Or a fork of Firefox like fennec

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 month ago

    It’s not about privacy per se but Tridactyl “A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.” because, like Userscripts - Tampermonkey, you can basically redesign any website.

    A basic privacy oriented solution I made was using autocmd https://tridactyl.xyz/build/static/docs/modules/_src_excmds_.html#autocmd to redirect YouTube content to my local https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local and that works even with embeds.

    • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I have no evidence to back this up, but I’ve seen lots of reports that suggest if you just hide the consent form, you’re assumed to have accepted all of the cookies. This is why Consent-o-Matic is preferable.

    • drspod@lemmy.ml
      9·
      2 months ago

      Most people will tell you that it’s been made obsolete now since (1) it doesn’t use behavioural analysis to detect trackers anymore, it just uses a pre-defined list of trackers to block (2) browsers (especially firefox) now have built-in tracker blocking (3) ublock origin blocks trackers by default anyway.

      I don’t think it hurts to still use it, just as a belt and braces approach, but I suppose it’s possible it makes your browser fingerprint more unique.

      • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
        5·
        2 months ago

        Interesting. Fingerprinting is a good point, although I’ve switched to a combo of Vivaldi and Librewolf browsers so they’re already fairly unique unfortunately.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      uBlock Origin is a lot better.

      Privacy Badger can actually be detrimental because it makes you more unique while adding basically nothing useful.

      • scytale@lemmy.zip
        1·
        2 months ago

        I like how Privacy Badger replaces tracking icons/widgets. I’m guessing uBO just removes them outright? I haven’t really bothered to check the differences.

  • Ardens@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 month ago

    uBlock Origin Firefox Multi-Account Contaniners (and then use them) If you use some kind of webmail like google, hotmail, yahoo, then: Webmail Ad Blocker Remove FBclid and UTM

    Optional Dark Reader Enhancer for Youtube

  • Lokoschade@feddit.org
    4·
    2 months ago

    To support independent Wikis

    • Indie Wiki Buddy

    For those who are multilingual that are annoyed at websites autotranslating via a shitty ai

    • Reddit Untranslate
    • Youtube Anti Translate

    To make Youtube better

    • SponsorBlock
    • YouTube Row Fixer
    • Hide Youtube-Shorts
  • Timber@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    314·
    2 months ago

    uBlock Origin and nothing else. The more extensions, the more unique you’re fingerprint will be and the bigger your attack surface.

  • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
    45·
    2 months ago
    • ublock origin, first last and if necessary only extension you really need
    • dark reader
    • youtube shorts block - converts shorts links into regular video player with actual fucking seek/volume controls
    • youtube sponsor block - I pay for my bandwidth, I decide what gets downloaded.
    • privacy badger
      • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
        22·
        1 month ago

        Huh, I didn’t realize. I’ve had it installed forever, I guess I didn’t realize. Oh well, I just switched back to Brave and I don’t even have uBO installed anymore and it’s been fine.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 months ago

      Doesn’t Firefox have reader mode with dark mode built in? Don’t get me wrong, I find that functionality indispensable, but I didn’t think it required a plugin.

      • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Maybe? shrug I didn’t look too hard, I stumbled across someone talking about dark reader and was like ‘I must have this in my life.’

    • freeman@feddit.org
      3·
      2 months ago

      Youtube Unhook lets you disable specific parts of the website: Shorts, Recommendations, Comments, and lets you redirect from startpage to subscriptions like in the olden days.

      Bring back the dislike button or something like that for YT.

      • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Shorts are the only thing that really annoyed me, I don’t mind recommendations or comments, and I just keep a tab open on my subs page all the time anyway.

  • faberfedor@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Library extension. Go to as page selling a book (Amazon, Powell’s, etc.) and the extension will show you if you’re local library has the book, how many copies, and if they’re available for checkout. You can then click through and put a hold on the book.

    Great cure for impulse buying of books. I’ve read more and bought less since using it.

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 month ago

      Wow! Brilliant! Unfortunately my local library is not in their catalogue. They do have a public catalog and even a way to get online books, also with search capabilities, so hopefully they can find a way to integrate. I submitted their data to the extension maintainers.

    • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’ve tried it a few times but tend to fall back to Fennec. While Librewolf on desktop is restrictive by design, it also still allows you tweak the settings to your liking (with some scolding). Ironfox felt much more locked down to me, and if a site was completely broken, I couldn’t do anything about it in the settings.

      • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Huh? You can totally change the advanced settings (about:config) for Ironfox. I literally had to do that a few months ago to get a certain feature working for an extension I use cause some javascript and SCP settings were disabled for privacy/security.

        Now, I completely understand why you wouldn’t want to spend hours tweaking settings and reading Mozilla’s source code forms to get stuff to work, so if that’s the reason for switching then I get it. But you can absolutely change the config settings, unlike vanilla Android Firefox which doesn’t enable about:config

        • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          I know the mobile browser space is just weird overall, especially Firefox forks, but it definitely stood out to me. Things that work totally fine in Librewolf out-of-the-box were totally busted, and most settings are inaccessible.

          I’m still keeping an eye on it though, as Fennec leaves a lot to be desired, and using a chromium-based browser like Vanadium won’t do it for me because I rely so much on the cross-platform sync functions.