Asklemmy

I filtered out some that are purely just for web development

• Don't Fuck With Paste
• Easy Auto Refresh
• EditThisCookie
• GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture
• JSONView
• New Tab Redirect
• Pushbullet
• Remove Element
• uBlock Origin

• Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy
• Amazon Container
• Augmented Steam
• BazQux Reader: open links in background tab
• Bitwarden
• ClearURLs
• GNOME Shell integration
• Google Container
• LocalCDN
• Privacy Redirect
• ProtonDB for Steam
• Purple Ads Blocker (twitch)
• uBlock Origin

been using Greasemonkey since using browser add-ons

• vim-vixen make your browser keyboard-oriented (vim keybinding).
• ublock-origin wide-spectrum content blocker (not just ad's).
• copy-plaintext avoid a lot of garbage formatting.
• privacy-redirect redirect twitter, reddit, youtube, etc to their alternative (privacy friendly) frontends, like nitter, invidious, etc.
• Fedishare to share pages to the fediverse.

I use literally a dozen of them so I had to look at about:addons lol

• Basic JSON Formatter: Installed by default, quite useful to me as I deal with JSON API quite often.
• ClearURLs: remove tracking URL params
• Geminize: open Gemini links in a proxy
• HTTPS Everywhere: helps me redirect HTTP to HTTPS, but it breaks xkcd random button, sadly. I guess I should contact Randall.
• KeePassXC-Browser
• Native MathML: use MathML instead of the JS-rendered for math stuff
• Privacy Badger: Trackers blocking
• Privacy Redirect: redirect links to Reddit, Twitter, YouTube
• Read Aloud: TTS reader, because Firefox's Reader mode TTS is somehow broken
• Redirector: For redirects that can't be done with Privacy Redirect
• Stylus: Custom stylesheet, because some websites suck at styling
• uBlock Origin: beside trackers blocking, it also helps blocking sites I don't want to visit, such as web scrapers or sites that are blocked by my ISP (e.g. medium blogs)

Given the attack surface of addons, I've downsized my addon usage.

• I've replaced HTTPS-Everywhere with the built-in HTTPS-first/only modes in FF and Chromium.

• In FF, I use userContent.css instead of Stylus.

• I use uBlock Origin's url-rewriting filters in place of redirection addons.

• In Chromium, you can choose to have an addon only be enabled on certain sites. I do this with Stylus and Dark Background Light Text.

EDIT: more information:

• I have a shell script that uses regex to "clean" urls in the clipboard and remove tracking params instead of the CleanURLs addon, since this is most useful when sharing links with others. I've gotten in the habit of previewing URL content before navigation (e.g. with a mouseover or by pasting into the URL bar) as well. If I want to navigate to a messy url, I just copy it and enter a keybind to clean the copied URL.

I use multiple browsers and profiles.

• Normal browsers: Firefox with Cookie Autodelete, uBO, Stylus, Dark Background and Light Text; Chromium with uBO and Stylus. Stylus is only selective enabled.

• For security-sensitive non-anonymous stuff, I run Chromium with flags to disable JIT and to disable JS by default, in a bubblewrap sandbox. This browser profile has no addons.

• For peak anonymity (e.g. when using one of my anon alts), I run the Tor Browser in a Whonix VM. For quick anonymity I just use the regular Tor Browser Bundle in a bubblewrap sandbox. In an act of mercy towards my weak 2013 Haswell laptop's battery, I no longer run Qubes. The Tor Browser should not ever be used with custom addons if you want anonymity.

Because the Tor browser should never run with addons and because I use a browser profile that has none, I don't want addons to be a "crutch" that I depend on too much.

I do global hostname-blocking at the DNS level, so I can live without an adblocker. DNS blocking doesn't do fine-grained subpage-blocking, conditional blocks, cosmetic filtering, redirects, etc. so a more complete solution is still worthwhile.

I also try to avoid injecting content into webpages with JS enabled, since that is extremely fingerprintable and opens a can of (in)security worms.

Some addons that I do not recommend at all:

• Canvas Fingerprinting Defender: injects JS into pages, which is very fingerprintable and can trigger a CSP report if you don't disable those. CSP reports can identify you even if you disable JS execution.

• Anything that you can do without an addon, TBH. They do weaken the browser security model.

In Firefox I have:

• uBlock Origin: For blocking ads
• uMatrix: for blocking all kinds of stuff and to see what kind of connections each site uses (usually a ton)
• HTTPS Everywhere: to have https everywhere. According to @Jojonintendo this is already integrated into Firefox though, so I might delete it.
• Cookie Autodelete: pretty self-explanatory.
• Decentraleyes: to prevent websites from loading unnecessary resources.
• Privacy Redirect: mostly used to open Youtube links in Freetube, but also to redirect Reddit and Twitter links to libredd.it and Nitter respectively, when needed.