uBlock Origin
NoScript
...and then uBlock Origin 5 more times.
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
92 points (97.9% liked)
Ask Lemmy
40875 readers
1438 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !uspolitics@lemmy.world
7) No Hit-and-Run questions.
Please don't delete your post for no apparent reason. If you plan on deleting a question later, say so in the post, or if you feel that you have a good reason to remove it, message a mod beforehand. It's not fair to the ones who took their time to answer, and it's not in the spirit of the community.
8) No Bots.
Posts or comments from bots, LLM's, AIs, Neural Networks, Transformers, or Marvin the Paranoid Android are not welcome in AskLemmy. Real humans only please.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
If this wasn’t the top comment, it would have ruined my day
As with everyone else, I agree that Ublock origin is the first wonder of the world.
Also up there however is just password managers in general, be that bitwarden, lastpass, protonpass, etc...
I have never had more and safer passwords without any hassle, than since using Vaultwarden as a passwordsafe (there are many instances offerd without cost) in combination with Bitwarden extension in my browsers and the app on my phone.
It's so incredibly easy to use.
-Ublock origin (first place, nonnegotiable)
-Dark reader
Dark reader for the win.
- ublock Origin
- NoScript
- Tree Style Tab
- Privacy Badger
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Plasma Integration
You don't need HTTPS Everywhere anymore by the way, it has native support in Firefox now.
Yes.
Tree Style Tab does not get enough mention here. It's a much better way to display a tablist.
XClear and TabMixPlus are up there too.
I'll add ViolentMonkey (run arbitrary custom script on a site), and Stylus (add custom CSS to a site). These are great for adding extra features/utilities to a site you use a lot, adding dark mode to a website that doesn't support it, etc.
Is this similar to TamperMonkey? (i.e. userscripts)
I don't know what I'd do without it!
Yes it is! I switched to it after seeing some questions about things TamperMonkey was doing, given that it is (or at least was at the time) closed source.
Interesting! I had no idea. Thank you!
I don't know about ViolentMonkey (sounds like a TamperMonkey variant?) but I use Stylus and yes it does the same things as TamperMonkey.
Nice!
- uBlock Origin
- SponsorBlock
- Consent-O-Matic
- Bypass paywall clean d
- unlock origin
Never needed any other, although i have a few anyways
Add bitwarden and that's what I have on all my browsers. Skip ads, skip passwords, skip paywalls — it's like the internet of old!
uBlock Origin
Dark Reader
FastForward
Search by Image
Yomitan
I'm not sure what the other two would be.
Bypass paywall clean d
Love how you gave uBlock Origin as a starter already, so we don't need to repeat that obvious champion over and over again, yet almost nobody can take a hint.
uBlock Origin, duh.
Privacy Badger.
Mouse Gestures (any of them, there's multiple).
Reader view, because sometimes all you need is the text, in a pleasantly readable format.
- uBlock Origin. full stop
- leechblock for (attempting) to stay focused
- Zotero is also pretty nifty if you have a lot of sources/ writing a paper, but I'm not sure it would be one of the seven best
I don't even have 7 extensions enabled in my main browser. I have:
- uBlock Origin
- Multi-Account Containers
- Temporary Containers
- KeePassXC
- Return youtube dislike
Other than uBlock Origin, I don't think they are worthy of "Wonder of the world" status.
Why Return YouTube Dislike? Isn't lowest/no engagement more effective these days.
I wouldn't need the extension for pressing the button. I have it to see the number.
I think a chrome update nixed it, but I used the heck out of Imagus. All it does is expand to a full size image when you hover over an image on a website.
I really need to get that working again. I'm constantly hovering over images for no reason still.
Can't live without it! Works on Firefox if that's an option for you.
I only have two; uBlock Origin and Firefox Multi-Account Containers.
Those are the only two I use all the time (I like to keep things clean and simple and avoid fingerprinting, there are others that I might enable for a specific task), and I consider them essential enough that they ought to be built into the browser.
I also use Temporary containers for all the sites I don't explicitly assign to a persistent container. How do you handle this? Is there a way to delete cookies just for the default (non) containers? Is there a way to fully isolate the sites in the default one?
What I do is have cookies set to delete by default on closing the browser, with a managed list of exceptions of sites I want to preserve.
I forgot exceptions from delete on close were a thing. Thanks.
UBlock Origin
Consent o matic
Chrome Mask
Pocket used to be on my list, but it was unfortunately shut down. Now Joplin web clipper took its place. I still miss Pocket.
no script, authenticator, bitwarden, power tabs, tab session manager, print friendly, terms of service didn't read.
Ublock Origin
Noscript
Privacy badger
Enhancer for Youtube (to force a stable quality level)
Since you already have the 3 most important ones listed, I'll throw a vote for Enhancer for Youtube. Makes Youtube less annoying.
One Tab
Alternate Player for Twitch.tv Dark Reader NoScript NoSquint Tabs Outliner uBlock Origin uMatrix
I want to add multi account containers to the list
Just found a new one that works wonders: Click to Remove Element.
Never seen anything so precise and clear to hide unwanted elements. And it can remember for future sessions. Awesome!
I prefer Adnauseam over uBlock Origin.
It uses uBlock Origin as a base, but extends it to click on ads in addition to blocking them.
If anyone is still following this post, I just came across TrackerControl for Android.
It finds all tracker traffic in installed apps and blocks it! It even blocks in-app ads!
It blows my mind, had been hoping for such an app for ages!
It might take some tweaking for some apps to function properly, but it is pretty self explanatory.
Beats every app I've ever come across! 🤍
Nice find!
RemovePaywall deserves at least 3rd place
I couldn’t live without FoxyGestures (formerly FireGeatures) anymore. I’ve been using it for over 15 years.