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On Firefox:
AdGuard Extra
AdNauseam (uBlock Origin fork)
Bitwarden
Clickbait Remover for Youtube
Custom Scrollbars
Don't accept image/webp
Enhancer for Youtube
Proton VPN
RES
Return Youtube Dislike
Sponsorblock
Thumbnail Rating Bar for Youtube
Tree Style Tab
Translate Web Pages
uBlacklist (no more deviantart trash in image search)
Redditsave (probably won't need this anymore since i moved here)
vidIQ Vision for Youtube (information on screen pleases me)
Violentmonkey
Youtube-shorts block
and thanks to the based commenters here, learned there were some userscripts for kbin and got the Dark Reader extension
My must haves:
behind! - makes it easy to access images hidden under layout tricks
Better Youtube+ - adds a few extra buttons such as download to youtube videos
Bypass Paywalls - as it says on the tin
Cookiebro - autodeletes all non-whitelisted cookies ten minutes after creation
Greasemonkey - enables userscripts, specifically:
Anti-Adblock Killer - as it says on the tin
EmuParadise Download Workaround - Nintendo made them hide the links, this shows them. May not be relevant anymore, haven't used it in a while
Old Wikipedia Layout - edits all wikipedia links to include ?useskin=vector so it doesn't use the garbage new layout
Redirect Twitter to Nitter - as it says on the tin, turns all twitter links to corresponding nitter links
Simple Youtube Age Restriction Bypass - as it says on the tin
Privacy Badger - EFF tracker blocker
Return Youtube Dislike - as it says on the tin
SponsorBlock for Youtube - uses crowdsourced timestamps to block in-video youtube ads
uBlock Origin - basic/main adblocker
My list for Firefox:
Firefox:
UBlock Origin
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin
Decentraleyes
Brave:
UBlock Origin
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Plugin
I dont use HTTPS Everywhere anymore because its included in Firefox and Brave!
Edit: I only use Brave to do my school homework because firefox messes with the website we use sometimes.
Augmented Steam Bitwarden ClearURLs Cookie AutoDelete Decentraleyes Disconnect for Facebook Don't touch my tabs! Enhancer for Youtube Flagfox Link Cleaner NoScript Privacy Badger RES Skip Redirect Tree Style Tab uBlock Origin Undo Close Tab Button View Image
-uBlock Origin
-Sponsorblock
-Unhook for youtube
-unpinterested
-panicbutton
Also adguard dns filtering on my mobile devices. Would highly recommend panicbutton as a quick way to set a task aside without opening a new window and unhook to filter out the trash YouTube is shoveling onto the home page
The only one I use that wasn't mentioned yet is unpaywall, for finding scientific articles in open databases.
Vinegar on safari for iOS / macOS is probably the extension I find the most useful day to day. It replaces the usual YouTube video player with a standard html5 player. So no ads, and support for PiP.
Important. I've added the Bypass Paywalls-filter as well, which makes browsing a lot more pleasant.
I will not watch ads, not even one.
This removes most of the annoyance of cookie banners and consent dialogs
AMP sucks, rather not even see it
A recent favorite - I started using this as Twitter on web was becoming increasingly unusable, and Nitter is a fine alternative. Now I use it for Twitter, TikTok, Imgur, Medium and Reddit.
On Firefox:
...and the add-ons not related to privacy:
I use most of these on Brave Browser, too.