Browser Extensions.

Do you use browser extensions? If so, which ones?

  • Yes

    Votes: 21 91.3%
  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Don't believe extensions help with security.

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • Don't care.

    Votes: 1 4.3%

  • Total voters
    23

GTP

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With the rise of browser based coin mining and all the other garbage that comes down the pipe, which extensions do you use?
List as many or as few as you like.
Personally, I use
MinerBlock
uBlock origin
User Agent Switcher
HTTPS Everywhere...
and 3 custom hosts/adblocker files in the browser (as well as the built in EasyList and EasyPrivacy Lists)

Thanks
 
Personally or that I push on clients?

For clients, I mostly stick with uBlock Origin (or for the diehard IE folks, Adblock Plus).

My daily driver is Firefox with uMatrix, Decentraleyes, LastPass, Link Cleaner, Print Edit WE, Video DownloadHelper though I last I heard that was going away this month and Xmarks. I did a lot of pruning in prep for the change in Firefox extensions.

On Chrome I need to do some cleanup probably. uBlock Origin (and Extra), Deluminate (inverts brightness), the Google extensions, Extensions Update Notifier, Join, LastPass, MightyText though I should probably kill that off since I switched to Join, Vimium though it's disabled right now, Web Developer, Xmarks.
 
uMatrix is good if you have a set of sites that you visit regularly, because you'll tweak what they're allowed to load and save it (with the lock icon). If you visit a lot of new sites regularly, some of them will be broken to various degrees because of missing access to their CDNs or S3 storage, etc.

One thing I decided on long ago: almost all of my actual purchasing happens in Chrome, because I don't want to get halfway through a purchasing process and have it fail ugly (e.g. I get charged but don't get redirected to select options or something like that).
 
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Personally or that I push on clients?

For clients, I mostly stick with uBlock Origin (or for the diehard IE folks, Adblock Plus).

My daily driver is Firefox with uMatrix, Decentraleyes, LastPass, Link Cleaner, Print Edit WE, Video DownloadHelper though I last I heard that was going away this month and Xmarks. I did a lot of pruning in prep for the change in Firefox extensions.

On Chrome I need to do some cleanup probably. uBlock Origin (and Extra), Deluminate (inverts brightness), the Google extensions, Extensions Update Notifier, Join, LastPass, MightyText though I should probably kill that off since I switched to Join, Vimium though it's disabled right now, Web Developer, Xmarks.
Just what we use "personally."
I don't really "push" any on clients unless they are well informed first. Usually when you start making their browser do things differently they get all in a fuss about it and want it changed back. :oops::rolleyes:
 
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On Chrome:

lastpass
Netcraft,
Feeder
Mega
Message Deleter for Slack
Speed dial 2
Adguard, used as integration mode with the desktop version
 
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I was just having a look at some of the extensions you mentioned.
"Netcraft" looks interesting. Last updated today. ;) It has over 26,000 installs in Opera.
Mega, Feeder, Message Deleter for Slack, Speed Dial 2 not available for Opera, although there are alternatives.
Adguard (huge install base!) looks good, but very similar to uBlock/AdBlock etc..:)
 
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