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I am using Firefox for years now. It's such a splendid experience. I can recommend the following extensions: - Youtube Enhancer - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentia
by lmf4lol 5mo ago
I am using Firefox for years now. It's such a splendid experience.
I can recommend the following extensions:
- Youtube Enhancer
- DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
- Cookie Auto Decline (a MUST for Europeans)
- Slop Evader
- No Gender (a MUST for Germans)
Its a totally different browsing experience than what most people have.
I recently watched my kiddo looking something up with Edge on her laptop. I had to interfere and install Firefox. It was ridicolous!!! The amount of spam on the screen. How people can cope with this is beyond me. Especially if the solution doesn't cost anything. Just Firefox + some free extensions.
edit: because people asked about the No Gender extension:
Germany didn't have “gendered” language, until it was introduced some years ago.
Imagine the sentence: The teachers explain to their pupiles that the managers work only for the shareholders.
in regular German, it would translate to:
Die Lehrer erklärten den Schülern, dass die Manager ausschliesslich für die Anteilhaber arbeiten.
In gendered German, it became:
Die Lehrer:innen erklärten den Schüler:innen, dass die Manager:innen ausschliesslich für die Anteilhaber:innen arbeiten.
For me, it ruins the reading experience.
- tomtomtom777 5mo agoCan you explain what the "No Gender" extension is about and why it is a must?
- MaKey 5mo agoIt removes gender speech (Leser*innen becomes Leser), which can be awkward and hurt the reading flow.
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- mmyrte 5mo agoIt seems like you would lose meaning by automatically replacing words, no? Why would you want to censor your internet experience, just because you find someone else's use of language awkward?
- lmf4lol 5mo agoGermany didn't have “gendered” language, until it was introduced some years ago. It’s a terrible reading experience and super annoying. Imagine the sentence: The teachers explain to their pupiles that the managers work only for the shareholders. it was Die Lehrer erklärten den Schülern, dass die Manager ausschliesslich für die Anteilhaber arbeiten. and it became: Die Lehrer:innen erklärten den Schüler:innen, dass die Manager:innen ausschliesslich für die Anteilhaber:innen arbeiten. It’s insane.
- pjc50 5mo agoWhen was it introduced and why? It seems in the opposite direction of travel from many languages, which have been trying to make more gender neutral options available. (exception: Chinese didn't really bother with gendered pronouns until about the nineteenth century, due to the need to translate European languages, so some had to be introduced)
- lmf4lol 5mo agoGerman feminist are looking for a long time to eliminate the generic masculine form. But unlike English, which allows you to use they/them to refer to both genders - and which i kind of like - German doesnt have such an option. So since my youth, multiple proposal have been put forward, among which the gender-star. Lehrer -> Lehrer*innen, Lehrer:innen. It was never taken seriously, until we got a left wing government (2022 or so) and since then its getting more and more used. Especially in progressive media. Some even speak it. With a short break that represents the star or :. Sounds pretty stupid, but people do it. In my mind, its the ultimate form of virtue signalling :-) but hey. to each their own. I just prefer to ignore it if possible
- ben_w 5mo agoIt was definitely introduced before that point, I saw people complaining about it back in 2018 when I arrived in the country.
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- Parae 5mo agoDoesn't really seem like a MUST then...
- philipwhiuk 5mo ago[dead]
- mft_ 5mo agoI'd like to know too. I struggled to understand the description of the extension - is it an anti-woke thing, or some sort of modern approach to German removing the traditional (i.e. non-political) genderisation of some words, or both, or something else?
- MaKey 5mo agoExample: Reader In German: Leser (masculine) Possible forms of inclusive speech: Leser*innen, Leser:in, Leser_innen This extension removes these possible forms of inclusive speech. Arguably they hurt the reading flow and the German language has the generic masculine. However, proponents of inclusive speech feel that the generic masculine isn't inclusive.
- input_sh 5mo agoA bit of both? Imagine every time you read the word "actor", it is instead spelled something like "actor:ress", or "actor_ress", or "actor*ress" (because the separator hasn't been standardised). Personally I'm in favour of it, but I will concede that if it's done enough times throughout the text (as German has way more gendered nouns in common use than English) it does come with the downside of breaking the reading flow.
- plucas 5mo agoThe first. In German, many words that refer to a person (e.g. Fahrer/Fahrerin, male/female driver) have a plural which is identical to the male singular. For a while now, many writers have used a typographic style to make the plural gender-neutral by writing the male plural, an asterisk, and then the female plural suffix (e.g. Fahrer*innen). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_star
- mft_ 5mo agoThanks - that's really interesting, in a weird-interesting way. I'm far from an expert in such things, but I'd observed that the approach in English to gendered words (actor vs. actress) seemed to be, over time, to drift towards calling everyone an actor - as a neutral term, to avoid treating women differently, rather than a male term per se. In German, from your explanation, it's gone the opposite way - aggressively maintaining the female option because of a dislike of broad adoption of the male version as a neutral default.
- lmf4lol 5mo agoI edited my comment to include an answer to your question.
- MaKey 5mo agoFor me the most important extension is uBlock Origin. It's worth switching to Firefox for this alone.
- onemoresoop 5mo agoWithout your ublock origin browsing the net is quite horrible these days
- FridayoLeary 5mo agoYoutube is virtually unwatchable without it. I honestly have no idea how most people cope. Truth is, even with an adblocker there's so much rubbish on the page that gets in my way. Invidous is much better but it's too unreliable. Sites that autoplay a video, which follows you as you scroll are the worst.
- MaKey 5mo agoI like the Unhooked extension. You can select which parts of YouTube you want to remove (e. g. Shorts). My start page is empty, I need to visit the channel pages to watch their videos.
- freedomben 5mo agoOr for real control, uMatrix (yes there are madmen like me still stubbornly hanging on)
- yubblegum 5mo agothat + NoScript. That latter is a must for me.
- qsera 5mo agoFirefox added split view where you can look at two (or more) webpages side by side. This is a lifesaver when you have to fill up a form looking up stuff from another page!
- echoangle 5mo agoIsn’t this kind of the job of the OS windowing system? It’s maybe slightly nicer to share the window chrome for two tabs but it’s not like looking at two browser tabs in parallel was impossible before.
- Cthulhu_ 5mo agoYes, and both Windows and MacOS have features to put things side by side... but they're not very intuitive and may require multiple inputs to achieve what the browser(s) do with one or two presses. On MacOS you have to long-press the "maximize" button, for example. I forgot that was a thing before reading this actually, but then I use the third-party tool Rectangle for window management.
- qsera 5mo agoSure, but this is a lot nicer because when they are separate windows, and you have more windows, and if you have to alt-tab to check something else, it is a bit flow-breaking to bring these exact two windows back on top.
- yazantapuz 5mo agoYes, but they are grouped under one single tab, so for me at least is more easy to alt-tab to other app and return to the split view.
- ButlerianJihad 5mo agoChrome does this split-screen. Web browsers are operating systems, for all intents & purposes. Ask any Emacs evangelist.
- 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
- ekianjo 5mo agoExtensions are a vector for vulnerabilities and malware though. Its happened many times already.
- _blk 5mo ago- Ublock origin - decentraleyes