Or a fork of Firefox like fennec
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
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’m not gonna lie, I’m a little bit of an extensions hoarder, which is bad for fingerprinting 😣, 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.
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
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 😅
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?
I’m partial to this one
i fkin love noscript it pairs well with ublock origin
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)
It’s more that I have to re-enable scripts on most websites, so it’s not giving me much benefit.
What advantage does it have compared to extended mode of ublock? I used NoScript years ago but switched to unlock to block scripts and resources.
Surprised no one posted this link: https://awesome-privacy.xyz/security-tools/browser-extensions
Great resource btw, check out the website for other tools.
ublock origin and umatrix, anything else only makes you more fingerprintable
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.
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.
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
autocmdhttps://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.JShelter and Decentraleyes. And uBlock Origins, but it’s already popular without me. :)
Ooh damn I didn’t know about that, nice. I see JShelter is NLNet funded, makes perfect sense.
Thanks for sharing, trying!
Why Decentraleyes and not LocalCDN (which I believe is more updated)?
Apart from those already mentioned I need Sidebery
uBlock Origin is the must have.
Personally I also use Dark Reader, NoScript, View Page Source and User-Agent Switcher.NoScript is duplicative with ublock medium mode, I am amazed people are still using it. It hasn’t been relevant for 5+ years by my estimation. Why use two addons when one you’re already using does it better?
https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode
Roughly similar to using Adblock Plus with many filter lists + NoScript with 1st-party scripts/frames automatically trusted.
Because I’m used to noscript, I’ve tried using uBlock in stricter than default settings but found it hard to get into their flag system.
I do not trust 1st party by default in noscript and am pleasantly surprised anytime a site works without js.The why is browser fingerprinting. Which Google started using as of January to track everyone.
https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/
So if you go to ANY page with Google trackers, even in private mode, Google knows.
But having two addons will make your fingerprint even larger. So your argument doesn’t explain why you should use two addons instead on one that does it both.
No, you use one as the backup. That’s why I said use JShelter, but if a site breaks beyond use, switch IPs and then reload with NoScript instead to be more selective of what is blocked and what’s not. That way I can still block Cloudflare and Google and Apple and still let the actual site load. And JScreep seems (for me, YMMV) to treat each as distinct fingerprints.
IMO if you know you can have multiple fingerprint profiles anyway based on which combo of extensions you use that do roughly the same job, that’s a net benefit.
Dark reader is getting my browser slow lately. Is it just me?
It also happened to me. Now I am using Page Shadow.
I’ll give that a go thanks
happens occasionally, but not only “lately”, I have been using it for many years and it does (rarely, but occasionally) cause performance drops, yes
Same for me as well
I’m probably slow enough to not notice, or maybe the site is already cached when I’m done with noscript.
- 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.
Shorts are the only thing that really annoyed me, I don’t mind recommendations or comments, and I just keep a tab open on my subs page all the time anyway.
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.’
i’m turd burglar and i approve this message
uBlock Origin and nothing else. The more extensions, the more unique you’re fingerprint will be and the bigger your attack surface.
CanvasBlocker works well for that.
Dont forget SponsorBlock if you spend any time on youtube
Sponsorblock is magic. I don’t know how it doesn’t have trolls ruining it.
Users voting on whether a segment is good or bad. I always give a thumbs up to the segments that were well-defined and a thumbs-down to segments that cut off half a sentence unnecessarily etc.
I’ve never seen the option to vote, maybe it’s easier on desktop. I’m on revanced
I suggest FreeTube
Grayjay is better
I’ll take a look, ty
