For me, it’s ublock origin, libredirect, and Dark Background Light Text
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Libredirect? What does it do?
Essentially redirects site X to site Y. It has a focus on privacy oriented websites/alternatives. So for example you have have YouTube.com be redirected to a invidious instance or freetube. Or have reddit be redirected to a proxy interface for reddit.
Recommend checking it out, works quite well! I even self host many of these alternatives myself and have reddit redirected to my own libreddit instance for when I need to view someone’s post.
Some that I use:
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uBlock Origin. A popular ad blocker.
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Dark Reader. Pretty sophisticated conversion of webpages into “dark mode” versions. Important if you normally use a computer in light-on-dark mode, else tons of websites will be really obnoxious.
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Behind the Overlay. Click the button in the toolbar, and it tries to detect and remove overlays on a webpage. This tends to eliminate a lot of transparent “anti-copy text” efforts, floating dialogs, and all sorts of obnoxious things.
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Edit with Emacs. Allows editing text fields in an emacs instance that’s started an edit-server. Updates the text field in the browser on saving or closing the buffer in emacs. Particularly useful for writing long Markdown posts on the Threadiverse in a more-sophisticated editing environment than the little Web UI editor provided by Lemmy…
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Fandom Sidebar Remover. Removes the obnoxiously-out-by-default sidebar on fandom.com domains, a popular place to host game wikis.
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I still don’t care about cookies. Auto-hides or auto-accepts a number of “are you willing to store cookies” dialogs that some websites add to conform to EU regulations. I am fine with this, since I have a better solution: my browser just wipes cookies on startup. This doesn’t require me clicking on dialogs and doesn’t require me to trust that the remote site is doing anything in response to me clicking buttons.
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Privacy Badger. Dynamically detects and blocks cross-domain trackers.
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SponsorBlock for YouTube. Identifies and permits skipping ads embedded in YouTube videos, as well as various other tagged sections, like intros, outros, and such.
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Stylus. Applies custom CSS to a given domain. Permits users to publish and share them. Useful for the occasional website that has some obnoxious characteristic, like an unwanted sidebar; for popular domains, this not-infrequently has a fix when someone else was annoyed by it.
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Greasemonkey. This lets you install small snippets of Javascript to modify webpages on a given domain. Every now and then, it’s the only way to solve some obnoxious irritation with a site. Kind of a heavier-weight solution than Stylus.
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Instance Assistant for Lemmy and Kbin. Provides a button to go to a given post on a remote Lemmy/Kbin instance on your own home instance. Helps work around the fact that the Threadiverse has no syntax to link in a home-instance-agnostic-way to a given post, the way it does a community (!community@instance), so links-to-a-post in someone’s comment will typically take you off your home instance. I don’t know how it does the mapping under the covers, but it’s more-sophisticated than just rewriting the domain name, as there’s no static, cross-host path to identify a post with Lemmy’s pathnames. I don’t really know why Lemmy doesn’t use paths of the form “https://lemmy.today/post/lemmy.world/1234” instead of “https://lemmy.today/post/127324”, which I would think would help address this problem…
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NoScript. While this isn’t something that I would recommend browsing on-by-default-for-all-domains in 2025 — many years back, when Javascript was less common, it was — I have found that it does a nice job of letting you put the kibosh on some obnoxious features on some webpages that do things like have auto-playing videos pop up, something that “TV station websites” love doing, and otherwise stopping some CPU-hogging pages that you still want to view from doing their CPU-hogging thing.
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Vimium C. Provides for keyboard-driven operation, rather than needing to browse with the mouse.
Great list! But why C and not just Vimium, which was more recently updated?
Neither has seen a release in about a year. I believe that at the time I made the call, it was after reading a discussion on Reddit among people who had used them and that Vimium C had better performance than Vimium. I did not spend a lot of time testing each.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Vimium/comments/18v9bnh/what_are_the_advantages_of_vimium_over_vimium_c/
Pretty sure that this wasn’t it, but it does have some discussion.
My own use is pretty basic, as I only use the search and link-following functions.
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Consent-O-Matic if you’re in Europe.
We get those cookie pop-ups outside of Europe as well.
True that. I was actually thinking of GDPR consent, but I guess you’re right. There’s something for everyone 🤣
Swift Selection Search is one of my all-time favourite plugins for anything ever.
Unlock origin, no script, bit warden, privacy badger
UltimaDark is a good dark mode addon to.
Indie wiki buddy to redirect the cancerous fandom wikis to the infinitely better breezewiki
Can libredirect do this? Interesting will have to investigate further
PopUpOFF, AdNauseam (basically uBlock Origin that actively costs the advertisers money – because fuck them, that’s why), Bypass Paywalls Clean, SponsorBlock, DeArrow, Return Youtube Dislike, Enhancer for Youtube, CanvasBlocker, TrackMeNot, Tampermonkey, MAKE A MERRY TRY AGAIN, Dark Reader, and ClearURLs.
Yeah, I recently learned about AdNauseam and it’s intriguing! I’ll give it a go sometime. So we have to uninstall uBO for it, right? That’ll be a first…
Bypass Paywalls Clean has been gone for, like, a year. We must be among the last of its users with it still installed. I don’t know how to copy it over to other installations…
I have ClearURLs as well!
Bypass Paywalls Clean has been gone for, like, a year. We must be among the last of its users with it still installed. I don’t know how to copy it over to other installations…
Most of them have already been listed, but on top of that there’s reloadevery (automatically reload pages after X seconds) and NextPrev Page to basically go to the next/previous ID in a URL.
In addition to the ones others already described(uBlock origin, return youtube dislike) i like to have snowflake to help the tor network.
Apart from the already mentioned uBlock etc, I like “Clippings”, “Replace” and “Dark Background and Light Text”
clippings
There is also qcopy that does this for the whole operating system.
On desktop I need Foxy Gestures or it feels weird since I’ve grown accustomed to mouse gestures for browsing.
Don’t forget ghostery
