Browser Extensions

by: jb-williams

Just a little list of browser extensions I fluctuate between using some to all.
All in the hope that at least one person stumbles across it and takes even a little step towards better online security and better visual experience.

All of these should be available in most popular browsers(ex:Google-Chrome,Chromium,Mozilla FireFox,Brave,LibreWolf).

DarkMode Theming

• Dark Reader:
  • A browser extention that is very popular and makes all websites that you go to render in a “Dark Mode” setting.
  • You can change several different brightness related settings, as well as, the dark coloring.
  • Simple to turn on/off as needed.

Most of the rest are privacy focused extensions that I tend to use

• Ublock Origin:
  • It’s fairly popular, “wide-spectrum content blocker”, including ad blocking.
  • Touts CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature.
• Privacy Badger:
  • Another popular tracking and ad blocker.
• Decentraleyes:
  • An extention that limits/blocks tracking from thirdparty content calls from websites.
  • It acts like a Content Delivery Network, but attempts to load local sources before continueing to try to inject the local resource first.

I switch between either using DuckDuckGo or StartPage as my search engine but have both added

• DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials:

  • WARNGING Changes your default search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo. I like not getting paid Google search results first.
  • Blocks many privacy intrusive trackers, fingerprinting, etc.
  • Automatically enforces Encryptions (HTTPS)

• Startpage Privacy Protection:

  • WARNGING Changes your default search engine from Google to Startpage. I like not getting paid Google search results first.
  • Does many of the same things as the DuckDuckGo extension, but Defense in Depth is a strong concept in the security world, so having both doesn’t seem to be an issue: