirector useful, but now use it for things like redirecting away from guilty pleasure websites or when my locally-hosted teddit doesn't properly handle internal links.
I had never thought about using Redirector to lock myself out of websites! That's brilliant. I need to do that. Zero self control when I should be working.
Suggestion: Use LibRedirect, it does the same thing as Nitter redirect, but it also supports redirection for many other sites. For example you can redirect YouTube to Piped or Invidious, Reddit to Libreddit, etc.
You don't really need cookie auto delete since total cookie protection was rolled out.
Don't have Firefox but the first plugin you must install on any browser or turn in your browsing license is uBlock Origin.
Ironically, in the future, Firefox will be the only browser to properly support uBlock Origin. Chromium will kill adblockers through their MV3 garbage. Switch to Firefox, use the proper version of uBO and keep your browsing license.
I really love the built-in container extension (Multi-Account Containers or something like that). Really good if you need to log in to the same site multiple times or if you don't want someone track you across sites.
Surprised no one has mentioned VideoDownloadHelper yet - https://www.downloadhelper.net/
I've used this since I was a kid and it made me really popular in high school lol. Everyone thought I was a hacker or something.
I used to use this but now I just use yt dlp since it seems to handle random stuff with more success and it's just as easy to use
What's the use case for DTA these days? Didn't the extension system change gut the useful features?
I have jDownloader set up on my Synology server which does everything that DownThemAll would do for me and more. There are desktop clients available for jDownloader as well.
Dark Reader
uBlock Origin
Optional:
TWP Translate (is better than the new feature)
Tabliss (Another take on the "new page" in chrome)
Just downloaded it to my work pc.
It has Google, Bing, Yandex and DeepL as translation integrations.
Tabliss is very underrated. Nowadays, I rarely see my desktop background but always see the "new tab" and so "new tab" serves as the modern desktop background. I use great photos of my city but there are many categories in unsplash