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The juxtaposition of intuition and tuition...
...ensures that a wealth of information will somehow make us poorer.
NOW WITH IMPROVED FEATURES! -- Fighting an uphill battle against The Backlog Monster! -- Perpetually losing that battle but trying again forever! -- She/Her, but I'm only partway there! -- Opposable thumbs that oppose nothing! -- More exclamations than ever before! -- !!! -- But seriously, I just want to reblog memes and occasionally complain while suffering under the crippling weight of the same anxiety that comes for us all, awake or sleeping. -- Also, I'm Ace, so if you're Ace, too, then that's great. -- If you're not, that's also great. -- Some more exclamation points for those times when I used periods instead!!!!
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So You've Finally Switched to Firefox: a Brief Guide to a Some Very Useful Add-Ons.
This post is inspired by two things, the first being the announcement by Google that the long delayed Manifest V3 which will kill robust adblocking will finally roll out in June 2024, and the second, a post written by @sexhaver in response to a question as to what adblockers and extensions they use. It's a very good post with some A+ information, worth checking out.
I love Firefox, I love the degree of customization it offers me as a user. I love how it just works. I love the built in security features like DNS over HTTPS, and I love just how many excellent add-ons are available. It is a better browser than Chrome in every respect, and of the many Chromium based browsers out there, only Vivaldi comes close.
There are probably many people out there who are considering switching over to Firefox but are maybe putting it off because they've got Chrome set up the way they like it with the extensions they want, and doing all that again for Firefox seems like a chore. The Firefox Add-on directory is less expansive than the Chrome Web Store (which in recent years has become overrun with garbage extensions that range from useless to active malware), but there is still a lot of stuff to sift through. That's where this short guide comes in.
I'm presently running 33 add-ons for Firefox and have a number of others installed but disabled. I've used many others. These are my picks, the ones that I consider essential, useful, or in some cases just fun.
Adblocking/Privacy/Security:
uBlock Origin: The single best adblocker available. If you're a power user there are custom lists and scripts you can find to augment it.
Privacy Badger: Not strictly necessary if you're also running uBlock, but it does catch a few trackers uBlock doesn't and replaces potentially useful trackers like comment boxes with click-to-activate placeholders.
Decentraleyes: A supplementary tool meant to run alongside uBlock, prevents certain sites from breaking when tracker requests are denied by serving local bundled files as replacement.
NoScript: The nuclear option for blocking trackers, ads, and even individual elements. Operates from a "trust no one" standpoint, you will need to manually enable elements yourself. Not recommended for casual users, but a fantastic tool for the power user.
Webmail Ad Blocker: The first of many webmail related add-ons from Jason Saward I will be recommending. Removes all advertising from webmail services like Gmail or Yahoo Mail.
Popup Blocker (Strict): Strictly blocks ALL pop up/new tab/new window requests from all website by default unless you manually allow it.
SponsorBlock: Not a fan of listening to your favourite YouTuber read advertisements for shitty products like Raycons or BetterHelp? This skips them automatically.
AdNauseam: I don't use this one but some people prefer it. Rather than straight up blocking ads and trackers, it obfuscates data by injecting noise into the tracker surveillance infrastructure. It clicks EVERY ad, making your data profile incomprehensible.
User-Agent Switcher: Allows you to spoof websites attempting to gather information by altering your browser profile. Want to browse mobile sites on desktop? This allows you to do it.
Bitwarden: Bitwarden has been my choice of password manager since LastPass sold out and made their free tier useless. If you're not using a password manager, why not? All of my passwords look like this: $NHhaduC*q3VhuhD&scICLKjvM4rZK5^c7ID%q5HVJ3@gny I don't know a single one of them and I use a passphrase as a master password supplemented by two-factor-authentication. Everything is filled in automatically. It is the only way to live.
Proton Pass: An open source free password manager from the creators of Proton Mail. I've been considering moving over to it from Bitwarden myself.
Webmail/Google Drive:
Checker Plus for Gmail: Provides desktop notifications for Gmail accounts, supports managing multiple accounts, allows you to check your mail, read, mark as read or delete e-mails at a glance in a pop-up window. An absolutely fabulous add-on from Jason Saward.
Checker Plus for Google Drive: Does for your Google Drive what Checker Plus for Gmail does for your Gmail.
Checker Plus for Google Calendar: The same as the above two only this time for your Google Calendar.
Firefox Relay: An add-on that allows you to generate aliases that forward to your real e-mail address.
Accessibility:
Dark Reader: Gives every page on the internet a customizable Dark Mode for easier reading and eye protection.
Read Aloud: A text to speech add-on that reads pages with the press of a button.
Zoom Page WE: Provides the ability to zoom in on pages in multiple ways: text zoom, full page zoom, auto-fit etc.
Mobile Dyslexic: Not one I use, but I know people who swear by it. Replaces all fonts with a dyslexia friendly type face.
Utility:
ClearURLs: Automatically removes tracking data from URLs.
History Cleaner: Automatically deletes browser history older than a set number of days.
Feedbro RSS Feed Reader: A full standalone reader in your browser, take control of your feed and start using RSS feeds again.
Video Download Helper: A great tool for downloading video files from websites.
Snap Link Plus: Fan of Wikipedia binge holes? Snap Link allows to drag select multiple hyperlink and automatically open all of them in new tabs.
Copy PlainText: Copy any text without formatting.
EPUBReader: Read .epub files from within a browser window.
Tab Stash: A no mess, no fuss way to organize groups of tabs as bookmarks. I use it as a temporary bookmark tool, saving sessions or groups of tabs into "to read" folders.
Tampermonkey/Violentmonkey: Managers for installing and running custom user scripts. Find user scripts on OpenUserJS or Greasy Fork, there's an entire galaxy out there of ingenious and weird custom user scripts out there, go discover it.
Browsing & Searching:
Speed Dial 2: A new tab add-on that gives you easy access to your favourite sites.
Unpaywall: Whenever you come across a scholarly article behind a paywall, this add-on will search through all the free databases for an accessible and non-paywalled version of the text.
Web Archives: Come across a dead page? This add-on gives you a quick way to search for cached versions of the page on the Wayback Machine, Google Cache, Archive.is and others.
Bypass Paywalls: Automatically bypasses the paywalls of major websites like those for the New York Times, New Yorker, the Financial Times, Wired, etc.
Simple Translate: Simple one-click translation of web pages powered by Google Translate.
Search by Image: Reverse search any image via several different search engines: Google Image, TinEye, Yandex, Bing, etc.
Website Specific:
PocketTube: Do you subscribe to too many YouTube channels? Would you like a way to organize them? This is your answer.
Enhancer for Youtube: Provides a suite of options that make using YouTube more pleasant: volume boost, theatre mode, forced quality settings, playback speed and mouse wheel volume control.
Augmented Steam: Improves the experience of using Steam in a browser, see price histories of games, take notes on your wishlist, make wish listed games and new DLC for games you own appear more visible, etc.
Return YouTube Dislikes: Does exactly what it says on the package.
BlueBlocker: Hate seeing the absolute dimmest individuals on the planet have their replies catapulted to the top of the feed because they're desperate to suck off daddy Elon sloppy style? This is for you, it automatically blocks all Blue Checks on Twitter. I've used it to block a cumulative 34,000 Blue Checks.
Batchcamp: Allows for batch downloading on Bandcamp.
XKit Rewritten: If you're on Tumblr and you're not using whichever version of XKit is currently available, I honestly don't know what to say to you. This newest version isn't as fully featured as the old XKit of the golden age, but it's been rewritten from the ground up for speed and utility.
Social Fixer for Facebook: I once accidentally visited Facebook without this add-on enabled and was immediately greeted by the worst, mind annihilating content slop I had ever had the misfortune to come across. Videos titled "he wanted her to get lip fillers and she said no so he had bees sting her lips", and AI photos of broccoli Jesus with 6000 comments all saying "wow". Once I turned it on it was just stuff my dad had posted and updates from the Radio War Nerd group.
BetterTTV: Makes Twitch slightly more bearable.
Well I think that's everything. You don't have to install everything here, or even half of it, but there you go, it's a start.
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I never thought that breast augmentation surgery would be more painful than vulvoplasty, but here we are. I think 90% of the pain is the compression bra to hold them in place while healing until the follow-up in twelve days, the other 10% being "oh, these movements that I totally took for granted all my life now feel like terrible mistakes when I make them, who knew that using my hands to push off objects to get up could be the worst thing ever?!"
But hey, surgeries are done (vulvoplasty was in January and breast augmentation was yesterday) and now I can work on name change and all that fun stuff, I'm finally able to start the process of being able to live my life the way it was meant to be. <3
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Reblog if I can go on your page and write stupid things in your ask box whenever I'd like to.
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My January bottom surgery had me out before I even hit the table and most surgeries had me on the table and counting down normal. But also, it took me three hours to come to well enough for them to take me to my hospital room. Apparently, I was apologizing to the lady that was watching over me because I was bad at waking up.
Can't wait to see what happens with my next surgery in two days!
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ASEXUALITY DAY!!
-April 6th
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Malamar, though it was Scyther for the longest time.
if you had to choose one pokemon to be your absolute favorite out of every pokemon which one would you choose. its okay to choose a "basic" one
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be kind, rebagel <3
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Anyone else getting really fucking sick of this support:condemn dichotomy where folks online act like the only two possible responses to anything ever are to wholeheartedly support it or wholeheartedly condemn it?
"Oh you said that you dont think that random stranger should be sent full on death threats and doxxed for their iffy artwork? Why do you support racism" how about we all go outside and interact with real people and see how they react when you say things like that!
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god i'm so tired of everybody's bad faith interpretations of everything. where's the trust. where's the forgiveness. where's the understanding that most things are complex and most people have many layers. and like the black eyed peas once said. where is the love
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Before I was diagnosed with OSA (and eventually SOSA), I knew I had some bad sleep issues and that my sleep was awful.
The moment that was the turning point for me where I felt like I needed to get a sleep test done was when I was sitting at work, organizing a database on a computer and suddenly saw the bottom half of a head -- like, the neck up to the tongue and lower teeth of the jaw. It was just there in front of me, where the monitor was. Sitting there, existing as half of a head.
I could see the monitor, but I could also see the bottom half of the head and I'm like, "You know, I probably shouldn't be seeing this." On that note, I'd like to thank horror movies for desensitizing me to things like that, because I'm sure that moment could have been a lot worse.
i dont know who needs to hear this today but you are not being beset with visions. get tested for sleep apnea
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some of my favourite sign fails <3
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One of the realest things someone said on the Internet
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As a transgender and asexual woman, I cannot help but to appreciate the irony that on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, I am the T & A.
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Make sure to name your achievements!
-- The Die is Cast! -- A magic user successfully casts their first spell for lethal damage.
-- Rage Against the Machine -- A Barbarian successfully deals lethal damage to an automaton.
-- Losing My Religion -- A Paladin or Cleric takes an action that utterly changes their alignment.
-- 99 Problems But a Crit Ain't One -- Roll a 100 on a d100 roll.
-- Magic Dance -- As a Bard, successfully use Bardic Music to cause Mass Suggestion to multiple creatures.
Put achievements in your game.
Anyone who gets gets through a fight without being failing a single saving throw gets a little badge.
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Here we go! I plan on starting to queue more asks tonight, but first some other stuff!
The FAQ page is up and can be found here. Tag page is incomplete, I hope to get to that later.
As I mentioned before, I'll be appearing at my first convention on the 30th, so to fund that effort I'm having a sale and giveaway!
All items in the shop are 10% off until the 27th with this link here! I've also added two new listings for buying bundle packs of posters or stickers.
In addition, everyone who reblogs this post OR retweets this tweet will have a chance to win one free poster of their choice! This will go until the 30th.
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don’t let anyone else ruin your day. it‘s YOUR day. ruin it yourself.
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