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Or a fork of Firefox like fennec

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[โ€“] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little bit of an extensions hoarder, which is bad for fingerprinting ๐Ÿ˜ฃ, but I seriously do use the extra ones.

Vital:

uBlock - obviously, some people even suggest to only use this extension and nothing else to reduce fingerprinting. Make sure to enable those filters! Also check out the advanced mode, eliminates the need for NoScript.

Not Vital But Really Good To Have:

LibRedirect - Never worry again about visiting the original social media site, you can immediately be redirected to a proxy version of the site that doesn't stalk you. Great when I'm forced to click a Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, etc. link. Unfortunately, some proxy services are dead (Instagram, Tiktok, Invidious is always under threat, etc.)

Bitwarden - Password manager

Dark Reader - Nice, especially on fingerprint resisting browsers like Librewolf that don't let your browser/sites see your system settings to automatically pick the dark mode of a website. Have singed my eyes a couple times.

For Language Learners (like me):

Yomitan - The GOAT of tools, a popup dictionary that can be used to instantly look up the definition of a word in your target language, and connects with Anki, a flashcard app. I use it for making vocabulary cards from Japanese media I consume. Literally all the other resources are meant to be paired with this.

Asbplayer - Lets you add subtitles to whatever media you're streaming and makes the text selectable. Paired with Yomitan, you can easily make Anki flashcards from the TV/Movies/Videos you watch.

Lap Clipboard Inserter - By using a clipboard extension with Textractor, you can hook a game/visual novel and auto-copy all the game text to a webpage, which can be paired with Yomitan (you guessed it!) to look up words. You have to turn it on for individual pages, so don't worry about it constantly stalking you.

Neat, But Random:

Mastodon Streetpass - Helps you figure out if a person is on Mastodon by looking for a custom link on their site. Collects a list of them and tells you the date that it found the account. Basically just browse as usual and it will passively collect a list.

[โ€“] coracoral@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A fellow Japanese learner and VN enjoyer! Are you on Linux? I ran into issues with Lap Clipboard Inserter not capturing any clipboard events when the window was in the background, and I think it's an issue with Wayland, since all firefox-based browsers had the same issue but chromium-based ones didn't

[โ€“] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yep, I used Fedora Kinoite now! I originally used Fedora Silverblue, but that used GNOME + Wayland, and I dropped it cause spectacle couldn't take screenshots in a Wayland based system. I switched to Kinoite because it uses Plasma instead. I don't know if Wayland causes clipboard issues, as I never tested/got that far when trying to make Silverblue work. I just rebased cause I couldn't get ShareX (the tool I used while on Windows) to work with WINE.

I use my clipboard tool with FF and have little to no issues there. The only thing I will note is, Textractor hooks the sentences a little weirdly. None of the hooks are perfect, the best one I can find that isn't complete gibberish is a hook that simply copies the sentence twice. All the others repeat characters in a sentence like 50 times, so they're unsalvageable. Not sure if it's a browser hook thing, or a trying to force Windows apps in weird ways thing, but it's not as smooth as a process compared to native Windows ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] coracoral@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

At least from my research, Kinoite is Wayland. I think you can go to KDE (Plasma) settings, find the "About this System" page and it should say "Graphics Platform: Wayland". GNOME and KDE are desktop environments, X11 and Wayland are display managers (I think of them like rendering engines).Though it's true that Spectacle has issues on Wayland, apparently all screenshot apps do, due to security restrictions and slow development. But Spectacle works great on KDE because Spectacle is made by KDE, and gets special privileges when run on KDE desktop. Same with GNOME screenshot when run on GNOME desktop. Third-party screenshot tools don't get these privileges and don't work well on either (at least when using Wayland), you can read more about it here: https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip/issues/727.

As far as Textractor goes, I haven't had any issues with text hooking, but from my experience it heavily depends on the game, and I've only tested 2 games on linux so far. But if I'm reading you correctly...are you using Firefox inside WINE?

[โ€“] coracoral@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

By the way, in case you are interested, I do have a hacky script that lets me use keyboard shortcuts to attach screenshots and audio recordings to my anki cards. Just be warned that it is QUITE hacky, especially since I use a Fedora Atomic distro.

[โ€“] starman@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Many commenters mentioned ublock, but don't forget to enable additional filters for shit like cookie banners or other annoyances

[โ€“] JustVik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

JShelter and Decentraleyes. And uBlock Origins, but it's already popular without me. :)

[โ€“] revanite@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Why Decentraleyes and not LocalCDN (which I believe is more updated)?

[โ€“] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Ooh damn I didn't know about that, nice. I see JShelter is NLNet funded, makes perfect sense.

Thanks for sharing, trying!

[โ€“] Matth78@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ublock origin
Sponsor Block
Foxy Gestures

[โ€“] faberfedor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 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.

[โ€“] WQMan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Surprised no one posted this link: https://awesome-privacy.xyz/security-tools/browser-extensions

Great resource btw, check out the website for other tools.

[โ€“] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Ublock origin and privacy badger

[โ€“] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

No one mentioned Privacy Badger yet. Is there something I don't know?

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[โ€“] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

ublock orgin stylus if u use user styles and sidebery

[โ€“] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remove YouTube Suggestions (assuming you still use the YouTube client directly).

Also, Tampermonkey, to install single-site scripts that you can customize and with more limited permissions.

ublock origin and umatrix, anything else only makes you more fingerprintable

[โ€“] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do people think about "I still don't care about cookies"?

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[โ€“] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Apart from those already mentioned I need Sidebery

[โ€“] Zoma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

i fkin love noscript it pairs well with ublock origin

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[โ€“] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 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.

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