Or a fork of Firefox like fennec
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
i fkin love noscript it pairs well with ublock origin
What advantage does it have compared to extended mode of ublock? I used NoScript years ago but switched to ublock to block scripts and resources.
I don’t think NoScript is a good idea in 2025. It breaks virtually all websites.
uBlock Origin + cookie banner filters should be enough
NoScript breaks every site and does little good.
breaking websites is a good thing actually, as it disables any and all javascript and webgl tracking (and you can unbreak a website anyway if you really need javascript for it to function)
I’m partial to this one
Surprised no one posted this link: https://awesome-privacy.xyz/security-tools/browser-extensions
Great resource btw, check out the website for other tools.
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.
uBlock Origin
Sponsorblock
Multi account containers
Password manager like Bitwarden
Bypass Paywalls Clean
Do not use cloud password managers. If you can, self host your bitwarden instance.
My suggestion is KeePass (XC on PC and DX on mobile) with syncthing. It’s very flexible and useful for stuff beyond passwords, like ids, notes, emails etc
JShelter and Decentraleyes. And uBlock Origins, but it’s already popular without me. :)
What do people think about “I still don’t care about cookies”?
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.
ublock origin, nutensor(umatrix), twp, bypass paywalls clean, dark reader, vimfx
Many commenters mentioned ublock, but don’t forget to enable additional filters for shit like cookie banners or other annoyances
For android mobile I use Ironfox.
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
Its a fork of the now discontinued Mull browser.
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.
I went on the same path. I was surprised how many sites were broken in IronFox.
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.
Ublock origin and privacy badger
Category “how the hell isn’t this included by default” :
- Copy Plain Text: Adds an option in the right click menu to copy the selected text as plain text, without formatting
- Copy Link Text : Adds an option in the right click menu to copy the text of a link
- Markdown Reader: Show formatted markdown. I tried several extensions for this and this is the one I prefer personally. It has an index panel on the left which is sooo useful.
Category “Preserving your mental health online” :
- uBlock Origin: You really need to block those ads
- Consent-O-Matic: Never see a cookie pop-up again in your life (it auto accepts or refuse in your place).
- SponsorBlock: Skips Youtube sponsorships. You can define which ones you want to skip and which you want to watch (paid ads, self promo, etc)
- Return Youtube Dislike: Show the number of dislikes on videos. It’s not a real number, it’s extrapolated based on how many people with the app have clicked dislike.
- Youtube No Translate: Keeps titles, descriptions and audio tracks in their original language
Category “Usefull” :
- KeePassXC-Browser: To access your password database from your browser
- Whatever fingerprinting protection you can find (Canvas, Fonts, WebGL, etc… half those I used have been pulled, haven’t found a replacement for all of them)
Category “Would be nice if…” :
- A user agent switcher… if you want all websites to block you 😑
- NoScript: Block javascript and create custom rules to allow it only when and where you want. Or the reverse. It was great a few years ago but I’ve stopped using it because websites require allowing more and more otherwise nothing works and it’s hell can we cancel javascript please?
- Dark Reader: Dark mode for all websites. Can make some websites unreadable, but you can turn it off for that website. Makes everything much slower though so I don’t use it.
Pro-tip: you may not need Consent-O-Matic. There are uBlock Origin cookie banner filters that you can enable (even though they break some websites, even if it’s rare)
But Consent-O-Matic does not break websites (very rarely so), so it’s better than uBlock in that specific area.
BTW for plain text, ctrl+shift+V pastes as plain text.
For copying link text if you hold alt and drag you can select text without activating the link, then ctrl+C as usual.
I had no idea about the second one! I still like having a context menu option, right click + E seems much less of a hassle than selecting the text and copying, but it’s nice to know you can select part of a link! How did I never notice that you could in 20 years? 😅
Yeah alt+select doesn’t work 100% of the time too so the extension sounds nice lol
- 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
You don’t need privacy badger anymore if you have ublock
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.
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.
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.
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.’
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No one mentioned Privacy Badger yet. Is there something I don’t know?
uBlock Origin is a lot better.
Privacy Badger can actually be detrimental because it makes you more unique while adding basically nothing useful.
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.
Yes ublock will just completely block/remove all tracking and annoyances, plus whatever other filters you enable.
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.
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.
