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What are your favorite browser extensions? (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by Lowbird to c/technology

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Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can't stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it's kinda wild to me that this isn't more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It's good for the same reasons!

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[–] nonmi9@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So what would you recommend to replace it?

[–] foonex@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

You could try Consent-O-Matic. That’s what I use. It also doesn’t simply agree to everything like the other one but chooses the most privacy-friendly option instead.

[–] ChiefGhost295@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ublock Origin has annoyance filters that you can enable.

[–] noodle@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this work for you? I have that filter enabled but it doesn't really catch everything.

[–] ChiefGhost295@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know what filters you have specifically enabled, but I have all EasyList Annoyances and uBlock Annoyance lists enabled and they work fine. There may sometimes be something that these don't get, but that happens quite rarely.

[–] Yoru_Sulfur@lemmy.davidbuckley.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently I just deal with the banners (as annoying as they are) and shed a tear at the state of the modern internet.

[–] dtlnx 1 points 1 year ago

Ublock origin has additional filters that block these. Check out the settings.