post your favorite anti-web-annoyance / pro web-helpfulness extensions that people might not know about!

note that these are all for firefox. this is partially why i want other people to add to this list, i can't provide extensions for other browsers

aside from mouse gesture support, ublock, greasemonkey, simple tab groups and stylus, which are just always-install for my purposes

SponsorBlock For Youtube - De-adifier that even works for inline ads, paid and unpaid self-promotion, non-music parts of music videos, intros, filler, and other stuff. very nice little thing.

Youtube Search Fixer - removes everything from search results except for relevant search results, more or less like it used to be back before it became wholly unusable

Indie Wiki Buddy - means you'll never navigate to fandom.com again unless you really, really mean it. but perhaps more to the point, you'll never need to!

Bypass Paywalls Clean - does what it says on the tin

Docs After Dark - google docs: now in dark mode

Yomichan - japanese dictionary lookup at a keystroke. very nice stuff

Word Replacer II - are there any individual words you see online that you'd just rather not ever see? or a particular typo or spelling of a word that just rubs you the whole wrong way? have i got the extension for you, you can recreate the faméd "cloud to butt" scenario using this extension.

idk what to tag this with but the tags are gonna get obliterated as soon as someone shares this post anyway lol

• DeArrow: Removes clickbait titles & thumbnails from YouTube and provides clear, concise titles. From the developer behind SponsorBlock.
• Facebook Container: Locks Facebook/Instagram in their own contained environment, preventing Meta from tracking you. Official Mozilla addon. Firefox only.
• Forget Me Not: Allows you to set rules for clearing cookies & other website data e.g. always remember certain cookies, or always delete certain cookies instantly. Firefox only.
• AdNauseam: Ad blocker that obfuscates your data by "clicking" every ad it blocks, essentially bombarding trackers with false data. Available on Firefox and on Chromium browsers - but currently banned by Google.
• Privacy Possum: "Monkey wrenches common commercial tracking methods by reducing and falsifying the data gathered by tracking companies."
• TrackMeNot: Constantly searches randomised queries on search engines in the background to obfuscate your data, rendering it useless. Currently unavailable on Chrome due to Google falsely flagging it as malware (unsurprisingly).
• WhatCampaign: Swaps out Google Analytics parameters with invalid data. Firefox only.
• Control Panel for Twitter: Allows you to customise Twitter and block all of the algorithmic nonsense it throws at you, as well as being able to hide all Twitter Blue accounts.

may I reccommend uBlacklist too? It removes sites you don't want in search results completely, so if you're tired of pinterest's shit or whatever, you can make it disappear forever