Mine is dark reader as #1. I don’t ever use a plain white page background anymore.
One a lot of people have never heard of is global speed. A feature in that extension I bet most of the users of it don’t know about or use:
allow pitch shift
with slower speeds. Rarely do these style addons include this feature so that makes this one the best most complete option. I like to play pandora or other music websites and slow down the music for a unique experience.
privacy badger, but you all probably know about trackers and all that.
What do you all use? And if anyone is interested, how bout a thread on dark reader colors used! It is like the web version of a desktop theme showoff, so it seems reasonable.
uBlock origin when not on brave
return youtube dislike
sponsorblock
https everywhere (should not be required anymore, but never bothered uninstalling it)
ghostery (arguably unnecessary to combine with ad blocker w/ privacy filters)
decentraleyes
I couldn’t comfortably view web pages without dark reader, I use light / medium saturation colors during the day instead of plain white. A light apple-yellow-green is easy on the eyes
Does mullvad block all trackers? Facebook makes shadow profiles on every web browsing person who visits a page with a facebook like button, does it block all that junk?
It has built in uBO and noscript. Bonus is that if you did not add extensions to Mullvad browser, they all look the same, fingerprint-wise (hence I dont makeymself unique with addons) apart from the screen resolution.
Its based off Tor Browser and supports Tor Browser as well codewise and finance wise from MullvadVPN income
Facebook can shadow track all they want, we all look the same.
BetterTTV for Twitch can be handy. I don’t use all the emote stuff, but it can make a sound when someone mentions you in chat, auto redeem channel points, and a few other things that are handy to have if you use Twitch frequently.
Video Speed Controller is another one that I get a lot of use from. It’s a simple translucent overlay to adjust video speed. I know some sites have it built-in, but this is quicker and helps for other stuff. Say you have a video like maybe surveillance footage or you recorded a long event and want to skim through stuff, you can just play it in Firefox. I find standalone players lacking, needlessly . . . I’ll spare everyone the rant.
The time savings alone by watching things at a faster speed is worth having it installed. I have also used it for playing back podcasts, although Kasts is barely filling in that role at the moment with the same speedup ability.
One particularly nice feature is that there seems to be about a 30 second buffer when watching live streams that you can kind of navigate using the controls. It has buttons to move back or forward 10 seconds, so if you didn’t quite catch something important you can skip back. From there you can wait for a spot of silence to skip forward, or turn the speed up and slowly catch up to the live broadcast. Obviously it can’t see in to the future, so if you leave it that way it will keep playing fast and buffering. But if you watch a stream for a while and find yourself out of sync, it can get you caught up without missing anything. Bumping it up or down by .10 doesn’t negatively affect most things too badly, and you can change the increment amount in the settings.
I tried playing with the Firefox settings quite some time ago to try to increase the size of the buffer, but I didn’t know what I was doing. Not a huge deal, but if you have the resources and can make it store a few minutes then that could be even more useful for some people. Either way this extension does a lot of work for me.
Auto Quality for YouTube is one that I like. It’s pretty simple. I just have it set to automatically select the maximum quality available on YouTube. I got tired of having to manually select 4K over and over
As a bonus, it allows you to make your own containers and launch a new tab within any of them. You basically have per container sessions, logins, cookies and stuff…
This one I don’t think has a way tto turn off the time-stretch / .preservesPitch = true / false setting.
Try global speed and let me know how it works for you, and give allow pitch shift a try for streaming music at slower speeds if you haven’t tried that ib a while, or ever.
For podcasts have you tried Antennapod?
Surely you’ve tried the VLC media player. You can have a speed slider on the desjtop too, similar to the iOS / Android app. Go to tools customize interface and drag the speed selector the preview area…
I suggest turning off time-stretch in the program, preferences audio tab. Same for iOS. For android it is in Advanced, which seems odd if four other systems have it in the audio section.
They are working on a new version (4) and you can go try it:
I can’t find that link anywhere on the website, can anyone else? Also, the Android nightly has added a feature request of mine:
Changing speed by 1% instead of 5, so you can very smoothly change speed with much less skips or pauses.
I thoroughly dislike VLC. Firefox simply works. I’m sure other stuff is great for other people but this works for me.I also watch things below 1080p because I don’t own screens with that high of resolution and have no need for the other features many people look for. Just a simple extension on a straightforward browser works for me. Then again Lubuntu works for me and I know most people would rage quit it in a matter of minutes.
There’s definitely a difference, whether it’s on my 1440p monitor or on a 4K TV. You could probably see the increased bitrate even on a 1080p display, but I don’t think most people nitpick it that hard
I could’ve used that a while ago, but I seem to have “defeated” youtube defaulting to lower quality. For a few weeks I’d have to increase it from 720 or 480 on nearly every video. I only watch on 1080 though, are they still aggressive about lowering you from 1440/4k?
