Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can’t stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it’s kinda wild to me that this isn’t more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It’s good for the same reasons!

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umatrix. …underappreciated imo.
take a shot for everytime sum1 mentions ublock.
get $100 dollars everytime sum1 mentions umatrix.
im still broke but wasted AF!

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Consent-O-Matic
Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
I mostly use this for the email protection (highly recommended!)

ScrollAnywhere
Drag scrollbar with middlemouse button anywhere on the page.

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Thanks, trying Consent-O-Matic now!

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I don’t use many extensions, but apart from the usual UBlock Origin I’ll say something exotic: UltraWideo

Because sites like disney+ still don’t know that 21:9 monitors exist so you have to force it to scale their 21:9 films to your monitor instead of giving you black bars on all sides

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I physically can’t use a browser without Vimium anymore.

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LibRedirect: redirect Website links to alternative frontends like Nitter, invidious, rimgo etc. - couldn’t live without it especially on mobile where using Twitter without the app is really obnoxious

CookieAutoDelete combined with ‘I still don’t care about cookies’: delete cookies the moment you close the tab if not whitelisted, also remove cookie notices and accept all cookies.

Nano Gestures: mouse gestures for navigating websites

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How do you get LibRedirect to work on FF mobile? God I hate the Twitter mobile site experience.

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You’ll have to use firefox collections with either Nightly or Beta, add the addons you want to a collection and add the collection in ff mobile then you can use the addons. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-now-supports-custom-add-on-collections/

I also had to export LibRedirect settings from desktop and import on mobile because the settings interface is borked (doesn’t show instances to select). There is also Privacy Redirect addon which should work out of the box.

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